5 Financials Stocks Insiders Are Buying

Key points

• NORTHPOINTE BANCSHARES INC insiders bought $232,159 of stock, most recently on October 28th, 2026.
• STEWART INFORMATION SERVICES CORP insiders bought $327,620 of stock, most recently on October 26th, 2026.
• HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/ insiders bought $453,555 of stock, most recently on October 27th, 2026.

Over October 11th, 2026 to November 10th, 2026, the financials sector measured through XLF returned 3.3% while the S&P 500 returned -2.9%, a spread of 6.2% on total return data from the index providers. The same window left 5 names through screen CL-01 v1, with $1.48 million of open-market buying across 19 filings from 17 filers, a result drawn from what insiders filed rather than from price action.

The backdrop

As of November 10th, 2026, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has its Cleveland CPI MoM (Oct) nowcast at 0, against 0 previously. The route into financials is the deposit and loan book: a flat monthly inflation print reduces the pressure on the Federal Reserve to hold policy rates higher for longer, which lowers funding costs on the liability side of a bank balance sheet faster than it reprices fixed-rate assets, and that is the margin lenders are judged on. Against that backdrop, the aggregate flow data for the sector in this window was negative, with net insider flow of $-487.8 million on -1,672,364 shares, so the buying described here sits inside a sector where disposals still dominate in dollar terms. The names below are the exceptions, and the cluster pattern, multiple directors buying within days of one another, is what the screen is built to isolate.

NORTHPOINTE BANCSHARES INC (NPB)

$232,159 went into NORTHPOINTE BANCSHARES INC (NPB) between October 23rd, 2026 and October 28th, 2026, bought by 2 filers across 2 purchases, both sitting on the board. Boer Carrie L took 12,000 shares on October 23rd, 2026 at $15.40 for $184,762, and Chaudhary Rajeev Kumar followed with 3,000 shares on October 28th, 2026 at $15.80 for $47,398, reported the next day. The second purchase came at a higher price than the first, which is the detail worth holding onto: the later buyer did not wait for a cheaper entry, and both were paying into a sector that returned 3.3% while the broad market fell.

STEWART INFORMATION SERVICES CORP (STC)

STEWART INFORMATION SERVICES CORP (STC) drew $327,620 from 4 distinct filers across 5 purchases, with every reported trade dated October 23rd, 2026 and filed by October 26th, 2026. BRADLEY C ALLEN JR bought 2,000 shares at $47.30 for $94,600 and Corey William S. Jr. bought 2,000 shares at $46.82 for $93,640, both as directors. Apel Thomas G filed twice the same day, 1,000 shares at $48.00 for $48,000 and 1,000 shares at $47.47 for $47,470. A single-day cluster of this width across a board is the cleanest signal the screen produces, and it came in a title insurer whose revenue is geared to mortgage volume, which is exactly what a flat inflation path would support.

HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/ (HBAN)

The largest aggregate in the group was HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/ (HBAN) at $453,555, from 2 filers over 3 purchases dated October 26th, 2026 to October 27th, 2026. TORGOW GARY, a director, bought 12,700 shares at $15.73 for $199,835, reported October 29th, 2026. ROLLINS JAMES D III, also a director, filed 10,000 shares at $19.43 for $194,300 and 4,000 shares at $14.86 for $59,420, both dated October 26th, 2026 and reported October 28th, 2026. This is the one large-cap regional lender on the list, and the buying landed while XLF was outperforming the S&P 500 by 6.2%.

Beacon Financial Corp (BBT)

Beacon Financial Corp (BBT) had the widest participation, with 7 filers behind 7 purchases totalling $280,472 between October 26th, 2026 and October 30th, 2026. Callahan Mary Anne bought 3,200 shares on October 28th, 2026 at $30.21 for $96,672 and Rosengren Eric S took 700 shares the same day at $30.24 for $21,168. Charnley Nina A added 350 shares on October 30th, 2026 at $30.57 for $10,700, filed the same day, and Hughes William H III bought 200 shares on October 29th, 2026 at $30.73 for $6,146. The individual tickets are small, but the price paid rose through the sequence, and all seven filers acted as directors rather than as executives.

OCEANFIRST FINANCIAL CORP (OCFC)

OCEANFIRST FINANCIAL CORP (OCFC) closed the window with $188,285 from 2 filers across 2 purchases. Katsoulis Nicos, a director, bought 10,000 shares on October 30th, 2026 at $17.83 for $178,277, reported November 2nd, 2026, and Farris Jack M., also a director, bought 542 shares on November 3rd, 2026 at $18.46 for $10,008, filed the same day. That November 3rd, 2026 trade is the most recent filing in the whole group, and it was struck above the price the earlier buyer paid, in a thrift whose margin outlook turns on the same deposit-cost question as the rest of this list.

What would change the view

• The Cleveland CPI MoM (Oct) reading of 0 on November 10th, 2026 matched its prior 0, and a later official inflation print that breaks away from that flat path would undercut the funding-cost case these directors bought into.
• OCFC carries the most recent filing in the group, dated November 3rd, 2026, while STC's last purchase was October 26th, 2026; if the October clusters at STC, HBAN, NPB and BBT are not extended by fresh code P filings, the signal ages into a one-week event rather than a sustained board-level bid.

Methodology and sources

Screen. CL-01 v1: At least 2 distinct insiders with open-market purchases (code P) within 30 days. Aggregate value at least $250,000.

Data pull. Prices and filings as of November 10th, 2026, covering October 11th, 2026 to November 10th, 2026.

Benchmark. XLF versus the S&P 500, priced on exchange closes over the same dates. Period return is the close on the end date divided by the close on the start date, minus one.

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