Seagate Chairman Buys $1.2M Worth

NEW YORK (TheStreet.com) -- Which insiders are selling and buying chunks of stocks?

Below are lists of the top 10 open-market insider purchases and sales filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday as ranked by dollar value. Company executives and directors are in the best position to assess the attractiveness of their firms' shares, and here is how many of them are voting their wallets! Please note, however, that these are factual lists, not buy and sell recommendations. Dollar value is only one metric to assess the importance of an insider transaction.

Seagate Technology (STX) Luczo Stephen J CB,CEO, PR,DIR 100,000 $1,238,095 Gabelli Global Deal Fund (GDL) Gabelli Mario J DIR 10,000 $147,300 Winmark (WINA) Phillips Dean B DIR 4,000 $82,820 Concur Technologies (CNQR) Canfield William W DIR 2,000 $70,000 Woodward Governor (WGOV) Cohn John D DIR 2,500 $52,196 Enterprise Acquisition (EST) Staton Bell Blank Check LLC BO 5,000 $49,350 Flowers Foods (FLO) Ward Jackie M DIR 2,020 $47,850 Meritage Homes (MTH) Haddock Gerald W DIR 2,000 $47,692 Delcath Systems (DCTH) Stoll Roger G Phd DIR 10,000 $30,590 Synta Pharmaceuticals (SNTA) Koya Keizo VP 10,000 $28,434

Heinz H J (HNZ) Peltz Nelson DIR,BO 650,000 $25,416,166 Commerce Bancshares (CBSH) Kemper David W CB,CEO, DIR 210,575 $8,063,843 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 1,300 $4,351,188 Fossil (FOSL) Kartsotis Tom CB,DIR, BO 147,718 $3,706,619 Carnival (CCL) Arison Micky Meir CB,CEO, DIR,BO 115,018 $3,572,856 Protalix Biotherapeutics (PLX) Frost Phillip Md Et Al BO 575,749 $3,488,799 Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO) Alter Robert A CB,DIR 504,811 $3,448,811 Lumber Liquidators (LL) Sullivan Thomas D CB,DIR, BO 150,000 $3,322,515 Fluor (FLR) Boeckmann Alan L CB,CEO, DIR 45,000 $2,508,930 Medifast (MED) Mcdevitt Michael S CEO,DIR 100,000 $1,809,000