Bill Gates Sells $85.7M Worth 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 Unit (UNT) George Kaiser Family Foundation BO 481,900 $15,313,742 Equity One (EQY) Katzman Chaim CB,DIR, BO 355,000 $4,808,534 CNX Gas (CXG) Consol Energy Inc BO 156,700 $4,513,450 Landrys Restaurants (LNY) Fertitta Tilman J CEO,PR, DIR,BO 380,370 $4,161,656 Nustar Group (NSH) Greehey William E DIR,BO 211,051 $3,813,818 Avid Technology (AVID) Blum Capital Partners LP BO 231,545 $3,331,572 Nautilus (NLS) Sherborne Investors Gp LLC CEO,BO 814,667 $1,827,541 Kapstone Paper (KPPC) Elm Ridge Capital Mgt LLC BO 392,400 $1,805,345 Developers Diversified Realty (DDR) Ahern Terrance R DIR 161,500 $1,579,484 Morgans Hotel (MHGC) Hamamoto David T DIR 314,000 $1,397,482

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 4,000,000 $85,660,800 Catalyst Health (CHSI) Blair Thomas L DIR 502,083 $9,790,619 Unisys (UIS) Lifflander Clay B DIR 6,000,000 $6,540,000 Viropharma (VPHM) De Rosen Michel DIR 300,677 $3,653,421 Acxiom (ACXM) Valueact Holdings LP BO 384,185 $2,847,273 Waste Services (WSII) Prides Capital Partners LLC DIR,BO 472,400 $2,742,730 Gilead Sciences (GILD) Bischofberger Norbert W VP 40,000 $1,790,000 EBIX (EBIX) Luxor Capital Group LP BO 55,900 $1,565,110 Masimo (MASI) Cahill Edward L DIR 50,000 $1,558,186 Home Bancshares (HOMB) Cauley S Gene DIR 44,910 $1,172,578

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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