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CXW, LC, RCL, NR, WDC, VECO, Expected to Trade Lower After Bearish Insider Trading

May 18, 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. CoreCivic Inc. (NYSE:CXW), LendingClub (NYSE:LC), Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE:RCL), Newpark Resources Inc. (NYSE:NR), Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC), Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ:VECO) 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. 
  CXW     CoreCivic Inc.                   Grande, Anthony L                O        23,000      77             -2.7%               29        
  LC      LendingClub                      Sanborn, Scott C                 CEO      45,970      97             -36.1%              8         
  RCL     Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.     Fain, Richard D                  CEO      20,000      87             -5.3%               13        
  NR      Newpark Resources Inc.           Smith, Bruce Campbell            O        10,578      76             -15.8%              3         
  WDC     Western Digital Corp             Long, Mark P.                    CFO      3,034       97             -18.7%              12        
  VECO    Veeco Instruments Inc.           Peeler, John R                   CEO      14,463      85             -7.5%               17        

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.

CoreCivic Inc. (NYSE:CXW) - CoreCivic, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates privatized correctional and detention facilities in the United States. It owns, operates, and manages prisons and other correctional facilities; and provides inmate residential and prisoner transportation services for governmental agencies. The company also offers various rehabilitation and educational programs, including basic education, religious services, life skills and employment training, and substance abuse treatment, as well as food services, work and recreational programs, and healthcare services, such as medical, dental, and mental health services. In addition, it leases its facilities to third-party operators. The company serves federal, state, and local correctional and detention authorities. As of December 31, 2012, the company owned and managed 47 correctional and detention facilities; and managed 20 correctional and detention facilities, which it did not own. CoreCivic, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee..

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..

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE:RCL) - Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. operates as a cruise company. The company operates cruises under the Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Azamara Club Cruises brand names. The Royal Caribbean International brand provides a range of itineraries ranging from 2 to 24 nights with options for onboard dining, entertainment, and other onboard activities to various destinations. The Celebrity Cruises brand offers itineraries ranging from 2 to 18 nights to various destinations; and operates onboard upscale ships that offer accommodations, fine dining, personalized services, and spa facilities. The Azamara Club Cruises brand offers cruise itineraries ranging from 3 to 21 nights that serve the up-market segment of the North American, the United Kingdom, and Australian markets. The company also operates ships under the partner brands, such as TUI Cruises, Pullmantur, and SkySea Cruises. As of December 31, 2016, the company operated 49 ships with itineraries ranging from 2 to 24 nights on approximately 535 destinations worldwide. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida..

Newpark Resources Inc. (NYSE:NR) - Newpark Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides products and services primarily to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. The company operates through two segments, Fluids Systems and Mats and Integrated Services. The Fluids Systems segment offers drilling fluids products and technical services for technical drilling projects involving complex subsurface conditions, including horizontal, directional, geologically deep, or deep water drilling. This segment also grinds barite and other industrial minerals. The Mats and Integrated Services segment provides composite mat rentals, well site construction, and related site services to oil and gas customers at well, production, transportation, and refinery locations. The company operates in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. Newpark Resources, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is based in The Woodlands, Texas..

Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC) - Western Digital Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions worldwide. It offers performance hard disk drives (HDDs) that are used in enterprise servers, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; capacity HDDs and drive configurations for use in data storage systems and tiered storage models, as well as for use in storage of data for years; and enterprise solid state drives (SSDs), including NAND-flash SSDs and software solutions that are designed to enhance the performance in various enterprise workload environments. The company also provides InfiniFlash System, a system solution that offers petabyte scalable capacity with performance metrics; higher value data storage platforms and systems; datacenter software and systems; and HDDs and SSDs for desktop PCs, notebook PCs, gaming consoles, set top boxes, security surveillance systems, and other computing devices. In addition, it offers embedded NAND-flash storage products, including custom embedded solutions; and iNAND embedded flash products, such as multi-chip package solutions that combine NAND and mobile dynamic random-access memory in an integrated package for mobile phones, tablets, notebook PCs, and other portable and wearable devices, as well as in automotive and connected home applications, and NAND-flash wafers. Further, it provides HDDs embedded into WD- and HGST-branded external storage products; and NAND-flash products, which include cards, universal serial bus flash drives, and wireless drives. Additionally, the company licenses its technologies. The company sells its products under the HGST, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure players, and retailers. It serves storage subsystem suppliers, OEMs, Internet and social media infrastructure players, and PC and Mac OEMs. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California..

Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ:VECO) - Veeco Instruments Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and supports thin film process equipment to make light emitting diodes (LEDs), micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), power electronics, wireless devices, hard disk drives (HDDs), and semiconductor devices worldwide. It offers metal organic chemical vapor deposition systems; precision surface processing systems; ion beam etch and deposition systems; molecular beam epitaxy systems; and other deposition and industrial products, as well as support services. The company sells its products to LED, MEMS, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test, HDD, and semiconductor manufacturers, as well as research centers and universities. Veeco Instruments Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Plainview, New York..

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