The stock market hasn’t stopped its recent slide, but business insiders are starting to get more active, and that could be a good sign for outside investors. Insider buying is the metric many professional investors use to evaluate a company. If an insider is buying the stock, it could be a sign that insiders in the company are more confident in its prospects than in the broader market. And with so many stocks falling sharply during the year, some insiders are seeing an opportunity. Listed below are stocks that are down more than 25% so far and have seen massive insider buying over the past week, according to InsiderScore.vn and stock filings. One of the most notable insider purchases has come at SoFi, where CEO Anthony Noto bought about 40,000 shares last week. That was the beginning of a purchase of 39,000 shares on May 13. In total, those purchases were worth about $550,000. Fintech companies have fallen out of favor in recent months. Shares of SoFi are down more than 50% this year, and it took a big hit earlier this month when the company accidentally released its first-quarter results early. The report showed a worse-than-expected forecast for the second quarter. Another area of the market that has been hit hard is e-commerce. The group has seen a strong boost in sales during the pandemic, but consumer spending has diverged from goods and concerns about recession and supply chain problems are mounting. affect stocks. At Wayfair, director Michael Choe is betting on the industry’s recovery. He bought $1.7 million in stock last week. Choe owns about 159,000 shares of Wayfair, worth about $8 million at Monday’s closing price. But the biggest buy could come at Coinbase, the crypto exchange whose growth has stalled amid the bitcoin price slump. Director Fred Ehrsam bought $25 million worth of stock last week. That’s in addition to a $50 million purchase earlier this month. In addition to the list above, there are also a number of companies with notable internal purchases, but at least partially offset by revenue from other metrics at the company. Two examples last week were HubSpot and Coupang.