Daily Insider Ratings Round Up 3/2/18: FRGI, TRN, OCN, AAT, SNAP, CMG, HAIN

Summary

• Tables of the top insider purchases and sales filed with the SEC on 3/2/18, based on dollar value.
• Dollar values often do not equate with significance when it comes to insider trades.
• Proprietary Insider Company Ratings are relayed to clarify significance.

InsiderInsights' Daily Round Up articles rate the "significance" of the top 10 dollar value insider purchases and sales filed at the SEC on the Title date. Dollar value is only the most basic metric to assess the significance of an insider transaction, however, and there are many more "Significant" insider trades with lower dollar values every day in our comprehensive Daily Insider Ratings Reports, which also reach clients before the market opens each morning. Our free Round-Up articles are delayed.

We employ over a million lines of code programming our decades of experience analyzing insider transactions to harvest, analyze, and profitably rate insider transactions in real time. When a new insider transaction occurs, our programs mathematically score the significance of the company's 3-month insider profile based on numerous criteria.

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The intention of our Round Up articles is to both separate real insider investment intelligence from time-wasting noise and to educate investors that -- though insider transactions are indeed an excellent source of investment intelligence -- it takes much more analysis than screening by dollar values to make money from insider data.

Seasonal Note: Insider filing volumes should remain seasonally high through mid March. We’re entering another very productive multi-week stretch for following insider transactions.

On Today's Tables:

Insider trades were rated Significant at :

• Trinity Industries (TRN);
• Ocwen Financial (OCN);
• Fiesta Restaurant (FRGI), and;
• Amer Assets Tr (AAT).

Insider trades were rated Nearly Significant at:

• Chipotle Mexican (CMG);
• Hain Celestial (HAIN), and;
• SNAP (SNAP).

Insider trades were considered Insignificant at:

• Protalex (OTCQB:PRTX);
• Tyler Tech (TYL);
• Chegg (CHGG);
• CBS (CBS);
• Cbre (CBG);
• Beigene (BGNE);
• On Assignment (ASGN), and;
• Abbvie (ABBV).

There is a Conflicted Insider Signal (both purchases & sales) at:

• TJX Companies (TJX);
• Lawson Products (LAWS);
• Aberdeen Greater China Fund (GCH), and;
• Achaogen (AKAO).

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Insider Purchases

#:	Filer Name	Insider Titles	Company Name	Ticker	Trans Type	Dollar Value
1	Pershing Square	DIR,BO	Chipotle Mexican	CMG	JB*	$133,721,240
2	Welling Glenn W	DIR,BO	Hain Celestial	HAIN	B	$49,023,456
3	Valueact	BO	Trinity Industries	TRN	B	$31,186,500
4	Kling Arnold P	PR,DIR,BO	Protalex	PRTX	JB*	$22,269,366
5	Leucadia National	BO	Fiesta Restaurant	FRGI	B	$6,296,998
6	Duggan Robert W	BO	Achaogen	AKAO	B	$5,438,896
7	Rady Ernest S	CB,CEO,BO	Amer Assets Tr	AAT	B	$4,193,404
8	King Luther Capital Mgt	BO	Lawson Products	LAWS	JB*	$2,400,000
9	City Of London Investment	BO	Aberdeen Greater China Fund	GCH	JB*	$2,386,666
10	Cooperman Leon	BO	Ocwen Financial	OCN	B	$1,923,883

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Insider Sales

#:	Filer Name	Insider Titles	Company Name	Ticker	Trans Type	Dollar Value
1	Boze Brandon	DIR	Cbre	CBG	JS*	$228,900,000
2	Pershing Square	DIR,BO	Chipotle Mexican	CMG	JS*	$133,721,240
3	Spiegel Evan	CEO,DIR,BO	SNAP	SNAP	S	$25,381,128
4	Oyler John	CEO,DIR,BO	Beigene	BGNE	AS	$14,416,931
5	Meyrowitz Carol	CB,DIR	TJX Companies	TJX	S	$11,079,832
6	Sheridan Edwin A	DIR	On Assignment	ASGN	S	$6,036,147
7	King Luther Jr	DIR	Tyler Tech	TYL	S	$4,727,782
8	Moonves Leslie	CB,CEO,DIR	CBS	CBS	AS	$4,545,709
9	Brown Andrew J	CFO	Chegg	CHGG	AS	$3,546,865
10	Schumacher Laura J	VP	Abbvie	ABBV	AS	$2,946,148

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Source: InsiderInsights.com | Key to Insider Title and Trans Type Codes :
B =Open-market Buy; AB=10b5-1 (automatic) Buy; JB*=Buy indicated as being open-market, but not confirmed by trading price range and volume for the session. S =Open-market Sale; AS=10b5-1 (automatic) Sale; JS*=Sale indicated as being open-market, but not confirmed by trading price range and volume for the session.

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