WH Smith: 1 director
A director at WH Smith bought 1,250 shares at 1,255p and the significance rating of the trade was 52/100.Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision?
This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following.
Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last two years clearly showing Close periods where trading activity is restricted under listing rules.
The names of board members along with their holdings are detailed together with some company fundamentals for the last three years where available. In addition, Directors Deals scores each Director according to the performance of their past trades. This tells you which Directors are the most successful at picking the time to buy and sell shares. In addition to director 'Scoring' data, we give each trade a star rating according to the significance of the trade. The star rating is derived from a statistical value which accounts for a number of factors which are weighted according to our analysis of past trades. These two statistical measures are a proven means of establishing which trades and which directors are worth taking into account when analysing director trading as a guide to future share performance.
As a specialist provider of investment grade financial data, Directors Deals does not issue stock recommendations but aims to contextualise and present data so that investors can draw their own conclusions from director trading activity. Directors Deals Ltd does not accept any responsibility for losses incurred through investment decisions made as a result of these reports.
Smith (WH) is a retailer. Co. has two main businesses: Travel and High Street. The Travel business sells a range of products to cater for people on the move or in need of a convenience offer. As of Aug 31 2017, the business operated from 815 units mainly in the U.K. in airports, railway stations, motorway service areas and hospitals. The High Street business sells a range of products in the following categories: stationery, news and impulse, and books. As of Aug 31 2017, this business operated 611 stores across the U.K. This business also includes Co.'s online business which sells a range of stationery, books, magazines and gifts, as well as its online personalized greetings card sites.
Research suggests that directors know their companies better than the market. For many investors it is intuitive that following the trading patterns of directors and other company insiders can lead to successful investing. They often have detailed knowledge about their companies and generally know when the shares are incorrectly valued. However, that is not always true and with large numbers of trades reported every day on exchanges around the world, it is difficult to know which to follow.
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