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VRA, CME, CBU, ENV, SEIC, HLX, Expected to Trade Lower After Bearish Insider Trading

^{Published on 2016-12-30 04:45:16 - WOPRAI}
 

December 30, 2016 / 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. Vera Bradley Inc. (NASDAQ:VRA), CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME), Community Bank System Inc. (NYSE:CBU), Envestnet Inc. (NYSE:ENV), SEI Investments Company (NASDAQ:SEIC), Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc. (NYSE:HLX) 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. 
  VRA     Vera Bradley Inc.                Miller, Patricia R               DO       1,099,839   91             -17.9%              7         
  CME     CME Group Inc.                   Durkin, Bryan T                  P        14,886      92             -22.0%              7         
  CBU     Community Bank System Inc.       Dicerbo, Nicholas A              D        1,000       76             -2.3%               14        
  ENV     Envestnet Inc.                   Crager, William                  P        2,500       81             -10.6%              21        
  SEIC    SEI Investments Company          Withrow, Wayne M                 O        12,500      83             -4.4%               43        
  HLX     Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc.  Tripodo, Anthony                 CFO      36,000      97             -13.2%              16        

Vera Bradley Inc. (NASDAQ:VRA) - Vera Bradley, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells handbags, accessories, and luggage and travel items for women of all ages under the Vera Bradley brand. The company offers totes, crossbodies, satchels, clutches, and backpacks bags, as well as baby bags and lunch bags; accessories, such as wallets, wristlets, eyeglass cases, jewelry, and scarves, as well as various technology accessories; and travel products comprising rolling luggage, cosmetics, and travel and packing accessories, as well as travel bags consisting of duffel and weekend bags. It also provides home products, including mugs and tumblers, as well as textiles products, such as beach towels, throw blankets, comforters, and wellness and beauty products; offers apparel/footwear, stationery, merchandising, and gift card products; and licenses its products. The company sells its products through two segments, Direct and Indirect. The Direct segment sells Vera Bradley branded products through the company s factory outlet stores in the United States, verabradley.com, and direct-to-consumer eBay sales, as well as through its annual outlet sale in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Indirect segment offers Vera Bradley branded products to approximately 2,600 specialty retail doors located in the United States, as well as department stores, national accounts, third party e-commerce sites, and third-party inventory liquidation. As of January 30, 2016, the company operated 110 full-line stores and 40 factory outlet stores. Vera Bradley, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Roanoke, Indiana..

CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) - CME Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide. The company offers a range of products across various asset classes, based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, and metals. Its products include exchange-traded; and privately negotiated futures and options contracts and swaps. It executes trade through its electronic trading platforms, open outcry, and privately negotiated transactions, as well as provides hosting, connectivity, and customer support for electronic trading through its co-location services. The company also provides clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for cleared swaps; and regulatory reporting solutions for market participants through its global repository services in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In addition, the company offers a range of market data services, including live quotes, delayed quotes, market reports, and historical data service, as well as index services. CME Group Inc. serves professional traders, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, governments, and central banks. The company was formerly known as Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and changed its name to CME Group Inc. in July 2007. CME Group Inc. was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois..

Community Bank System Inc. (NYSE:CBU) - Community Bank System, Inc. operates as the holding company for Community Bank, N.A. that provides various banking and financial services to retail, commercial, and municipal customers. It operates through three segments: Banking, Employee Benefit Services, and All Other. The company offers various deposits products, such as checking, savings, and money market accounts, as well as time deposits. It also provides loans comprising consumer mortgages; general purpose commercial and industrial loans, and mortgages on commercial properties; installment loans that are originated through selected dealerships and are secured by automobiles, marine, and other recreational vehicles; personal installment loans and lines of credit for consumers; and home equity products. In addition, the company offers cash management, investment, and treasury services; broker-dealer and investment advisory services; and asset management services to individuals, corporate pension and profit sharing plans, and foundations, as well as operates as a full-service insurance agency primarily providing property and casualty insurance products. Further, it offers contribution plan administration services, actuarial and benefits consulting services, and collective investment fund administration and institutional trust services, as well as employee benefit trust, retirement plan administration, VEBA/HRA, and health and welfare consulting services to the sponsors of employee benefit plans; and invests in residential real estate loans and properties. Additionally, the company provides wealth management, higher educational planning, fiduciary, risk management, and personal financial planning services; and investment alternatives, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and advisory products. As of December 31, 2015, the company had 194 branches in Upstate New York and Northeastern Pennsylvania. Community Bank System, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Dewitt, New York..

