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
- $1,757,500.20
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 25
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 37,180
- 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
- $179,722.62
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 18
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 10,173
- Who Bought Shares
- Dawn M Cagle (EVP), 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
- $55,234.76
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 14
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,167
- Who Bought Shares
- Adam Snodgrass (Insider), Douglas W Beals (Director), Horras Betty A Baudler (Director), Justin C Clausen (CFO), Michelle R Cassabaum (Director), Patrick G Hagan (Director) and Richard Schreier (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
- $193,515.34
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 13
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 7,083
- 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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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $550,438.00
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 7
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 70,600
- Who Bought Shares
- Anthony P Zook (CEO), David Brian Perez (Director), Jeffrey Scott Sherman (CFO), Lynn A Tetrault (Director), Michael Aaron Kelly (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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- 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.
More about Neogen
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $149,942.58
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 7
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 11,009
- Who Bought Shares
- Bethany E Schunn (Director), Brian M Hendershot (Director), Gary W Glessner (Director), John M Hoopingarner (Director), Matthew Fredrick Branstetter (COO), Randall M Greenwood (CFO) and Scott A Everson (CEO)
About United Bancorp
United Bancorp, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Unified Bank that provides commercial and retail banking services in Ohio. The company provides range of banking and financial services, which includes accepting demand, savings, and time deposits. It also offers commercial, real estate and consumer loans.
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#8 - 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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#9 - TKO Group (NYSE:TKO)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $636,945,997.97
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 26
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 4,070,738
- Who Bought Shares
- Ariel Emanuel (CEO), Jonathan Kraft (Director), Lake West Voteco LLC Silver (Major Shareholder), Patrick Whitesell (Major Shareholder), Peter C B Bynoe (Director) and Sonya E Medina (Director)
About TKO Group
TKO Group Holdings, Inc operates as a sports and entertainment company. The company produces and licenses live events, television programs, and long-form and short-form content, reality series, and other filmed entertainment on digital and linear channels and via pay-per-view. It is involved in the merchandising of video games, apparel, equipment, trading cards, memorabilia, digital goods, and toys, as well as sale of travel packages and tickets.
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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.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $453,002.50
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 12
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 39,750
- 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.
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#12 - Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $344,824.79
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 10
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 13,412
- 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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#13 - Science Applications International (NYSE:SAIC)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $365,036.65
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 6
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,260
- Who Bought Shares
- 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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#14 - Bankwell Financial Group (NASDAQ:BWFG)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $211,398.22
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 7
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 6,566
- Who Bought Shares
- Blake S Drexler (Director), Darryl Demos (Director), Eric J Dale (Director), Jeffrey R Dunne (Director), Kevin D Leitao (Director) and Lawrence B Seidman (Director)
About Bankwell Financial Group
Bankwell Financial Group, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Bankwell Bank that provides various banking services for individual and commercial customers. It offers various traditional depository products, including checking, savings, money market, and certificates of deposit. The company also provides first mortgage loans secured by one-to-four family owner occupied residential properties for personal use; home equity loans and home equity lines of credit secured by owner occupied one-to-four family residential properties; loans secured by commercial real estate, multi-family dwellings, owner-occupied commercial real estate, and investor-owned one-to-four family dwellings; commercial construction loans for commercial development projects, including apartment buildings and condominiums, as well as office buildings, retail, and other income producing properties; land loans; commercial business loans secured by assignments of corporate assets and personal guarantees of the business owners; loans to finance insurance premiums; overdraft lines of credit; and unsecured personal loans.
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#15 - CION Investment (NYSE:CION)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $54,479.00
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 9
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 5,260
- Who Bought Shares
- Gregg A Bresner (Insider), Michael A Reisner (CEO), Peter I Finlay (Director), Robert A Breakstone (Director) and Stephen Roman (Insider)
About CION Investment
CION Investment Corporation is a business development company. It specializes in investments in senior secured loans, including unitranche loans, First Lien, second lien loans, long-term subordinated loans, and mezzanine loans; equity interests such as warrants or options; and corporate bonds; and other debt securities in middle-market companies.
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#16 - Columbus McKinnon (NASDAQ:CMCO)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $501,983.81
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 5
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 29,819
- Who Bought Shares
- Chad R Abraham (Director), Christopher J Stephens (Director), Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn (Director), Kathryn V Bohl (Director) and Rebecca Yeung (Director)
About Columbus McKinnon
Columbus McKinnon Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets motion solutions for moving, lifting, positioning, and securing materials worldwide. It offers manual, battery, electric, and air hoists; steel, rack, and pinion jacks; winches, hydraulic jacks and tools, trolleys and its clamps, and lifting tables; skates and heavy load moving systems; material handling equipment; mobile, workplace, and jib cranes; crane components and kits; and below-the-hook lifting devices, lifting slings, and lashing systems.
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