Nkarta Insiders Got A Good Deal Selling At US$2.10

While it’s been a great week for Nkarta, Inc. (NASDAQ:NKTX) shareholders after stock gained 20%, company insiders might have missed out on those gains after selling stock earlier this year. The value of their investment would have been higher had they waited to sell their stock.

While we would never suggest that investors should base their decisions solely on what the directors of a company have been doing, we would consider it foolish to ignore insider transactions altogether.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Nkarta

In the last twelve months, the biggest single sale by an insider was when the CEO & Director, Paul Hastings, sold US$54k worth of shares at a price of US$2.07 per share. That means that even when the share price was below the current price of US$3.23, an insider wanted to cash in some shares. We generally consider it a negative if insiders have been selling, especially if they did so below the current price, because it implies that they considered a lower price to be reasonable. However, while insider selling is sometimes discouraging, it's only a weak signal. This single sale was just 14% of Paul Hastings's stake.

Insiders in Nkarta didn't buy any shares in the last year. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you click on the chart, you can see all the individual transactions, including the share price, individual, and the date!

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Are Nkarta Insiders Buying Or Selling?

In the last three months, CEO & Director Paul Hastings sold US$4.8k worth of shares. That's not much at all. Looking at the net result, we don't think this recent trading sheds much light on how insiders, as a group, are feeling about the company's prospects.

Insider Ownership Of Nkarta

Many investors like to check how much of a company is owned by insiders. Usually, the higher the insider ownership, the more likely it is that insiders will be incentivised to build the company for the long term. From what we can see in our data, insiders own only about US$867k worth of Nkarta shares. We might be missing something but that seems like very low insider ownership.

So What Do The Nkarta Insider Transactions Indicate?

We did not see any insider buying in the last three months, but we did see selling. But the sales were small, so we're not concerned. We're a little cautious about the insider selling at Nkarta. And we're not picking up on high enough insider ownership to give us any comfort. While it's good to be aware of what's going on with the insider's ownership and transactions, we make sure to also consider what risks are facing a stock before making any investment decision. Case in point: We've spotted 4 warning signs for Nkarta you should be aware of, and 2 of them are a bit unpleasant.

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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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