Guan Chao Holdings Founder Acquires 154% More Stock

Guan Chao Holdings Limited (HKG:1872) shareholders (or potential shareholders) will be happy to see that the Founder, Shuay Tarng Tan, recently bought a whopping HK$24m worth of stock, at a price of HK$0.40. That purchase boosted their holding by 154%, which makes us wonder if the move was inspired by quietly confident deeply-felt optimism.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Guan Chao Holdings

In fact, the recent purchase by Shuay Tarng Tan was the biggest purchase of Guan Chao Holdings shares made by an insider individual in the last twelve months, according to our records. Although we like to see insider buying, we note that this large purchase was at significantly below the recent price of HK$0.70. While it does suggest insiders consider the stock undervalued at lower prices, this transaction doesn't tell us much about what they think of current prices.

Over the last year, we can see that insiders have bought 78.00m shares worth HK$35m. But they sold 7.23m shares for HK$3.8m. Overall, Guan Chao Holdings insiders were net buyers during the last year. They paid about HK$0.45 on average. It is certainly positive to see that insiders have invested their own money in the company. However, you should keep in mind that they bought when the share price was meaningfully below today's levels. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you want to know exactly who sold, for how much, and when, simply click on the graph below!

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Insider Ownership

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. It's great to see that Guan Chao Holdings insiders own 106% of the company, worth about HK$80m. This kind of significant ownership by insiders does generally increase the chance that the company is run in the interest of all shareholders.

What Might The Insider Transactions At Guan Chao Holdings Tell Us?

It is good to see the recent insider purchase. We also take confidence from the longer term picture of insider transactions. When combined with notable insider ownership, these factors suggest Guan Chao Holdings insiders are well aligned, and quite possibly think the share price is too low. 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. Every company has risks, and we've spotted 6 warning signs for Guan Chao Holdings (of which 3 can't be ignored!) 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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