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Getting worried about all the insider selling on AIM?

18/05/2017 · AB Dynamics (ABDP)  · Alpha Group International (ALPH)  · Character Group PLC (CCT)  · Eddie Stobart Logistics PLC (ESL)  · Gamma Communications PLC (GAMA)  · Gear4music (G4M)  · K3 Capital Group PLC (K3C)  · Nexteq (NXQ)  · Ramsdens (RFX)  · Watkin Jones PLC (WJG) 
Perhaps you should be! The growing number of Director and insider selling from AIM companies looks increasingly worrying to us and could offer another glimpse of a market that is now getting seriously overheated in places. We offer a few thoughts and highlight some of the bigger sellers.
The latest secondary placing of 839,000 shares by Directors at Gear4music (AIM:G4M) at 690p (a modest 2% discount to the current share price), is surely illustrative of a market that is starting to run away with itself. As we commented in our recent Blog, we are big fans of Gear4music, whose shares have soared over 400% over the past 12 months resulting in the current market capitalisation approx. £140m and a rich rating of nearly 65x forecast February 2018 earnings or a mere 50x for 2019. The secondary place was accompanied by a raise of £4.2m of new money, at…

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