100% Of This Hamilton Lane Insider's Holdings Were Sold

Viewing insider transactions for Hamilton Lane Incorporated's (NASDAQ:HLNE ) over the last year, we see that insiders were net sellers. This means that a larger number of shares were sold by insiders in relation to shares purchased.

Although we don't think shareholders should simply follow insider transactions, logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Hamilton Lane

The Executive Co-Chairman, Hartley Rogers, made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for US$1.6m worth of shares at a price of US$159 each. We generally don't like to see insider selling, but the lower the sale price, the more it concerns us. The good news is that this large sale was at well above current price of US$144. So it is hard to draw any strong conclusion from it. Hartley Rogers was the only individual insider to sell shares in the last twelve months.

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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Insider Ownership Of Hamilton Lane

Another way to test the alignment between the leaders of a company and other shareholders is to look at how many shares they own. A high insider ownership often makes company leadership more mindful of shareholder interests. It's great to see that Hamilton Lane insiders own 3.8% of the company, worth about US$294m. 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 Hamilton Lane Insider Transactions Indicate?

The fact that there have been no Hamilton Lane insider transactions recently certainly doesn't bother us. It's great to see high levels of insider ownership, but looking back over the last year, we don't gain confidence from the Hamilton Lane insiders selling. Therefore, you should definitely take a look at this FREE report showing analyst forecasts for Hamilton Lane.

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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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