Weekly CEO Buys Highlight: FSFR, FSIC, OPK, EPE, ACXM

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Aug 23, 2014

According to GuruFocus Insider Data, these are the largest CEO buys during the past week. The overall trend of CEOs is illustrated in the chart below:

Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp (FSFR, Financial): CEO Leonard Tannenbaum Bought 450,874 Shares

CEO of Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp (FSFR, Financial) Leonard Tannenbaum bought 450,874 shares during the past week at an average price of $12.38. Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp is a business development company formed in May 2013 as a Delaware corporation and structured as an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp has a market cap of $82.535 million; its shares were traded at around $12.38 . The dividend yield of Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp stocks is 5.74%.

President & CIO Ivelin M. Dimitrov bought 1,000 shares of FSFR stock on Aug. 20 at the average price of 12.33. Ivelin M. Dimitrov owns at least 6,967 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 0.41% since.

FS Investment Corp (FSIC, Financial): CEO Michael C. Forman Bought 113,760 Shares

CEO of FS Investment Corp (FSIC, Financial) Michael C. Forman bought 113,760 shares on 08/19/2014 at an average price of $10.43. Fs Investment Corp has a market cap of $2.5 billion; its shares were traded at around $10.43 with a P/E ratio of 17.70 and P/S ratio of 6.28. The dividend yield of Fs Investment Corp stocks is 3.56%.

Director David J. Adelman bought 113,760 shares of FSIC stock on 08/19/2014 at the average price of 10.31. David J. Adelman owns at least 34,063 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 1.16% since.

Opko Health Inc (OPK, Financial): CEO & Chairman, 10% Owner Phillip Md Et Al Frost Bought 100,700 Shares

CEO & Chairman, 10% Owner of Opko Health Inc (OPK, Financial) Phillip Frost bought 100,700 shares during the past week at an average price of $8.81. Opko Health, Inc. was originally incorporated in Delaware in October 1991 under the name Cytoclonal Pharmaceutics, Inc. Opko Health Inc has a market cap of $3.78 billion; its shares were traded at around $8.81 with and P/S ratio of 40.32. Opko Health Inc had an annual average earnings growth of 4.40% over the past 10 years.

Mario Gabelli (Trades, Portfolio) owns 15,000 shares as of June 30, which accounts for 0.0007% of the $19.12 billion portfolio of GAMCO Investors. George Soros (Trades, Portfolio) owns 235,600 shares as of 06/30/2014, a decrease of 84.24% of from the previous quarter. This position accounts for 0.016% of the $13.27 billion portfolio of Soros Fund Management LLC.

Vice Chairman & CTO Jane Hsiao bought 10,000 shares of OPK stock on 04/15/2014 at the average price of 8.03. Jane Ph D Hsiao owns at least 21,338,212 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 9.71% since.

EP Energy Corp (EPE, Financial): Chairman, President & CEO Brent Smolik Bought 27,250 Shares

Chairman, President & CEO of EP Energy Corp (EPE, Financial) Brent J Smolik bought 27,250 shares on Aug. 15 at an average price of $18.63. Ep Energy Corp has a market cap of $4.58 billion; its shares were traded at around $18.63 with and P/S ratio of 2.68.

EP Energy recently reported its second quarter 2014 financial results. The company announced $372 million adjusted EBITDAX, a 41% increase from the second quarter of 2013. Adjusted earnings per share was $0.23.

George Soros (Trades, Portfolio) bought 133,900 shares in the quarter that ended on 06/30/2014, which is 0.023% of the $13.27 billion portfolio of Soros Fund Management LLC.

EVP & CFO Dane E Whitehead bought 7,500 shares of EPE stock on Aug. 18 at the average price of 18.79. Dane E Whitehead owns at least 159,511 shares after this. The price of the stock has decreased by 0.85% since.

Acxiom Corp (ACXM, Financial): CEO Scott E Howe Bought 20,000 Shares

CEO of Acxiom Corp (ACXM, Financial) Scott E Howe bought 20,000 shares on Aug. 15 at an average price of $18.35. Acxiom Corporation was founded in 1969. The company is an enterprise data, analytics and software-as-a-service company. Acxiom Corp has a market cap of $1.42 billion; its shares were traded at around $18.35 with a P/E ratio of 171.50 and P/S ratio of 1.31.

Joel Greenblatt (Trades, Portfolio) owns 1,119,622 shares as of June 30, an increase of 930.33% from the previous quarter. This position accounts for 0.3% of the $7.99 billion portfolio of Gotham Asset Management, LLC. Mariko Gordon (Trades, Portfolio) owns 3,117,013 shares as of 06/30/2014, an increase of 17.72% from the previous quarter. This position accounts for 2.8% of the $2.44 billion portfolio of Daruma Capital Management.