Shareholder Matlinpatterson Sells $31.8M Worth of Huntsman

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.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals (THLD) Coxe Tench BO 151,896 $290,121 Stericycle (SRCL) Dammeyer Rodney F DIR 5,000 $241,244 Threshold Pharmaceuticals (THLD) Younger William H Jr BO 66,274 $126,583 Threshold Pharmaceuticals (THLD) White James N BO 37,619 $71,852 Synovis Life Technologies (SYNO) Seaberg John D DIR 4,000 $54,582 Threshold Pharmaceuticals (THLD) Anderson David L BO 27,558 $52,636 Threshold Pharmaceuticals (THLD) Sands Gregory P BO 24,679 $47,137 Threshold Pharmaceuticals (THLD) Gaither James C BO 17,472 $33,372 Threshold Pharmaceuticals (THLD) Sheehan Andrew T BO 13,156 $25,128 Threshold Pharmaceuticals (THLD) David E Sweet BO 9,497 $18,139

Huntsman (HUN) Matlinpatterson LLC & Partners BO 3,639,028 $31,847,646 IAC/ Interactivecorp (IACI) Liberty Media Corp BO 360,600 $6,989,692 Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS) Schatz Douglas S & Schatz Jill E Family Tr BO 57,284 $2,052,382 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 500 $1,656,834 Dolby Laboratories (DLB) Jasper N William Jr DIR 20,000 $755,600 Kensey Nash (KNSY) Evans Douglas G DIR,COO 20,000 $570,205 Rackspace Hosting (RAX) Napier A Lanham CEO,PR, DIR 22,000 $382,980 Volcom (VLCM) Woolcott Rene R DIR 20,000 $313,074 Medassets (MDAS) Claudius LLC BO 10,047 $221,637 Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV) Schlauch Thomas J VP 12,844 $205,504