Insider Buying: Yee Hop Holdings Executive Chairman of the Board Bought HK$2.6m Of Shares

Investors who take an interest in Yee Hop Holdings Limited (HKG:1662) should definitely note that the Executive Chairman of the Board, Yin Kwan Jim, recently paid HK$2.64 per share to buy HK$2.6m worth of the stock. Although the purchase is not a big one, by either a percentage standpoint or absolute value, it can be seen as a good sign.

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Yee Hop Holdings Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

Notably, that recent purchase by Yin Kwan Jim is the biggest insider purchase of Yee Hop Holdings shares that we've seen in the last year. That means that an insider was happy to buy shares at above the current price of HK$2.58. Their view may have changed since then, but at least it shows they felt optimistic at the time. We always take careful note of the price insiders pay when purchasing shares. Generally speaking, it catches our eye when an insider has purchased shares at above current prices, as it suggests they believed the shares were worth buying, even at a higher price. The only individual insider to buy over the last year was Yin Kwan Jim.

Yin Kwan Jim bought 1.30m shares over the last 12 months at an average price of HK$2.80. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart 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 Yee Hop Holdings

I like to look at how many shares insiders own in a company, to help inform my view of how aligned they are with insiders. A high insider ownership often makes company leadership more mindful of shareholder interests. Yee Hop Holdings insiders own about HK$906m worth of shares (which is 68% of the company). This kind of significant ownership by insiders does generally increase the chance that the company is run in the interest of all shareholders.

So What Do The Yee Hop Holdings Insider Transactions Indicate?

It is good to see the recent insider purchase. And an analysis of the transactions over the last year also gives us confidence. Along with the high insider ownership, this analysis suggests that insiders are quite bullish about Yee Hop Holdings. Nice! 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 Yee Hop Holdings has 1 warning sign and it would be unwise to ignore this.

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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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