AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (NYSE:AMN) shareholders (or potential shareholders) will be happy to see that the President, Caroline Grace, recently bought a whopping US$992k worth of stock, at a price of US$56.68. That purchase boosted their holding by 181%, which makes us wonder if the move was inspired by quietly confident deeply-felt optimism.

The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At AMN Healthcare Services

Over the last year, we can see that the biggest insider sale was by the Chief Information & Digital Officer, Mark Hagan, for US$1.1m worth of shares, at about US$67.92 per share. While we don't usually like to see insider selling, it's more concerning if the sales take place at a lower price. It's of some comfort that this sale was conducted at a price well above the current share price, which is US$56.80. So it is hard to draw any strong conclusion from it.

In the last twelve months insiders purchased 32.98k shares for US$1.9m. On the other hand they divested 17.00k shares, for US$1.2m. Overall, AMN Healthcare Services insiders were net buyers during the last year. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. By clicking on the graph below, you can see the precise details of each insider transaction!

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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. AMN Healthcare Services insiders own about US$13m worth of shares. That equates to 0.6% of the company. 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 AMN Healthcare Services Insider Transactions Indicate?

It's certainly positive to see the recent insider purchases. And an analysis of the transactions over the last year also gives us confidence. Given that insiders also own a fair bit of AMN Healthcare Services we think they are probably pretty confident of a bright future. While we like knowing what's going on with the insider's ownership and transactions, we make sure to also consider what risks are facing a stock before making any investment decision. While conducting our analysis, we found that AMN Healthcare Services has 2 warning signs and it would be unwise to ignore them.

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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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