The Senior Vice President and General Counsel of John Wiley & Sons Inc. (NYSE:JW.A), Gary Rinck, sold 15,000 shares of Common Stock today, for an average price of $61 per share. The shares were sold through a stock option of 15,000 shares and this sale constitutes Rinck’s third disposition through stock options this fiscal year. On Monday, the insider had also unloaded 15,000 shares of Common Stock, using a stock option of the same amount, and paying $60.50 per share. Furthermore, this past June showed several insider movements at the $3.64 billion market cap academic provider. William Pesce, Director at…
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Insurance Mutual Automobile State Co, one of State Auto Financial Corp (NASDAQ:STFC)’s largest shareholders completed the acquisition of 14,180 shares of Common Stock without Par Value today, paying a price of $23.08 per share. This is the shareholder’s largest stock purchase in the past month, where several smaller acquisitions were reported, such as 7,900 shares, which were bought for $21.84 per share at the beginning of June. Apart from Insurance Mutual, however, only one other insider has closed stock purchase transactions this fiscal year, namely Robert Restrepo – Chairman, President and CEO of State Auto Financial. Furthermore, in terms of…
The Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI), Peter Ragauss disposed of 10,000 shares of Common Stock,$1.00 par value, directly, yesterday, paying a price of $74.65 per share. The CFO has been consistently unloading 10,000 shares of Baker Hughes’ shares at the beginning of each month throughout 2014, and his remaining holdings add up to 60,476. However, Ragauss also received a grant of 106 shares for $46.97 per share. Other insiders have also sold their company shares this month, such as Alan Crain, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at the $32.8 billion market…
Geoffrey Barker, Executive Director at RPX Corp (NASDAQ:RPXC), unloaded 10,000 shares of Common Stock in a transaction executed yesterday. The stock was sold directly, in two steps. On Monday, Barker disposed of 5,000 shares, paying a price of $17.64 per share, while another 5,000 shares were sold off yesterday, for $18.06 per share. This is one of many stock sales completed by the Executive Director, as he has been consistently unloading shares of the $953.1 million market cap risk management firm. At the end of May he sold 34,383 shares, paying $16.27 per share. Following the sale, Barker now owns…
One of Forbes Energy Services Ltd. (NASDAQ:FES)’s largest shareholders, Excel Steel Inc., purchased 2,428 shares of Common Stock yesterday, paying a price of $4.50 per share. And although this purchase alone is not very significant in volume, it remains part of an acquisition trend set by the shareholder throughout the last week of June. Excel Steel made two other larger share purchases last Friday, one of 13,874 shares and another of 97,700 shares, paying a price of $4.50 in each case. With the acquisitions completed, the shareholder now owns a total of 3.749 million shares of the $100.7 million market…
Mitchell Klipper, Chief Executive Officer at Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS), unloaded 88,000 shares of Common Stock yesterday. The sale was executed over a two day transaction, which commenced on Monday with the disposition of 51,324 shares for $23.02 per share and 11,633 shares for $22.83 per share. Yesterday, the sale was completed by unloading another 11,219 shares of Common Stock, at a price of $22.23 per share and 13,824 shares for $22.51. This disposition is one of many executed by insiders of the $1.35 billion market cap bookselling giant, as company Director George Campbell Jr. unloaded 10,000 company shares…
Yesterday, two insiders at Forest City Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:FCE.A) sold their shares of the $4 billion market cap real estate development firm. The talk is of Executive Vice President, Deborah Ratnersalzberg, who sold 6,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, indirectly, through the Deborah Ratner-Salzberg Trust, for a price of $19.92 per share. The second insider sale was executed by Executive Vice President, Ronald Ratner, who disposed of 30,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, also indirectly, via the Ronald Ratner 1986 Trust Agreement, of which the Executive VP is a Trustee. This is certainly not Ratner’s first stock sale,…
In a strikingly simultaneous insider trade, eight insiders at Nextera Energy Partners LP (NYSE:NEP) purchased company shares yesterday. The acquisitions overall ranged between 2,500 and 73,576 shares, with five insiders purchasing sums in the larger figures. Such was the case with James Robo, the company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gp, who acquired 73,576 shares for a price of $25.00 per share. Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, Paul Cutler, bought 24,525 shares, while the Chief Financial Officer of Gp, Moray Dewhurst purchased 25,000. Furthermore, General Counsel, Charles Sieving bought 23,358 shares and the President of Gp at the $3.2 billion…
Hercules Offshore, Inc. (NASDAQ:HERO)’s Director, Steven Webster, purchased 100,000 shares of Common Stock, directly, yesterday, for a price of $4.03 per share. This acquisition completes a series of three large stock purchases executed by the Director over the past week. On Friday, Webster bought 50,000 shares of Common Stock, paying $4.00 per share, just five days after acquiring another 50,000 shares of Common Stock for $4.06. After completing the buy, Webster now owns a total of 1.7 million shares of the $661 million market cap firm. Insider stock purchases have been quite common throughout June at Hercules Offshore, as company…
Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services (NYSEMKT:LTS)’s Director, Saul Gilinski purchased 60,000 shares of Common Stock, directly, yesterday. The insider purchase was executed in two steps, buying 50,000 shares for a price of $3.15 per share and then another 10,000 shares for $3.12 per share. This is certainly not the first acquisition to be completed by the Director, as he repeatedly bought the $585.4 million market cap financial firm’s stock throughout June. Following the purchase, Gilinski now holds 1.189 million company shares to his name. Ladenburg Thalmann Director, Jacqueline Simkin, also acquired 15,303 shares of Common Stock last Wednesday, paying a price…
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Kilroy Realty Corp (NYSE:KRC), Jeffrey Hawken completed his first disposition of the fiscal year, unloading 50,000 shares of Common Stock, at a price of $61.98 per share. After the sale, Hawken still remains the owner of 340,961 company holdings. However, the Executive VP isn’t the first insider to sell his stock in June, as Tyler Rose, Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer at Kilroy, sold 25,000 shares of Common Stock for $61.83 per share this Monday. Nonetheless, this past quarter showed some stability amongst hedge fund holding positions, with some minor shifts…
Insider stock sales at Genesco Inc. (NYSE:GCO) appear to be the norm lately, with several company employees unloading their stock in June. Such is also the case with the firm’s Senior Vice President, Kenneth Kocher, who filed his first disposition of the fiscal year, unloading 10,000 shares of Common Stock for a price of $80.83 per share. Following the sale, Kocher remains in possession of 67,976 holdings. Furthermore, the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Genesco Inc., Robert Dennis, also sold a bulk of 25,105 shares in a transaction completed over three days at the end of June. The…