Bill Gates Sells $45.3M More of Microsoft

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 First Industrial Realty Tr (FR) Shidler Jay H DIR 686,673 $6,882,526 China Security (CSR) Tu Guo Shen CEO,DIR, BO 404,935 $4,195,091 CNX Gas (CXG) Consol Energy Inc BO 136,000 $3,799,171 First Industrial Realty Tr (FR) Shidler Jay H DIR 297,928 $3,070,278 Bruker (BRKR) Laukien Joerg C DIR,BO 100,000 $542,000 Amgen (AMGN) Coffman Vance D DIR 8,265 $500,033 Btu International (BTUI) Wansem Paul J Van Der CB,CEO, PR,DIR, BO 60,000 $285,191 Bruker (BRKR) Laukien Frank H CEO,PR, DIR,BO 50,000 $283,504 MVC Capital (MVC) Wynnefield Sm Cap Value LP BO 21,700 $261,406 Trans World Ent (TWMC) Miller Lloyd I III BO 101,752 $222,837

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 2,000,000 $45,277,400 Brush Engineered Materials (BW) Gendell Jeffrey L Et Al BO 364,149 $4,632,990 Simpson Manufacturing (SSD) Fitzmyers Thomas J CEO,PR, DIR 150,000 $3,972,660 Monro Muffler Brake (MNRO) Solomon Peter J DIR 132,897 $2,807,772 Epiq Systems (EPIQ) Olofson Tom W CB,CEO, DIR,BO 100,000 $1,428,000 Masimo (MASI) Cahill Edward L DIR 38,300 $1,233,602 Peoples United Financial (PBCT) Kosturko William T VP 60,000 $1,059,510 Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI) Snyder John C DIR 49,425 $891,908 Brown & Brown (BRO) Henderson Jim W VCB,DIR, COO 40,000 $866,400 Cullen Frost Bankers (CFR) Alexander R Denny DIR 15,000 $861,669

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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