Potential Rex International Holding Limited (SGX:5WH) shareholders may wish to note that the Executive Chairman, Dan Broström, recently bought S$136k worth of stock, paying S$0.14 for each share. While that's a very decent purchase to our minds, it was proportionally a bit modest, boosting their holding by just 8.8%.

Rex International Holding Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

Over the last year, we can see that the biggest insider sale was by the Chief Operating Officer, Svein Helge Kjellesvik, for S$1.0m worth of shares, at about S$0.20 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. The good news is that this large sale was at well above current price of S$0.13. So it is hard to draw any strong conclusion from it. The only individual insider seller over the last year was Svein Helge Kjellesvik.

You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you want to know exactly who sold, for how much, and when, simply click on the graph below!

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Insider Ownership

Many investors like to check how much of a company is owned by insiders. Usually, the higher the insider ownership, the more likely it is that insiders will be incentivised to build the company for the long term. It's great to see that Rex International Holding insiders own 44% of the company, worth about S$78m. Most shareholders would be happy to see this sort of insider ownership, since it suggests that management incentives are well aligned with other shareholders.

So What Do The Rex International Holding Insider Transactions Indicate?

It's certainly positive to see the recent insider purchase. On the other hand the transaction history, over the last year, isn't so positive. The high levels of insider ownership, and the recent buying by an insider suggests they are well aligned and optimistic. 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. While conducting our analysis, we found that Rex International Holding 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 of direct interests only, but not derivative transactions or indirect interests.

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