Yahoo Finance Should You Take Comfort From Insider Transactions At Clean TeQ Holdings Limited (ASX:CLQ)?
It is not uncommon to see companies perform well in the years after insiders buy shares. The flip side of that is that there are more than a few examples of insiders dumping stock prior to a period of weak performance. So shareholders might well want to know whether insiders have been buying or selling shares in Clean TeQ Holdings Limited (ASX:CLQ).
Do Insider Transactions Matter?
It's quite normal to see company insiders, such as board members, trading in company stock, from time to time. However, such insiders must disclose their trading activities, and not trade on inside information.
Insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing. But logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares. As Peter Lynch said, 'insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: they think the price will rise'.
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Clean TeQ Holdings Insider Transactions Over The Last Year
The MD, CEO & Executive Director Sam Riggall made the biggest insider purchase in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for AU$304k worth of shares at a price of AU$0.21 each. We do like to see buying, but this purchase was made at well below the current price of AU$0.29. 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.
Happily, we note that in the last year insiders paid AU$319k for 1.50m shares. On the other hand they divested 975.61k shares, for AU$200k. In total, Clean TeQ Holdings insiders bought more than they sold over the last year. The chart below shows insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year. If you click on the chart, you can see all the individual transactions, including the share price, individual, and the date!
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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. I reckon it's a good sign if insiders own a significant number of shares in the company. It appears that Clean TeQ Holdings insiders own 18% of the company, worth about AU$47m. We've certainly seen higher levels of insider ownership elsewhere, but these holdings are enough to suggest alignment between insiders and the other shareholders.
So What Do The Clean TeQ Holdings Insider Transactions Indicate?
It doesn't really mean much that no insider has traded Clean TeQ Holdings shares in the last quarter. However, our analysis of transactions over the last year is heartening. Overall we don't see anything to make us think Clean TeQ Holdings insiders are doubting the company, and they do own shares. So while it's helpful to know what insiders are doing in terms of buying or selling, it's also helpful to know the risks that a particular company is facing. At Simply Wall St, we've found that Clean TeQ Holdings has 3 warning signs (2 are potentially serious!) 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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