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 - Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE:HPP)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $2,539,985.61
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 13
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 1,139,007
- Who Bought Shares
- Andy Wattula (COO), Arthur X Suazo (EVP), Barry A Sholem (Director), Christopher James Barton (EVP), Drew Gordon (CIO), Erinn Burnough (Director), Jonathan M Glaser (Director), Kay Lee Tidwell (VP), Mark T Lammas (President), Robert L Harris II (Director), Steven M Jaffe (EVP), Ted R Antenucci (Director) and Victor J Coleman (CEO)
About Hudson Pacific Properties

Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE: HPP) is a real estate investment trust serving dynamic tech and media tenants in global epicenters for these synergistic, converging and secular growth industries. Hudson Pacific's unique and high-barrier tech and media focus leverages a full-service, end-to-end value creation platform forged through deep strategic relationships and niche expertise across identifying, acquiring, transforming and developing properties into world-class amenitized, collaborative and sustainable office and studio space.
#2 - Matador Resources (NYSE:MTDR)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $1,701,872.00
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 23
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 36,200
- 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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#3 - Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $383,691.54
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 11
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 2,408
- Who Bought Shares
- Daniel C Smith (Director), Gary M Rodkin (Director), Glyn Aeppel (Director), Larry C Glasscock (Director), Marta R Stewart (Director), Nina P Jones (Director), Peggy Fang Roe (Director), Randall J Lewis (Director), Reuben S Leibowitz (Director) and Stefan M Selig (Director)
About Simon Property Group

Simon Property Group, Inc (NYSE:SPG) is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). Simon Property Group, L.P., or the Operating Partnership, is our majority-owned partnership subsidiary that owns all of our real estate properties and other assets. In this package, the terms Simon, we, our, or the Company refer to Simon Property Group, Inc, the Operating Partnership, and its subsidiaries.
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#4 - 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
- $60,474.76
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 14
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,467
- Who Bought Shares
- Adam Snodgrass (Insider), Douglas W Beals (Director), Horras Betty A Baudler (Director), Jeffery C Baker (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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#6 - Mid Penn Bancorp (NASDAQ:MPB)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $532,154.55
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 16
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 18,596
- Who Bought Shares
- Albert J Evans (Director), Joel L Frank (Director), John E Noone (Director), Kimberly J Brumbaugh (Director), Robert A Abel (Director), Rory G Ritrievi (CEO), Soto Matthew G De (Director) and Theodore W Mowery (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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- 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.
More about NeoGenomics
- 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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#9 - Finward Bancorp (NASDAQ:FNWD)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $203,075.34
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 15
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 7,443
- 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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#10 - German American Bancorp (NASDAQ:GABC)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $55,623.58
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 13
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 1,427
- Who Bought Shares
- Christina M Ryan (Director), Diane B Medley (Director), Jack Sheidler (Director), Ronnie R Stokes (Director), Susan J Ellspermann (Director) and Zachary W Bawel (Director)
About German American Bancorp

German American Bancorp, Inc operates as a financial holding company for German American Bank that provides retail and commercial banking services. The company operates through three segments: Core Banking, Wealth Management Services, and Insurance Operations. The Core Banking segment accepts deposits from the general public; and originates consumer, commercial and agricultural, commercial and agricultural real estate, and residential mortgage loans, as well as sells residential mortgage loans in the secondary market.
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#11 - Amplify Energy (NYSE:AMPY)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $2,055,525.92
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 9
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 591,176
- Who Bought Shares
- Christopher W Hamm (Director), Clint D Coghill (Director), Daniel Furbee (Insider), Deborah G Adams (Director), James Frew (Insider) and Todd R Snyder (Director)
About Amplify Energy

Amplify Energy Corp., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, development, exploitation, and production of oil and natural gas properties in the United States. The company's properties consist of operated and non-operated working interests in producing and undeveloped leasehold acreage, as well as working interests in identified producing wells located in Oklahoma, the Rockies, federal waters offshore Southern California, East Texas/North Louisiana, and Eagle Ford.
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#12 - TKO Group (NYSE:TKO)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $554,583,194.98
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 23
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,501,443
- 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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#13 - 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.
More about Oak Valley Bancorp
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $4,171,890.31
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 8
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 1,280,405
- Who Bought Shares
- Brian Kenneth Roberts (Insider), Daron Evans (CFO), Nerissa Kreher (Director), Nevan C Elam (CEO), Wladimir Hogenhuis (Director) and Young-Jin Kim (Director)
About Rezolute

Rezolute, Inc, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, develops therapies for metabolic diseases associated with chronic glucose imbalance in the United States. The company's lead product candidate is RZ358, a human monoclonal antibody that is in Phase 2b clinical trial for the treatment of congenital hyperinsulinism, an ultra-rare pediatric genetic disorder.
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#15 - 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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#16 - Riverview Bancorp (NASDAQ:RVSB)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $44,746.74
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 5
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 7,506
- Who Bought Shares
- Courtney Evan Sowers (CEO), Daniel D Cox (COO), Larry Hoff (Director), Nicole Sherman (CEO) and Patricia Eby (Director)
About Riverview Bancorp

Riverview Bancorp, Inc operates as a bank holding company for Riverview Bank that provides commercial banking services to small and medium size businesses, professionals, and wealth building individuals. It offers a range of deposit products, including demand deposits, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and retirement savings plans.
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