Peter Bensen Bought 41% More Shares In Lamb Weston Holdings

Potential Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:LW) shareholders may wish to note that the Independent Director, Peter Bensen, recently bought US$197k worth of stock, paying US$39.45 for each share. That's a very decent purchase to our minds and it grew their holding by a solid 41%.

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Lamb Weston Holdings Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

The Executive Chair Jan Eli B. Craps made the biggest insider purchase in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for US$2.4m worth of shares at a price of US$48.65 each. So it's clear an insider wanted to buy, even at a higher price than the current share price (being US$41.61). While their view may have changed since the purchase was made, this does at least suggest they have had confidence in the company's future. We always take careful note of the price insiders pay when purchasing shares. It is generally more encouraging if they paid above the current price, as it suggests they saw value, even at higher levels.

In the last twelve months insiders purchased 55.00k shares for US$2.6m. But they sold 1.60k shares for US$100k. In the last twelve months there was more buying than selling by Lamb Weston Holdings insiders. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. By clicking on the graph below, you can see the precise details of each insider transaction!

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Insider Ownership Of Lamb Weston Holdings

Looking at the total insider shareholdings in a company can help to inform your view of whether they are well aligned with common shareholders. We usually like to see fairly high levels of insider ownership. Lamb Weston Holdings insiders own about US$48m worth of shares. That equates to 0.8% of the company. While this is a strong but not outstanding level of insider ownership, it's enough to indicate some alignment between management and smaller shareholders.

So What Do The Lamb Weston Holdings Insider Transactions Indicate?

It is good to see recent purchasing. We also take confidence from the longer term picture of insider transactions. Given that insiders also own a fair bit of Lamb Weston Holdings we think they are probably pretty confident of a bright future. In addition to knowing about insider transactions going on, it's beneficial to identify the risks facing Lamb Weston Holdings. For example - Lamb Weston Holdings has 2 warning signs we think you should be aware of.

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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 of direct interests only, but not derivative transactions or indirect interests.

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