Insider Bates Sells $7.8M of Steel Dynamics

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 Tuesday 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 Republic Services (RSG) Cascade Investment LLC BO 500,000 $12,258,300 Tree.com (TREE) Lebda Douglas R CB,CEO, DIR 935,000 $3,655,850 Cincinnati Financial (CINF) Schiff John J Jr CB,DIR 44,000 $971,080 Plato Learning (TUTR) Becker Steven R BO 450,000 $645,000 Terremark Worldwide (TMRK) Cyrte Investments Bv BO 69,700 $242,777 NVR (NVR) Andrews Charles Elliott DIR 317 $128,448 Wintrust Financial (WTFC) Heitmann Scott K DIR 7,651 $113,311 Abiomed (ABMD) Sutter Martin P DIR 10,000 $90,800 Multimedia Games (MGAM) Sanfilippo Anthony Michael CEO,PR, DIR 51,800 $88,373 Wintrust Financial (WTFC) Bulley Allan E Jr DIR 5,000 $74,985

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 2,000,000 $39,366,800 Steel Dynamics (STLD) Bates John C DIR 562,740 $7,780,009 Contango Oil & Gas (MCF) Sellers Capital LLC BO 67,000 $3,264,140 IACInteractivecorp (IACI) Liberty Media Corp BO 168,100 $2,523,824 Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Harjehausen Edward A VP 52,325 $1,527,890 MB Financial Md (MBFI) Engelman Robert S DIR 35,000 $548,495 Steel Dynamics (STLD) Bates John C DIR 36,351 $517,590 Shutterfly (SFLY) Clark James H BO 39,400 $332,633 CKX (CKXE) Presley Lisa Marie DIR 63,600 $270,122 Quest Diagnostics (DGX) Miller Joan Elizabeth VP 5,000 $261,250

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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