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  • Dicker Data directors boost shareholding day after mixed full 2022 results come out
  • Bellevue Gold former managing director Steve Parsons sells down ~$18 million of stock
  • Coal mining entrepreneur Matthew Latimore sells down $10.8 million of stock in Bowen Coking Coal

Director trades are often considered a good indicator of a company’s future prospects. Our monthly ASX Director Trades column informs you who is buying in and who is selling down. Often referred to as insider buying or selling, directors are legally permitted to buy and sell shares of the company and any subsidiaries. However, these transactions must be properly registered and divulged.

Insider buying or selling is not to be confused with insider trading, which is buying shares based on non-public information, a big no-no and illegal.

We troll through the ASX company announcements looking at director trades of interest over the past month. It’s usually the big ones that stand out or those coinciding with company news.

Directors may get shares as part of employee incentive schemes, share purchase plans, rights issues, participate in dividend reinvestment plans or purchase on-market. It’s the on-market trades we think are worth noting, where directors directly or indirectly through entities they are associated either put up cash or cash in a stake.

When a director buys shares on-market or off-market, it can signify confidence the share price will rise in the future and if multiple directors are buying, especially at larger amounts, that is even more of an indication. Of course, it’s not a sure win that the share price will rise, so it’s always worth further research on a company.

Directors will often buy company shares after a sharp price decrease. Directors may think the stock has been oversold and represents good value, sometimes they want to show confidence in their company’s prospects, other times they’ve just got another good reason to buy or sell a stock which will be divulged, like paying the good ol’ taxman.

 

Market overview for February

February failed to provide much reason to celebrate for investors with the S&P ASX 200 finishing in the red and dropping 2.5%, reducing YTD gains to 3.6%.

As Stockhead’s Reuben Adams reported, the shortest month of the year has tended to be positive for local stocks, with the ASX 200 making gains six out of 11 Februarys since 2013.

However, 2023 was a negative February with much needed solid gains in January and optimism at the start of 2023 seeming to be short-lived as investors anticipated more economic volatility to come.

But after a couple of quieter months director trading picked up in February. Whether to take advantage of lower prices to top up their holdings or to pay tax liabilities, there has been some large director buys and sells in February.

 

February director large buys

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$ Nature of change
TEK Thorney Technologies Alex Waislitz Indirect Feb 14,17 & 20 1,389,665 $295,548 On-market
WGN Wagners Holding Company Denis Wagner Direct & Indirect Feb 23, 24 & 27 440,216 $263,353 On-market
SRV Servcorp Limited Alfred George Moufarrige Indirect Feb-17 75,778 $256,121 On-market
SRV Servcorp Alfred George Moufarrige Indirect Feb-17 75,778 $256,121 On-market
DDR Dicker Data Vladimir Mitnovetski Direct & Indirect Feb-28 30,000 $241,900 On-market
SVW Seven Group Holdings Limited Rachel Argaman (Herman) Indirect Feb-16 6,500 $156,975 On-market
GLN Galan Lithium Daniel Jimenez Direct Feb-16 105,000 $126,000 On-market
AD8 Audinate Group Amrita Blickstead Direct Feb-24 12,980 ~$107,215 On-market
DDR Dicker Data Ian Welch Direct Feb-28 10,000 $79,000 On-market
DDR Dicker Data Mary Stojcevski Indirect Feb-28 7000 $56,000 On-market

 

Thorney Technologies and Dicker Data directors boost shareholdings

Founder and chairman of listed investment group Thorney Technologies (ASX:TEK), billionaire investor Alex Waislitz, continued to top up his holdings in a series of trades.

Tech hardware, software, cloud, access control and surveillance distributor Dicker Data (ASX:DDR) saw its executive director and chief operating officer Vladimir Mitnovetski pony up for 30,000 shares for $241,950 on February 28.

Mitnovetski now holds 792,912 directly and 53,184 indirectly in the company.

Executive director and chief financial officer Mary Stojcevski along with executive director and chief information officer Ian Welch also purchased more shares in DDR.

The share purchases came a day after DDR released mixed full-year 2022 results including:

  • Total revenue of $3.1 billion for the year, representing an increase of 25.0%, or $619.9m
  • Gross profit finalising at $283.7m, up 23.2% at 9.1% gross profit margin
  • Growth in EBITDA up 9.4%, adjusted for one off costs finalised at $129.8m
  • Operating profit before tax was $107.0, an increase of 0.9%
  • Profit after tax finalising at $73.0m, marginally down on FY21 by 0.7%
  • Weighted average earnings per share decreased to 41.80 cents per share, down by 1.9%

“Ongoing challenges from factors outside of our control that could not have been predicted, expected, or avoided in any meaningful way, did weigh on our final outcome for FY22,” chairman and CEO David Dicker said.

