Neil Stevens Bought 2.1% More Shares In Fintel

Potential Fintel Plc (LON:FNTL) shareholders may wish to note that the Joint CEO & Executive Director, Neil Stevens, recently bought UK£135k worth of stock, paying UK£2.26 for each share. While that's a very decent purchase to our minds, it was proportionally a bit modest, boosting their holding by just 2.1%.

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Fintel Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

The Non-Executive Director, Kenneth Davy, made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for UK£9.3m worth of shares at a price of UK£3.00 each. While insider selling is a negative, to us, it is more negative if the shares are sold at a lower price. It's of some comfort that this sale was conducted at a price well above the current share price, which is UK£2.21. So it may not shed much light on insider confidence at current levels.

In the last twelve months insiders purchased 283.84k shares for UK£390k. But insiders sold 3.62m shares worth UK£11m. All up, insiders sold more shares in Fintel than they bought, over the last year. The average sell price was around UK£3.01. Insider selling doesn't make us excited to buy. But we note that the selling, on average, was at well above the recently traded price of UK£2.21. 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 Fintel Boast High Insider Ownership?

Many investors like to check how much of a company is owned by insiders. Usually, the higher the insider ownership, the more likely it is that insiders will be incentivised to build the company for the long term. Insiders own 30% of Fintel shares, worth about UK£70m. This level of insider ownership is good but just short of being particularly stand-out. It certainly does suggest a reasonable degree of alignment.

So What Does This Data Suggest About Fintel Insiders?

It is good to see recent purchasing. On the other hand the transaction history, over the last year, isn't so positive. We don't take much heart from transactions by Fintel insiders over the last year. But they own a reasonable amount of the company, and there was some buying recently. So they seem pretty well aligned, overall. In addition to knowing about insider transactions going on, it's beneficial to identify the risks facing Fintel. Every company has risks, and we've spotted 2 warning signs for Fintel 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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