Insider Buying: The Crunchfish AB (publ) (STO:CFISH) CEO & Director Just Bought kr1.1m Worth Of Shares

Investors who take an interest in Crunchfish AB (publ) (STO:CFISH) should definitely note that the CEO & Director, Joachim Samuelsson, recently paid kr18.67 per share to buy kr1.1m worth of the stock. However, it only increased shareholding by a small percentage, and it wasn't a huge purchase by absolute value, either.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Crunchfish

Notably, that recent purchase by Joachim Samuelsson is the biggest insider purchase of Crunchfish shares that we've seen in the last year. That implies that an insider found the current price of kr21.26 per share to be enticing. Of course they may have changed their mind. But this suggests they are optimistic. While we always like to see insider buying, it's less meaningful if the purchases were made at much lower prices, as the opportunity they saw may have passed. The good news for Crunchfish share holders is that an insider was buying at near the current price. Joachim Samuelsson was the only individual insider to buy shares in the last twelve months.

Joachim Samuelsson bought a total of 264.07k shares over the year at an average price of kr16.50. 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

Looking at the total insider shareholdings in a company can help to inform your view of whether they are well aligned with common shareholders. We usually like to see fairly high levels of insider ownership. It appears that Crunchfish insiders own 29% of the company, worth about kr176m. While this is a strong but not outstanding level of insider ownership, it's enough to indicate some alignment between management and smaller shareholders.

What Might The Insider Transactions At Crunchfish Tell Us?

It is good to see the recent insider purchase. We also take confidence from the longer term picture of insider transactions. But we don't feel the same about the fact the company is making losses. Along with the high insider ownership, this analysis suggests that insiders are quite bullish about Crunchfish. That's what I like to see! In addition to knowing about insider transactions going on, it's beneficial to identify the risks facing Crunchfish. At Simply Wall St, we've found that Crunchfish has 6 warning signs (2 don't sit too well with us!) that deserve your attention before going any further with your analysis.

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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, but not derivative transactions.

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