Insiders Are Eyeing HF Sinclair (DINO) After The Stock’s Recent Sell-Off Muhammad Ali Tue, November 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM EST 4 min read DINO -1.01% ^GSPC -0.52% ^DJI -0.32% ^IXIC -1.01% Trade DINO on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
We just published a list of 10 Buy the Dip Stocks Insiders Are Loading Up On After the Recent Market Sell-Off, and HF Sinclair Corp. (NYSE:DINO) ranked 6th on this list.
Thursday, November 5 represented the worst trading session for the U.S. market in over a year. the Nasdaq Composite dropped 5.52%, the S&P 500 fell 4.36%, and the Dow shed 3.44%, as Wall Street's post-midterm optimism could not last long. Concerns around a potential weakness in AI spending reversed the post-election rally and led to almost $2.5 trillion wiped out of the U.S. market.
In the middle of this chaos, many names showed resistance and are still trading at their all-time highs. In our recent list of 10 Best All-Time High Stocks to Buy According to Wall Street, we uncover some of the stocks that still offer captivating upside to investors.
Various market sectors took a hit, including semiconductors which got affected the most. Technology was also amongst the worst-performing segments, dipping almost 8%. Just two days prior to the November 5 crash, we covered Warren Buffett's list of the 10 best stocks with attractive upside potential.
Situations like this trigger fear within the market. But for corporate insiders, including company executives and directors, it offers attractive entry points. These insiders have a more detailed understanding of their businesses compared to investors and analysts. They know about a company's growth prospects, margin potential, and product pipelines way before the market does.
Hence, a drop in share price does not necessarily mean that their stance on the company's outlook would also change. Through open-market purchases out of their own pockets, the insiders send some clear signals to the market. Unlike stock awards or option exercises, these purchases come out of personal savings, and no one is forced to make them.
HF Sinclair Corp. is amongst the stocks that have seen a notable amount of insider purchases from October 6 to November 6, following a major market sell-off. Stock awards and option exercises have been excluded from these qualifying purchases. The stock has dropped 20% over a one month period, as of November 6.
HF Sinclair Corp. (NYSE:DINO) posted impressive headline numbers for its Q3 2026 print. However, there have been investor concerns around the lack of business diversification. Close to 90% of the recently reported adjusted EBITDA was derived through traditional refining cycles. The stock has dipped from its mid-October high of $129.37 as the company also faces margin pressures and macroeconomic headwinds.
With a market capitalization of close to $16.5 billion, the stock trades at a trailing P/E ratio of 4.95x. This looks very attractive in isolation, however, the forward earnings metric stands higher at 6.50x, indicating a drop in earnings going forward. For now margins remain strong, but there are projections of a decline as highlighted by Cambiar SMID Fund in its Q2 2026 investor letter.
Chief Executive Officer, Franklin Myers, spent $1,108,000 to buy 10,000 shares of HF Sinclair at a price of $110.80. This represented more than 5% jump in his total holdings in the company, which currently stand at a total of 207,723 common shares (see the stock's history of insider purchases here).
Institutional interest across 1,000+ hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey shows marginal increase in institutional exposure to the stock. According to 13F filing data, total number of hedge funds that held positions in the stock jumped to 44 by the end of second quarter in 2026, compared to 43 in the previous quarter.
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This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
