Insider Trades: 04/17/2009

Below is our list of the top 10 ‘interesting’ insider trades for the week of 04/17/2009. These are companies that have been selected by my filter application. Read more about our value filters here. These companies are those that have cleared the first filter in the last 7 days and are the highest ranked filter 2.
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symbol	P/E Ratio (TTM)	P/E Low – Last 5 Yrs.	Price to Book (MRQ)	Dividend Yield	Dividend 5 Year Growth Rate	EPS – 5 Yr. Growth Rate	Current Ratio (MRQ)
CCF	7.64	7.11	1.13	4.09	13.12	18.10	3.25

Insider Trades: 10/04/2009

Below is our list of the top 10 ‘interesting’ insider trades for the week of 10/04/2009. These are companies that have been selected by my filter application. The filter selects individuals that have made non-derivative based insider buying in the previous 7 days and hold company roles that have proven in the past to have high consistency, low losses, and high median returns on investments. To find out more information about the criteria used to select our top 10 have a look at my article on the 4 value filters.
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Insider Trading December Report

Every day I pull a list of the insider traders then I shorten the list to be only buys done by roles that have a proven track record (see my previous post for a little on this). Finally I run an evaluation of the companies based on some of the ratios that Graham used to find companies that are cheap (See my earlier series on this).

This is just the start for me though after a company reaches this level it is worthy enough for me to look at it further not necessarily.
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Are all insider traders created equal?

Insider trading is the practice of purchasing shares in your own company. In accordance with the Security and Exchange Commission the purchaser must file within a few days of the transaction. Filings can be found on the SEC’s edgar page.

Insider trading is an important tool for value based investors. Insiders have a better understanding of their company, if nothing else they have seen the faces of people at the office, heard the chatter in the lunch room- they have a feel. Insiders are like any other investor- they sell for all sorts of reasons but only buy stock for one reason. When insiders speak we should all listen.
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Insider Traders Get Hungry

There is on old phrase, people sell stock for all sorts of reasons, but only buy them for one reason.

I am a follower of insider trading, there is just too many companies to look at out there, insider trading can help raise a company onto my radar. I thought I would put up this chart I put together. Fore color are the number of transactions made by insiders (according to SEC data) back color is the Dow Jones (for reference purposes).

A few random observations:
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