Luk Fook Holdings (International) Limited (HKG:590) shareholders (or potential shareholders) will be happy to see that the Non-Executive Director, Hon Hung Li, recently bought a whopping HK$11m worth of stock, at a price of HK$17.96. That increased their holding by a full 60%, which arguably implies the sort of confidence required for a shy sweet-natured nerd to ask the most popular kid in the school to go out on a date.

The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Luk Fook Holdings (International)

In fact, the recent purchase by Hon Hung Li was the biggest purchase of Luk Fook Holdings (International) shares made by an insider individual in the last twelve months, according to our records. So it's clear an insider wanted to buy, at around the current price, which is HK$18.62. That means they have been optimistic about the company in the past, though they may have changed their mind. While we always like to see insider buying, it's less meaningful if the purchases were made at much lower prices, as the opportunity they saw may have passed. Happily, the Luk Fook Holdings (International) insiders decided to buy shares at close to current prices.

Happily, we note that in the last year insiders paid HK$21m for 1.13m shares. On the other hand they divested 53.42k shares, for HK$1.2m. In the last twelve months there was more buying than selling by Luk Fook Holdings (International) insiders. 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 Of Luk Fook Holdings (International)

I like to look at how many shares insiders own in a company, to help inform my view of how aligned they are with insiders. We usually like to see fairly high levels of insider ownership. Luk Fook Holdings (International) insiders own about HK$228m worth of shares. That equates to 2.1% 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 Does This Data Suggest About Luk Fook Holdings (International) Insiders?

It's certainly positive to see the recent insider purchase. And the longer term insider transactions also give us confidence. Along with the high insider ownership, this analysis suggests that insiders are quite bullish about Luk Fook Holdings (International). Nice! 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 Luk Fook Holdings (International) 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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