Insiders who purchased US$254k worth of E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ETWO) shares over the past year recouped some of their losses after price gained 5.1% last week. However, the purchase is proving to be an expensive wager as insiders are yet to get ahead of their losses which currently stand at US$47k since the time of purchase.

While insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing, logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At E2open Parent Holdings

The Independent Director, Eva Harris, made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for US$113k worth of shares at a price of US$7.52 each. While we don't usually like to see insider selling, it's more concerning if the sales take place at a lower price. The silver lining is that this sell-down took place above the latest price (US$6.76). So it may not tell us anything about how insiders feel about the current share price. Eva Harris was the only individual insider to sell over the last year.

Happily, we note that in the last year insiders paid US$254k for 30.55k shares. On the other hand they divested 15.00k shares, for US$113k. In the last twelve months there was more buying than selling by E2open Parent Holdings 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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Does E2open Parent Holdings Boast High Insider Ownership?

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. I reckon it's a good sign if insiders own a significant number of shares in the company. Insiders own 0.3% of E2open Parent Holdings shares, worth about US$7.4m, according to our data. Whilst better than nothing, we're not overly impressed by these holdings.

So What Does This Data Suggest About E2open Parent Holdings Insiders?

It doesn't really mean much that no insider has traded E2open Parent Holdings shares in the last quarter. But insiders have shown more of an appetite for the stock, over the last year. The transactions are fine but it'd be more encouraging if E2open Parent Holdings insiders bought more shares in the company. So these insider transactions can help us build a thesis about the stock, but it's also worthwhile knowing the risks facing this company. While conducting our analysis, we found that E2open Parent Holdings 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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