An insider transaction occurs when a company executive that has non-public information about a company buys or sells shares of their company’s stock. Insiders, such as CEOs, COOs, and CFOs, are required by law to regularly report their stock purchases and sales to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tracking a company’s insider transactions is a metric that can be used to identify the direction that its executives believe that its stock is heading. If several insiders sell shares of their company at once, they may believe that the company will have weak future earnings and that the share price will decline in the near future.
For example, if Microsoft's CEO, CFO, and COO all recently sold shares of Microsoft stock, that would be an indication that there could be unreported news that may negatively affect Microsoft's stock price.
This slideshow lists the 12 companies that have had the highest levels of insider buying within the last 180 days.
#1 - Altair Engineering (NASDAQ:ALTR)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $58,410,225.69
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 35
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 627,614
- Who Sold Shares
- Amy Messano (CMO), Brian Gayle (CAO), Christ Revocable Trust (Major Shareholder), George J Christ (Major Shareholder), Gilma Saravia (Insider), James Ralph Scapa (CEO), Jeffrey Marraccini (Insider), Jrs Investments Llc (major shareholder), Mahalingam Srikanth (CTO), Nelson Dias (CRO), R Scapa Declaration Of James (major shareholder), Raoul Maitra (Insider), Ravi Kunju (Insider) and Teresa A Harris (Director)
About Altair Engineering
Altair Engineering Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation and design, high-performance computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Software and Client Engineering Services.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $654,056,839.58
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 81
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 4,860,812
- Who Sold Shares
- Benjamin E Huston (COO), Daniel J Gill (Insider), Ernest C Garcia II (major shareholder), Ernest C Garcia III (CEO), Gregory B Sullivan (Director), Ira J Platt (Director), Mark W Jenkins (CFO), Michael E Maroone (Director), Paul W Breaux (Insider), Ryan S Keeton (Insider), Stephen R Palmer (VP) and Thomas Taira (Insider)
About Carvana
Carvana Co, together with its subsidiaries, operates an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars in the United States. Its platform allows customers to research and identify a vehicle; inspect it using company's 360-degree vehicle imaging technology; obtain financing and warranty coverage; purchase the vehicle; and schedule delivery or pick-up from their desktop or mobile devices.
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#3 - Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ:SFM)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $17,295,785.22
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 20
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 189,368
- Who Sold Shares
- Brandon F Lombardi (Insider), David Mcglinchey (Insider), Dustin Hamilton (Insider), Hari K Avula (Director), Jack Sinclair (CEO), Joe Fortunato (Director), Joel D Anderson (Director), John Scott Neal (Insider), Kim Coffin (SVP), Kristen E Blum (Director), Nicholas Konat (COO), Stacy W Hilgendorf (VP) and Timmi Zalatoris (Insider)
About Sprouts Farmers Market
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the retailing of fresh, natural, and organic food products under the Sprouts brand in the United States. It offers perishable product categories, including fresh produce, meat and meat alternatives, seafood, deli, bakery, floral, and dairy and dairy alternatives; and non-perishable product categories, such as grocery, vitamins and supplements, bulk items, frozen foods, beer and wine, and natural health and body care.
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#4 - Nexstar Media Group (NASDAQ:NXST)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $7,967,625.56
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 22
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 47,938
- Who Sold Shares
- Andrew Alford (Insider), Blake Russell (EVP), Charles Thomas Mcmillen (Director), D Geoffrey Armstrong (Director), Gary Weitman (Insider), Jay M Grossman (Director), John R Muse (Director), Lee Ann Gliha (CFO), Michael Biard (COO), Michael Strober (EVP), Rachel Morgan (EVP) and Sean Compton (Insider)
About Nexstar Media Group
Nexstar Media Group, Inc operates as a diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across the television and digital platforms in the United States. It owns, operates, programs, or provides sales and other services to various markets; and offers television programming services.
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#5 - Zillow Group (NASDAQ:Z)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $14,417,840.55
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 28
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 282,040
- Who Sold Shares
- Amy Bohutinsky (Director), April Underwood (Director), Bradley D Owens (General Counsel), Dan Spaulding (Insider), David A Beitel (CTO), Erik C Blachford (Director), Jennifer Rock (CAO), Jeremy Hofmann (CFO), Jeremy Wacksman (CEO), Jeremy Wacksman (COO), Lloyd D Frink (Chairman), Susan Daimler (Insider) and Thielke Claire Cormier (Director)
About Zillow Group
Zillow Group, Inc operates real estate brands in mobile applications and Websites in the United States. The company offers premier agent and rentals marketplaces, new construction marketplaces, advertising, display advertising, and business technology solutions, as well as dotloop and floor plans. It also provides mortgage originations and the sale of mortgages, and advertising to mortgage lenders and other mortgage professionals; and title and escrow services.
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#6 - Zillow Group (NASDAQ:ZG)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $14,417,840.55
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 28
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 282,040
- Who Sold Shares
- Amy Bohutinsky (Director), April Underwood (Director), Bradley D Owens (General Counsel), Dan Spaulding (Insider), David A Beitel (CTO), Erik C Blachford (Director), Jennifer Rock (CAO), Jeremy Hofmann (CFO), Jeremy Wacksman (CEO), Jeremy Wacksman (COO), Lloyd D Frink (Chairman), Susan Daimler (Insider) and Thielke Claire Cormier (Director)
About Zillow Group
Zillow Group, Inc operates real estate brands in mobile applications and Websites in the United States. The company offers premier agent and rentals marketplaces, new construction marketplaces, advertising, display advertising, and business technology solutions, as well as dotloop and floor plans. It also provides mortgage originations and the sale of mortgages, and advertising to mortgage lenders and other mortgage professionals; and title and escrow services.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $148,202,686.24
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 32
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 1,243,104
- Who Sold Shares
- Adam Blitzer (COO), Alexis Le-Quoc (CTO), Amit Agarwal (President), David M Obstler (CFO), Julie Richardson (Director), Kerry Acocella (General Counsel), Madre Armelle De (Insider), Matthew Jacobson (Director), Olivier Pomel (CEO), Sean Michael Walters (CRO), Shardul Shah (Director) and Titilope Cole (Director)
About Datadog
Datadog, Inc operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in North America and internationally. The company's products comprise infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, continuous profiler, database monitoring, data streams and universal service monitoring, network monitoring, incident management, workflow automation, observability pipelines, cloud cost and cloud security management, application security management, cloud SIEM, sensitive data scanner, and CI visibility.