“Rising interest rates, inflation and other factors increased our cost of operations with no upside. Despite this, we delivered on our gross margin guidance and finished the year ahead of our competitors yet again.”

 

Galan Lithium non-exec director tops up holding

Galan Lithium (ASX:GLN)  non-executive director Daniel Jimenez plumped for 105,000 shares at ~$126,000 on February 16.  Jimenez now holds 2,447,713 fully paid ordinary shares, 1 million options expiring October 8, 2023 and 3 million performance rights.

The first diamond drillhole at GLN’s Santa Barbara tenement intersected lithium brines while a new survey highlighted brine continuity over the entire area.

Hole SB-01-23 was drilled to a depth of 455m with 72-hour airlift testing extracting brines with an average lithium grade of 829mg/l.

 

The TEK, DDR & GLN share price today:



 

February director large sells

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Code Company Director Direct or Indirect Date Volume $ Nature of change
BGL Bellevue Gold Stephen Parsons Indirect Feb-20 17,000,000 $17,850,000 On-market
BCB Bowen Coking Coal Matthew Latimore Direct & Indirect Feb-02 40,000,000 $10,800,000 On-market
AUD Audinate Group Aidan Williams Direct Feb-14 130,000 ~$1,034,800 On-market
DEG De Grey Mining Peter Hood Direct & Indirect Feb 17-22 447,227 $600,362 On-market
SYR Syrah Resources Shaun Verner Direct & Indirect Feb 2, 3 & 6 220,000 $447,279 On-market
MGX Mount Gibson Iron Alan Jones Direct Feb-23 300,000 $170,070 On-market
AL3 AML3D Limited Andrew Michael Clayton Sales Direct Feb-07 1,250,000 $126,500 On-market
EVR EV Resources Adrian Paul Direct & Indirect Feb-07 4,235,749 $105,893.73 On-market

 

Bellevue Gold former MD sells down ~$18 worth of stock

Bellevue Gold (ASX: BGL) former managing director Steve Parsons sold down $17.85  million worth of stock on February 20 as he moves to a non-executive director position.

According to an ASX announcement Parsons has sold 17 million Bellevue shares, leaving him with a total holding of ~17 million shares and remaining a top 15 shareholder.

Parsons was appointed to his role in 2017, shortly after the company acquired the mothballed Bellevue gold mine in WA.

BGL said he led the exploration and development strategy which has resulted in the company being poised for production and cashflow this year.

As Stockhead’s Reuben Adams reported recently, BGL has grown to become one of Australia’s most “beloved gold project developers” with its share price rising more than 400% since 2017.

The announcement said Parsons established his shareholding through a combination of the company’s incentive schemes and on-market purchases.

Darren Stralow, who has been Bellevue Chief Executive since December 2021, was appointed managing director and CEO, taking up the reins on March 1.

“Steve’s decision to reduce his shareholding is appropriate given his move to a non-executive position. His holding is now commensurate with his new role,” BGL chairman Kevin Tomlinson said.

 

Multi-million dollar sell-down in Bowen Coking Coal

Sports-car-loving Brisbane coal mining entrepreneur Matthew Latimore sold down 40 million shares at 27 cents/share equating to $10.8 million in Bowen Coking Coal (ASX:BCB) on February 2.

Latimore is a non-executive director at BCB along with Stanmore Resources (ASX:SMR). He is also the founder and president of privately owned M Resources, established to trade coal, predominantly metallurgical coal to global steel mills for manufacture of coke and steel.

BCB last week announced the appointment of mining executive Mark Ruston as its new CEO, effective from March 27. By the look of the announcement Latimore still holds plenty of shares in BCB directly and directly. The company has seen its share price fall 36% in the past six months.

Source: ASX, BCB

 

Sell-downs to pay tax

As the old saying goes the only certainty in life is death and taxes.  There were several large director sells in February to pay tax liabilities.

Graphite miner Syrah Resources (ASX: SYR)  managing director and CEO Shaun Verner sold 220,000 shares on February 2,3 and 6 to meet personal tax obligations according to an ASX announcement.

After the sale Verner continues to hold 1,209,274 shares and 4,738,632 performance rights (directly and indirectly).

The 3D printed parts company AML3D (ASX:AL3) saw its executive director and CTO Andrew Sales sell down 1.25 million shares for $126,500 to “fund tax and personal liabilities”.

Sales still holds 34,949,850 ordinary fully paid shares after the change.

 

The BGL, BCB,  SYR & AL3 share price today:


 

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