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BTN, BABY, LKFN, AKAM, MMAC, CODI, Expected to Trade Higher After Bullish Insider Trading

December 19, 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. Ballantyne Strong, Inc. (NYSE:BTN), Natus Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ:BABY), Lakeland Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:LKFN), Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), MMA Capital Management LLC (NASDAQ:MMAC), Compass Diversified Holdings (NYSE:CODI) 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. 
  BTN     Ballantyne Strong, Inc.          Schilling, Stephen L.            O        200         93             45.3%               4         
  BABY    Natus Medical Incorporated       Hawkins, James B                 CEO      10,000      80             23.1%               3         
  LKFN    Lakeland Financial Corporation   Smith, Brian J                   D        109         88             10.5%               17        
  AKAM    Akamai Technologies Inc.         Leighton, F Thomson              CEO      14,828      89             26.1%               18        
  MMAC    MMA Capital Management LLC       Falcone, Michael L               CEO      250         100            29.4%               43        
  CODI    Compass Diversified Holdings     Sabo, Elias J                    UT       50,000      91             10.1%               20        

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.

Ballantyne Strong, Inc. (NYSE:BTN) - Ballantyne Strong, Inc. designs, integrates, and installs technology solutions for the retail, financial, government, and cinema markets worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Cinema and Digital Media. The Cinema segment provides audio-visual products and accessories, such as digital projectors, projection screens, servers and library management systems, menu boards, flat panel displays, and sound systems. This segment markets and sells its products directly to theatre exhibitors, as well as through value added resellers network. The Digital Media segment provides end-to-end digital signage solutions, including media strategy, application development, content creation, system integration, hardware, software, content distribution, management, network monitoring, and field services. This segment also offers video communication services and solutions comprising design, integration, monitoring, maintenance, and installation for the government and corporate markets. Its solutions provide enterprises with the infrastructure necessary to communicate, collaborate, train, and educate employees. In addition, this segment offers monitoring and technical services that support free-to-guest solutions for customers in the hospitality, healthcare, and other industries involving multi-dwelling units and communication solutions. Ballantyne Strong, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska..

Natus Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ:BABY) - Natus Medical Incorporated designs, manufactures, and markets newborn care and neurology healthcare products and services worldwide. It offers products and services used for the screening, diagnosis, detection, treatment, monitoring, and tracking of common medical ailments in newborn care, hearing impairment, neurological dysfunction, epilepsy, sleep disorders, neuromuscular diseases, and balance and mobility disorders. The company s product offerings include computerized neurodiagnostic systems for audiology, neurology, polysomnography, and neonatology; and software systems for managing and tracking disorders and diseases for public health laboratories. It offers neurology products, such as diagnostic electroencephalography and long-term monitoring products, electrodiagnostic monitoring products, diagnostic polysomnography monitoring products, diagnostic intraoperative monitoring products, and transcranial Doppler products. The company also provides newborn care products, including hearing screening products to screen the hearing; brain injury products to diagnose the severity of brain injury, monitor the effectiveness of drug therapies, detect seizure activity, and monitor general neurological status; and thermoregulation products to control the newborn environment, including incubators and warmers. Its newborn care also comprise jaundice management products to measure bilirubin levels and treat jaundice; diagnostic hearing assessment products to screen for or diagnose hearing loss, or to identify abnormalities affecting the peripheral and central auditory nervous systems in patients of all ages; balance and mobility systems to diagnose and assist in treating balance disorders; and NicView video for families with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit. The company serves hospitals, clinics, laboratories, physicians, nurses, audiologists, and governmental agencies. Natus Medical Incorporated was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California..

Lakeland Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:LKFN) - Lakeland Financial Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Lake City Bank that provides various financial services in Indiana. The company offers various deposit products, including noninterest bearing deposits; interest-bearing checking, savings, and money market deposits; and NOW and demand deposits. It also provides commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate and multi-family residential loans, agri-business and agricultural loans, and other commercial loans; and consumer 1-4 family mortgage loans and other consumer loans. In addition, the company offers corporate treasury management, wealth advisory, trust, and wealth management services; retail brokerage services, including various financial and investment products, such as annuities and life insurance; retail and merchant credit card services; and Internet business banking and on-line treasury management services. It serves commercial real estate, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, retail, wholesale, finance and insurance, accommodation and food services, and health care industries. As of February 18, 2016, it operated 48 branch offices in Northern and Central Indiana. Lakeland Financial Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Indiana..

Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) - Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides cloud services for delivering, optimizing, and securing content and business applications over the Internet in the United States and internationally. The company offers performance and security solutions designed to help Websites and business applications operate while offering protection against security threats. It also provides media content delivery solutions that are designed to deliver movies, television shows, live events, games, social media, software downloads, and other content on the Internet in fixed line and mobile networks; adaptive delivery solutions for streaming video content; and download delivery solution that offers accelerated distribution for large file downloads, including games, progressive media files, documents, and other file-based content. In addition, the company offers a suite of analytics tools to monitor online video viewer experiences and the effectiveness of Web software downloads, while measuring audience engagement, and quality of service performance; and NetStorage, a cloud storage solution, as well as media services to deliver live and on-demand content to various devices and platforms. Further, it provides cloud security solutions, which help customers avoid data theft and downtime, and protect Internet-facing infrastructure; and cloud networking solutions to help customers enhance enterprise branch office and retail store productivity and revenue by accelerating applications, reducing bandwidth costs, and extending the Internet and public clouds into private wide area networks. Additionally, the company offers network operator solutions that are designed to help carriers to operate a network that capitalizes on traffic growth and new subscriber services; and professional services and solutions. It sells its solutions through direct sales and service organization; and through active channel partners. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts..

MMA Capital Management LLC (NASDAQ:MMAC) - MIGHTY MACK USA LTD.

Compass Diversified Holdings (NYSE:CODI) - Compass Diversified Holdings LLC is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions, buyouts, and middle market investments. It seeks to invest in manufacturing, distribution, consumer products, and business services sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in North America. It seeks to invest between $100 million and $500 million in transaction size between $75 million and $500 million in companies with cash flows between $10 million and $450 million, enterprise values between $100 million and $500 million, and an EBITDA between $10 million and $50 million. It seeks to acquire controlling ownership interests in its portfolio companies and can also make additional platform acquisitions. The firm invests through its balance sheet and typically holds investments between five to seven years. Compass Diversified Holdings LLC was founded in 2005 and is based in Westport, Connecticut with an additional office in Irvine, California..

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