President and COO of IHS Inc. (IHS) Jeffrey R Tarr sells 16,593 shares of IHS on 07/26/2010 at an average price of $62.01 a share.

Ihs Inc. has a market cap of $4 billion; its shares were traded at around $62.41 with a P/E ratio of 28.5 and P/S ratio of 4.1. Ihs Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 17.3% over the past 5 years.

IHS is in the portfolios of Ron Baron of Baron Funds, RS Investment Management, Steven Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC.


This is the insider trade history vs. stock price of IHS. For the complete insider trading history of IHS, click here.

Directors and Officers Recent Trades:

• Buy: Director C Michael Armstrong bought 5,600 shares of IHS stock on 03/25/2010 at the average price of 53. C Michael Armstrong owns at least 32,577 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 17.75% since.


• Sell: Sr VP, Chief Acctg Officer Heather Matzke-hamlin sold 978 shares of IHS stock on 07/12/2010 at the average price of 59.13. Heather Matzke-hamlin owns at least 9,607 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 5.55% since.


• Sell: Sr VP, Chief Acctg Officer Heather Matzke-hamlin sold 600 shares of IHS stock on 06/21/2010 at the average price of 59. Heather Matzke-hamlin owns at least 11,207 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 5.78% since.


• Sell: Sr. VP, Strat Mktg & Corp Dev Richard Walker sold 2,156 shares of IHS stock on 06/21/2010 at the average price of 59. Richard Walker owns at least 19,440 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 5.78% since.


• Sell: Director Steven A Denning sold 1,410,010 shares of IHS stock on 06/21/2010 at the average price of 57.02. The price of the stock has increased by 9.45% since.

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1. As legendary investor 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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3. Another study found that the aggregated activities of insiders can serve as a good indicator to locate market bottoms. Insiders as a whole are smart investors of their own companies.

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