Small Cap Insider Buys: July 3, 2012

By Value in Stock Market:Small cap companies are usually not followed by analysts, which makes choosing the right small-cap (market cap < $2 billion) more difficult. Choosing the right small companies to invest in can be daunting; however, insider purchases provide a good starting point. Insiders, especially executives and directors of small companies, tend to know their companies very well. Tracking their stock purchase activities can generate lucrative returns.

By Value in Stock Market:Small cap companies are usually not followed by analysts, which makes choosing the right small-cap (market cap < $2 billion) more difficult. Choosing the right small companies to invest can be daunting; however, instead purchases provide a good starting point. Insiders, especially executives and directors of small companies tend to know their company very well. Tracking their stock purchase activities can generate lucrative returns.

By Value in Stock Market:Small-cap companies are usually not followed by analysts, which makes choosing the right small cap (market cap < $2 billion) more difficult. Choosing the right small companies to invest in can be daunting; however, insider purchases provide a good starting point. Insiders, especially executives and directors of small companies, tend to know their companies very well. Tracking their stock purchase activities can generate lucrative returns.

By Value in Stock Market:Small cap companies are usually not followed by analysts, which makes choosing the right small cap (market cap < $500 million) more difficult. Choosing the right small companies to invest can be daunting. However, instead purchases provide a good starting point. Insiders, especially executives and directors of small companies, tend to know their company very well. Tracking their stock purchase activities can generate lucrative returns.

By Value in Stock Market:Generally speaking, small cap (market cap < $2 billion) companies are not closely followed by analysts, journalists, or bloggers, which makes choosing the right small-cap like finding a needle in a haystack. However, insider purchases provide a good starting point. Insiders, especially executives and directors of small companies, tend to know their company very well. Tracking their stock purchase activities can generate lucrative returns.

By Value in Stock Market:Small-cap companies are usually not followed by analysts, which makes choosing the right small cap (market cap < $500 million) more difficult. Choosing the right small companies to invest can be daunting; however, insider purchases provide a good starting point. Insiders, especially executives and directors of small companies, tend to know their company very well. Tracking their stock purchase activities can generate lucrative returns.

By Value in Stock Market:Small cap companies (market cap < $2 billion) are usually not followed by analysts and there are thousands of them. This makes selecting the best small caps to invest like finding a needle in a haystack. Insider purchases however, provide a good starting point, since insiders, especially executives and directors of small companies tend to know their companies very well. Tracking their stock purchase activities can generate lucrative returns.

By Value in Stock Market:As Peter Lynch pointed out in his book, One Up On Wall Street, insiders sell for various reasons, which is usually not very informative unless they are dumping shares like there is no tomorrow. Insiders buy for one reason: They are signaling that they have confidence in the company's future performance.