Associates Corp. Smh, 10% Owner at INDEPENDENCE HOLDING CO (IHC), bought 450 shares at $8.21 ($4K) on 2011-05-13, disclosed to the SEC on 2011-05-18.
Open-market purchase of $4k IHC by 10% Owner. Below the thresholds we flag for high-conviction alerts (no C-suite role, rare reversal, cluster, or A-grade history).
Negative factors outweigh the positive ones.