Whilst it may not be a huge deal, we thought it was good to see that the Apollo Future Mobility Group Limited (HKG:860) Executive Chairman, King Fung Ho, recently bought HK$275k worth of stock, for HK$0.27 per share. However, it only increased their shares held by 2.7%, and it wasn't a huge purchase by absolute value, either.

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Apollo Future Mobility Group Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

Over the last year, we can see that the biggest insider sale was by the insider, Hoi Shuen Chau, for HK$133m worth of shares, at about HK$0.68 per share. We generally don't like to see insider selling, but the lower the sale price, the more it concerns us. The silver lining is that this sell-down took place above the latest price (HK$0.24). So it may not tell us anything about how insiders feel about the current share price. Hoi Shuen Chau was the only individual insider to sell over the last year.

Happily, we note that in the last year insiders paid HK$6.3m for 17.10m shares. But insiders sold 392.35m shares worth HK$267m. Hoi Shuen Chau sold a total of 392.35m shares over the year at an average price of HK$0.68. The chart below shows insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year. 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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Insider Ownership

Another way to test the alignment between the leaders of a company and other shareholders is to look at how many shares they own. Usually, the higher the insider ownership, the more likely it is that insiders will be incentivised to build the company for the long term. Insiders own 26% of Apollo Future Mobility Group shares, worth about HK$600m. While this is a strong but not outstanding level of insider ownership, it's enough to indicate some alignment between management and smaller shareholders.

So What Does This Data Suggest About Apollo Future Mobility Group Insiders?

It is good to see recent purchasing. But we can't say the same for the transactions over the last 12 months. The recent buying by some insiders , along with high insider ownership, suggest that Apollo Future Mobility Group insiders are fairly aligned, and optimistic. In addition to knowing about insider transactions going on, it's beneficial to identify the risks facing Apollo Future Mobility Group. While conducting our analysis, we found that Apollo Future Mobility Group has 1 warning sign and it would be unwise to ignore this.

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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, but not derivative transactions.

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