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. 17, 2013, 129 U.S. common stocks issued filings of shares being bought or sold by insiders. The transactions ranged in value from $69.90 to $563,062,500.00.
Highlighted Stocks Traded by Insiders:
Google (GOOG) - FREE Research Report Arora Nikesh who is SVP and Chief Business Officer at Google sold 985 shares at $1,064.00 on Dec. 17, 2013. Following this transaction, the SVP and Chief Business Officer owned 1 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 99.9% with the 985-share transaction.
The shares most recently traded at $1,072.00, up $8.00, or 0.75% since the insider transaction. Historical insider transactions for Google go as follows:
- 4-Week # shares sold: 1,332
- 12-Week # shares sold: 9,755
- 24-Week # shares sold: 11,369
The average volume for Google has been 1.8 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Google has a market cap of $296.9 billion and is part of the technology sector and internet industry. Shares are up 51.68% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
Google Inc., a technology company, builds products and provides services to organize the information and make it universally accessible and useful. The company has a P/E ratio of 30.8. Currently there are 22 analysts that rate Google a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
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buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share and compelling growth in net income. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. Get the full
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