Lam Research: Insider Buy Alert
Martin B Anstice, Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
at Lam Reasearch (LRCX
charts) just
purchased half a million dollars of his company stock. Nobody should know the
financial condition of a company better than its CFO. When a CFO buys a
significant number of shares, people should pay
attention.
Details:
- $250k = Value of I-Buy trade(s)
- 7.5k = Number of Shares
- $33.45 = Average Price Paid
- 2008-08-05 = Purchase Date
- 2008-08-05 = Filing Date
- 17:46:53 = SEC Arrival Time Stamp
(Filing appears on SEC site 30-60 secs
later)
LRCX Information:
- $34.03 = Recent Stock Price (delayed)
- Market Capitalization at $34.49 per share: $4.30B
- 999k = Average Daily Volume
- 1.38 = Beta
- 7.50% = Short Interest
- 2.8 = Short Ratio (days)
- 10-Jul-08 = Date of Above Short Information
SEC Documents:
This purchase is significant because
it is the first insider transaction in many years.

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Insider buy and sell Table
Transaction &
Date |
Insider Relationship |
Shares Traded |
Average Price |
Total Amount |
2008-08-05 Purchase |
Anstice Martin
B (CFO) |
7,480 |
$33.45 |
$250,240 |
2007-05-23 Sale |
Watanabe
Seiichi (Director) |
7,000 |
$51.22 |
$358,561 |
2007-05-04 Sale |
Gottscho Richard
A (Vice President) |
364 |
$54.93 |
$19,995 |
2007-04-20 Sale |
INMAN GRANT
M (Director) |
30,000 |
$52.69 |
$1,580,586 |
2007-03-08 Sale |
BERDAHL ROBERT
M (Director) |
2,300 |
$45.46 |
$104,564 |
2006-11-21 Sale |
ARSCOTT DAVID
G (Director) |
54,000 |
$55.26 |
$2,984,110 |
2006-11-15 Sale |
HARRIS JACK
RAYMOND (Director) |
36,000 |
$54.5 |
$1,961,860 |
2006-10-16 Sale |
HARRIS JACK
RAYMOND (Director) |
36,000 |
$51.68 |
$1,860,530 |
2006-05-19 Sale |
ARSCOTT DAVID
G (Director) |
9,182 |
$47.28 |
$434,163 |
2006-05-05 Sale |
BERDAHL ROBERT
M (Director) |
2,000 |
$53.22 |
$106,434 |
2006-05-03 Sale |
Hariri Abdi (Vice President) |
1,500 |
$51.88 |
$77,820 |
2006-05-04 Sale |
INMAN GRANT
M (Director) |
36,000 |
$52.93 |
$1,905,599 |
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data at
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trading its volatility since 1998 when I bought my first shares and recommended
it in my newsletter.
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