Sanmina Corp SANM:NASDAQ

There was a substantial sale of shares of Sanmina by an insider today, as indicated in a form 4 document filed with the SEC. One insider -- Jure Sola, Director and Officer -- disposed of 64,557 shares in the company having a market value of approximately $2,094,216. This is the first insider buy/sell trade in the past 90 days.

Compared to its peers over the last 90 days, insider buy/sell trading at Sanmina is lower than the 82-company peer group average. Semiconductors peer group saw 170 buy/sell trades during this period for an average of 2.1 transactions per company. However, the number of shares per buy/sell trade for Sanmina is higher. Within the peer group there were 124,876 shares purchased and 2,689,630 shares sold with company insiders having sold 15,087 shares on average.

The data obtained in evaluating and writing in this story eliminates all trading activity reported to the SEC that involves awards, options, exercise of derivative securities, company buy-backs, taxes, gifts, shares acquired via inheritance and tenders or exchange offers.