Question 1

What have this company's insiders been filing?

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and how much of that feed is not insiders at all get the insider trading history for <company> with secform4 on monid. the field is named cik but it resolves a ticker and a plain company name too, so you do not need to look a CIK up first. split the transaction_date field, because it carries the transaction type inside the same string the field name lies in your favour: it is called cik, and a ticker, a CIK and a plain company name all work: on a second company the ticker returned byte-identical rows to the CIK, and the name returned the same again. An earlier version of this page told readers a ticker 422s, which sent them to buy a lookup they never needed what arrives: each row carries the date, the type, the role, the share count, the average price and a link to the filing itself; the window and the row count vary by company, 22 filings over nine months on one and 12 over three months on another the ratio, where there is one: on the first company, $935,287,758 of disclosed sales against $373,570 of disclosed purchases. On a second, every row was a sale, so the ratio has no denominator: report the two sides rather than a multiple and what that is not: a signal. Most insider selling runs on scheduled plans and on tax and diversification needs, so the ratio is a description of the filings and not a view on the company who filed: directors, officers and a chief executive, though the role strings are not a controlled vocabulary: across 273 rows on a second company both Ofc and Officer appear, 1 against 56, so normalise the role before you group on it

Question 2

What do two sources say about this stock?

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two sources, ranked by how far apart they are get the quote for <ticker> with nasdaq on monid: last sale, day range and the 52-week range. then pull a second source and tell me where the two differ the cheap one: last sale, the prior close, the day range and the 52-week range for a cent the other one: the market cap, a trailing and a forward earnings multiple, for five cents the disagreement: the same after-hours minute, quoted with a 14-cent spread by one source and a four-dollar spread by the other one parameter is inert: passing the wrong exchange to that provider returned byte-identical data and billed anyway, so the field is accepted and ignored rather than validated the read: neither is wrong; they are sampling different books, which is why a single source hides it

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