It is not uncommon to see companies perform well in the years after insiders buy shares. Unfortunately, there are also plenty of examples of share prices declining precipitously after insiders have sold shares. So before you buy or sell Hitech & Development Wireless Sweden Holding AB (publ) (STO:HDW B), you may well want to know whether insiders have been buying or selling.
What Is Insider Selling?
Most investors know that it is quite permissible for company leaders, such as directors of the board, to buy and sell stock in the company. However, such insiders must disclose their trading activities, and not trade on inside information.
Insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing. But equally, we would consider it foolish to ignore insider transactions altogether. As Peter Lynch said, ‘insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: they think the price will rise.
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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Hitech & Development Wireless Sweden Holding
The Founder, Pär Bergsten, made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for kr3.0m worth of shares at a price of kr1.50 each. We generally don’t like to see insider selling, but the lower the sale price, the more it concerns us. The silver lining is that this sell-down took place above the latest price (kr0.94). So it is hard to draw any strong conclusion from it. The only individual insider seller over the last year was Pär Bergsten.
The chart below shows insider transactions (by individuals) over the last year. If you click on the chart, you can see all the individual transactions, including the share price, individual, and the date!
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Hitech & Development Wireless Sweden Holding Insiders Are Selling The Stock
Over the last three months, we’ve seen significant insider selling at Hitech & Development Wireless Sweden Holding. In total, Founder Pär Bergsten sold kr3.0m worth of shares in that time, and we didn’t record any purchases whatsoever. Overall this makes us a bit cautious, but it’s not the be all and end all.
Insider Ownership of Hitech & Development Wireless Sweden Holding
For a common shareholder, it is worth checking how many shares are held by company insiders. We usually like to see fairly high levels of insider ownership. Hitech & Development Wireless Sweden Holding insiders own about kr7.4m worth of shares. That equates to 23% of the company. We’ve certainly seen higher levels of insider ownership elsewhere, but these holdings are enough to suggest alignment between insiders and the other shareholders.
What Might The Insider Transactions At Hitech & Development Wireless Sweden Holding Tell Us?
An insider sold stock recently, but they haven’t been buying. Looking to the last twelve months, our data doesn’t show any insider buying. While insiders do own shares, they don’t own a heap, and they have been selling. So we’d only buy after careful consideration. Therefore, you should should definitely take a look at this FREE report showing analyst forecasts for Hitech & Development Wireless Sweden Holding.
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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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