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KFS, PFIS, IMH, ED, TINY, ADC, Expected to Trade Higher After Bullish Insider Trading

November 17, 2016 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / http://www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring top insider trading patterns and these stocks are the most likely to trade Higher in the next 6 months. Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (NYSE:KFS), Peoples Financial Services Corp (NASDAQ:PFIS), Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:IMH), Consolidated Edison Inc. (NYSE:ED), Harris & Harris Group Inc. (NASDAQ:TINY), Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE:ADC) are all expected to go Higher as Buy 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 Higher 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. 
  KFS     Kingsway Financial Services Inc.  Swets, Larry Gene Jr.            CEO      369         80             6.8%                65        
  PFIS    Peoples Financial Services Corp  Nicholas, James B                D        68          81             16.0%               4         
  IMH     Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc.    Pickup, Richard Hadley           B        235,000     100            106.1%              32        
  ED      Consolidated Edison Inc.         Mcavoy, John                     CEO      30          88             7.4%                29        
  TINY    Harris & Harris Group Inc.       Bauman, Phillip A                D        4,367       82             21.9%               54        
  ADC     Agree Realty Corporation         Silverman, Gene                  D        2,000       81             10.5%               6         

The insider buying report presents recent insider purchases, reported on Forms 3, 4, and 5 filed with the SEC. The transactions are aggregated to a 'decision' level which simplifies the data analysis. A decision is a grouping of buying or selling by an individual at the specified company.

Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (NYSE:KFS) - Kingsway Financial Services Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty insurance products in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Insurance Underwriting and Insurance Services. The Insurance Underwriting segment offers various automobile insurance products, including liability insurance that covers claims against its insured s responsible for automobile accidents; accident benefit policies or personal injury protection policies that provide coverage for loss of income, medical, and rehabilitation expenses for insured persons who are injured in an automobile accident; and physical damage policies, which cover damages to an insured automobile arising from a collision with another object, as well as from other risks, such as fire or theft. The Insurance Services segment markets and administers vehicle service agreements and related products for new and used automobiles. This segment also markets and distributes warranty products to manufacturers, distributors, and installers of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, standby generator, commercial LED lighting, and refrigeration equipment; and equipment breakdown and maintenance support services to companies. The company offers its products and services to credit unions, consumers, and businesses through a network of independent agencies. Kingsway Financial Services Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Toronto, Canada..

Peoples Financial Services Corp (NASDAQ:PFIS) - Peoples Financial Services Corp. operates as the bank holding company for Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company that provides commercial and retail banking services. The company offers money market, NOW, savings, individual retirement, and demand deposit accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It also provides retail lending products, such as residential real estate, automobile, manufactured housing, personal, student, home equity, and credit card loans; and commercial lending products comprising commercial real estate, working capital, construction, small business administration, and agricultural loans, as well as loans for equipment and other commercial needs, and mineral rights. In addition, the company offers wealth management products and services, such as investment portfolio management, estate planning, annuities, business succession planning, insurances, education funding strategies, and tax planning; and trust, securities, and brokerage, as well as investment advisory services. Further, it provides merchant services comprising small business checking accounts, merchant money market accounts, online banking, telephone banking, business credit cards, merchant line of credit, business profitability and peer analysis, and financial checkup. Additionally, the company offers remote deposit capture services, automatic clearing house transactions, cash management services, automated teller machines, point of sale transactions, safe deposit boxes, night depository services, and direct deposit and official check services. It operates 24 full-service community banking offices located in Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming counties of Northeastern Pennsylvania; and Broome county of New York. The company serves business, non-profits, governmental, municipal agencies, and professional customers, as well as retail customers. Peoples Financial Services Corp. was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania..

Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:IMH) - Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc. operates as an independent residential mortgage lender in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Mortgage Lending, Real Estate Services, and Long-Term Mortgage Portfolio. The Mortgage Lending segment primarily originates, sells, and services residential mortgage loans eligible for sale to the U.S. government-sponsored enterprises; and government mortgage loans eligible for government securities issued through Ginnie Mae. The Real Estate Services segment provides loss mitigation and real estate services primarily on its long-term mortgage portfolio, including default surveillance, loan modification, short sale, and real estate owned surveillance and disposition services, as well as monitoring, reconciling, and reporting services for residential and multifamily mortgage portfolios. This segment provides services to investors, servicers, and individual borrowers primarily focusing on loss mitigation and performance. The Long-Term Mortgage Portfolio segment manages long-term mortgage portfolio, which consists of residual interests in the securitization trusts reflected as trust assets and liabilities in its consolidated balance sheets, to mitigate losses and maximize cash flows from residual interests. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Irvine, California..

Consolidated Edison Inc. (NYSE:ED) - Consolidated Edison, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in regulated electric, gas, and steam delivery businesses in the United States. It offers electric services to approximately 3.4 million customers in New York City and Westchester County; gas to approximately 1.1 million customers in Manhattan, the Bronx, and parts of Queens and Westchester County; and steam to approximately 1,700 customers in parts of Manhattan. The company owns 62 area distribution substations and various distribution facilities; 39 transmission substations and 62 area stations; electric generation facilities with an aggregate capacity of 724 megawatts that run on gas and fuel oil; 4,348 miles of mains and 369,791 service lines for natural gas distribution; and 1 steam-electric generating station and 5 steam-only generating stations. It also supplies electricity to approximately 0.3 million customers in southeastern New York, and in adjacent areas of northern New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania; and gas to approximately 0.1 million customers in southeastern New York and adjacent areas of northeastern Pennsylvania. The company operates 572 circuit miles of transmission lines; 14 transmission substations; 86,794 in-service line transformers; 3,994 pole miles of overhead distribution lines; and 1,889 miles of underground distribution lines, as well as 1,867 miles of mains and 105,482 service lines for natural gas distribution. In addition, it is involved in the sale and related hedging of electricity to retail customers; and provision of energy-related products and services to wholesale and retail customers. Further, the company develops, owns, and operates renewable and energy infrastructure projects, as well as invests in transmission companies. It primarily sells electricity to industrial, commercial, residential, and governmental customers. Consolidated Edison, Inc. was founded in 1884 and is based in New York, New York..

Harris & Harris Group Inc. (NASDAQ:TINY) - Harris & Harris Group, Inc. is a business development company specializing in early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in tiny technology including microsystems and transformative nanotechnology companies and applications in the cleantech, biotechnology, energy, healthcare, biology+, and electronic sectors. It seeks companies which employ or intend to employ technology that is at the microscale or smaller and if the employment of that technology is material to its business plan. The firm may make follow-on investments and seeks to coinvest. It prefers to hold membership on boards of directors or serve as observers to the boards of directors on its portfolio companies. Harris & Harris Group, Inc. was founded in August 1981 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Palo Alto, California and Los Angeles, California..

Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE:ADC) - Agree Realty Corporation, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the ownership, development, acquisition, and management of retail properties, which are primarily leased to national and regional retail companies in the United States. As of December 31, 2009, its portfolio consisted of 73 properties, including 61 freestanding net leased properties and 12 community shopping centers located in 16 states containing approximately 3.5 million square feet of gross leasable area. The company has elected to be treated as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, the company is not subject to federal income tax to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. Agree Realty Corporation was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan..

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