10:15 AM EDT, 05/06/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Phinia ( PHIN ) was Smart Insider's stock pick of the week after the company's Chief Executive Brady Ericson bought $397,000 worth of Phinia's ( PHIN ) shares on Wednesday at $39.73 apiece, raising his ownership by 2%.

Ericson first bought the shares in 2023 in a similar size at $28.92 apiece, and its "encouraging" to see him purchasing stock at a price roughly 40% higher, Smart Insider said in a note Tuesday.

Additionally, Chair Rohan Weerasinghe also bought $262,000 worth of company shares on March 14 at $42.78 per share, the note added.

"This is an encouraging cluster of buys," according to the note.

Smart Insider ranked the stock +1, or strongly positive signal, on Friday.

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