CA Cultural Technology Group Limited (HKG:1566) shareholders (or potential shareholders) will be happy to see that insider Gin Ng recently bought a whopping HK$29m worth of stock, at a price of HK$0.18. That increased their holding by a full 111%, which arguably implies the sort of confidence required for a shy sweet-natured nerd to ask the most popular kid in the school to go out on a date.
In the last twelve months, the biggest single purchase by an insider was when insider Kenichi Yanase bought HK$94m worth of shares at a price of HK$0.18 per share. Even though the purchase was made at a significantly lower price than the recent price (HK$5.30), we still think insider buying is a positive. Because the shares were purchased at a lower price, this particular buy doesn't tell us much about how insiders feel about the current share price.
CA Cultural Technology Group insiders may have bought shares in the last year, but they didn't sell any. You can see a visual depiction of insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last 12 months, below. If you click on the chart, you can see all the individual transactions, including the share price, individual, and the date!
Check out our latest analysis for CA Cultural Technology Group
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Another way to test the alignment between the leaders of a company and other shareholders is to look at how many shares they own. We usually like to see fairly high levels of insider ownership. CA Cultural Technology Group insiders own 70% of the company, currently worth about HK$6.0b based on the recent share price. This kind of significant ownership by insiders does generally increase the chance that the company is run in the interest of all shareholders.
The recent insider purchases are heartening. We also take confidence from the longer term picture of insider transactions. However, we note that the company didn't make a profit over the last twelve months, which makes us cautious. Along with the high insider ownership, this analysis suggests that insiders are quite bullish about CA Cultural Technology Group. Looks promising! In addition to knowing about insider transactions going on, it's beneficial to identify the risks facing CA Cultural Technology Group. At Simply Wall St, we found 3 warning signs for CA Cultural Technology Group that deserve your attention before buying any shares.
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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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