Yahoo Finance Card Factory Insider Ups Holding By 49% During Year
Looking at Card Factory plc's (LON:CARD ) insider transactions over the last year, we can see that insiders were net buyers. That is, there were more number of shares purchased by insiders than there were sold.
While insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing, logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares.
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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Card Factory
The CEO & Executive Director Darcy Willson-Rymer made the biggest insider purchase in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for UK£79k worth of shares at a price of UK£0.91 each. That implies that an insider found the current price of UK£0.94 per share to be enticing. Of course they may have changed their mind. But this suggests they are optimistic. We do always like to see insider buying, but it is worth noting if those purchases were made at well below today's share price, as the discount to value may have narrowed with the rising price. Happily, the Card Factory insider decided to buy shares at close to current prices. Darcy Willson-Rymer was the only individual insider to buy shares in the last twelve months.
You can see a visual depiction of insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last 12 months, below. If you click on the chart, you can see all the individual transactions, including the share price, individual, and the date!
Card Factory is not the only stock that insiders are buying. For those who like to find winning investments this free list of growing companies with recent insider purchasing, could be just the ticket.
Insider Ownership
For a common shareholder, it is worth checking how many shares are held by company insiders. We usually like to see fairly high levels of insider ownership. Our information indicates that Card Factory insiders own about UK£597k worth of shares. We might be missing something but that seems like very low insider ownership.
What Might The Insider Transactions At Card Factory Tell Us?
It doesn't really mean much that no insider has traded Card Factory shares in the last quarter. On a brighter note, the transactions over the last year are encouraging. The transactions are fine but it'd be more encouraging if Card Factory insiders bought more shares in the company. In addition to knowing about insider transactions going on, it's beneficial to identify the risks facing Card Factory. You'd be interested to know, that we found 1 warning sign for Card Factory and we suggest you have a look.
But note: Card Factory may not be the best stock to buy. So take a peek at this free list of interesting companies with high ROE and low debt.
For the purposes of this article, insiders are those individuals who report their transactions to the relevant regulatory body. We currently account for open market transactions and private dispositions of direct interests only, but not derivative transactions or indirect interests.
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