CFO of Advanced Photonix Inc (API) Jeffrey J Anderson buys 5,000 shares of API on 11/18/2011 at an average price of $0.69 a share.
Advanced Photonix Inc. has a market cap of $20.45 million; its shares were traded at around $0.665 with a P/E ratio of 33.25 and P/S ratio of 0.71.
CFO Recent Trades:
CFO Jeffrey J Anderson bought 5,000 shares of API stock on 09/06/2011 at the average price of 0.98. Jeffrey J Anderson owns at least 114,776 shares after this.
CFO Jeffrey J Anderson bought 9,576 shares of API stock on 09/02/2011 at the average price of 1. Jeffrey J Anderson owns at least 109,776 shares after this.
CFO Jeffrey J Anderson bought 200 shares of API stock on 08/31/2011 at the average price of 0.96. Jeffrey J Anderson owns at least 100,200 shares after this.
Director Donald Pastor bought 15,000 shares of API stock on 08/17/2011 at the average price of 1.02. Donald Pastor owns at least 113,274 shares after this.
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