Weekly Insider Sells Highlight: ARMK, ORLY, AON, HD

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Mar 01, 2015

According to GuruFocus Insider Data, the largest insider sells during the past week were: Aramark, O’Reilly Automotive Inc, Aon PLC, and Home Depot Inc.

The overall trend of insiders is illustrated in the chart below:

Aramark (ARMK, Financial): Director Sanjeev K Mehra sold 7,211,730 Shares

Director of Aramark (ARMK, Financial) Sanjeev K Mehra sold 7,211,730 shares on Feb. 23 at an average price of $31.65.

ARAMARK Holdings Corp is a provider of food, facilities and uniform services to education, healthcare, business and industry, and sports, leisure and corrections clients. Aramark has a market cap of $7.5 billion; its shares were traded at around $31.65 with a P/E ratio of 41.10 and P/S ratio of 0.52. The dividend yield of Aramark stocks is 1.02%.

Aramark has recently released its first quarter 2015 results, including reported sales of $3.7 billion, adjusted operating income of $252 million, and adjusted EPS of $0.47 – which compares to EPS of $0.51 in the first period of 2014.

10% Owner Capital, Llc Ccmp sold 7,211,730 shares of ARMK stock on 02/23/2015 at the average price of 29.88. Director, 10% Owner Pincus Private Equity Warburg sold 7,364,810 shares of ARMK stock on 02/23/2015 at the average price of 29.88. Multiple other insiders also recently sold shares of ARMK stock.

O'Reilly Automotive Inc (ORLY, Financial): EVP OF EXPANSION Ted F Wise sold 133,794 Shares

EVP OF EXPANSION of O'Reilly Automotive Inc (ORLY, Financial) Ted F Wise sold 133,794 shares during the past week at an average price of $208.13.

O’Reilly Automotive is a specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories in the United States, selling its products to both do-it-yourself "DIY" and professional service provider customers under its "dual market strategy". O'reilly Automotive Inc has a market cap of $21.11 billion; its shares were traded at around $208.13 with a P/E ratio of 29.80 and P/S ratio of 3.16. The company had an annual average earnings growth of 19.50% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated O'reilly Automotive Inc the business predictability rank of 4.5-star.

The company has released its fourth quarter 2014 results. For this quarter, comparable store sales increased 6.3%, with total sales increasing 9% to $1.76 billion. Fourth quarter net income was up 19% to $182 million, with diluted EPS rising 26% to $1.76 on 103 million shares vs $1.40 a year ago on 109 million shares.

Aon PLC (AON, Financial): EVP and CFO Christa Davies sold 208,406 Shares

EVP and CFO Christa Davies sold 208,406 shares of AON stock on 02/20/2015 at the average price of $99.82. Christa Davies owns at least 212,079 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 0.54% since.

Aon PLC has a market cap of $28.13 billion; its shares were traded at around $100.36 with a P/E ratio of 21.50 and P/S ratio of 2.49. The dividend yield of Aon PLC stocks is 1.00%. The company had an annual average earnings growth of 13.60% over the past 5 years.

For its recently reported fourth quarter 2014, Aon PLC generated total revenue of $3.3 billion, representing organic growth of 6%. EPS improved 37% for the period to $1.56, with operating margin up 320 basis points to 19.2%.

President & CEO Gregory C Case and multiple other insiders all also sold shares of AON stock over the past week.

Home Depot Inc (HD, Financial): CFO & EVP - Corp. Services Carol B Tome sold 143,381 Shares

CFO & EVP - Corp. Services of Home Depot Inc (HD, Financial) Carol B Tome sold 143,381 shares on 02/25/2015 at an average price of $114.75.

Home Depot Inc has a market cap of $151.22 billion; its shares were traded at around $114.75 with a P/E ratio of 26.10 and P/S ratio of 1.91. Its dividend yield is 1.64%. Home Depot Inc had an annual average earnings growth of 4.80% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated the company with a business predictability rank of 2.5-star.

Earlier this week, Home Depot reported its fourth quarter 2014 results. The company generated net sales of $19.2 billion for the quarter, which was an 8.3% increase from the prior year period. Comparable store sales were up 7.9%, driving net earnings increase to $1.4 billion ($1.05 per share), from $1.0 billion ($0.73 per share) a year ago.

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