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OMCL, RGS, MIK, KFRC, HOLX, CCMP, Expected to Trade Lower After Bearish Insider Trading


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Published in Stocks and Investing on Monday, March 13th 2017 at 4:45 GMT by WOPRAI   Print publication without navigation


March 13, 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. Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMCL), Regis Corporation (NYSE:RGS), The Michaels Companies Inc. (NASDAQ:MIK), Kforce Inc. (NASDAQ:KFRC), Hologic Inc. (NASDAQ:HOLX), Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (NASDAQ:CCMP) 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. 
  OMCL    Omnicell, Inc.                   Petersmeyer, Gary S              D        2,658       79             -3.7%               40        
  RGS     Regis Corporation                Lain, Jim B.                     CO       3,200       87             -7.9%               3         
  MIK     The Michaels Companies Inc.      Sonsteby, Charles M              O        38,754      88             -15.5%              3         
  KFRC    Kforce Inc.                      Kelly, David M                   CFO      12,500      89             -7.8%               15        
  HOLX    Hologic Inc.                     Crawford, Sally W.               D        17,396      81             -9.7%               9         
  CCMP    Cabot Microelectronics Corporation  Eckstein Bernstein, H C          GC       20,700      77             -3.2%               19        
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.

Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMCL) - Omnicell, Inc. provides automation and business analytics software solutions for medication and supply management in healthcare worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Automation and Analytics, and Medication Adherence. It offers Omnicell Automated Dispensing Cabinets, a dispensing system that automates the management and dispensing of medications; SinglePointe, a software product that controls medications; AnywhereRN, that remotely queue medications from automated dispensing cabinets; Omnicell Analytics and Pandora Analytics reporting and data analytics tools; and Savvy Mobile Medication Workstation, which provides a platform for hospital information systems. The company also provides OmniLinkRx, a prescription routing system; WorkflowRx, an automated pharmacy storage, retrieval, and packaging system; Central and Satellite Pharmacy Manager, an automated pharmacy storage and retrieval system; Controlled Substance Management, a controlled substance inventory management system; and Anesthesia Workstation that manages anesthesia supplies and medications. In addition, it offers Omnicell Supply Management System, which automates the management and dispensing of medical and surgical supplies; Omnicell Tissue Center that manages the chain of custody for bone and tissue specimens; OptiFlex MS that manages medical and surgical supplies; OptiFlex SS, a module for the perioperative areas; OptiFlex CL, a module for the cardiac catheterization lab and other procedure areas. Further, Omnicell, Inc. offers Mach4 Pharma Systems Medimat, a robotic dispensing system for handling the stocking and retrieval of medications; IV Solutions; software; and consumable medication blister cards, packaging equipment, and ancillary products and services to institutional pharmacies. The company was formerly known as Omnicell Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Omnicell, Inc. in 2001. Omnicell, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California..

Regis Corporation (NYSE:RGS) - Regis Corporation owns, operates, and franchises hairstyling and hair care salons for men, women, and children in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It operates in three segments: North American Value, North American Premium, and International. The company s salons offer haircutting and styling, including shampooing and conditioning; custom styling, cutting, and hair coloring; and other services, as well as professional hair care products. It operates salons primarily under the SmartStyle, Supercuts, MasterCuts, Regis Salons, Cost Cutters, Hair Masters, First Choice Haircutters, Magicuts, and Sassoon names in enclosed mall shopping centers, strip shopping centers, Walmart Supercenters, department stores, mass merchants, and high-street locations. As of June 30, 2016, the company owned, franchised, or held ownership interests in 9,483 locations worldwide. Regis Corporation, through its 54.6% interest in Empire Education Group, Inc., operates accredited cosmetology schools primarily under the brand names of Empire Beauty School and the Hair Design School. It owns and operates 89 cosmetology schools in the United States. Regis Corporation was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Edina, Minnesota..

The Michaels Companies Inc. (NASDAQ:MIK) - Michaels Stores, Inc. (Michaels), incorporated in 1983, is a national arts and crafts specialty retailer providing materials, ideas and education for creative activities. As of March 23, 2006, the Company operated 897 Michaels retail stores in 48 states, as well as in Canada, averaging 18,500 square feet of selling space. Its stores offer arts and crafts supplies and products for the crafter and do-it-yourself home decorator. Michaels also operated 165 Aaron Brothers stores, as of March 23, 2006, in 11 states, averaging 5,600 square feet of selling space, offering photo frames, a line of ready-made frames, custom framing services and a selection of art supplies. Recollections, the Company's scrapbooking/ paper crafting retail concept, operated 11 stores as of March 23, 2006, located in Arizona, Maryland, Texas and Virginia, providing merchandise, accessories, and a range of scrapbooking and paper crafting support services in a community learning environment. In addition, Michaels owned and operated four Star Decorators Wholesale stores as of March 23, 2006, located in Arizona, California, Georgia and Texas, offering merchandise primarily to interior decorators/ designers, wedding/ event planners, florists, hotels, restaurants and commercial display companies.

