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Friday, March 6, 2015, 111 U.S. common stocks issued filings of shares being bought or sold by insiders. The transactions ranged in value from $7.25 to $35,021,994.00.

Highlighted Stocks Traded by Insiders:

Carrizo Oil & Gas (CRZO) - FREE Research Report

Ramsey Roger A, who is Director at Carrizo Oil & Gas, sold 1,000 shares at $49.42 on March 6, 2015. Following this transaction, the Director owned 35,550 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 2.74% with the 1,000-share transaction.

Johnson S P Iv, who is President and CEO at Carrizo Oil & Gas, sold 6,000 shares at $48.82 on March 6, 2015. Following this transaction, the President and CEO owned 601,718 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 0.99% with the 6,000-share transaction.

The shares most recently traded at $47.65, down $1.17, or 2.45% since the insider transaction. Historical insider transactions for Carrizo Oil & Gas go as follows:

  • 4-Week # shares sold: 7,000
  • 12-Week # shares sold: 14,000
  • 24-Week # shares sold: 40,000

The average volume for Carrizo Oil & Gas has been 1.3 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Carrizo Oil & Gas has a market cap of $2.2 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and energy industry. Shares are up 16.06% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas primarily in the United States. The company has a P/E ratio of 10.0. Currently, there are 17 analysts who rate Carrizo Oil & Gas a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 1 rates it a hold.

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rates Carrizo Oil & Gas as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated. Get the full

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C&J Energy Services (CJES) - FREE Research Report

McCoy Michael A., who is Officer at C&J Energy Services, sold 5,000 shares at $13.03 on March 6, 2015. Following this transaction, the Officer owned 23,814 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 17.35% with the 5,000-share transaction.

The shares most recently traded at $12.77, down $0.26, or 2% since the insider transaction. Historical insider transactions for C&J Energy Services go as follows:

  • 4-Week # shares bought: 2,500
  • 4-Week # shares sold: 8,455
  • 12-Week # shares bought: 2,500
  • 12-Week # shares sold: 8,455
  • 24-Week # shares bought: 2,500
  • 24-Week # shares sold: 8,455

The average volume for C&J Energy Services has been 1.5 million shares per day over the past 30 days. C&J Energy Services has a market cap of $734.3 million and is part of the basic materials sector and energy industry. Shares are down 3.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.

C&J Energy Services, Inc. provides hydraulic fracturing, coiled tubing, cased-hole wireline, pumpdown, and other complementary services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States. The company has a P/E ratio of 10.9. Currently, there are 5 analysts who rate C&J Energy Services a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.

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hold

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, increase in net income and reasonable valuation levels. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including disappointing return on equity, poor profit margins and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself. Get the full

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Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC) - FREE Research Report

Milstead Byron Wayne, who is VP Corp, General Counsel at Lattice Semiconductor, sold 4,898 shares at $6.70 on March 6, 2015. Following this transaction, the VP Corp, General Counsel owned 17,948 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 21.44% with the 4,898-share transaction.

The shares most recently traded at $6.66, down $0.04, or 0.57% since the insider transaction.

The average volume for Lattice Semiconductor has been 1.5 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Lattice Semiconductor has a market cap of $782.1 million and is part of the technology sector and electronics industry. Shares are down 1.89% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, and markets programmable logic products and related software in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. It offers field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and conventional programmable logic devices (PLDs). The company has a P/E ratio of 16.8. Currently, there are 4 analysts who rate Lattice Semiconductor a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.

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rates Lattice Semiconductor as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself. Get the full

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