Insider Sells $12.7 Million of Freeport

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 Tuesday 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 WendysArbys Group (WEN) Trian Fund Management LP  BO 49,395,394 $204,990,885 Bill Barrett (BBG) Warburg Pincus & Co  BO 435,000 $7,506,634 International Coal Group (ICO) Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd Can  BO 4,090,000 $7,429,894 Venoco (VQ) Marquez Timothy  CEO,DIR, BO 750,000 $2,100,000 Sourceforge (LNUX) Marlin Sams Fund LP  BO 2,429,801 $1,707,702 Combinatorx (CRXX) BVF Partners L Pil  BO 1,530,572 $872,425 Orange 21 (ORNG) Costa Brava Partnership III LP  BO 710,000 $775,400 Bankatlantic Bancorp (BBX) BFC Financial Corp  BO 135,783 $502,156 TBS International Ltd (TBSI) Royce Joseph E  CEO,PR, DIR,BO 92,706 $399,275 Sonic Solutionsca (SNIC) Doris Robert J  DIR 317,307 $377,904

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Copart (CPRT) Rosenstein Barry  DIR 2,069,693 $53,085,727 Copart (CPRT) Smith Thomas W  DIR 550,000 $14,200,000 Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold (FCX) Day Robert  DIR 693,144 $12,707,450 Lender Processing (LPS) Foley William P II  CB,DIR 200,000 $4,788,920 Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) Foley William P II  CB 200,100 $3,387,691 Pacwest Bancorp (PACW) Eggemeyer John M III  CB,DIR 92,961 $2,439,734 Wabash National (WNC) Gendell Jeffrey L Et Al  BO 392,300 $1,775,352 HMS Holdings (HMSY) Miller III William F  DIR 50,000 $1,508,500 New York Community Bancorp (NYB) Blake Donald M  DIR 115,000 $1,479,498 Westinghouse Air Brake (WAB) Kassling William E DIR 25,000 $1,051,775

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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