A ceo buying own stock screener hunts the strongest insider signal there is: the chief executive spending personal money on her own shares. Five tools that filter by the top title.
When a CEO buy appears, check three things: the size against their existing stake, whether other insiders joined in, and how fresh the filing is. A big buy from a first-time CEO near a low is a different animal than a small top-up from a founder who already owns a third of the company.
- OpenInsider: filter purchases by title down to CEO, with ownership changes shown. Free.
- InsiderScreener: insider-title filters across markets, plus daily email reports.
- Fintel: per-insider pages with each CEO's buying history and past returns.
- MarketBeat: screen by insider name and role on the All Access tier.
- InsiderPulse (stockspro24.com): role filters in the $9/mo screener put CEO and CFO buys first, 5 free alerts a month.
CEO buys are rare. When the filter fires, do the homework before you do anything else.