{"id":309396,"date":"2026-02-25T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309396\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:50:12","slug":"the-ai-stock-that-insiders-are-loading-up-on-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309396\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI Stock That Insiders Are Loading Up On for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insider buying is one of the best bullish indicators out there, and this AI company has seen some serious activity recently.<\/p>\n<p>Insider buying is one of the best indicators of how a stock might perform in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The people running a company or who sit on its board of directors know it best. How could they not? They know things an investor couldn&#8217;t, like sales figures since the last quarterly report or total intangibles you can&#8217;t put on a spreadsheet, like office morale.<\/p>\n<p>It was once put very succinctly by investing legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/how-to-invest\/famous-investors\/peter-lynch\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Lynch:<\/a> &#8220;Insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: they think the price will rise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re worried about an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/market-sectors\/information-technology\/ai-stocks\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) bubble and want to know which AI companies are the real deal versus those facing a rude awakening if\/when any AI bubble pops, look at what the insiders at AI companies are doing with their money.<\/p>\n<p>And there is one AI company that has seen some rather promising insider activity in recent months.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"An arrow going up with percentages on a blue background\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"880\" height=\"587\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto max-w-full rounded object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772020212_191_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Image source: Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>A force for sales, a Salesforce if you will<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/how-to-invest\/stocks\/how-to-invest-in-salesforce-stock\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salesforce<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/quote\/nyse\/crm\/\" class=\"font-bold hover:underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CRM<\/a> +4.18%) is a fundamentally strong company, but its shares have had a rough go on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/exchange\/nyse\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">market<\/a> recently. The company is down 30% year to date (as of Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p>There hasn&#8217;t been much insider activity recently, only four transactions with two buys and two sells, but what is there is interesting.<\/p>\n<p>First was Harris Parker, the company&#8217;s co-founder. His sale of $31.6 million in shares in December 2025 may look alarming at first, but that transaction was part of a 10b5-1 plan, which means it was pre-planned and unrelated to Salesforce&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p>The only other sale (and the only discretionary sale) was from Neelie Kroes, former VP of the European Commission and a longtime Salesforce director. She sold 3,893 shares for a total of $929,276 in January 2026. As I mentioned before, though, sales like that could be for any number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Salesforce Stock Quote\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full flex-none object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772020212_990_.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Change<\/p>\n<p>(4.18%) $7.45<\/p>\n<p>Current Price<\/p>\n<p>$185.61<\/p>\n<p>Key Data Points<\/p>\n<p>Market Cap<\/p>\n<p>$174B<\/p>\n<p>Day&#8217;s Range<\/p>\n<p>$176.27 &#8211; $188.60<\/p>\n<p>52wk Range<\/p>\n<p>$174.57 &#8211; $313.70<\/p>\n<p>Volume<\/p>\n<p>689<\/p>\n<p>Avg Vol<\/p>\n<p>10M<\/p>\n<p>Gross Margin<\/p>\n<p>75.43%<\/p>\n<p>Dividend Yield<\/p>\n<p>0.90%<\/p>\n<p>On to the buyers, with two interesting transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller purchase involved Kirk David Blair, a company director. He bought 1,936 shares for a total of $500,722 in mid-December 2025. That&#8217;s a serious vote of confidence in where Salesforce is headed in its near future.<\/p>\n<p>But the biggest play was from Mason Morfit, another director and the co-chief executive officer and chief investment officer of the investment firm ValueAct Capital with $10 billion in assets under management. Or rather, his firm bought some Salesforce stock.<\/p>\n<p>ValueAct purchased $25 million worth of Salesforce shares on Dec. 5 , showing serious confidence in Salesforce&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>So, excluding the 10b5-1 sales, which didn&#8217;t concern Salesforce as a company, there&#8217;s net insider buying totaling just shy of $24.6 million in the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I am very interested in Salesforce&#8217;s fiscal 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/upcoming-earnings-reports\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">results,<\/a> which are due to be released on Feb. 25, and its spring 2026 product release on Feb. 23, 2026, when it plans to introduce new agentic capabilities and an AI-powered Sales Workspace, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Just because company insiders know more than outside investors about what&#8217;s going on behind the scenes doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re right about everything. High insider buying activity isn&#8217;t a foolproof indicator. However, combined with Salesforce&#8217;s fundamental strength, I would recommend giving this one a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Insider buying is one of the best bullish indicators out there, and this AI company has seen some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-309396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}