Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned cash to make a purchase, is that they expect to make money.
Today we look at two noteworthy recent insider buys.
At Ford Motor, a filing with the SEC revealed that on Thursday, Chief Operating Officer James D.
Farley Jr. bought 194,950 shares of F, at a cost of $5.13 each, for a total investment of $1.00M.
Bargain hunters are able to snag F at a price even lower than Farley Jr. did, with shares trading as low as $4.77 at last check today which is 7.0% under Farley Jr.'s purchase price.
Ford Motor Co.
Is trading down about 0.5% on the day Monday.
And at Aeglea BioTherapeutics, there was insider buying on Thursday, by CEO Anthony G.
Quinn who purchased 165,000 shares at a cost of $4.75 each, for a trade totaling $783,750.
Aeglea BioTherapeutics is trading up about 5.5% on the day Monday.
Quinn was up about 68.0% on the purchase at the high point of today's trading session, with AGLE trading as high as $7.98 in trading on Monday.