Michaels store offers approximately 42,000 basic stock keeping units (SKUs) in a number of product categories. The merchandise offered in Michaels stores include products for the do-it-yourself home decorator, including wall decor, candles, containers, baskets, and potpourri; custom framing services, ready-made frames, mat boards, glass, framed art, and photo albums; and silk flowers, dried flowers, and artificial plants sold separately or in ready-made and custom floral arrangements, accessories needed for floral arranging, and other floral items, such as wreaths; art supplies, including scrapbooking materials; surfaces and pads; adhesives and finishes; pastels and watercolors, oil paints, acrylics, easels, brushes, paper, canvas, and stenciling materials, and craft supplies, including beads, wood, doll making supplies, jewelry making supplies, rubber stamps, apparel crafts, books and magazines, craft storage, and plaster; needlecraft items including stitchery supplies, hand-knitting yarns, needles, canvas, and related supplies for needlepoint, embroidery and cross stitching, knitting, crochet, rug making kits, and quilt and afghan kits; ribbon and wedding accessories; gifts; hobby items including plastic model kits and related supplies, kids' craft materials, plush toys, and paint-by-number kits; party needs including balloons, gift wrap, candy making supplies, and cake decorating supplies, and soap and candle making supplies.

The Company's Michaels stores regularly feature seasonal merchandise. Seasonal merchandise is offered for several holiday periods, including Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and many other regional mini season programs. The Company's Aaron Brothers stores offer on average 6,500 SKUs, including photo frames, a full line of ready-made frames and a selection of art supplies and custom framing services. The merchandising strategy for the Aaron Brothers stores is to provide upscale framing assortment and shopping experience. In addition, it provides a fashion forward framing merchandise selection in an appealing environment with attentive customer service. Store design is developed centrally and implemented at the store level through the use of merchandise planograms, which provide store associates with detailed descriptions and illustrations with respect to store layout and merchandise presentation. Planograms are also used to cluster various products that can be combined to create individual projects.

Michaels operates a vertically integrated manufacturing operation named Artistree that supplies its Michaels and Aaron Brothers stores with custom and specialty framing merchandise. Its regional processing centers are located in City of Industry, California; Coppell, Texas, and .

Kforce Inc. (NASDAQ:KFRC) - Kforce Inc. provides professional and technical specialty staffing services and solutions in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Technology (Tech), Finance and Accounting (FA), and Government Solutions (GS). The Tech segment provides temporary staffing and permanent placement services to its clients primarily in the areas of information technology, such as systems/applications architecture and development, project management, enterprise data management, business intelligence, e-commerce, technology infrastructure, network architecture, and security. This segment serves clients in various industries, primarily comprising financial services, communications, insurance services, and government sectors. The FA segment offers temporary staffing and permanent placement services to its clients in areas, such as general accounting, business analysis, accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial analysis and reporting, taxation, budget preparation and analysis, mortgage and loan processing, cost analysis, professional administration, credit and collections, audit services, and systems and controls analysis and documentation. This segment serves clients in various industries, primarily consisting of financial services, and healthcare and government sectors. The GS segment provides services and solutions to the Federal Government as a prime and a subcontractor. This segment offers integrated business solutions to its customers in areas, such as information technology, healthcare informatics, data and knowledge management, research and development, audit readiness, financial management, accounting, and other areas. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida..

Hologic Inc. (NASDAQ:HOLX) - Hologic, Inc. develops, manufactures, and supplies diagnostics products, medical imaging systems, and surgical products for women in the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Diagnostics, Breast Health, GYN Surgical, and Skeletal Health. The Diagnostics segment provides Aptima family of assays, target capture/nucleic acid extraction technology, transcription-mediated amplification technology, hybridization protection and dual kinetic assays, Procleix family of assays for blood screening, instrumentation, Invader chemistry platform, ThinPrep system, and rapid fetal fibronectin test. The Breast Health segment offers breast imaging and related products and accessories, including digital and film-based mammography systems; computer-aided detection (CAD) for mammography; invasive breast biopsy devices; breast biopsy site markers; and breast biopsy guidance systems. This segment also provides Dimensions platform, a mammography gantry for 2D and tomosynthesis image acquisition and display; C-View that provides a 2D image; Selenia digital mammography platform; and SecurView Workstation. The GYN Surgical segment offers NovaSure system to treat women suffering from abnormal uterine bleeding; and MyoSure system for the hysteroscopic removal of fibroids. The Skeletal Health segment provides discovery and horizon X-ray bone densitometers that assess the bone density of fracture sites; and mini C-arm imaging systems to perform minimally invasive surgical procedures on a patient s extremities, such as the hand, wrist, knee, foot, and ankle. The company sells its products through direct sales and service forces, and a network of independent distributors and sales representatives. Hologic, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts..

Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (NASDAQ:CCMP) - Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells polishing slurries and pads used in the manufacture of advanced integrated circuit (IC) devices in the semiconductor industry in a process called chemical mechanical planarization (CMP). The CMP technology is a polishing process used by IC device manufacturers to planarize or flatten the multiple layers of material that are deposited upon silicon wafers. The company offers CMP slurries, which are liquid solutions composed of high-purity deionized water, proprietary chemical additives, and engineered abrasives that chemically and mechanically interact with the surface material of the IC device at an atomic level; and CMP pads that are engineered polymeric materials designed to distribute and transport the slurry to the surface of the wafer and distribute it evenly across the wafer. Its CMP slurries are used for polishing various materials that conduct electrical signals, including tungsten, copper, tantalum, and aluminum; and certain materials that are used in the production of rigid disks and magnetic heads for hard disk drives, as well as used in the dielectric insulating materials that separate conductive layers within logic and memory IC devices. The company also designs and produces precision polishing and metrology systems to attain near-perfect shape and surface finish on various optical components, such as mirrors, lenses, and prisms. It serves the producers of logic IC devices or memory IC devices, and providers of IC foundry services directly, as well as through distributors. The company operates in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Cabot Microelectronics Corporation was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Aurora, Illinois..

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