We look at the performance of insiders vs the market.

Used car e-commerce platform, Carvana (CVNA), continues to find trouble as its license to do business is suspended in Michigan because they kept selling cars without titles to residents. The stock has fallen from heights of $360 to $15 amidst rising interest rates and recession fears.

Veris Residential is a REIT that has seen some recent insider buys, and now the stock has jumped 20% in the last week. Is this a sign of things to come?

Across all company and insider pages on the site you can now for free download all the insider trades by click the download button pictured below. Feel free to explore the data to your hearts content in excel or your preferred data visualization software.

A recent NYT report found that, over the last 3 years, 183 lawmakers traded individual stocks and 93 traded stocks within the industries they sit on committees for. Additionally, Insider reported that 72 members violated the STOCK ACT, a law designed to add transparency to lawmakers' trades. These members either disclosed trades inaccurately, late, or not at all. Insider trading is fairly widespread in Congress, is anything being done?

Since December 2021, 5 insiders have purchased Thor Industries stock including the CEO Todd Woelfer. Thor Industries is an Indiana company that creates towable and motorized RVs.

Last Wednesday, the Fed raised the federal funds rate by 75 basis points, reaching 3-3.25%, the highest rate since 2008. The Fed’s goal is to limit rising inflation with the goal over the next few years to get inflation down to 2%, the Fed’s inflation target. With rapidly rising rates the market is due for continuing turbulence. We wanted to look at what insiders are doing as a result.

The differences in regulation for congress and company insiders is quiet startling. Firstly, where members of Congress have 60 days to report their trades company insiders only get 48 hours. Another, huge point is that if insiders profit from buying and selling within 6 months they have to give up all profits, whereas seen above congress gets away with it just fine.

Why is there a picture of abstract art above? The picture above shows insider trading volume by sector for the past month. If you see any patterns please send us an email because we're drawing a blank.

An Institutional Investor is a company that manages money on behalf of clients. These include hedge funds, mutual funds, endowments, large asset managers, and more. The SEC requires disclosure of institutional investors' equity holdings every quarter for managers with at least $100 million in assets under management(AUM) in the Form 13F. These reports give the average investor a peak into what the big money investors are doing.

What can't insiders get away with? The news is full of cases of insiders making flagrant trades, take Trevor Milton, founder of electric truck startup Nikola (pictured above). Whose stock tanked when it was revealed promotional video of his electric truck 'driving' was just it rollling down a hill with the battery removed to prevent risk of fire. Mr. Milton was later prosecuted by the SEC for false and misleading statements to investors. Clearly lying about your business is prosecutable.

$350 million purchase. One of the largest insider purchases ever by an individual insider. Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook, has been making huge bets on his new venture Asana, Inc. (ASAN). ASAN is a software company building a work management platform. His $350 million dollar play is the most recent of 15 purchases, each tens of millions in total value, he's made since December 2021.

The peaks and troughs of biotech stocks are legend. Life and death by the rigorous FDA and unforgiving clinical trials easily makes millionaires into thousandaires. The stock above is Metacrine Inc. two years ago it IPOed at $13 now its 46 cents and the insiders went down with the ship.

Everyone knows Nancy Pelosi’s well documented history of trading with insider information. Insider Trading is widespread within Congress and their unparalleled access to nonpublic information. Here at insiderviz, we are trying to bridge that information gap between Congress and the public.

There was only one day in August so far where across all Form4s insiders bought more than they sold. On August 4, Warren Buffett and Jeffrey Ubben greatly increased their stakes in Occidental Petroleum and Exxon Mobile respectively. Otherwise, its a whole lotta red.

By far the largest insider trading in August was from Warren Buffett's purchasing of Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY) for a total of $390,719,420. This is following a flurry of purchases since March 2022, Buffett now holds 188,366,460 shares of OXY or around 20.2% of the company. Additionally, Buffett has warrants to purchase an additional 84 million shares at a price of $59.63, the current price sits around $73. Altogether, that would give Buffett around 30% ownership.