Fugro Insider Lowered Holding By 17% During Last Year

Insiders were net sellers of Fugro N.V.'s (AMS:FUR ) stock during the past year. That is, insiders sold more stock than they bought.

While we would never suggest that investors should base their decisions solely on what the directors of a company have been doing, we would consider it foolish to ignore insider transactions altogether.

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Fugro Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

The Chairman of Management Board & CEO, Mark Rembold Heine, made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for €712k worth of shares at a price of €20.95 each. While we don't usually like to see insider selling, it's more concerning if the sales take place at a lower price. The good news is that this large sale was at well above current price of €14.92. So it may not tell us anything about how insiders feel about the current share price. The only individual insider seller over the last year was Mark Rembold Heine.

Over the last year, we can see that insiders have bought 17.66k shares worth €346k. But insiders sold 34.00k shares worth €712k. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. By clicking on the graph below, you can see the precise details of each insider transaction!

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Does Fugro Boast High Insider Ownership?

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. Usually, the higher the insider ownership, the more likely it is that insiders will be incentivised to build the company for the long term. From our data, it seems that Fugro insiders own 0.3% of the company, worth about €5.4m. Overall, this level of ownership isn't that impressive, but it's certainly better than nothing!

So What Do The Fugro Insider Transactions Indicate?

The fact that there have been no Fugro insider transactions recently certainly doesn't bother us. We don't take much encouragement from the transactions by Fugro insiders. We also note that, as far as we can see, insider ownership is fairly low, compared to other companies. Of course, the future is what matters most. So if you are interested in Fugro, you should check out this free report on analyst forecasts for the company.

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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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