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LC, SWKS, KOS, CCL, OSUR, NATI, Expected to Trade Lower After Bearish Insider Trading

January 20, 2017 / 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. LendingClub (NYSE:LC), Skyworks Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), Kosmos Energy Ltd. (NYSE:KOS), Carnival Corporation (NYSE:CCL), OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSUR), National Instruments Corporation (NASDAQ:NATI) 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. 
  LC      LendingClub                      Macilwaine, John                 CT       25,000      88             -39.5%              4         
  SWKS    Skyworks Solutions Inc.          Gammel, Peter L                  CT       1,500       87             -5.6%               13        
  KOS     Kosmos Energy Ltd.               Krieger, David B.                D        16,500,000  88             -7.7%               4         
  CCL     Carnival Corporation             Bernstein, David                 CFO      14,932      77             -5.7%               10        
  OSUR    OraSure Technologies, Inc.       Spair, Ronald H                  CO       3,341       96             -31.5%              5         
  NATI    National Instruments Corporation  Truchard, James J                DO       2,500       90             -5.2%               130       

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.

LendingClub (NYSE:LC) - The Liberty Corporation is a holding company with operations primarily in the television broadcasting industry. The Company's television broadcasting subsidiary, Cosmos Broadcasting, consists of 15 network-affiliated television stations, principally located in the South and Midwest United States. Eight of the Company's television stations are affiliated with NBC, five with ABC and two with CBS. In addition, Cosmos owns Cable Vantage, a cable advertising sales subsidiary, and Broadcast Merchandising Corporation, a professional broadcast equipment dealership.

Stations owned by the Company as of December 31, 2004, were WAVE-TV in Louisville, Kentucky; WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio; WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina; WLBT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi; KGBT-TV in Harlingen, Texas; WFIE-TV in Evansville, Indiana; KLTV-TV in Tyler, Texas; KTRE-TV in Lufkin, Texas; WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama; WWAY-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina; WALB-TV in Albany, Georgia; KCBD-TV in Lubbock, Texas; WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Mississippi; KPLC-TV in Lake Charles, Louisiana and KAIT-TV in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The 15 stations operate in designated market areas ranked 50 to 179. All of the Company's stations are located in geographically diverse and growing markets. Eleven of the 15 stations are located in university centers. Many of the stations are also located in markets that are home to a mixture of large manufacturing plants, state capitals, transportation hubs and United States military bases.

Each of the stations is affiliated with a major network. The NBC affiliation contracts with each of the NBC-affiliated stations have been continuously in effect for over 40 years. The CBS and ABC affiliation contracts have each been continuously in effect for over 30 years. The affiliation contracts provide that the network will offer to the affiliated station a variety of network programs for which the station has the right of first refusal against any other television station located in its community. The network typically retains the rights to sell a substantial majority of the advertising time during such broadcasts. The major networks typically provide programming for approximately 90 hours of the average 135 hours per week broadcast by their affiliated stations. The Company's cable advertising company, CableVantage, Inc., represents nine independent cable operators in 17 locations that, in combination, reach nearly 450,000 subscribers.

Liberty's stations compete with pay cable (HBO, Showtime, Movie Channel, etc.) channels. Other sources of competition include providers of high-powered direct broadcast satellite services, such as Echostar and DirecTV..

Skyworks Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS) - Skyworks Solutions, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary semiconductor products, including intellectual property worldwide. Its product portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, circulators/isolators, DC/DC converters, demodulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, diversity receive modules, filters, front-end modules, hybrids, LED drivers, low noise amplifiers, mixers, modulators, optocouplers/optoisolators, phase shifters, phase locked loops, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches, synthesizers, technical ceramics, voltage controlled oscillators/synthesizers, and voltage regulators. The company provides its products for automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet, and wearable applications. Skyworks Solutions, Inc. sells its products through direct sales force, electronic component distributors, and independent sales representatives. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts..

