Potential New Concepts Holdings Limited (HKG:2221) shareholders may wish to note that the Executive Chairman, Yongjun Zhu, recently bought HK$1.6m worth of stock, paying HK$0.60 for each share. Although the purchase only increased their holding by 3.2%, it is still a solid purchase in our view.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At New Concepts Holdings

The Non-Executive Director Jiakuang Lin made the biggest insider purchase in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for HK$52m worth of shares at a price of HK$0.38 each. Although we like to see insider buying, we note that this large purchase was at significantly below the recent price of HK$0.60. 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.

New Concepts Holdings 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!

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Insider Ownership Of New Concepts Holdings

For a common shareholder, it is worth checking how many shares are held by company insiders. We usually like to see fairly high levels of insider ownership. Insiders own 29% of New Concepts Holdings shares, worth about HK$279m. 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 Do The New Concepts Holdings Insider Transactions Indicate?

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. When combined with notable insider ownership, these factors suggest New Concepts Holdings insiders are well aligned, and quite possibly think the share price is too low. One for the watchlist, at least! So while it's helpful to know what insiders are doing in terms of buying or selling, it's also helpful to know the risks that a particular company is facing. You'd be interested to know, that we found 2 warning signs for New Concepts Holdings and we suggest you have a look.

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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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