15 Stocks With The Most Insider Sales In The Last Quarter

6. Loar Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LOAR)

Number of Insiders Selling: 13

Market Capitalization: $6.12 billion

Sixth among the 15 stocks with the most insider sales in the last quarter is an aerospace and defense company, Loar Holdings. It is also one of the 10 mid-cap stocks insiders are selling recently. The White Plains, New York-based company offers products across multiple categories, including airframe components, avionics, de-ice and ice protection, flight controls, motion controls, environmental, safety devices, autothrottles, lap-belt airbags, carbon and metallic brake discs, and more.

In August, Loar completed the acquisition of Applied Avionics, Inc. for approximately $385 million in cash. Applied Avionics designs, develops and manufactures highly engineered interface solutions for avionics and other aerospace and defense electronics. Applied Avionics’ brands, Vivisun and Nexsys are the common choice of leading aircraft retrofit providers, military prime contractors, and Tier 1 suppliers.

On December 12, 13 insiders sold a total of $530.61 million worth of Loar Holdings shares at a price of $81.8 per share. This was most likely part of the company’s upsized public offering of 5.75 million shares of common stock, including 1.9 million shares offered by certain stockholders and 3.85 million shares offered by Loar at $85.0 per share.

Since the beginning of the year, Loar Holdings shares declined 10.73% and are now trading at $65.98 per share. Since the company’s initial public offering in April 2024, Loar Holdings returned 35.20% to its investors.

Recently, the company entered into a put option agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of LMB Fans & Motors (“LMB”) for €365 million ($397.71 million) plus the assumption of net debt, payable in cash at closing.

The consensus rating on Loar Holdings stock from four analysts is “Strong Buy,” according to StockAnalysis. The average price target of $83.4 suggests a 27.13% upside from the latest price.