Procter & Gamble, with headquarters in Cincinnati and sales in over 180 countries, manufactures daily-use household, personal care, food and paper products. The company's major brands include Tide, Gillette, Pampers, Bounty, Crest, Ivory, Head & Shoulders, Scope, Oral-B, Swiffer, Tampax, and Charmin. It has approximately 108,000 employees. The shares are a component of the S&P 500.

Insider-sentiment data from Vickers Stock Research reflects nice relative improvement this week, with the caveat that transaction volume is cyclically low as corporate insiders are currently broadly prohibited from trading due to earnings season. Even so, the one-week sell/buy ratios from Vickers are all in the lower (positive) zone of the neutral range after having spent the past few weeks in the middle to upper range of that same neutral zone. That has led to either slight improvement or at least a plateauing in the eight-week sell/buy readings, all of which are squarely in the middle of the neutral range. And with all the issues in play right now (the U.S. election, the Middle East, the Fed's next move, the behavior of Treasury yields, the ultimate quality of the current earnings season, etc.), neutral seems to be a reasonable posture to take at the moment. On a sector basis, insider selling outpaced buying in the Consumer Discretionary sector, with shares valued at roughly $63 million sold versus less than $5 million bought. Selling by insiders was also evident in the Financial sector, with shares valued at $42 million sold versus less than $3 million bought, as well as in the Industrial sector, with $33 million sold versus $1 million bought. This week, analysts at Vickers highlighted insider transactions of interest at PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE: PBF) and Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM).

Since its founding in 1837, Procter & Gamble has become one of the world's largest consumer product manufacturers, generating more than $80 billion in annual sales. It operates with a lineup of leading brands, including more than 20 that generate north of $1 billion each in annual global sales, such as Tide laundry detergent, Charmin toilet paper, Pantene shampoo, and Pampers diapers. Sales outside its home turf represent more than half of the firm's consolidated total.

Since its founding in 1837, Procter & Gamble has become one of the world's largest consumer product manufacturers, generating more than $80 billion in annual sales. It operates with a lineup of leading brands, including more than 20 that generate north of $1 billion each in annual global sales, such as Tide laundry detergent, Charmin toilet paper, Pantene shampoo, and Pampers diapers. Sales outside its home turf represent more than half of the firm's consolidated total.