Monday 12/17 Insider Buying Report: CODI, WSC
Monday, December 17, 1:32 PM ET

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As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy — they expect to make money. So let's look at two noteworthy recent insider buys.

On Wednesday, Compass Diversified Holdings' Elias Sabo, made a $355,485 purchase of CODI, buying 25,000 shares at a cost of $14.22 a piece. Bargain hunters are able to buy CODI at a price even lower than Sabo did, with the stock trading as low as $13.25 at last check today — that's 6.8% under Sabo's purchase price. Compass Diversified Holdings is trading down about 1.8% on the day Monday. Before this latest buy, Sabo purchased CODI at 2 other times during the past twelve months, for a total investment of $1.16M at an average of $15.46 per share.

And on Thursday, Director Mark S. Bartlett purchased $298,750 worth of WillScot, purchasing 25,000 shares at a cost of $11.95 a piece. Before this latest buy, Bartlett made one other purchase in the past year, buying $298,750 shares at a cost of $11.95 each. WillScot is trading down about 3% on the day Monday. Investors are able to buy WSC at a price even lower than Bartlett did, with the stock trading as low as $10.94 in trading on Monday which is 8.5% below Bartlett's purchase price.

For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.