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LAUKIEN FRANK H purchased ~$5.0M in Bruker Corporation stock

Bruker Corporation (BRKR)  ·  PRESIDENT & CEO  ·  Data via SEC EDGAR Form 4

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= insider buy date

90-day return

+2.8%

vs SPY +4.3%

BRKR price after insider trade by LAUKIEN FRANK H

Insider

LAUKIEN FRANK H

Role

PRESIDENT & CEO

Transaction

Open-Market Purchase

Approx. Value

~$5.0M

Trade Date

Nov 18, 2024

Company

Bruker Corporation

Ticker

BRKR

Source

SEC EDGAR Form 4

Very Strong conviction signal

Scored in the top tier across multiple factors. Fewer than 5% of insider trades receive this rating.

~$5.0M purchase

Trades over $1M are rare. When insiders put this much of their own money on the line, they tend to have high conviction in their company's direction.

PRESIDENT & CEO

CEOs have the deepest knowledge of company operations. Academic research shows CEO purchases outperform other insider trades by a wide margin.

+2.8% in 90 days (S&P 500: +4.3%)

This trade underperformed the S&P 500 by 1.5 percentage points. Not every insider trade wins. We track all of them so you can focus on the insiders with the best records.

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On November 18, 2024, LAUKIEN FRANK H — PRESIDENT & CEO of Bruker Corporation — filed a Form 4 with the SEC disclosing an open-market purchase of approximately ~$5.0M in Bruker Corporation (BRKR) stock.

Under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, corporate insiders must report all open-market stock transactions to the SEC within two business days. These filings — known as Form 4s — are publicly available on the SEC's EDGAR database. VeritySignals filters and scores the full Form 4 stream to surface high-conviction signals like this one.

In the 90 days following this trade, BRKR returned +2.8% versus +4.3% for the S&P 500 over the same period.

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All data sourced from publicly available SEC Form 4 filings via EDGAR · Not financial advice · Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Signal strength Very Strong
Trade size ~$5.0M
Insider role PRESIDENT & CEO
90-day return +2.8%
vs S&P 500 -1.5%

What is this?

When company executives buy or sell their own stock, they must report it to the SEC within 2 days. These public filings reveal what the people who know the company best are doing with their own money.

Why does it matter?

Insiders can sell for many reasons (taxes, diversification, expenses), but they generally only buy for one: they think the stock is going up. That's why insider purchases are more predictive than sales.

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