Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link. Yesterday, Dec. 5, 2013, 115 U.S. common stocks issued filings of shares being bought or sold by insiders. The transactions ranged in value from $322.40 to $43,442,751.80.
Highlighted Stocks Traded by Insiders:
Ciena Corporation (CIEN) - FREE Research Report Moylan James E Jr who is SVP Finance, CFO at Ciena Corporation sold 1,000 shares at $21.37 on Dec. 5, 2013. Following this transaction, the SVP Finance, CFO owned 316,848 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 0.31% with the 1,000-share transaction.
The shares most recently traded at $23.44, up $2.07, or 8.83% since the insider transaction. Historical insider transactions for Ciena Corporation go as follows:
- 4-Week # shares sold: 19,189
- 12-Week # shares sold: 92,629
- 24-Week # shares sold: 196,730
The average volume for Ciena Corporation has been 3.2 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Ciena Corporation has a market cap of $2.4 billion and is part of the technology sector and telecommunications industry. Shares are up 48.15% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
Ciena Corporation provides communications networking equipment, software, and services that support the transport, switching, aggregation, and management of voice, video, and data traffic worldwide. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Ciena Corporation 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 solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share and increase in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the company's profit margins have been poor overall. Get the full
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