Heritage Global Inc.
AI summary Insiders buy open-market shares following Q2 earnings release and recent business streamlining.
- Research score
- 42
- AI adjustment
- +9
Research score, not a recommendation.
Market data
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Why this score
Research score: a weighted blend of the five factors, times the routine and offering discounts, minus the selling penalty.
Why are they buying?
AI · discretionary · catalyst credible · documentedThe open-market purchases by top executives—including the President and CFO—occurred shortly after the company reported second-quarter 2026 financial results and discussed its strategic wind-down of Heritage Global Capital and bolt-on acquisition of Boston Note Company.
Maxim Group reiterated a Buy rating with a $3.50 price target on August 14, 2026, following the earnings release, pointing to bullish sentiment around the stock trading near $1.10.
Stock Price & Insider Purchase History
Daily close price with open-market insider purchases plotted over time
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| Date | Insider | Role | Shares | Price | Value | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-17 | Dove Nicholas Kirk 6 purchases with a 63-day result · median -2.2% | President | 60,000 | $1.10 | $65.9K | SEC filing for Dove Nicholas Kirk (opens in a new tab) |
| 2026-08-20 | COBB BRIAN J. history of COBB BRIAN J.'s purchases | CFO | 20,000 | $1.10 | $22.0K | SEC filing for COBB BRIAN J. (opens in a new tab) |
| 2026-08-17 | Hounsell Bruce Kenneth history of Hounsell Bruce Kenneth's purchases | President | 10,000 | $1.14 | $11.4K | SEC filing for Hounsell Bruce Kenneth (opens in a new tab) |
| Total | $99.3K | |||||
Other buying runs at HGBL
A run ends after a pause in the buying, so one company can have several. Returns are the stock's return minus its benchmark's (IWM for small companies, SPY otherwise), from the first open after the run became a cluster. Past results, not a forecast.
After this run became a cluster: 21 days +22.9%63 days –126 days –
| Window | Insiders | Total | Score | 21 days | 63 days | 126 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-14 → 2023-09-13 | 5 | $141.3K | 55 | -1.4% | -5.4% | -19.4% | closed |
| 2022-05-16 → 2022-05-27 | 4 | $76.8K | 59 | +24.1% | +29.8% | +82.3% | closed |
| 2021-11-12 → 2021-12-30 | 6 | $346.6K | 63 | -12.6% | -3.1% | -11.9% | closed |
| 2021-08-25 | 3 | $138.0K | 58 | -5.6% | -20.0% | -13.9% | closed |
| 2020-10-02 → 2020-10-06 | 3 | $3.3M | 66 | -15.5% | +1.8% | +7.9% | closed |
| 2020-05-22 | 3 | $599.9K | 53 | – | – | – | closed |
| 2019-09-17 → 2019-09-27 | 3 | $31.5K | 38 | – | – | – | closed |
| 2019-05-08 → 2019-06-13 | 3 | $81.5K | 40 | – | – | – | closed |
| 2016-12-01 → 2016-12-30 | 4 | $1.5M | 54 | – | – | – | closed |