Ecolab Insider Sells $827.7 Million Worth

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 on 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!

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Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Bought Dollar Value Unit (UNT) George Kaiser Family Foundation BO 336,991 $8,823,226 CNX Gas (CXG) Consol Energy Inc BO 140,800 $4,160,879 Autonation (AN) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation T O 187,500 $1,556,475 Catalyst Health (CHSI) Civera Edward S DIR 50,000 $1,000,000 Calpine (CPN) LSP Cal Holdings II LLC BO 90,000 $690,300 Ligand Pharmaceuticals (LGND) BVF Partners L Pil BO 324,700 $611,404 Equity Residential (EQR) Zell Samuel CB,DIR 20,000 $592,996 W R Grace (GRA) Festa Alfred E CB,CEO, PR,DIR 100,000 $426,970 Bruker (BRKR) Laukien Frank H CEO,PR, DIR,BO 100,000 $422,434 Enbridge Energy Mgt (EEQ) Hesse Martha O DIR 15,000 $403,425

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Ecolab (ECL) Henkel Corp BO 28,954,516 $827,715,119 Strayer Education (STRA) Silberman Robert S CB,CEO 131,478 $30,029,575 Xtl Biopharmaceuticals (XTLB) Edelman Joseph BO 40,050,370 $5,806,488 Campbell Soup (CPB) Van Beuren Hope H BO 135,679 $4,174,773 Mantech International (MANT) Campbell Barry G DIR 27,833 $1,529,702 Amer Campus Comm (ACC) Bayless William C Jr CEO,PR, DIR 59,929 $1,237,630 Level 3 Communications (LVLT) Eby Douglas C DIR 1,251,000 $1,004,186 Catalyst Health Solutions (CHSI) Blair Thomas L DIR 50,000 $1,000,000 Inventure Group (SNAK) Becker Steven R BO 500,000 $927,000 Cree (CREE) Von Arx Dolph W DIR 30,000 $508,097

Key to Titles: A=Assistant, AI=Affiliated Investor, AO=Accounting Officer, BD=Business Development, BO=Beneficial Owner, CAO=Chief Accounting Officer, CB=Chairman, CCO=Chief Compliance Officer, CEO=Chief Executive Officer, CFO=Chief Financial Officer, CIO=Chief Information Officer, CO=Compliance Officer, COO=Chief Operating Officer, CT=Controller, CTO=Chief Technology Officer, DIR=Director, F=Founder, FO=Financial Officer, GC=General Counsel, HR=Human Resources, IO=Information Officer, IR=Investor Relations, LO=Legal Officer, MD=Managing Director, O=Officer, OO=Operating Officer, PR=President, PT=Partner, REL=Relative of an insider, SEC=Secretary, SH=Shareholder, SO=Sales Officer, TO=Technology Officer, TR=Treasurer, TT=Trustee, VCB=Vice Chairman, VP=Vice President, X=Ex Officer or other title displayed.

Source: InsiderInsights.com

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