Insider Trading : Fri 6/23/23

Notable purchases -- 10% owner adds to VERA; notable sales -- Chairman/CEO active in ADBE

Buyers:

• BRO Director bought 4,000 shares at $65.78 worth ~$263K.
• EGLE 10% owner bought 181,422 shares at $44.72 - $48.50 worth ~$8.6 mln.
• NVCT 10% owner bought 13,090 shares at $17.71 - $17.73 worth ~$232K.
• PEB Chairman / CEO bought 39,368 shares at $12.55 - $12.85 worth ~$503K.
• VERA 10% owner bought 448,217 shares at $14.89 - $15.1904 worth ~$6.8 mln.

Sellers:

• ADBE Chairman and CEO sold 35,000 shares at $475.12 - $480.93  worth ~$16.7 mln.
• AMC 10% owner Antara Capital sold 4,380,646 AMC Preferred Equity Units (APE)  at $1.66 - $1.92 worth ~$7.5 mln.
• BRT Executive Vice President sold 50,000 shares at ~$20.15 worth ~$1.0 mln.
• SJM Chair of Board, President & CEO sold 9,965 shares at $152.24 - $152.40 worth ~$1.5 mln.
• WRBY 10% owner Durable Capital sold 220,610 shares at $11.90 - $11.91 worth ~$2.6 mln.

Insider Trading : Thur 5/18/23

Notable purchases -- President/CEO adds to LAZR; notable sales -- Deputy CFO active in MS

Buyers:

• ADC President/Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Operating Officer bought a total of 6,500 shares at $65.25 - $65.50 worth ~$425K.
• ADV Chief Executive Officer bought 160,000 shares at $1.47 - $1.66 worth ~$258K.
• AFCG Chief Executive Officer / 10% owner bought 51,309 shares at $10.44 - $10.45 worth ~$536K.
• AXON Director bought 10000 shares at $199.14 - $200.25 worth ~$2.0 mln.
• INSM Director bought 20,000 shares at $19.22 - $19.35 worth ~$386K.
• LAZR Chairperson, President & CEO bought 1,475,685 shares at $5.81 - $6.33 worth ~$8.9 mln.

Sellers:

• AMC 10% owner sold 1,235,947 AMC Preferred Equity Units (APE) at $1.60 - $1.63 worth ~$2.0 mln.
• CBZ Director sold 15,000 shares at $49.73 - $50.28 worth ~$750K.
• MS Deputy Chief Financial Officer sold 7320 shares at ~$82.9505 worth ~$607K.
• ONEW Director sold 60,353 shares at $28.10 - $28.36 worth ~$1.7 mln.
• WTS 10% owner sold 7,000 shares at  $165.00 - $165.37 worth ~$1.2 mln.

-=AMC Entertainment (AMC) reported earnings on Mon 7 May 2018 (a/h)

AMC Entertainment beats by $0.09, beats on revs 

• Reports Q1 (Mar) earnings of $0.14 per share, $0.09 better thanthe Capital IQ Consensus of $0.05; revenues rose 8.0% year/year to $1.38 bln vs the $1.35 bln Capital IQ Consensus.
• Admissions revenues increased 7.0% to $875.0 mln.
• Food and beverage revenues increased 2.1% to $405.8 million.
• Total Adjusted EBITDA increased 10.7% to $277.9 million compared to $251.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017. International Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter grew $16.4 million to $69.5 million compared to $53.1 million a year ago.

This week's biggest % winners & losers : Sept 11 - 15, 17 (wk 37)

The following are this week's top 20 percentage gainers and top 20 percentage losers, categorized by sectors (over $300 mln market cap and 100K average daily volume).

This week's top 20 % gainers

• Healthcare:HALO(16.25 +23.95%)
• Materials:SQM(58.06 +19.86%),FTK(5.7 +18.75%)
• Industrials:BLDP(4.43 +33.03%), BW(3.55 +28.62%)
• Consumer Discretionary:NCMI(6.87 +33.4%),AMC (16.95 +26.97%), TLRD(14.55 +19.36%),BZH(17.61 +18.75%),PIR(5.2 +18.18%)
• Information Technology:UCTT(26.96 +20.84%),CSOD(41.07 +19.81%),BZUN(37.7 +19.46%)
• Financials:HRTG(12.87 +37.35%),UVE(21.25 +19.05%)
• Energy:REN(30.11 +24.01%),TTI(2.49 +21.46%),CRZO(13.78 +21.09%),EMES(7.93 +20.7%)
• Telecommunication Services: I (4.64 +17.47%)

This week's top 20 % losers

• Healthcare:ADXS(4.81 -35.09%),SAGE(62.36 -28.32%),NLNK(12.67 -28.3%),GKOS(31.4 -25.24%),ACHN(3.7 -24.64%),CRIS(1.72 -20.37%),ICPT(94.88 -18.84%),LXRX(12.37 -16.02%),BEAT(32.7 -14.95%),HZNP(12.11 -12.44%),BCRX(5.15 -11.97%)
• Materials:AGI(7.4 -12.43%),USCR(70.7 -11.4%),CSTM(9.7 -10.6%),CLF(7.13 -10.43%)
• Industrials:EFX(92.98 -24.55%),TRU(41.61 -12.4%),HTZ(20.57 -11.26%)
• Consumer Discretionary:IRBT(79.81 -16.14%)
• Information Technology:VDSI(11.05 -10.53%)

Long trade : AMC +17% (9/17)

• 11 Sept:  #97, $14,  vol. 2.3 M
• 15 Sept:  $16.50  →   +17%