Top CEO purchases this week (Oct 27)

Welcome to this week’s edition of CEO Watcher. This is the only newsletter that tracks the returns of insiders so we know which insider trades are worth copying.

This week we found:

• A CEO with a 100% win-rate that has bought his company’s stock for the 11th time this year

• Another CEO with a 100% win-rate that made his first purchase since 2020

• A director with 290% 1-year returns

👀 Top Insider Trades this Week

🥇Shahsaver Jamsidi - CEO at BrightRock Gold Corp ($BRGC - link)

He has been buying his company’s stock this entire year as the stock price has gone from $0.15 → $0.58 and he bought more this week. He was buying basically every month from April until September and then took 6 weeks off before buying more this week.

Historic Returns and Win Rate

• 1-year: N/A

• 6-month: 23% returns with a 100% win rate (3/3 trades)

• 3-month: 26% returns with a 100% win rate (6/6 trades)

• 1-month: 20% returns with an 80% win rate (8/10 trades)

Purchase Data (this week)

• Total Amount Purchased: $17,280

• Purchase Price: $0.54

• Current Price: $0.58 (+7%)

Rating

• Rating: 7

• Why: He has been consistently buying the stock even with rising prices and has pretty good returns and a great win rate. The two things holding the score back are that he doesn’t have much long-term history (all of his purchases are in 2023), his purchase size isn’t very large, and his returns aren’t the highest in the world (though they are still good).

🥈 John Hill - CEO/President at Central Securities ($CET - link)

He’s been successfully buying the stock since 2016 and just made his first purchase since 2020.

Historic Returns and Win Rate

• 1-year: 39% returns with a 100% win rate (16/16 trades)

• 6-month: 16% returns with a 88% win rate (14/16 trades)

• 3-month: 10% returns with a 88%% win rate (14/16 trades)

• 1-month: 4% returns with an 81% win rate (13/16 trades)

Purchase Data (this week)

• Total Amount Purchased: $10,545

• Purchase Price: $35.15

• Current Price: $34.92 (-1%)

Rating

• Rating: 7

• Why: He has a pretty sizable amount of history, stellar win rates, and pretty good win rates. Not the biggest returns in the world and the small purchase size are the downsides.

🥉 Jack Levine - Director at Strawberry Fields REIT ($STRW - link)

He made killer returns buying $BLNK in 2020 (he is also a director there), but just started buying $STRW in June of this year. This is now his 3rd purchase of $STRW.

Historic Returns and Win Rate

• 1-year: 290% returns with a 62% win rate (5/8 trades)

• 6-month: 271% returns with a 56% win rate (5/9 trades)

• 3-month: 75% returns with a 60% win rate (6/10 trades)

• 1-month: 28% returns with an 70% win rate (7/10 trades)

Purchase Data (this week)

• Total Amount Purchased: $14,050

• Purchase Price: $7.03

• Current Price: $7.25 (+3%)

Rating

• Rating: 7

• Why: Killer 6-month and 1-year returns and a decent win-rate. The downsides are that nearly all of his returns come from 3 purchases of $BLNK (where he is also a director) in 2020 that went up 15x in the next year and this purchase size is one of his smaller purchases.