Friedman Buys $3 Million of Goldman Sachs

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 Goldman Sachs Group (GS) Friedman Stephen  DIR 37,300 $3,013,064 Incyte (INCY) Baker Brothers Life Sciences Capital (GP) LLC DIR,BO 735,332 $2,577,883 Pennsylvania RE Inv Trust (PEI) Rubin Ronald CB,CEO, DIR 150,000 $970,500 Incyte (INCY) Baker Biotech Capital (GP) LLC DIR,BO 227,270 $796,551 Retail Ventures (RVI) Schottenstein Jay L CB,DIR 228,000 $665,760 Nii Holdings (NIHD) McMahon John VP 21,400 $393,663 Air Transport Services (ATSG) Prescott Group Capital Mgt LLC BO 1,931,336 $376,811 Yum Brands (YUM) Linen Jonathan S DIR 10,000 $303,541 Developers Diversified Rlty (DDR) Ahern Terrance R DIR 65,000 $277,084 Ardea Biosciencesde (RDEA) 14159 Capital (gp) LLC BO 16,093 $179,276

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value National Semiconductor (NSM) Relational Investors LLC BO 1,298,600 $13,375,580 Masimo (MASI) Cahill Edward L DIR 163,470 $4,655,037 Camden Property Trust (CPT) Campo Richard J CB,CEO, DIR 125,400 $3,965,407 Camden Property Trust (CPT) Oden D Keith PR,DIR 125,000 $3,898,611 Unitrin (UTR) Singleton Group LLC BO 201,400 $3,362,506 Steel Dynamics (STLD) Bates John C DIR 227,800 $2,737,634 Transmeta (TMTA) Riley Bryant R DIR 133,591 $2,389,176 Heinz H J (HNZ) Smyth D Edward I VP 55,498 $2,181,626 American Financial Group (AFG) Lindner Carl H III CEO,PR, DIR 75,215 $1,664,175 Titan Machinery (TITN) Christianson Tony DIR 125,000 $1,626,680

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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