Enterprising Investor Forum

Insider Buys Friday, December 21, 2007

In times like these, it is often difficult to stay abreast of all the developments in the markets, especially due to the news being dominated by interest rates, the government, Financials and sovereign investment funds. In the midst of all this information, we tend to overlook stocks which may have been on our radar (i.e. Toyota Motor – TM - is trading near a 52 week low!) or end up being faced with too many opportunities that may seem tempting.

An interesting source of information is updated news on insider transactions. Bascially, it offers an insight on where management is actually investing their ‘own’ money and activly buying shares, thereby indicating that they feel prices are very attractive.

We like to read the Insider Trades section of StreetInsider.com to help point us in the right direction of give us ideas that we can follow up with some more detailed analysis. If you are interested, take a look: here.

Recent CEO/CFO purchases are:

• Finisar – 100,000 Shares
• dELiA*s – 35,000 Shares
• Marriott International – 30,000 Shares
• General Electric – 35,000 Shares

Happy research!