CFO Raymond Silcock Buys $471K Worth of KB Home

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- 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.

Charlotte Russe Holding (CHIC) Advent Cr Inc BO 642,947 $11,251,573 Avigen (AVGN) Southpaw Credit Opp Master Fund LP BO 906,259 $1,386,083 KB Home (KBH) Silcock Raymond CFO,VP 30,000 $470,550 Adaptec (ADPT) Steel Partners II LP BO 66,797 $217,041 New America High Inc Fund (HYB) Korman Bernard J DIR 3,593 $31,180 Calamp (CAMP) Perna Frank Jr DIR 7,900 $23,700 Kronos Worldwide (KRO) Simmons Harold C CB,DIR, BO 1,000 $13,200 Blackrock Defined Opp Credit Tr (BHL) Marshall Adrian C O 950 $11,048 DWS Muni Inc Trust (KTF) Pariseault Eleanor Lynch O 850 $9,792 First Financial Bancorp (FFBC) Murph Knapke DIR 531 $6,933

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 1,060 $3,482,492 Marriott International (MAR) Marriott John W III CB,CEO, DIR,BO, BO,BO 83,447 $2,265,851 Boston Scientific (BSX) Nicholas Peter M DIR 200,000 $2,035,445 Factset Research Sys (FDS) Frankenfield Michael D VP 30,000 $1,998,600 Skillsoft Public Limited (SKIL) Townsend Mark VP,TO 57,322 $573,220 Endologix (ELGX) Brown Franklin D DIR 100,000 $507,974 Morningstar (MORN) Mansueto Joseph D CB,CEO, DIR 9,300 $487,295 Silicon Laboratories (SLAB) Ivester Jonathan D VP,OO 8,500 $397,035 Loopnet (LOOP) Boyle Richard J Jr CEO,DIR 24,722 $247,220 SAIC (SAI) Punaro Arnold L VP 10,000 $182,500