Insiders Of CleanTech Vanadium Mining Make A Tidy Sum Selling At CA$0.046

Although CleanTech Vanadium Mining Corp. (CVE:CTV) shareholders have enjoyed a great week with the stock up 48%, insiders who sold stock over the past year haven’t fared as well. The value of their investment would have been higher had they waited to sell their stock.

While insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing, we would consider it foolish to ignore insider transactions altogether.

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CleanTech Vanadium Mining Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

In the last twelve months, the biggest single purchase by an insider was when CEO & Executive Chairman John R. Lee bought CA$85k worth of shares at a price of CA$0.05 per share. Although we like to see insider buying, we note that this large purchase was at significantly below the recent price of CA$0.17. Because it occurred at a lower valuation, it doesn’t tell us much about whether insiders might find today’s price attractive.

John R. Lee sold a total of 3.89m shares over the year at an average price of CA$0.046. 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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CleanTech Vanadium Mining Insiders Bought Stock Recently

Over the last three months, we’ve seen a bit of insider buying at CleanTech Vanadium Mining. CEO & Executive Chairman John R. Lee shelled out CA$34k for shares in that time. It’s good to see the insider buying, as well as the lack of recent sellers. However, in this case the amount invested recently is quite small.

Insider Ownership

Another way to test the alignment between the leaders of a company and other shareholders is to look at how many shares they own. A high insider ownership often makes company leadership more mindful of shareholder interests. CleanTech Vanadium Mining insiders own about CA$4.1m worth of shares. That equates to 17% of the company. This level of insider ownership is good but just short of being particularly stand-out. It certainly does suggest a reasonable degree of alignment.

So What Does This Data Suggest About CleanTech Vanadium Mining Insiders?

We note a that there has been a bit of insider buying recently (but no selling). The net investment is not enough to encourage us much. We don’t take much encouragement from the transactions by CleanTech Vanadium Mining insiders. But it’s good to see that insiders own shares in the company. In addition to knowing about insider transactions going on, it’s beneficial to identify the risks facing CleanTech Vanadium Mining. For instance, we’ve identified 5 warning signs for CleanTech Vanadium Mining (4 can’t be ignored) 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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