6 Rallying Financial Stocks Experiencing Significant Insider Buying

If you are looking to add some new names from the financial sector to your portfolio, this list may be the perfect starting point for your own analysis.

To compile this list we looked for stocks with the following characteristics:
- Financial stocks with market cap above $300M
- Current Price above the 20-day, 50-day and 200-day moving averages
- Net insider buying equal or greater than 0.5% of the floating shares

With this information in mind, which of these names are you more likely to buy?



1. General Growth Properties Inc. (GGP): REIT. Market cap of $15.37B. This stocks is trading 5.84% above its 20-day MA, 6.33% above its 50-day MA, 17.64% above its 200-day MA. Over the last 6 months, insiders purchased 160,463,430 shares - on a net basis. This is equivalent to 21.59% of the floating shares. The stock has gained 29.07% over the last year.



2. Equity One Inc. (EQY): REIT. Market cap of $2.07B. This stocks is trading 3.29% above its 20-day MA, 4.51% above its 50-day MA, 11.21% above its 200-day MA. Over the last 6 months, insiders purchased 900,000 shares - on a net basis. This is equivalent to 1.64% of the floating shares. The stock is a short squeeze candidate, with a short float at 8.33% (equivalent to 10.79 days of average volume). The stock has gained 2.4% over the last year.



3. KKR Financial Holdings LLC (KFN): Asset Management Industry. Market cap of $1.77B. This stocks is trading 1.07% above its 20-day MA, 2.34% above its 50-day MA, 12.37% above its 200-day MA. Over the last 6 months, insiders purchased 1,144,000 shares - on a net basis. This is equivalent to 0.82% of the floating shares. This is a risky stock that is significantly more volatile than the overall market (beta = 2.69). The stock has gained 18.59% over the last year.



4. Capital Bank Corporation (CBKN): Regional Bank. Market cap of $371.03M. This stocks is trading 1.75% above its 20-day MA, 12.32% above its 50-day MA, 47.1% above its 200-day MA. Over the last 6 months, insiders purchased 99,652 shares - on a net basis. This is equivalent to 0.73% of the floating shares. Relatively low correlation to the market (beta = 0.61), which may be appealing to risk averse investors. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 6.37% over the last week.

5. RLI Corp. (RLI): Property & Casualty Insurance Industry. Market cap of $1.23B. This stocks is trading 0.65% above its 20-day MA, 2.47% above its 50-day MA, 12.51% above its 200-day MA. Over the last 6 months, insiders purchased 96,751 shares - on a net basis. This is equivalent to 0.57% of the floating shares. The stock is a short squeeze candidate, with a short float at 7.42% (equivalent to 16.4 days of average volume). The stock has gained 15.39% over the last year.

6. Inland Real Estate Corp. (IRC): REIT. Market cap of $839.25M. This stocks is trading 2.51% above its 20-day MA, 3.35% above its 50-day MA, 12.98% above its 200-day MA. Over the last 6 months, insiders purchased 430,922 shares - on a net basis. This is equivalent to 0.5% of the floating shares. The stock has gained 7.55% over the last year.

*Insider flows sourced from Yahoo! Finance, other relevant data sourced from Finviz.

Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.