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#8 - Salesforce (NYSE:CRM)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $139,398,998.34
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 71
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 519,764
- Who Sold Shares
- Amy E Weaver (CFO), Brian Millham (COO), Craig Conway (Director), Marc Benioff (CEO), Maynard G Webb Jr (Director), Miguel Milano (Insider), Parker Harris (Insider), R David Schmaier (Insider), Sabastian Niles (Insider), Srinivas Tallapragada (Insider) and Sundeep G Reddy (CAO)
About Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology that brings companies and customers together worldwide. The company's service includes sales to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and artificial intelligence, and deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices; and service that enables companies to deliver trusted and highly personalized customer support at scale.
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#9 - Getty Images (NYSE:GETY)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $621,438.41
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 19
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 178,115
- Who Sold Shares
- Chinh Chu (Director), Cho Mikael (SVP), Craig Warren Peters (CEO), Daine Marc Weston (VP), Elizabeth Anne Vaughan (Insider), Gene Foca (CMO), Jennifer Leyden (CFO), Kenneth Arrigo Mainardis (SVP), Kjelti Wilkes Kellough (General Counsel), Michael Teaster (Insider) and Nathaniel Gandert (CTO)
About Getty Images
Getty Images Holdings, Inc offers creative and editorial visual content solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Its products include Getty Images that offers creative and editorial content including stills, music and video which focuses on corporate, agency, and media customers; iStock.com, an e-commerce offering where customers have access to creative stills and video; Unsplash.com, a platform offering free stock photo downloads and paid subscriptions targeted to the high-growth prosumer and semi-professional creator segments; and Unsplash+ that provides access to unique model released content with expanded legal protections.
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#10 - Teladoc Health (NYSE:TDOC)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $835,117.49
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 21
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 89,969
- Who Sold Shares
- Andrew Turitz (EVP), Arnnon Geshuri (Insider), Daniel Trencher (Insider), James L Cave (CAO), Karen L Daniel (Director), Laizer Kornwasser (CEO), Laizer Kornwasser (Insider), Mala Murthy (CFO), Michael Willem Waters (COO), Nikolaos P Nanis (CTO), Stephany Verstraete (CMO) and Vidya Raman-Tangella (Insider)
About Teladoc Health
Teladoc Health, Inc provides virtual healthcare services worldwide. The company operates through Teladoc Health Integrated Care and BetterHelp segments. The Integrated Care segment offers virtual medical services, including general medical, expert medical, specialty medical, chronic condition management, and mental health, as well as enabling technologies and enterprise telehealth solutions for hospitals and health systems.
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#11 - Progressive (NYSE:PGR)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $41,072,548.03
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 17
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 181,030
- Who Sold Shares
- Andrew J Quigg (Insider), Devin C Johnson (Director), Dyke Kahina Van (Director), John Jo Murphy (Insider), John P Sauerland (CFO), Jonathan S Bauer (CIO), Mariann Wojtkun Marshall (CAO), Patrick K Callahan (Insider), Philip Bleser (Director), Steven Broz (Insider) and Susan Patricia Griffith (CEO)
About Progressive
The Progressive Corporation, an insurance holding company, provides personal and commercial auto, personal residential and commercial property, business related general liability, and other specialty property-casualty insurance products and related services in the United States. It operates in three segments: Personal Lines, Commercial Lines, and Property.
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#12 - Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $90,553,769.04
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 20
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 537,738
- Who Sold Shares
- Andre Schulten (CFO), Balaji Purushothaman (Insider), Gary A Coombe (CEO), Jon R Moeller (CEO), Ma Fatima Francisco (CEO), Moses Victor Javier Aguilar (Insider), R Alexandra Keith (CEO), Shailesh Jejurikar (COO), Sundar G Raman (CEO) and Susan Street Whaley (Insider)
About Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company engages in the provision of branded consumer packaged goods worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and Baby, Feminine & Family Care. The Beauty segment offers conditioners, shampoos, styling aids, and treatments under the Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Pantene, and Rejoice brands; and antiperspirants and deodorants, personal cleansing, and skin care products under the Olay, Old Spice, Safeguard, Secret, SK-II, and Native brands.
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#13 - Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $55,454,250.07
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 26
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 758,299
- Who Sold Shares
- Bernard J Clark (Insider), Carolyn Schwab-Pomerantz (Director), Charles R Schwab (Chairman), Jonathan S Beatty (Insider), Joseph R Martinetto (COO), Mark A Goldfarb (Director), Nigel J Murtagh (Insider), Paul V Woolway (Insider), Peter B Crawford (CFO) and Peter J Morgan III (General Counsel)
About Charles Schwab
The Charles Schwab Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a savings and loan holding company that provides wealth management, securities brokerage, banking, asset management, custody, and financial advisory services in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Investor Services and Advisor Services.
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