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. Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, 106 U.S. common stocks issued filings of shares being bought or sold by insiders. The transactions ranged in value from $119.02 to $14,400,000,000.00.
Highlighted Stocks Traded by Insiders:
Kulicke & Soffa Industries (KLIC) - FREE Research Report Guilmart Bruno who is President, CEO at Kulicke & Soffa Industries sold 50,000 shares at $12.47 on Dec. 20, 2013. Following this transaction, the President, CEO owned 667,540 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 6.97% with the 50,000-share transaction.
The shares most recently traded at $12.98, up $0.51, or 3.95% since the insider transaction. Historical insider transactions for Kulicke & Soffa Industries go as follows:
- 4-Week # shares sold: 26,000
- 12-Week # shares sold: 52,123
- 24-Week # shares sold: 131,410
The average volume for Kulicke & Soffa Industries has been 860,200 shares per day over the past 30 days. Kulicke & Soffa Industries has a market cap of $954.9 million and is part of the technology sector and electronics industry. Shares are up 4.84% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells capital equipment and expendable tools to assemble semiconductor devices, including integrated circuits, discrete devices, light-emitting diodes, and power modules. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.1. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate Kulicke & Soffa Industries a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and none rate it a hold.
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buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels, expanding profit margins and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat weak growth in earnings per share. Get the full
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