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TRLG, SOHU, REGN, STAA, NWN, LOOP, Expected to Trade Lower After Bearish Insider Trading

^{Published on 2011-09-12 06:40:09 - WOPRAI}
 

September 12, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / http://www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring top insider trading patterns and these stocks are the most likely to trade Lower in the next 6 months. TRUE RELIGION APPAREL INC. (NASDAQ:TRLG), SOHU.COM INCORPORATION (NASDAQ:SOHU), REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:REGN), STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY (NASDAQ:STAA), NORTHWEST NATURAL GAS COMPANY (NYSE:NWN), LOOPNET, INC. (NASDAQ:LOOP) are all expected to go Lower as Sell signals have been generated by top insider trading patterns. The most important data elements considered when performing insider analysis are: Insiders Track Record - An insiders track record is best summarized by the Insider Score which ranges from 1 (least predictive) to 100 (most predictive) based on prior trading performance. In addition, the actual returns following the insiders prior trades are included to determine the potential magnitude of future returns. Insiders Role - Trades by higher-level insiders are generally more predictive than trades by lower level insiders. Higher-level insiders to include Chairman (CB), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), President (P), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Vice Chairman (VC).

The chart below displays the stocks expected to go Lower along with the insider name, position, predictive insider score, 6 month expected return and number of trading decisions included in the score.

     Symbol     Company Name                        Insider Name                        Role        Shares         Insider Score     Avg 6 Month Return     # of Dec. 
     TRLG       TRUE RELIGION APPAREL INC.          Coulombe, Joseph H                  D           9,985          79                -10.8%                 7         
     SOHU       SOHU.COM INCORPORATION              Yu, Chor Woon Carol                 CFO         7,500          81                -18.7%                 10        
     REGN       REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED     Stahl, Neil E                       O           33,760         82                -8.0%                  14        
     STAA       STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY              Morrison, David R                   D           13,846         76                -18.8%                 3         
     NWN        NORTHWEST NATURAL GAS COMPANY       Dodson, Mark S                      D           5,000          81                -2.9%                  27        
     LOOP       LOOPNET, INC.                       Byrne, Thomas P                     P           13,170         87                -8.9%                  25        

TRUE RELIGION APPAREL INC. (NASDAQ:TRLG) - True Religion Apparel, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells apparel in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America. It offers fashion jeans and related sportswear apparel. The company provides various products for men, women, and children, including denim jeans; corduroy pants and jackets; cotton, twill, linen, and velvet pants and jackets; fleece sweat suits and hooded sweatshirts; skirts; knit shirts; t-shirts; shorts; and sportswear. It sells apparel under the brand name of True Religion Brand Jeans. The company sells its products through retail stores, wholesale sales teams, distributors, sales agents, boutiques, and specialty stores, as well as through its Web site truereligionbrandjeans.com. It also licenses its trademarks to third parties for manufacturing, marketing, and distributing various products. As of March 31, 2011, the company owned and operated 96 branded retail stores in the United States, 4 branded retail stores in Japan, 1 branded retail store in the United Kingdom, 2 branded retail stores in Germany, and 1 branded retail store in Canada. True Religion Apparel, Inc. is headquartered in Vernon, California.

SOHU.COM INCORPORATION (NASDAQ:SOHU) - Sohu.com Inc., an Internet company, provides news, information, video content, entertainment, and communication services in China. The company offers brand advertising services that provide advertisements on its portal Websites to companies that expect to build up their brand awareness online; sponsored search services, which offer placements in search directory, as well as pay-for-click services for small and medium-size enterprises; online games, including massively multi-player online role-playing games; and wireless value-added services, such as news, weather forecast, chatting, entertainment information, ring tones, and logo downloads subscribed over mobile phones. The companys products and services include aggregated content on various topics, including news, entertainment, sports, business and finance, information technology, automobile, and women; online video content; streaming online content; and communication and community tools, such as alumni clubs, blogs, email, message boards, and Web messenger. Its Web properties include sohu.com, a mass portal and online media destination; 17173.com, a games information portal; focus.cn, a real estate Website; chinaren.com, an online alumni club; and sogou.com, an interactive proprietary search engine. The company was formerly known as Internet Technologies China Incorporated and changed its name to Sohu.com Inc. in September 1999. Sohu.com Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Beijing, China.

REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:REGN) - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes pharmaceutical products for the treatment of serious medical conditions in the United States. The companys commercial product includes ARCALYST (rilonacept) injection for subcutaneous use for the treatment of cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes, including familial cold auto-inflammatory syndrome and muckle-wells syndrome in adults and children. Its products under Phase III clinical trials include Rilonacept for the prevention and treatment of gout-related flares; VEGF Trap-Eye for eye diseases using intraocular delivery; and Aflibercept for the treatment of oncology. The companys earlier stage clinical programs REGN475, an antibody to nerve growth factor, which is being developed for the treatment of pain; REGN88, an antibody to the interleukin-6 receptor, which is developed in rheumatoid arthritis; REGN421, an antibody to delta-like ligand-4, for the treatment of oncology; REGN727, an antibody to proprotein convertase substilisin/kexin type 9, which is developed for low density lipoprotein cholesterol reduction; and REGN668, an antibody to the interleukin-4 receptor for certain allergic and immune conditions. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals also conducts other preclinical research programs in the areas of oncology and angiogenesis, ophthalmology, metabolic and related diseases, muscle diseases and disorders, inflammation and immune diseases, bone and cartilage, pain, cardiovascular diseases, and infectious diseases. The company has strategic collaboration with sanofi-aventis Group to discover, develop, and commercialize fully human monoclonal antibodies; and Bayer HealthCare LLC for the development of the VEGF-Trap-Eye. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1988 and is based in Tarrytown, New York.

STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY (NASDAQ:STAA) - STAAR Surgical Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells implantable lenses for the cataracts and refractive surgery. It offers intraocular lenses (IOL) that include silicone Toric IOL, which is used in cataract surgery to treat preexisting astigmatism; Preloaded Injector, a three-piece silicone or acrylic IOL preloaded into a single-use disposable injector; Aspheric IOLs that provide a clearer image than traditional spherical IOLs; and nanoFLEX IOL, a single-piece collamer aspheric IOL. The company also provides implantable collamer lenses (ICL) that comprise VISIAN ICL and VISIAN Toric ICL to treat refractive disorders, such as myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism. In addition, it sells surgical products and other related instruments, devices, surgical packs, and equipment. The company markets its products to health care providers, including surgical centers, hospitals, managed care providers, health maintenance organizations, group purchasing organizations, and government facilities under the STAAR, Visian, Collamer, nanoFLEX, nanoPOINT, STAARVISC, Elastimide, and AquaFlow brand names. STAAR Surgical Company operates in the United States, Switzerland, Japan, and Germany. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Monrovia, California.

NORTHWEST NATURAL GAS COMPANY (NYSE:NWN) - Northwest Natural Gas Company stores and distributes natural gas primarily in Oregon, Washington, and California. The company operates in two segments, Local Gas Distribution and Gas Storage. The Local Gas Distribution segment distributes natural gas in Oregon and southwest Washington. The Local Gas Distribution segment distributes natural gas in Oregon and southwest Washington. This segment engages in building and maintaining pipeline distribution system, purchasing gas from producers and marketers, contracting for the transportation of gas over pipelines from the supply basins to service territory, and reselling the gas to customers. It also transports gas owned by customers from the interstate pipeline connection, or city gate, to the customers facilities. This segment serves various industries, including pulp, paper, and other forest products; companies manufacturing electronic, electrochemical, and electrometallurgical products; companies engaged in processing of farm and food products; metal fabrication and casting companies; organizations that produce various mineral products, machine tools, machinery, and textiles; companies that manufacture asphalt, concrete, and rubber; printing and publishing companies; nurseries; government and educational institutions; and electric generation companies. It has approximately 674,000 utility customers comprising approximately 611,000 residential, 62,000 commercial, and 1,000 industrial customers. The Gas Storage segment offers underground natural gas storage services to interstate and intrastate customers. It holds interests in approximately 9,900 net acres of underground natural gas storage in Oregon and approximately 5,000 net acres of underground natural gas storage in California. This segment serves primarily natural gas distribution, electric generation, and energy marketing companies. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

LOOPNET, INC. (NASDAQ:LOOP) - LoopNet, Inc. operates an online marketplace for commercial real estate in the United States. The companys online marketplace, LoopNet.com enables commercial real estate agents working on behalf of property owners and landlords to list properties for sale or for lease by submitting detailed information on property listings, including qualitative descriptions, financial and tenant information, photographs, and property characteristics in order to find a buyer or tenant. As of December 31, 2009, the LoopNet online marketplace contained approximately 732,000 listings. It also operates BizBuySell and BizQuest online marketplaces that enable business owners, sellers, and brokers to list and search for operating businesses for sale. In addition, the company provides LoopLink, an online real estate marketing and database services suite that enables commercial real estate firms to showcase their available properties both on the LoopNet marketplace and on the brokerage firms own Website using the companys hosted search software. Further, it provides RecentSales, a nationwide database of recent commercial real estate transactions collected from sales initiated through its online marketplace and from third party information providers, as well as operates LandAndFarm.com. The company was formerly known as Loop Ventures, Inc. and changed its name to LoopNet, Inc. in November 1998. LoopNet, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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