Christopher Zepf, 10% Owner at APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORP (AMCC), bought 22,500 shares at $7.98 ($180K) on 2013-02-28, disclosed to the SEC on 2013-03-04.
Open-market purchase of $180k AMCC 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.