Envestnet Inc. (NYSE:ENV) - Envestnet, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides financial and wealth management technology and services to financial advisors, investors, and financial service providers in the United States and internationally. It operates through Envestnet and Envestnet | Yodlee business segments. The company s product and services suites include Envestnet | Advisor Suite, which enables advisors to manage their practice and advise clients; Envestnet | PMC (Portfolio Management Consultants), which engages in research and consulting services to provides support for financial advisors to address clients needs, as well as to create investment solutions and products; and Envestnet | Tamarac that provides a portfolio of accounting, rebalancing, trading, performance reporting, and client relationship management software, primarily to high-end RIAs. Its product and services suites also include Envestnet | Retirement Solutions (ERS), which offers a suite of services for retirement plan professionals; Envestnet | Vantage, which provides enterprise data solutions for financial institutions, aggregates and manages investment data, and provides multi-custodial consolidated performance reporting and benchmarking; Envestnet | Finance Logix, which provides financial planning and wealth management software solutions to banks, broker-dealers, and RIAs; and Envestnet | Advisor Now, which provides private-labeled investor-facing technology that enables advisors and institutions to deliver a complete digital wealth management solutions to their clients. In addition, the company provides Envestnet | Yodlee data aggregation and data analytics platform, which offers cloud-based innovation for digital financial services for customers, including financial institutions, Internet services companies, and third-party developers of financial applications. Envestnet, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois..

SEI Investments Company (NASDAQ:SEIC) - SEI Investments Co. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the firm provides wealth management, retirement and investment solutions, asset management, asset administration, investment processing outsourcing solutions, financial services, and investment advisory services to its clients. It provides its services to private banks, independent financial advisers, institutional investors, investment managers, investment advisors, wealth management organizations, corporations, retirement scheme sponsors, not-for-profit organizations, hedge fund managers, registered investment advisers, independent broker-dealers, financial planners, life insurance agents, defined-benefit schemes, defined-contribution schemes, endowments, foundations, and board-designated fund, through its subsidiaries. Through its subsidiaries, the firm manages separate client-focused portfolios. It also launches and manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds, through its subsidiaries. Through its subsidiaries, the firm invests in public equity and fixed income markets. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a focus on top-down and bottom-up analysis to make its investments, through its subsidiaries. SEI Investments Co. was founded in 1968 and is based in Oaks, Pennsylvania..

Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc. (NYSE:HLX) - Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides specialty services to the offshore energy industry primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, the Asia Pacific, and West Africa regions. It operates through three segments: Well Intervention, Robotics, and Production Facilities. The company engineers, manages, and conducts well construction, intervention, and abandonment operations in water depths ranging from 200 to 10,000 feet; and operates remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), trenchers, and ROVDrills for offshore construction, maintenance, and well intervention services. It also offers well intervention; intervention engineering; production enhancement; inspection, repair, and maintenance of production structures, trees, jumpers, risers, pipelines, and subsea equipment; and life of field support. In addition, the company provides reclamation and remediation services; well plugging and abandonment services; pipeline abandonment services; and site inspections. Further, it engages in the installation of subsea pipelines, flowlines, control umbilicals, manifold assemblies, and risers; burial of pipelines; installation and tie-in of riser and manifold assembly; commissioning, testing, and inspection activities; and provision of cable and umbilical lay, and connection services. Additionally, the company offers oil and natural gas processing services to oil and natural gas companies; and fast response system services. It serves independent oil and gas producers and suppliers, pipeline transmission companies, alternative energy companies, and offshore engineering and construction firms. The company was formerly known as Cal Dive International, Inc. and changed its name to Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. in March 2006. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. was incorporated in 1979 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas..

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