Bradley Cooper Buys Handful Of Shares In Judo Capital Holdings
Investors who take an interest in Judo Capital Holdings Limited (ASX:JDO) should definitely note that the Independent Non-Executive Director, Bradley Cooper, recently paid AU$1.02 per share to buy AU$156k worth of the stock. However, it only increased shareholding by a small percentage, and it wasn't a huge purchase by absolute value, either.
Judo Capital Holdings Insider Transactions Over The Last Year
The Co-Founder, Christopher Bayliss, made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for AU$1.2m worth of shares at a price of AU$1.74 each. We generally don't like to see insider selling, but the lower the sale price, the more it concerns us. The silver lining is that this sell-down took place above the latest price (AU$1.04). So it may not tell us anything about how insiders feel about the current share price. The only individual insider seller over the last year was Christopher Bayliss.
In the last twelve months insiders purchased 258.01k shares for AU$308k. On the other hand they divested 685.16k shares, for AU$1.2m. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you click on the chart, you can see all the individual transactions, including the share price, individual, and the date!
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Insider Ownership
Another way to test the alignment between the leaders of a company and other shareholders is to look at how many shares they own. Usually, the higher the insider ownership, the more likely it is that insiders will be incentivised to build the company for the long term. Insiders own 3.0% of Judo Capital Holdings shares, worth about AU$35m. This level of insider ownership is good but just short of being particularly stand-out. It certainly does suggest a reasonable degree of alignment.
So What Do The Judo Capital Holdings Insider Transactions Indicate?
The recent insider purchases are heartening. However, the longer term transactions are not so encouraging. We don't take much heart from transactions by Judo Capital Holdings insiders over the last year. But they own a reasonable amount of the company, and there was some buying recently. In short they are likely aligned with shareholders. So while it's helpful to know what insiders are doing in terms of buying or selling, it's also helpful to know the risks that a particular company is facing. You'd be interested to know, that we found 1 warning sign for Judo Capital Holdings and we suggest you have a look.
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For the purposes of this article, insiders are those individuals who report their transactions to the relevant regulatory body. We currently account for open market transactions and private dispositions of direct interests only, but not derivative transactions or indirect interests.
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