Market Digest: D, HUM, RKT

Argus

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Mar 25, 2025

Summary

Last week, we reported a abrupt determination to bullish successful the one-week insider-sentiment readings from Vickers Stock Research. The large banal indices responded successful kind, with the archetypal winning week successful astir a period (DJIA up 1.2%, S&P 500 up 0.5%, and the Nasdaq eking retired a 0.2% win). This week, the information from Vickers is again good. It's not arsenic stellar arsenic past week, but it is much than capable to let for ongoing betterment successful broader sentiment. For the one-week readings, the NYSE and Nasdaq person moved somewhat backmost into the neutral zone, but Vickers' eight-week sentiment readings proceed to inclination successful the close direction. The NYSE Eight-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is present 3.60, improved from 5.69 astir a period ago. The Nasdaq Eight-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is present 4.24, versus 6.54 a period ago. The Total (all exchanges) Eight-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is present 3.91, compared to 6.02 a period ago. The extremity present is the get beneath 2.00, wherever the bullish portion begins. That volition instrumentality time, arsenic volition the repair of the wide banal market. On a assemblage basis, insider-buying enactment exceeded selling enactment successful Utilities past week, with shares valued astatine $429,081 bought versus $118,345 sold. Buying was besides notable successful Healthcare, lagging the level of selling by a origin of conscionable 1.5-times, arsenic $15.4 cardinal of shares were bought versus $23.6 cardinal of shares sold. On the different side,