Welcome to edition 192 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying decreased last week with insiders purchasing $40.91 million of their stock compared to $51.82 million in the week prior. Selling increased with insiders selling $2.39 billion of stock last week compared to $1.68 billion in the week prior.
Sell/Buy Ratio: The insider Sell/Buy ratio is calculated by dividing the total insider sales in a given week by total insider purchases that week. The adjusted ratio for last week increased to 58.51. In other words, insiders sold more than 58 times as much stock as they purchased. The Sell/Buy ratio this week compares unfavorably with the prior week, when the ratio stood at 32.52. We are calculating an adjusted ratio by removing transactions by funds and companies and trying as best as possible only to retain information about insiders and 10% owners who are not funds or companies.
Note: As mentioned in the first post in this series, certain industries have their preferred metrics such as same store sales for retailers, funds from operations (FFO) for REITs and revenue per available room (RevPAR) for hotels that provide a better basis for comparison than simple valuation metrics. However metrics like Price/Earnings, Price/Sales and Enterprise Value/EBITDA included below should provide a good starting point for analyzing the majority of stocks.
Notable Insider Buys:
1. Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI): $33.03
Chairman and CEO Richard D. Kinder acquired 100,000 shares of this oil & gas pipelines company, paying $32.97 per share for a total amount of $3.29 million. Mr. Kinder increased his stake by 0.04% to 231,688,110 shares with this purchase.
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for Kinder Morgan, Inc. here.
| P/E: 28.82 | Forward P/E: 22.17 | Industry P/E: 156.76 |
| P/S: 2.44 | Price/Book: 2.63 | EV/EBITDA: 12.14 |
| Market Cap: $34.19B | Avg. Daily Volume: 6,099,800 | 52 Week Range: $32.3 – $41.49 |
2. Calamos Asset Management Inc. (CLMS): $11.44
Chairman, CEO, Global Co-CIO John P. Calamos Sr. acquired 176,310 shares of this asset management company, paying $11.55 per share for a total amount of $2.04 million. Mr. Calamos increased his stake by 7.79% to 2,440,520 shares with this purchase.
