An insider trade occurs when a corporate executive (such as a CEO, CFO or COO) that has non-public information about a company buys or sells shares of that company's stock. Company insiders are required by law to regularly report their stock purchases and sales to the SEC.
Tracking a company's insider trades is a metric that can be used to identify the direction that the company's executives believes that the company is headed. If a number of insiders purchase more shares of their company, they may believe that the company will have strong future earnings and that the share price will increase in the near future.
For example, if Microsoft's CEO, CFO and COO all recently purchased additional shares of Microsoft stock, that would be an indication that there could be unreported news that may positively effect Microsoft's stock price in the near future.
This slideshow lists the 15 companies that have had the highest levels of insider buying within the last 180 days.
#1 - Matador Resources (NYSE:MTDR)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $1,867,860.20
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 26
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 39,180
- Who Bought Shares
- Brian J Willey (CFO), Christopher P Calvert (COO), Glenn W Stetson (EVP), Joseph Wm Foran (CEO), Monika U Ehrman (Director), Paul W Harvey (Director), Robert T Macalik (CAO), Shelley F Appel (Director), Susan M Ward (Director), Timothy E Parker (Director), Van H Singleton II (Insider) and William Thomas Elsener (EVP)
About Matador Resources

Matador Resources Company, an independent energy company, engages in the exploration, development, production, and acquisition of oil and natural gas resources in the United States. It operates through two segments, Exploration and Production; and Midstream. The company primarily holds interests in the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring plays in the Delaware Basin in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas.
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#2 - Community West Bancshares (NASDAQ:CWBC)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $175,695.78
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 17
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 9,847
- Who Bought Shares
- Dorothea D Silva (Director), James J Kim (CEO), James W Lokey (Director), Jeffrey Michael Martin (EVP), Kirk Stovesand (Director), Martin E Plourd (President), Robert Bartlein (Director) and Shannon R Avrett (EVP)
About Community West Bancshares

Community West Bancshares operates as the bank holding company for Community West Bank, N.A. that provides various financial products and services in California. The company offers deposit products, such as checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, and fixed rate and fixed maturity certificates of deposits; and cash management products.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $45,408.40
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 11
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 2,630
- Who Bought Shares
- Dan E Johnson (Insider), Douglas W Beals (Director), Justin C Clausen (CFO), Michael A Wilson (EVP), Michelle R Cassabaum (Director), Patrick G Hagan (Director) and Scott T Bauer (Insider)
About Ames National

Ames National Corporation operates as a multi-bank holding company that provides banking products and services primarily in Boone, Clarke, Hancock, Marshall, Polk, Story, and Union counties in central, north central, and south-central Iowa. The company accepts various deposit products, including checking and savings accounts; and time deposits, such as money market accounts and certificates of deposit.
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#4 - Finward Bancorp (NASDAQ:FNWD)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $200,740.67
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 14
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 7,316
- Who Bought Shares
- Benjamin J Bochnowski (CEO), Benjamin Louis Schmitt (CFO), Carolyn M Burke (Director), Martin P Alwin (Director), Robert T Lowry (EVP), Robert W Youman (Director) and Todd M Scheub (EVP)
About Finward Bancorp

Finward Bancorp operates as the holding company for Peoples Bank that provides various banking products and services. The company's deposit products include non-interest- and interest-bearing demand accounts, savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificate accounts, and retirement savings plans.
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#5 - Myers Industries (NYSE:MYE)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $269,190.24
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 9
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 22,472
- Who Bought Shares
- Aaron M Schapper (CEO), Bruce M Lisman (Director), Dave Basque (CEO), Jeffrey Kramer (Director), Lori A Lutey (Director), William A Foley (Director) and Yvette Dapremont Bright (Director)
About Myers Industries