Kosmos Energy Ltd. (NYSE:KOS) - Kosmos Energy Ltd. explores for and produces oil and gas in Africa, Europe, and South America. Its asset portfolio includes production and other development projects in offshore Ghana, as well as exploration licenses with hydrocarbon potential in offshore Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, Suriname, Morocco, and Western Sahara. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda..

Carnival Corporation (NYSE:CCL) - Carnival Corporation operates as a leisure travel and cruise company in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. It offers cruises under the Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Seabourn brands in North America; and Costa, AIDA, P&O Cruises (UK), Cunard, and P&O Cruises (Australia) brands in Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company operates 99 cruise ships. It also owns Holland America Princess Alaska Tours, a tour company in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, which owns and operates 11 hotels or lodges, approximately 300 motor coaches, and 20 glass-domed railcars. In addition, the company is involved in the leasing of cruise ships. It sells its cruises primarily through travel agents and tour operators. Carnival Corporation was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. Carnival Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & Plc..

OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSUR) - OraSure Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells oral fluid diagnostic products and specimen collection devices in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company also offers other diagnostic products, such as immunoassays and other in vitro diagnostic tests that are used on other specimen types. Its principal products include OraQuick ADVANCE HIV-1/2, OraQuick HCV, OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, OraQuick Ebola, OraSure QuickFlu Rapid Flu A&B test, OraSure, Oragene DX, Oragene DNA, Oragene RNA, ORAcollect, OMNIgene DISCOVER, Performagene LIVESTOCK and Oragene ANIMAL, OMNIgene Gut, OMNIgene Sputum, PrepIT MAX, Intercept, MICRO-PLATE DOA Assays, Intercept i2, Homogeneous DOA Assays, and professional and over-the-counter Cryosurgical Systems. In addition, the company manufactures and sells oral fluid collection devices used to collect, stabilize, and store samples of genetic material for molecular testing in the consumer genetic, clinical genetic, academic research, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine, and microbiome and animal genetics markets. Further, it provides medical devices used for the removal of benign skin lesions by cryosurgery or freezing; various immunoassay tests and reagents for insurance risk assessment, substance abuse testing, and forensic toxicology applications; an oral fluid Western blot HIV-1 confirmatory test for confirming positive HIV-1 test; and Q.E.D. rapid point-of-care saliva alcohol test. The company markets and sells its products to various clinical laboratories, hospitals, clinics, community-based organizations, public health organizations, distributors, government agencies, physicians offices, and commercial and industrial entities. OraSure Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania..

National Instruments Corporation (NASDAQ:NATI) - National Instruments Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells systems to engineers and scientists worldwide. It provides LabVIEW, a system design software for measurement, automation, and control; LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA, which are software add-ons to LabVIEW; LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite for wireless prototyping; LabWindows/CVI for creating test and control applications; and Measurement Studio consisting of measurement and automation add-on libraries, and additional tools for programmers. The company also offers software products, such as NI TestStand to test and measure applications in a manufacturing environment; NI VeriStand software to configure real-time testing applications; NI DIAdem, which provides users configuration-based technical data management, analysis, and report generation tools; NI InsightCM Enterprise for monitoring critical and ancillary rotating equipment; and NI Multisim circuit design software. In addition, it provides hardware products and related driver software, such as data acquisition, PXI chassis and controllers, modular instruments, image acquisition, motion control, distributed I/O, industrial communications interfaces, embedded control hardware/software, general purpose interface bus interfaces, and VME extension for instrumentation controllers. Further, the company offers NI semiconductor test system; NI wireless test system; NI education platform comprising software, hardware, and courseware for students; software and hardware products for teaching; hardware and software maintenance services; and training and certification services. It serves advanced research, automotive, automated test equipment, consumer electronics, commercial aerospace, computers and electronics, continuous process manufacturing, education, government/defense, medical research/pharmaceutical, energy, semiconductors, telecommunications, and others industries. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas..

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