| In February 2018, five insiders including the CEO bought shares of a medical device company on the same day, near $2 a share. By December 2021 that stock reached $150, a gain of 7,426 percent.
Researchers call this pattern a cluster buy, and studies rank it among the strongest signals in stock market history.
A new tool now scans SEC filings automatically to spot these clusters, available through Weiss Ratings PLUS at a limited discount.  |
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| | Moderna insiders filed 27 stock transactions, acquiring more than 1.3 million shares, just before the stock surged as much as 177% in a single day on positive melanoma vaccine trial results.
A joint Wharton and Harvard study tracked 214,897 insider trades over 21 years and found that following the right insider buys beat the market by 10.2% annually.  |
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| Ex-Dividend Stocks for Tuesday, September 8th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | AEE Ameren | $106.34 | $0.75
quarterly | 2.73% | $0.75 | 52.8% | 9/30/26
| | AJG Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. | $262.24 | $0.70
quarterly | 1.04% | $0.70 | 46.4% | 9/18/26
| | BLK BlackRock | $1,121.85 | $5.73
quarterly | 2.17% | $5.73 | 54.8% | 9/22/26
| | BWLP BW LPG | $24.77 | $8.89
quarterly | 148.81% | $6.20 | 129.3% | 9/16/26
| | CI Cigna Group | $282.24 | $1.56
quarterly | 2.19% | $1.56 | 25.8% | 9/23/26
| | CIB Grupo Cibest | $100.55 | $1.63
special | - | - | 103.5% | 9/15/26
| | CNI Canadian National Railway | $123.42 | $0.92
quarterly | 2.00% | $0.92 | 47.3% | 9/29/26
| | EBC Eastern Bankshares | $22.24 | $0.15
quarterly | 2.65% | $0.15 | 34.1% | 9/22/26
| | HAFN Hafnia | $9.21 | $0.50
quarterly | 23.63% | $0.29 | 87.1% | 9/18/26
| | HBM HudBay Minerals | $27.45 | $0.01
quarterly | 0.13% | $0.01 | 1.2% | 9/25/26
| | HTHT H World Group | $45.77 | $0.87 | 3.73% | $1.30 | 112.8% | 9/22/26
| | ITT ITT | $203.51 | $0.39
quarterly | 0.72% | $0.39 | 30.2% | 10/5/26
| | KTB Kontoor Brands | $73.49 | $0.53
quarterly | 2.53% | $0.53 | 44.3% | 9/18/26
| | MAIN Main Street Capital | $57.78 | $0.27
monthly | 5.55% | $0.27 | 64.1% | 9/15/26
| | MZTI Marzetti | $105.39 | $1.00
quarterly | 3.42% | $1.00 | 57.4% | 9/30/26
| | RAL Ralliant | $63.46 | $0.05
quarterly | 0.30% | $0.05 | -1.8% | 9/23/26
| | RCI Rogers Communication | $37.50 | $0.50
quarterly | 4.31% | $0.50 | 17.4% | 10/2/26
| | ROST Ross Stores | $230.69 | $0.45
quarterly | 0.76% | $0.45 | 21.5% | 9/30/26
| | SQM Sociedad Quimica y Minera | $76.52 | $1.44
special | - | - | 54.6% | 9/21/26
| | SWK Stanley Black & Decker | $97.24 | $0.84
quarterly | 3.84% | $0.83 | 82.0% | 9/22/26
| | WDC Western Digital | $467.46 | $0.15
quarterly | 0.12% | $0.15 | 2.5% | 9/17/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close tomorrow to receive the next dividend payment. |
In 2016, a JPMorgan executive bought 500,000 shares of his own company while the stock hit a two-year low. It later climbed 461 percent.
A similar pattern showed up at Moderna this year, where insiders filed 27 transactions totaling 1.3 million shares before a melanoma vaccine data release sent shares up 177 percent in a day.
A Wharton and Harvard study tracked 214,897 insider trades over 21 years and found the pattern beat the market by double digits annually.  |
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Ex-Dividend Stocks for Wednesday, September 9th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | AVT Avnet | $92.06 | $0.37
quarterly | 1.70% | $0.35 | 35.1% | 9/23/26
| | BDX Becton, Dickinson and Company | $184.78 | $1.05
quarterly | 2.53% | $1.05 | 126.5% | 9/30/26
| | CME CME Group | $281.29 | $1.30
quarterly | 1.97% | $1.30 | 44.1% | 9/25/26
| | EG Everest Group | $380.55 | $2.00
quarterly | 2.20% | $2.00 | 16.9% | 9/25/26
| | EPC Edgewell Personal Care | $28.78 | $0.15
quarterly | 2.05% | $0.15 | -30.0% | 10/8/26
| | HPQ HP | $32.66 | $0.30
quarterly | 4.94% | $0.30 | 45.8% | 10/7/26
| | KSS Kohl's | $19.47 | $0.13
quarterly | 2.67% | $0.13 | 21.8% | 9/23/26
| | NWS News | $33.90 | $0.10 | 0.60% | - | 19.4% | 10/7/26
| | NWSA News | $30.39 | $0.10 | 0.68% | - | 19.4% | 10/7/26
| | PEG Public Service Enterprise Group | $73.57 | $0.67
quarterly | 3.44% | $0.67 | 66.7% | 9/30/26
| | QFIN Qfin | $9.06 | $0.46 | 10.32% | $0.78 | 37.0% | 10/1/26
| | RUSHA Rush Enterprises | $50.95 | $0.14
quarterly | 0.71% | $0.19 | 25.3% | 9/24/26
| | RUSHB Rush Enterprises | $51.82 | $0.14
quarterly | 0.72% | $0.19 | 25.3% | 9/24/26
| | SFL SFL | $12.85 | $0.22
quarterly | 7.34% | $0.22 | 183.3% | 9/22/26
| | SPG Simon Property Group | $209.49 | $2.25
quarterly | 4.09% | $2.25 | 63.5% | 9/30/26
| | TFSL TFS Financial | $17.57 | $0.32
quarterly | 7.09% | $0.28 | 313.9% | 9/23/26
| | YUM Yum! Brands | $150.58 | $0.75
quarterly | 1.95% | $0.75 | 37.7% | 9/18/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close tomorrow to receive the next dividend payment. |
| Dividend Stock IdeasThis is a list of companies that meet common criteria that investors use to evaluate dividend stocks. This list contains companies that have dividend yields greater than 3%, payout ratios of less than 75% (or less than 100% for REITs), five-year average annual dividend growth of at least 1.5% and a minimum market cap of $1 billion. |
| | Company | Dividend Yield | Annual Payout | Payout Ratio | Annual Dividend Growth | P/E Ratio | Market Cap | | TBCG TBC Bank Group PLC | 3.97% | GBX 897.92 | 33.81% | 5.29% | 1.92 | £2.81K | | FSK FS KKR Capital Corp. | 24.12% | $1.68 | N/A | 1.81% | N/A | $3.44K | | EFC Ellington Financial Inc. | 11.58% | $1.56 | 95.12% | 4.36% | 8.23 | $1.74K | | CYRBY Cyrela Brazil Realty SA | 9.42% | $0.44 | 46.81% | 11.38% | 5.02 | $1.81K | | WPP WPP plc | 4.05% | GBX 31.90 | N/A | 4.75% | N/A | £4.04K |
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