Dolly Varden Silver Insider Ups Holding By 11% During Year

Insiders were net buyers of Dolly Varden Silver Corporation’s (CVE:DV ) stock during the past year. That is, insiders bought more stock than they sold.

While insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing, we do think it is perfectly logical to keep tabs on what insiders are doing.

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Dolly Varden Silver Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

Over the last year, we can see that the biggest insider purchase was by insider Eric Sprott for CA$2.0m worth of shares, at about CA$0.70 per share. We do like to see buying, but this purchase was made at well below the current price of CA$1.00. Because the shares were purchased at a lower price, this particular buy doesn’t tell us much about how insiders feel about the current share price.

You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you want to know exactly who sold, for how much, and when, simply click on the graph below!

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Insider Ownership

Many investors like to check how much of a company is owned by insiders. A high insider ownership often makes company leadership more mindful of shareholder interests. Dolly Varden Silver insiders own about CA$29m worth of shares. That equates to 10% of the company. We’ve certainly seen higher levels of insider ownership elsewhere, but these holdings are enough to suggest alignment between insiders and the other shareholders.

So What Do The Dolly Varden Silver Insider Transactions Indicate?

There haven’t been any insider transactions in the last three months — that doesn’t mean much. On a brighter note, the transactions over the last year are encouraging. Overall we don’t see anything to make us think Dolly Varden Silver insiders are doubting the company, and they do own shares. So while it’s helpful to know what insiders are doing in terms of buying or selling, it’s also helpful to know the risks that a particular company is facing. Our analysis shows 3 warning signs for Dolly Varden Silver (1 shouldn’t be ignored!) and we strongly recommend you look at them before investing.

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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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