Thursday, September 6, 2012

Is Western Refining Done Setting New 4-year Highs? (Chairman and CEO sell each sell, total $30 Million worth) WNR

All good things come to an end.
The stock is at $27.65, up 54 cents. The last 52-week (and 4-year) high was Setp. 4 at $28.04.
Here's the two-year chart via Yahoo Finance:

Chart forWestern Refining, Inc. (WNR)


There has been quite a bit of insider selling in the last month.
From SECForm4:

Common stock purchase or sale:
Transaction
& Date
Reported
Date
Company Symbol Insider
Relationship
Shares
Traded
Average
Price
Total
Amount
Shares
Ownership
Filing
2012-08-22-
-2012-08-24
Sale
2012-08-24
7:46 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR WRC Refining CO
(General Partner of Partnership)
807,302 $26.72 $21,570,486 0
(Direct)
View
2012-08-22-
-2012-08-24
Sale
2012-08-24
7:45 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Stevens Jeff A
(President & CEO
Director)
14,134 $26.72 $377,650 0
(Indirect)
View
2012-08-22-
-2012-08-24
Sale
2012-08-24
7:44 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Foster Paul L
(Chairman of BOD, Exec. Chair
Director
10% owner)
785,314 $26.72 $20,982,983 0
(Indirect)
View
2012-08-22-
-2012-08-24
Sale
2012-08-24
7:43 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR WEAVER SCOTT D
(VP, Asst. Treasurer
Director)
3,927 $26.72 $104,926 0
(Indirect)
View
2012-08-22-
-2012-08-24
Sale
2012-08-24
7:42 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Schmidt Ralph A
(Director)
3,927 $26.72 $104,926 0
(Indirect)
View
2012-08-21
Sale
2012-08-23
8:16 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Sanders William D
(Director)
5,806 $27.58 $160,129 37,859
(Direct)
View
2012-08-17
Sale
2012-08-17
7:36 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Stevens Jeff A
(President & CEO
Director)
380,000 $27.13 $10,310,217 0
(Indirect)
View
2012-08-17
Sale
2012-08-17
7:36 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Hogan Brian John
(Director)
10,000 $27.11 $271,094 86,259
(Direct)
View
2012-08-10
Sale
2012-08-10
7:31 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Schmidt Ralph A
(Director)
100,000 $26.2 $2,619,890 749,177
(Direct)
View
2012-08-07
Sale
2012-08-09
7:47 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR WEAVER SCOTT D
(VP, Asst. Treasurer
Director)
105,941 $26.02 $2,756,776 1,500,000
(Direct)
View
2012-08-06
Sale
2012-08-08
7:30 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Francis L Frederick
(Director)
100,000 $25.22 $2,522,300 94,099
(Direct)
View
2012-08-06
Sale
2012-08-08
7:28 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Jewell William R
(Chief Accounting Officer)
20,000 $25.28 $505,640 144,921
(Direct)
View
2012-08-01-
-2012-08-02
Sale
2012-08-03
7:38 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR DALKE GARY R
(Chief Financial Officer)
20,000 $23.78 $475,541 111,401
(Direct)
View
2012-08-01
Sale
2012-08-03
7:36 pm
Western Refining, Inc. WNR Barfield Lowry
(Sr. VP Legal Gen Counsel & Sec)
20,000 $23.16 $463,254 213,700
(Direct)
View

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Barron's Inside Scoop column had made mention of Mr. Stevens sales in the column dated August 22:

Western Refining CEO Sells Near 52-Week High 
Jeff Stevens sold 380,000 shares, cutting his stake to 4.9% from 5.3%.
The top executive of Western Refining unloaded a portion of his holdings following an upbeat second quarter and as the company's stock surged to a 52-week intraday high.

On Aug. 16 and 17, President and Chief Executive Jeff Stevens sold 380,000 shares of Western Refining (ticker: WNR) for $10,310,217, an average of $27.13 each.

Stevens' direct holdings now stand at 4,499,504 shares and 14,134 shares held indirectly through the WRC Refining Co. Stevens' current direct stake represents a 4.9% stake of the company, down from about 5.3%.
This is his first open-market transaction in nearly two years. Stevens bought 100,000 shares for $436,500, an average of $4.37 each, on Aug. 31, 2010.

Stevens has been a director at the company since 2005. He was named president in 2009 and named CEO in 2010.

In an e-mail, a spokesman for the company writes, "This sale is part of Mr. Stevens' estate-planning process."

In an Aug. 20 update, InsiderScore notes that insider sentiment within the sector has been negative and that the number of sellers "more than doubled week-over-week and the number of buyers remained constant over the same period."...MORE