Yahoo Finance A Redrow plc (LON:RDW) insider increased their holdings by 321% last year
Viewing insider transactions for Redrow plc's (LON:RDW ) over the last year, we see that insiders were net buyers. This means that a larger number of shares were purchased by insiders in relation to shares sold.
While we would never suggest that investors should base their decisions solely on what the directors of a company have been doing, logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares.
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Redrow Insider Transactions Over The Last Year
In the last twelve months, the biggest single purchase by an insider was when Senior Independent Director Andrew Hewson bought UK£104k worth of shares at a price of UK£5.20 per share. We do like to see buying, but this purchase was made at well below the current price of UK£5.78. Because it occurred at a lower valuation, it doesn't tell us much about whether insiders might find today's price attractive.
Andrew Hewson bought a total of 22.48k shares over the year at an average price of UK£5.33. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. By clicking on the graph below, you can see the precise details of each insider transaction!
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Insider Ownership
I like to look at how many shares insiders own in a company, to help inform my view of how aligned they are with insiders. We usually like to see fairly high levels of insider ownership. Our data suggests Redrow insiders own 0.2% of the company, worth about UK£3.9m. We prefer to see high levels of insider ownership.
What Might The Insider Transactions At Redrow Tell Us?
The recent insider purchase is heartening. And the longer term insider transactions also give us confidence. On this analysis the only slight negative we see is the fairly low (overall) insider ownership; their transactions suggest that they are quite positive on Redrow stock. So these insider transactions can help us build a thesis about the stock, but it's also worthwhile knowing the risks facing this company. Every company has risks, and we've spotted 1 warning sign for Redrow you should know about.
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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, but not derivative transactions.
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