Gates Sells Another $23M 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 Friday 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 CNA Financial (CNA) Loews Corp  BO 118,600 $1,730,374 Regal Entertainment (RGC) Tyrrell Jack  DIR 200,000 $2,077,091 Paccar (PCAR) Pigott James Calvin  DIR 50,000 $1,347,000 Corning (GLW) Houghton James R  DIR 100,000 $1,085,975 Gaylord Entertainment (GET) Trt Holdings Inc  BO 50,000 $705,140 United America Indemnity (INDM) Fox Saul A  DIR 42,017 $517,839 Regal Entertainment (RGC) Kaplan Stephen A  DIR 50,000 $492,250 Asbury Automotive (ABG) Monaghan Craig T  CFO,VP 125,000 $471,875 Entrust (ENTU) Empire Capital Mgt LLC  BO 300,600 $441,547 Align Technology (ALGN) Gund Gordon  O 60,000 $417,910

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III  DIR 1,000,000 $22,908,168 Heckmann (HEK) Kitt Barry M  BO 941,700 $7,439,430 Penske Automotive (PAG) Mita Eustace W  DIR 450,000 $3,600,000 Monro Muffler Brake (MNRO) Solomon Peter J  DIR 123,735 $2,589,278 Marvel Entertainment (MVL) Handel Morton E  DIR 80,000 $2,485,600 Clorox (CLX) Peiros Larry  VP,COO 23,375 $1,447,848 Brush Engineered Materials (BW) Gendell Jeffrey L Et Al  X,BO 110,204 $1,255,637 Acxiom (ACXM) Valueact Holdings LP  BO 139,834 $1,080,917 Half Robert Intl (RHI) Gibbons Edward W  DIR 50,000 $905,350 CME Group (CME) Donaldson James A  DIR 2,500 $757,440

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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