Alice Queen Insider Buyers Net AU$91k Despite 11% Stock Decline

Insiders who purchased Alice Queen Limited (ASX:AQX) shares in the past 12 months are unlikely to be deeply impacted by the stock's 11% decline over the past week. Reason being, despite the recent loss, insiders original purchase value of AU$179.3k is now worth AU$270.6k.

While insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing, logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares.

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Alice Queen Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

Over the last year, we can see that the biggest insider purchase was by Non-Executive Director James Myers for AU$100k worth of shares, at about AU$0.005 per share. We do like to see buying, but this purchase was made at well below the current price of AU$0.008. Because the shares were purchased at a lower price, this particular buy doesn't tell us much about how insiders feel about the current share price.

In the last twelve months Alice Queen insiders were buying shares, but not selling. The chart below shows insider transactions (by companies and 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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Does Alice Queen Boast High Insider Ownership?

Many investors like to check how much of a company is owned by insiders. We usually like to see fairly high levels of insider ownership. From our data, it seems that Alice Queen insiders own 12% of the company, worth about AU$1.1m. We do note, however, it is possible insiders have an indirect interest through a private company or other corporate structure. Whilst better than nothing, we're not overly impressed by these holdings.

What Might The Insider Transactions At Alice Queen Tell Us?

There haven't been any insider transactions in the last three months -- that doesn't mean much. On a brighter note, the transactions over the last year are encouraging. The transactions are fine but it'd be more encouraging if Alice Queen insiders bought more shares in the company. So these insider transactions can help us build a thesis about the stock, but it's also worthwhile knowing the risks facing this company. Every company has risks, and we've spotted 5 warning signs for Alice Queen you should know about.

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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 of direct interests only, but not derivative transactions or indirect interests.

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