Andre Andonian Spends S$505k On AEM Holdings Stock

Potential AEM Holdings Ltd. (SGX:AWX) shareholders may wish to note that the Independent Non-Executive Director, Andre Andonian, recently bought S$505k worth of stock, paying S$1.87 for each share. However, it only increased shareholding by a small percentage, and it wasn't a huge purchase by absolute value, either.

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AEM Holdings Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

Over the last year, we can see that the biggest insider sale was by the Lead Independent Non-Executive Director, Ban Leng Toh, for S$1.1m worth of shares, at about S$3.52 per share. We generally don't like to see insider selling, but the lower the sale price, the more it concerns us. The silver lining is that this sell-down took place above the latest price (S$1.94). So it is hard to draw any strong conclusion from it. Ban Leng Toh was the only individual insider to sell shares in the last twelve months.

Ban Leng Toh divested 495.40k shares over the last 12 months at an average price of S$3.50. The chart below shows insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year. By clicking on the graph below, you can see the precise details of each insider transaction!

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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. A high insider ownership often makes company leadership more mindful of shareholder interests. AEM Holdings insiders own about S$42m worth of shares. That equates to 7.1% of the company. While this is a strong but not outstanding level of insider ownership, it's enough to indicate some alignment between management and smaller shareholders.

So What Does This Data Suggest About AEM Holdings Insiders?

The recent insider purchase is heartening. On the other hand the transaction history, over the last year, isn't so positive. While recent transactions indicate confidence in AEM Holdings, insiders don't own enough of the company to overcome our cautiousness about the longer term transactions. So they seem pretty well aligned, overall. So these insider transactions can help us build a thesis about the stock, but it's also worthwhile knowing the risks facing this company. For example - AEM Holdings has 1 warning sign we think you should be aware of.

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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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