At Boardroom Alpha we spend a lot of time looking at insider buying and selling activity as a way to monitor what actions company insiders are taking and what that might say about the future prospects of a given company.

Have a look in more detail at the below data using our Insider Trading Tacker.

The Sellers

Large-cap companies with most aggregate insider sells this week (Tracker link here)

12 large-cap companies had more than $20mm in net sales:

• Director S Robson Walton (D) was the lone seller at Walmart (WMT), selling $103.3mm worth of shares. Walton sold $110mm worth of shares last week.
• Director and Chairman Micky Arison (D) was the lone seller at Carnival Corporation (CCL), selling $102.9mm worth of shares.
• Director and executive chair Benno Dorer (A) was the lone seller at The Clorox Company (CLX), selling $83.8mm worth of shares.

In addition to the bigger sales at large-cap companies, there were smaller but still significant net sales totaling $10-20mm at 10 large-cap companies.

• CEO Jay Snowden (B) and General Counsel Carl Sottosanti sold $12.7mm and $6.7mm worth of Penn National Gaming (PENN) shares respectively.
• Director Thomas Saunders (B-) was effectively the lone seller at Dollar Tree (DLTR), selling $19mm worth of shares. This was in cordination with the announcement Saunders will retire from the board in 2021. COO Thomas O’Boyle sold $0.1mm worth of shares.

Mid-cap companies with most aggregate insider sells this week (Tracker link here)

There were 6 companies with more than $10mm in net sales:

• Director Jeffrey Osher (B+) was the lone seller at Green Dot Corporation, selling $35.7mm worth of shares. This was on behalf of Harvest Small Cap Partners, an investment firm where Osher is a partner.
• Co-founder and Director Daniel Harris Meyer (D) was the lone seller at Shake Shack (SHAK), selling $10.1mm worth of shares.

For small-caps… (Tracker link here)

• Montrose Enviromental Group (MEG) Directors James Price (B+), Richard Perlman (B), andDe Castro Jose Miguel Fernandez sold $10.4mm, $12.8mm, and $1.4mm worth of shares respectively.
• Directors Daniel Weiss (C+) and Steven Lockard (A-) sold $8mm and $3.2mm worth of TPI Composites (TPIC) shares respectively. Weiss sold on behalf of Angeleno Group Management, an investment firm where he is a partner.

The Buyers

There were no large-cap companies with more than $1mm in net buys

Mid-cap companies with most aggregate buys this week (Tracker link here)

American Assets Trust (AAT) was the only mid-cap company with more than $1mm in net buys. CEO Ernest Randy (D) was the lone buyer.

There were no small-cap companies with more than $1mm in net buys

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