President and COO of American National Insurance Company (ANAT) George Richard Ferdinandtsen buys 3,000 shares of ANAT on 08/03/2010 at an average price of $79.78 a share.

American National Insurance Company has a market cap of $2.15 billion; its shares were traded at around $80 with a P/E ratio of 20.8 and P/S ratio of 0.7. The dividend yield of American National Insurance Company stocks is 3.9%.

ANAT is in the portfolios of Tweedy Browne of Tweedy Browne CO LLC, Irving Kahn of Kahn Brothers & Company Inc., Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates, Richard Pzena of Pzena Investment Management LLC, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Jeremy Grantham of GMO LLC.


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

Directors and Officers Recent Trades:

• Buy: See Remarks Billy Joe Garrison bought 60 shares of ANAT stock on 08/02/2010 at the average price of 80. Billy Joe Garrison owns at least 180 shares after this. The price of the stock has decreased by 0% since.


• Buy: Exec. VP, Indep. Marketing David Alan Behrens bought 500 shares of ANAT stock on 06/14/2010 at the average price of 96.22. David Alan Behrens owns at least 500 shares after this. The price of the stock has decreased by 16.86% since.


• Buy: See Remarks Ronald Jay Welch bought 200 shares of ANAT stock on 06/07/2010 at the average price of 98.5. Ronald Jay Welch owns at least 1,600 shares after this. The price of the stock has decreased by 18.78% since.


• Buy: See Remarks Ronald Jay Welch bought 400 shares of ANAT stock on 05/04/2010 at the average price of 108.65. Ronald Jay Welch owns at least 1,400 shares after this. The price of the stock has decreased by 26.37% since.


• Sell: Advisory Director Robert Jr Moody sold 5,000 shares of ANAT stock on 03/19/2010 at the average price of 118.4. Robert Jr Moody owns at least 4,000 shares after this. The price of the stock has decreased by 32.43% since.

Why CEOs Are Buying Stocks Of Their Own Companies?

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."
2. TOP EXECUTIVES like CEOs and CFOs are savvy buyers of their companies' shares. One long-term study showed that they beat the market on average by six percentage points a year.
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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