The Vickers Top Buyers & Sellers is a daily report that identifies the five companies the largest insider purchase transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions as well as the five companies the largest insider sales transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions.

Apollo is one of the leading global managers of alternative assets, with a focus on complex credit-related investments. The company has grown its assets under management very rapidly over the past several years through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Apollo is further differentiated from peers through its focus on complex, nontraditional, distressed-for-control investments, in which it invests in distressed senior debt securities that may be converted to a controlling equity stake in the case of a reorganization or other restructuring event. Apollo thus has deep expertise investing across the capital structure, and often faces less competition by 'avoiding the herd' in traditional buyouts and traditional high-yield and investment-grade credit. The company is headquartered in New York City and has around 6,000 employees.

Earnings season is drawing to a close, so many insiders are free to trade again without seasonal restrictions. But just in time, investors are again worried about rising inflation and the associated move higher in Treasury yields. Meanwhile, the war in Iran is stuck in place, with the critical Strait of Hormuz still locked down. Despite all of that, the insider-sentiment data from Vickers Stock Research suggests that insiders are looking beyond near-term obstacles and are increasingly optimistic. On a scale where readings below 2.00 are bullish, readings from 2.0 to 6.0 are neutral, and readings above 6.00 are bearish, the current NYSE One-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is 2.45, improved from 6.75 last week; the Nasdaq ratio is 3.44, improved from 6.20 last week; and the Total (all exchanges) ratio is 2.98, improved from 6.34 last week. Drilling down to sectors, long-term sentiment data is largely unchanged from last week, with only one sector seeing enough momentum to move to a new sentiment rating. The Real Estate sector now has to a long-term bullish insider-sentiment reading, with its eight-week ratio now at 1.6 from a neutral 2.6 last week. Meanwhile, and in keeping with the above, one-week sentiment turned predominantly bullish, with eight sectors now recording bullish One-Week Sell/Buy Ratios, including the Communication Services, Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Energy, Financial, Healthcare, Real Estate, and Utility. Sectors with neutral ratios are Industrial, Information Technology, and Materials, and there is not a single sector with a bearish one-week view. That is a stark turnaround from last week, when six of the 11 sectors were bearish. This week, analysts at Vickers highlighted insider transactions of interest at Twilio Inc. (NYSE: TWLO) and GeneDx Holdings Corp. (NGS: WGS).

Apollo is one of the world's largest alternative asset managers, with $938.4 billion in total assets under management, or AUM, including $709.1 billion in fee-earning assets, at the end of 2025. The company has two core operating segments: asset management and retirement services. Apollo operates with scale in each of its major product lines—private equity (with $128.4 billion in total AUM and $75.0 billion in fee-earning AUM), real estate/real assets ($60.8 billion/$27.6 billion), and credit ($749.2 billion/$606.5 billion). Apollo has a distribution profile that is likely not too far off from the industry averages—with 84% of its assets held by institutional investors and 16% by high-net-worth clients.