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Top Insider Scores

Top Insider Scores displays the best stocks according to our Insider Score — a 0–99 measure of how strong and meaningful a company’s insider buying is. Every officer and director purchase is scored on its size and stake growth, the buyer’s record and seniority, whether it was opportunistic or routine, whether they bought into weakness, and the company’s valuation, size and insider ownership. Those scores decay over 90 days, rise when several insiders buy together, and are ranked against the whole market — then share issuance and confirmed litigation are deducted. Only stocks with real analyst coverage appear here: every name below carries a published price target from at least 2 analysts. Anyone can preview the first six ranked names — no account needed. Insider Access counts the list down to #1.

Insider Purchases Strategy

+2,729.1% All Time

Hover the chart for the value on any week. Both series start at 100.

About

The Insider Purchases Strategy scores open-market purchases by company insiders and rolls them up to a company level over a decaying trailing window. The top 10 companies by insider-buying are equally weighted and rebalanced at the start of every week. It tests the raw insider-buying signal itself, not the live Insider Score. Returns are gross of costs; past performance does not predict future results.

Backtest Start Date

2014-01-01

CAGR (Total)

+30.10%

Return (30d)

-1.52%

Return (1Y)

+14.61%

Exchanges

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How we rank Top Insider Scores

Stocks are ranked by our Insider Score, a 0–99 composite that weighs the dollar size of insider purchases relative to the company’s market cap, the number of distinct insiders buying (a cluster of buyers carries more signal than a lone trade), the seniority of the buyers’ roles (a CEO or CFO buy outweighs a director’s), and how much each insider grew their existing stake. A higher score is more bullish — even when the share price is falling — because it measures buying quality, not price momentum. Informational, not a trade recommendation.

FAQ

How does the IQ Score work?

Every open-market purchase an officer or director files is scored on seven things: how much they committed and how far it grew their own stake (the largest part), their record on past buys, how senior they are, whether they buy rarely or on a routine schedule, whether they bought into price weakness or strength, the company's valuation and size, and how much of the company insiders own between them. Awards, option exercises, tax withholding, gifts and anything bought under a pre-arranged 10b5-1 plan are not purchases and score nothing. Those trade scores are then added up over the last 90 days with older buys counting less — a 30-day-old buy counts half — multiplied by up to 1.6× when several different insiders are buying, and ranked against every other company that day to give the 0–99 number. Heavy share issuance subtracts up to 30 points and confirmed litigation up to 15.

Why do some stocks with insider buying not appear here?

This list only includes companies with genuine analyst coverage — a published price target from at least 2 analysts. Plenty of scored companies have insider buying but no sell-side coverage, so there is no price target or upside to show. Those still appear in the full rankings, just not on this list.

Does a high IQ Score mean the stock will go up?

No. The score measures the quality and conviction of insider buying, not price direction. A company can score highly while its share price falls — that is by design, since insiders often buy into weakness. It is one input for research, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

How often is the list updated?

Insider filings are ingested from SEC EDGAR continuously — companies must report an open-market purchase within two business days — and scores are recalculated daily. Prices and analyst targets refresh throughout the trading day.