RealPage: 3 Different Insiders Have Sold Shares This Month

In this article, I will feature one tech stock that has seen intensive insider selling during the last 30 days. Intensive insider selling can be defined by the following three criteria:

1. The stock was sold by three or more insiders within one month.


2. The stock was not purchased by any insiders in the month of intensive selling.


3. At least two sellers decreased their holdings by more than 10%.

RealPage (RP) provides on demand software solutions for the rental housing industry in North America.

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Insider selling during the last 30 days

Here is a table of RealPage's insider-trading activity during the last 30 days by insider.

Name	Title	Trade Date	Shares Sold	Rule 10b5-1	Current Ownership	Decrease In Ownership
Stephen Winn	CEO	Dec 4-23	80,000	Yes	26,088,388 shares	0.3%
William Chaney	EVP	Dec 12-13	7,000	No	53,659 shares	11.5%
Timothy Barker	CFO	Dec 12-13	49,550	No	190,212 shares + 25,450 options	18.7%

There have been 136,550 shares sold by insiders during the last 30 days. More details about the Rule 10b5-1 trading plan can be found from this link.

Insider selling by calendar month

Here is a table of RealPage's insider-trading activity by calendar month.

Month	Insider selling / shares	Insider buying / shares
December 2013	136,550	0
November 2013	183,950	0
October 2013	68,500	0
September 2013	114,650	0
August 2013	1,392,295	0
July 2013	0	0
June 2013	23,000	0
May 2013	1,292,627	0
April 2013	3,400	0
March 2013	1,574,060	0
February 2013	24,486	0
January 2013	12,011	0

There have been 4,825,529 shares sold, and there have been zero shares purchased by insiders this year.

Financials

RealPage reported the third-quarter financial results on November 7 with the following highlights:

GAAP revenue	$98.1 million
GAAP net income	$12.9 million
Cash	$44.0 million

Outlook

RealPage's guidance is as follows:

	Q4/2013	FY2013
Non-GAAP revenue	$102.7-$104.2 million	$386.0-$387.5 million
Non-GAAP net income	$12.5-$13.1 million	$45.0-$45.6 million

Competition

RealPage's competitors include Reed Elsevier (RUK), and CoreLogic (CLGX). Here is a table comparing these companies.

Company RP RUK CLGX Market Cap: 1.76B 17.43B 3.38B Employees: 3,320 N/A 4,800 Qtrly Rev Growth (yoy): 0.18 0.06 -0.01 Revenue: 367.23M 5.26B 1.64B Gross Margin: 0.61 0.65 0.46 EBITDA: 56.92M N/A 370.40M Operating Margin: 0.07 0.22 0.15 Net Income: 22.24M 850.29M 146.07M EPS: 0.29 2.82 1.38 P/E: 78.07 21.03 26.03 PEG (5 yr expected): N/A 3.09 N/A P/S: 4.79 3.33 2.02

RealPage has the highest P/S ratio among these three companies. In CoreLogic, there have been 104,359 shares sold, and there have been 2,500 shares purchased by insiders this year. Only RealPage has seen intensive insider selling during the last 30 days.

Conclusion

There have been three different insiders selling RealPage, and there have not been any insiders buying RealPage during the last 30 days. Two of these three insiders decreased their holdings by more than 10%. RealPage has an insider ownership of 32.50%.

Before entering short RealPage, I would like to get a bearish confirmation from the Point and Figure chart. The three main reasons for the proposed short entry are relatively high P/S ratio, high P/E ratio, and the intensive insider-selling activity.

Source: RealPage: 3 Different Insiders Have Sold Shares This Month

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