Myers Industries, Inc engages in distribution of tire service supplies in Ohio. It operates through two segments, The Material Handling and Distribution. The Material Handling segment offers pallets, small parts bins, bulk shipping containers, and OEM parts, as well as storage and organization, and custom plastic products; and injection molded, rotationally molded or blow molded products, consumer fuel containers and tanks for water, fuel, and waste handling.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $850,029.05
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 7
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 121,335
- Who Bought Shares
- Aashima Gupta (Director), Amy M Rocklin (Insider), David H Naemura (CFO), James C Borel (Director), James P Tobin (Director), John Edward Adent (CEO) and John Patrick Moylan (CAO)
About Neogen

Neogen Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of various products and services dedicated to food and animal safety worldwide. It operates through two segments, Food Safety and Animal Safety. The Food Safety segment offers diagnostic test kits and related products to detect dangerous and unintended substances in food and animal feed, including foodborne pathogens, spoilage organisms, natural toxins, food allergens, genetic modifications, ruminant by-products, meat speciation, drug residues, pesticide residues, and general sanitation concerns; and AccuPoint Advanced rapid sanitation test to detect the presence of adenosine triphosphate, a chemical found in living cells, as well as provides genomics-based diagnostic technology and software systems that help testers to objectively analyze and store their results and perform analysis on the results from multiple locations over extended periods.
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#7 - Science Applications International (NYSE:SAIC)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $414,489.65
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 7
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,685
- Who Bought Shares
- Barbara Supplee (EVP), Carolyn B Handlon (Director), Garth Graham (Director), Hilary Hageman (EVP), John K Tien Jr (Director), Milford W Mcguirt (Director) and Toni Townes-Whitley (CEO)
About Science Applications International

Science Applications International Corporation provides technical, engineering, and enterprise information technology (IT) services primarily in the United States. The company's offerings include IT modernization; digital engineering; artificial intelligence; Weapon systems support design, build, modify, integrate, and sustain weapon systems; and end-to-end services, such as design, development, integration, deployment, management and operations, sustainment, and security of its customers' IT infrastructure, as well as training and simulation and ground vehicles support which integrates, modify, upgrades, and sustains ground vehicles for nation's armed forces.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $383,117.50
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 11
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 32,250
- Who Bought Shares
- Barry Sloane (CEO), Craig Jeffry Brunet (Director), Frank M Demaria (EVP), Gregory L Zink (Director), Peter Mathison Downs (Insider) and Richard J Salute (Director)
About NewtekOne

NewtekOne, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Newtek Bank, National Association that engages in the provision of various business and financial solutions under the Newtek brand name to the small- and medium-sized business market. The company accepts demand, savings, NOW, money market, and time deposits; and provides loans including SBA loans, commercial and industrial loans, and commercial real estate loans.
More about NewtekOne
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $512,438.00
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 6
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 65,600
- Who Bought Shares
- Anthony P Zook (CEO), David Brian Perez (Director), Jeffrey Scott Sherman (CFO), Lynn A Tetrault (Director), Stephen M Kanovsky (Director) and Warren Stone (COO)
About NeoGenomics

NeoGenomics, Inc operates a network of cancer-focused testing laboratories in the United States and the United Kingdom. It operates through Clinical Services and Advanced Diagnostics segments. The company offers testing services to hospitals, academic centers, pathologists, oncologists, clinicians, pharmaceutical companies, and clinical laboratories.
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#10 - Mid Penn Bancorp (NASDAQ:MPB)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $402,705.33
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 9
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 13,846
- Who Bought Shares
- Albert J Evans (Director), John E Noone (Director), Maureen M Gathagan (Director), Robert A Abel (Director), Rory G Ritrievi (CEO) and Soto Matthew G De (Director)
About Mid Penn Bancorp

Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Mid Penn Bank that provides commercial banking services to individuals, partnerships, non-profit organizations, and corporations. The company offers various time and demand deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, clubs, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts.
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#11 - Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $295,164.79
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 9
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 11,412
- Who Bought Shares
- Allison Lafferty (Director), Christopher M Courtney (CEO), Gary Strong (Director), H Randolph Holder Jr (Director), Janet S Pelton (Director) and Terrance P Withrow (Director)
About Oak Valley Bancorp

