Companies

Trailing herd is a tale of woe

Christopher Webb Punters who like piggy-backing director buying - particularly multi-director buying - have discovered that sometimes it can be costly. Very costly.

Shares

Boom lowered but some buy

Christopher Webb It looks as if there are a couple of deep-value punters in the Boom Logistics boardroom.

Earnings

Bosses, M2 on parallel paths

Christopher Webb Vaughan Bowen, the M2 Telecommunications Group strongman, has collected nearly $25 million from share sales in the past couple of years.

Directors

Carsales chair cashes out with a few nice little earners

Christopher Webb Walter Pisciotta, the chairman of carsales.com, last sold scrip in October last year.

Directors

Countplus chief adds to stake

Christopher Webb Barry Lambert, the executive chairman of Countplus, has again increased his stake.

Biotech

Turnbull back in the market

Christopher Webb Lucy Turnbull has again topped up her stake in Prima BioMed, which she claims is one of the country's most innovative bio technology companies.

Directors

Wives' club leaps on Nufarm

Christopher Webb Nufarm's interim results had a nasty effect on the share price and who better than the chairman and managing director to enter the market and buy some shares?

Gutnick shows magic touch in offloading wedge of Merlin

Christopher Webb Sellers were once again to the fore this week, with Joseph Gutnick at the head of proceedings.

The Directors

Buying chances downstream

Christopher Webb What do you do if your share price gets hammered by 51 per cent in two trading sessions?

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Shares shovelled into white-hot market

Christopher Webb Directors continued this week shovelling shares into a market hungry for equities, with the scorecard registering $82 million to about $5 million in favour of the sellers.

Stocks

Focus moves to sellers' market

Christopher Webb Sellers dominated proceedings this week, collecting about $37 million compared with just $3 million spent by directors doing a bit of buying.

As bulls run, big-money figures sell close to $800m in shares

Christopher Webb With the bulls well and truly in charge of the market, some big-money heavyweights have taken close enough to $800 million off the table in recent days.

Murdoch leads turnover tally

Christopher Webb Rupert Murdoch topped the turnovers table this week when he disposed of $39 million of News Corp stock.

Cousins doubles Telstra stake

Christopher Webb A collection of directors this week surfaced as buyers after earnings reports.

House proud directors decide to collect some of the profits

Christopher Webb Following sudden appreciation of Collection House scrip, two directors lighten their load.

Packer leads the buyers

Christopher Webb Thanks to a top-up by James Douglas Packer on Crown scrip, buyers easily outspent sellers on the directors' trades front.

Biotech buys despite setback

Christopher Webb Four members of Starpharma Holdings' board surfaced as buyers following the slashing of the share price.

Cowin laps up Fairfax stock

Christopher Webb Fairfax Media board member Jack Cowin surfaces as the buyer of 2 million shares.

Media barons dominate trade, Murdoch sells $10m in shares

Christopher Webb Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Stokes account for over half of $29 million in directors' trades.

Hills board members lay their own money on the line

Christopher Webb Hills Holdings board members bought shares at the lowest prices seen for two decades.