Wish you could get the inside scoop on your favorite companies? One idea is to consider insider stock buying trends. These are trends in the number of company shares being bought by insiders such as members of the board and upper management.
Insiders report when they buy company shares, and this is viewed very positively by analysts as a show of confidence from those who know most about the company.
To illustrate this, we ran a screen on the semiconductor industry for stocks seeing the most significant net insider purchases over the last six months.
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These are the stocks that resulted from this screen. These semiconductor companies have the confidence of their insiders, as evidenced by strong net insider purchases over the last six months.
Do you think these stocks will outperform like insiders expect?
Use this list as a starting point for your own analysis. (Click here to access free, interactive tools to analyze these ideas.)
1. Cirrus Logic
2. Entegris
3. Micrel
4. TriQuint Semiconductor
5. MEMC Electronic Materials
Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the stocks mentioned above. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.
Kapitall's Alexander Crawford does not own any of the shares mentioned above. Insider data sourced from Yahoo! Finance.