This Insider Has Just Sold Shares In Venture Life Group

We note that the Venture Life Group plc (LON:VLG) Co-Founder, Jeremy Anthony Randall, recently sold UK£48k worth of stock for UK£0.46 per share. However we note that the sale only shrunk their holding by 4.6%.

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Venture Life Group Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

In fact, the recent sale by Jeremy Anthony Randall was the biggest sale of Venture Life Group shares made by an insider individual in the last twelve months, according to our records. That means that an insider was selling shares at slightly below the current price (UK£0.47). When an insider sells below the current price, it suggests that they considered that lower price to be fair. That makes us wonder what they think of the (higher) recent valuation. However, while insider selling is sometimes discouraging, it's only a weak signal. We note that the biggest single sale was only 4.6% of Jeremy Anthony Randall's holding.

Venture Life Group insiders didn't buy any shares over the last year. You can see a visual depiction of insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last 12 months, below. 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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Insider Ownership Of Venture Life Group

Another way to test the alignment between the leaders of a company and other shareholders is to look at how many shares they own. 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 6.8% of Venture Life Group shares, worth about UK£4.0m, according to our data. We do generally prefer see higher levels of insider ownership.

So What Do The Venture Life Group Insider Transactions Indicate?

Insiders sold Venture Life Group shares recently, but they didn't buy any. And there weren't any purchases to give us comfort, over the last year. But it is good to see that Venture Life Group is growing earnings. When you combine this with the relatively low insider ownership, we are very cautious about the stock. So we'd only buy after very careful consideration. So these insider transactions can help us build a thesis about the stock, but it's also worthwhile knowing the risks facing this company. While conducting our analysis, we found that Venture Life Group has 3 warning signs and it would be unwise to ignore them.

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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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