Argus

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May 05, 2026

Sector(s)

Utilities, Financial Services, Technology, Industrials, Consumer Cyclical

Summary

Stocks continue to battle, but ultimately weather quite nicely, a volatile news flow. The bottom line is that (as of last week) the S&P 500 is up 5.6% year to date, the Nasdaq is up 8.1%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 2.9%. Insiders, meanwhile, are not bailing on stocks at all-time highs, but nor are they jumping in to buy aggressively. Indeed, the major overall sell/buy ratios from Vickers Stock Research show insider sentiment that is solidly neutral. In the short-term (using one-week data), part of this can be attributed to earnings season, when insiders are broadly prohibited from trading. But the data in the longer-term window (eight weeks) for insider sentiment has caught our eye. Looking at Vickers' eight-week sell/buy ratios on a sector basis, we note growing bullishness. Back at the end of March, five sectors logged neutral ratios, four were bullish, and two were bearish. Today, eight sectors are bullish, two are bearish, and only one is neutral. Drilling down, long-term bullish activity is now apparent in the Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Materials, Real Estate, and Utility sectors. Within this grouping, two sectors are newly bullish, with the Materials and Utility sectors moving from neutral to bullish since las

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