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Ferguson Enterprises Inc. (FERG): Among the Large-Cap Stocks with Insider Buying in 2025

We recently compiled a list of the 10 Large-Cap Stocks with Insider Buying in 2025. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Ferguson Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:FERG) stands against the other large-cap stocks.

Insider buying is one of the strongest indirect signals that analysts and successful investors often use to assess whether a stock is undervalued or not. The intuition behind this stems from the fact that high-ranked insiders such as named executive officers and directors possess confidential information that may give greater visibility into the company’s future and growth trajectory. Insiders leverage such information as real-time data on sales and orders, and discussions with key clients, suppliers and other stakeholders, to form a better understanding of the company’s valuation. For instance, insiders often show net selling of their own company stock at peak valuations, just days or weeks before a major market correction happens; and vice versa, insiders often show net buying at or near market bottoms, days or weeks before the stock price starts to increase. This is clearly not a coincidence most of the time. Also, many successful investors emphasized the idea that insider buying is often a stronger signal than selling. Here is what Peter Lynch, one of the greatest ever, said on this topic:

“Insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: they think the price will rise.”

With the US stock market having experienced a very strong bull market for the last 2 years, insider buying has become increasingly muted, with insider selling starting to prevail, especially in apparently overbought sectors like technology. This trend suggests that executives and institutional investors may see limited upside in certain high-flying stocks, prompting them to lock in gains. However, a significant portion of those strong returns have been driven only by a handful of companies, often called the “Magnificent 8”, which experienced an uplift from AI and other megatrends. At the same time, on an equal-weight basis, the US stock market has had a more modest performance. Some sectors like healthcare are at or near multi-year lows on a relative basis, driven by a combination of headwinds as well as a lack of tailwinds to the same extent as the technology leaders. The key takeaway for investors is that regardless of what point in the cycle we are, or how long into a bull market we are, both buying and selling opportunities will exist.