Independent Director Of Puma Biotechnology Sold 60% Of Their Shares

Investors may wish to note that the Independent Director of Puma Biotechnology, Inc., Michael Miller, recently netted US$71k from selling stock, receiving an average price of US$2.83. That might not be a huge sum but it was 60% of their personal holding, so we find it a little discouraging.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Puma Biotechnology

The Founder, Alan Auerbach, made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for US$114k worth of shares at a price of US$4.18 each. We generally don’t like to see insider selling, but the lower the sale price, the more it concerns us. The good news is that this large sale was at well above current price of US$3.50. So it is hard to draw any strong conclusion from it.

In the last year Puma Biotechnology insiders didn’t buy any company stock. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you click on the chart, you can see all the individual transactions, including the share price, individual, and the date!

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Does Puma Biotechnology Boast High Insider Ownership?

I like to look at how many shares insiders own in a company, to help inform my view of how aligned they are with insiders. A high insider ownership often makes company leadership more mindful of shareholder interests. It appears that Puma Biotechnology insiders own 15% of the company, worth about US$25m. We’ve certainly seen higher levels of insider ownership elsewhere, but these holdings are enough to suggest alignment between insiders and the other shareholders.

What Might The Insider Transactions At Puma Biotechnology Tell Us?

An insider sold stock recently, but they haven’t been buying. Looking to the last twelve months, our data doesn’t show any insider buying. Insider ownership isn’t particularly high, so this analysis makes us cautious about the company. So we’d only buy after careful consideration. While we like knowing what’s going on with the insider’s ownership and transactions, we make sure to also consider what risks are facing a stock before making any investment decision. At Simply Wall St, we’ve found that Puma Biotechnology has 5 warning signs (1 doesn’t sit too well with us!) that deserve your attention before going any further with your analysis.

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For the purposes of this article, insiders are those individuals who report their transactions to the relevant regulatory body. We currently account for open market transactions and private dispositions of direct interests only, but not derivative transactions or indirect interests.

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