Investors should always be on the lookout for insights that could give them an edge in the stock market, and one potential source of such information is insider buying activity. When company insiders, such as executives or board members, buy shares of a company’s stock, it can be seen as a vote of confidence in the company’s prospects. Publicly available insider buying information can provide valuable clues about which stocks may be worth considering for investment.
Here are three stocks recently purchased by C-level insiders –
Savara Inc. – SYM: SVRA
Recent Price: $3.46
Insider Action: 12 insiders buy $10 mil in shares
Description: Savara Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on rare respiratory diseases. The company’s lead product candidate is molgramostim, an inhaled granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, which is in Phase 3 development stage for the treatment of autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. Savara Inc. is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
===
NEXGEL, Inc. – SYM: NXGL
Recent Price: $2.24
Insider Action: 5 insiders buy $100K in shares
Description: NEXGEL, Inc. manufactures high water content, electron beam cross-linked, and aqueous polymer hydrogels and gels. Its products are used for wound care, medical diagnostics, transdermal drug delivery, and cosmetics. The company was formerly known as AquaMed Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to NEXGEL, Inc. in November 2019. NEXGEL, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
===
Flotek Industries, Inc. – SYM: FTK
Recent Price: $0.81
Insider Action: 4 insiders buy $669K in shares
Description: Flotek Industries, Inc. operates as a technology-driven chemistry and data company that serves customers across industrial, commercial, and consumer markets in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Chemistry Technologies (CT) and Data Analytics (DA). The CT segment designs, develops, manufactures, packages, distributes, delivers, and markets green specialty chemicals that enhance the profitability of hydrocarbon producers, as well as green specialty chemistries and logistics and technology services. This segment primarily serves integrated oil and gas, oilfield services, independent oil and gas, national and state-owned oil, geothermal energy, solar energy, and alternative energy companies. The DA segment designs, develops, produces, sells, and supports equipment and services that create and provide valuable information on the composition and properties of energy customers’ hydrocarbon fluids. It sells its products directly through a mix of in-house sales professionals, as well as contractual agency agreements. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
