Insider Trades

Venture capital firm GSV Capital (NASDAQ: GSVC) will sell an additional 3 million shares of common stock in order to raise funds that it will use to buy interests in Facebook, Twitter, and Kno Inc.. The company will also use the funds to invest in Dropbox, StormWind, DreamBox, Grockit, ZocDoc, and...

The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Tuesday February 7, 2012: Glencore, Xstrata Agree to $90B Merger The Deal: The Glencore (GLNCY) Directors and the Independent Xstrata (XSRAY) Directors have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all-...

Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) today issued the following statement in response to Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P.'s town hall meeting for Canadian Pacific shareholders: "Pershing Square continues to offer no plan or clear timetable to improve CP's operations, or even any concrete...

  We track corporate insiders because we believe that they have an edge over ordinary investors. Academic research has shown that insider purchases on average outperform the market in the following 12-month period. Even small insider purchases are marginally profitable. The reason is simple....

Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company...

We have been urging investors to focus on high dividend stocks for the past year. The problem is, most people don't know how to time the market. Dividend-yielding stocks are valued like any other stocks, and, like other investments, when they are undervalued is the best time to buy. We used price-...

  Insiders have sharply reduced both their purchases and sales in January 2012.  On the purchase side, insiders reduced their share purchases in their own companies from 161 million shares in December 2011 to 91 million shares in January 2012.  For all of 2011, insiders had averaged out about...

Shares of battered tech company Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) are seeing much strength during Friday's trading session. Fairfax Financial Holdings released a 13G filing with the SEC this morning, in which they disclosed a 5.12% stake in Research in Motion. Currently, shares of Research in...

By Insider Monkey Staff Phil Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners became famous in 2007 when Falcone became famous for betting against subprime mortgages. The investments, however unpopular, made Harbinger $11 billion in 2007. That year, Harbinger Capital returned 116%. By mid 2008, when the...

Benzinga has been tracking Brown-Forman's insider trading over the last couple weeks. Over time, company executives have been selling off shares. The executives' continuous selling patterns are not necessarily uncommon amongst executives, but it is interesting to understand why they do it. This...