The All-In-One Guru Screener can be used to find insider buys and sales over the last week by clicking on the Insiders tab and changing the settings for All Insider Buying/All Insider Selling to “$1,000,000+” and duration to "October 2015."
According to the above filters, the following are the recent buys from company insiders in the past week.
On Oct. 2 and 5, Twinlab Consolidated Holdings Inc. (TLCC) has been bought by two insiders.
David L. Van Andel, director and 10% owner, bought 41,379,310 shares at the price of 29 cents per share with a total cost of $12,000,000; the investment has returned 486.20%. Thomas B. Golisano bought 88,711,241 shares at the price of 28 cents per share with a total cost of $24,839,100. Since that day, the investment has returned 507.10%.
The company has an insider ownership of 59%.
During the last 12 months, the price of the stock has risen by 55% and is now trading with a P/S ratio of 5.29 at its 52-week high and 70% above its 52-week low.
The company has negative returns, ROA -102.66% and ROC -219.13%, ROE of -7067.81% and negative profitability, with operating margin -23.32% and net-margin -51.93%; all these ratios are underperforming the 87% of the other companies in the Global Software – Application industry.
On Oct. 5, Softbank Group Corp kept on buying shares of Sprint Corp.Ă‚ (S) with another big stake of 14,527,720 shares at the price of $4.17 with a total cost of $60,580,600. Since then, the price of the stock has risen by 8.60%.
On Oct. 10, Camber Capital Management LLC, 10% owner of Sequenom Inc. (SQNM), bought 1,650,090 shares of the company at the average price of $1.96 and a total cost of $3,234,180. Since then, the price of the stock has risen by 7.70%.
The company has an insider ownership of 2% and an institutional ownership of 59%.
During the last 12 months, the price of the stock has dropped by 25% and is now trading with a P/E(ttm) ratio of 15.58, 26.04% below its 52-week high and 37.91% above its 52-week low.
The company has positive returns, ROA 12.34% and ROC 14.61% that are above the average performance of other companies in the same sector, and at current levels these returns are hitting the all-time best performance of recent company’s history. Financial situation has a rating of 4/10 with a cash to debt of 0.64 that is ranked lower than 85% of its competitors.
Jim Simons (Trades, Portfolio) is the only guru holding shares of the company. He has been buying shares since the first quarter of 2014 and nowadays he holds 388,400 shares that is 0.33% of outstanding shares of Sequenom.
On Oct. 6, OHCP MGP III, LTD, 10% owner of Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc. (PLAY) sold 6,491,270 shares of the company at the average price of $37.00 and a total cost of $240,177,000. Since then the price of the stock has risen by 8.9% to $40.28.
The company has an insider ownership of 1% and an institutional ownership of 99%.
During the last 12 months, the price of the stock has risen by 136% and is now trading with a P/E(ttm) ratio of 44.22, 7.08% below its 52-week high and 153.49% above its 52-week low.
The company has positive returns, ROA 4.47%, ROE 16.96% and ROC 18.69% that are above the average performance of other companies in the same sector, and at current levels these returns are hitting the all-time best performance of recent company’s history. Financial situation has a rating of 6/10 with a weak cash to debt of 0.07 that is ranked lower than 89% of its competitors.
Pioneer Investments (Trades, Portfolio) is the company's main hedge fund shareholder with 0.65% of outstanding shares, followed by Jim Simons (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.52%, Paul Tudor Jones (Trades, Portfolio) and Steven Cohen (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.08%.