Oak Valley Bancorp operates as the bank holding company for Oak Valley Community Bank that provides a range of commercial banking services to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in the Central Valley and the Eastern Sierras. The company's deposits products include checking and savings, money market, health savings, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit.
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#12 - TXO Partners (NYSE:TXO)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $53,319,230.00
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 8
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,548,500
- Who Bought Shares
- Bob R Simpson (Director), Keith A Hutton (Director), Lawrence S Massaro (Director), Luther King Jr (Insider), Phillip R Kevil (Director) and William H Adams III (Director)
About TXO Partners

TXO Partners, L.P., an oil and natural gas company, focuses on the acquisition, development, optimization, and exploitation of conventional oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquid reserves in North America. Its acreage positions are concentrated in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico and the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $25,420.19
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 11
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 786
- Who Bought Shares
- Alexandra C Chiaruttini (CAO), Ashley M Grimm (VP), Joseph Thomas Hand (CEO), Mark S Snyder (VP), Matthew E Poff (CFO) and Steven R Rasmussen (Director)
About York Water

The York Water Company impounds, purifies, and distributes drinking water. It owns and operates three wastewater collection systems; ten wastewater collection and treatment systems; and two reservoirs, including Lake Williams and Lake Redman, which hold approximately 2.2 billion gallons of water. The company also operates a 15-mile pipeline from the Susquehanna River to Lake Redman; and owns satellite groundwater systems in York, Adams, and Lancaster Counties, as well as two impounding dams on primary system located in York and Springfield Townships.
More about York Water
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $512,213.82
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 15
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 98,898
- Who Bought Shares
- Aron R English (Major Shareholder), John Allen Baugh (Director), Jonathan Lee Kelly (Director), Kimberly Bullock Gatling (Director), Mary Elizabeth Hunsberger (Insider) and Robert George Iv Culp (CEO)
About Culp

Culp, Inc manufactures, sources, markets, and sells mattress fabrics, sewn covers, and cut and sewn kits for use in mattresses, foundations, and other bedding products in the United States, North America, the Far East, Asia, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Mattress Fabrics and Upholstery Fabrics.
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#15 - The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (NASDAQ:CUBA)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $426,861.81
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 16
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 164,871
- Who Bought Shares
- Brigitta Suzanne Herzfeld (Director), Erik Mervin Herzfeld (President), John A Gelety (Director), Ryan M Paylor (Portfolio Manager) and Thomas J Herzfeld (Chairman)
About The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund

The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund Inc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc The fund is managed by Herzfeld/Cuba. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The fund employing fundamental analysis investing in stocks of companies that are likely to benefit from economic, political, structural and technological developments in the countries in the Caribbean Basin, which consist of Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Aruba, Haiti, the Netherlands Antilles, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
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#16 - Perspective Therapeutics (NYSE:CATX)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $513,132.40
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 9
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 183,266
- Who Bought Shares
- Heidi Henson (Director), Johan M Spoor (CEO), Jonathan Robert Hunt (CFO), Juan Graham (CFO) and Robert F Williamson III (Director)
About Perspective Therapeutics

Perspective Therapeutics, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops precision-targeted alpha therapies (TAT) for oncology that treats cancer patients across multiple tumor types comprising metastatic disease. The company discovers, designs, and develop its initial programs candidates consists of VMT-a-NET, that is currently in Phase 1/2a clinical trials for patients with unresectable or metastatic somatostatin receptor type 2 (SSTR2) expressing tumors that have not previously received peptide-targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy, such as Lutathera, a beta-emitting therapy; and VMT01, which is currently in Phase 1/2a clinical trials for second-line or later treatment of patients with progressive melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) positive metastatic melanoma.
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