Leverage insiders' access to non-public data

Corporate executives use their knowledge of non-public information to inform their perception of potential mispricings in the market. Our research has identified a systematic approach to track insider transactions and produce an actionable indicator of future company performance informed by their disclosures.

The Insider Value factor is the sum of the value of all BUY transactions minus the sum of the value of all SELL transactions, in USD, per company and per day. The factor is available as daily or quarterly aggregations of the net insider value.

Use Cases

Discretionary and quantitative investors can use these factors to build signals that:

Factor Performance

The RavenPack Earnings Intelligence Insider Transactions factor is the outcome of quantitative research which identifies alpha in the backtesting of the signal. Below are cumulative log-returns for long-short portfolios for global Mid/Large Cap (left), and Small Cap (right) universes from the model that underpins the factor (January 2007 – April 2020) using the 1-day aggregation window signal.

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Computing Insider Transactions Factors

The Factors are the outcome of a multi-step process including:

Content Collection

RavenPack analyzes a comprehensive and high-quality dataset of global insider transactions from over 60 sources of regulatory information. It covers over 550,000 insiders in 100 positions, from CEO and CFO to major shareholders, across 50 countries, and 50,000 small, mid, and large-cap companies, updated daily.

Analytics Enrichment

Non-intentional or mechanical transactions, such as awards of shares, exercises of options, tax-related transactions, remuneration and share plan purchases, are excluded as they do not convey proper intent. Transaction from insiders of limited relevance, qualified by an insider level score, are also filtered out.

Signal Construction

The signal is defined as the sum of the value of all BUY transactions minus the sum of the value of all SELL transactions, in USD, per company and per day, or aggregated over 90 days. The factor is then published daily at 2.30 AM UTC.

Company Factors Facts
Purpose
  • Extract alpha
  • Mitigate portfolio risk
FrequencyDaily
HistorySince 2007
Universe50,000+ Listed Companies worldwide
550,000+ insiders tracked
Content
  • When the factor was produced
  • The company, as name and RavenPack entity identifier, and ISO country code.
  • Exponential smoothing decay — the number of days used for aggregation: either 1 or 90 days.
  • Aggregation window for the delta calculation: 90 or 180 days.
  • Factor name, Insider Value.
  • Factor score the computed value for that specific company, equal to the sum of the value of all BUY transactions minus the sum of the value of all SELL transactions, in USD, per company and per day. Aggregated by the selected window days.
Delivery RavenPack, Snowflake

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