Yahoo Finance Bullish insiders at Trident Royalties Plc (LON:TRR) loaded up on US$506k of stock earlier this year
It is usually uneventful when a single insider buys stock. However, When quite a few insiders buy shares, as it happened in Trident Royalties Plc's (LON:TRR) case, it's fantastic news for shareholders.
While insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing, logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares.
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Trident Royalties Insider Transactions Over The Last Year
In the last twelve months, the biggest single purchase by an insider was when Non-Executive Chair Paul Smith bought UK£264k worth of shares at a price of UK£0.34 per share. Even though the purchase was made at a significantly lower price than the recent price (UK£0.48), we still think insider buying is a positive. 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.
In the last twelve months Trident Royalties insiders were buying shares, but not selling. 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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Does Trident Royalties Boast High 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. Insiders own 6.5% of Trident Royalties shares, worth about UK£9.0m. 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 Do The Trident Royalties Insider Transactions Indicate?
It doesn't really mean much that no insider has traded Trident Royalties shares in the last quarter. However, our analysis of transactions over the last year is heartening. We'd like to see bigger individual holdings. However, we don't see anything to make us think Trident Royalties insiders are doubting the company. While we like knowing what's going on with the insider's ownership and transactions, we make sure to also consider what risks are facing a stock before making any investment decision. For example - Trident Royalties has 3 warning signs 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, but not derivative transactions.
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