Pirate Capital Sells Entire Position in Brinks

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 $11,931,714 Avid Technology (AVID) Blum Capital Partners LP BO 350,342 $3,597,320 Calpine (CPN) LSP Cal Holdings II LLC BO 270,070 $1,838,546 L-1 Identity Solutions (ID) Lapenta Robert V CB,CEO, PR,DIR, BO 300,000 $1,794,000 OptionsXpress Holdings (OXPS) Gray James A DIR,BO 60,800 $656,640 Camden Property Trust (CPT) Webster Steven A DIR 28,500 $632,335 Reynolds American (RAI) Delen Daniel M DIR 9,000 $342,400 Hutchinson Technology (HTCH) Cox Archibald Jr DIR 88,472 $280,252 Allis Chalmers Energy (ALY) Bulgheroni Alejandro Pedro DIR 100,000 $267,000 Medtox Scientific (MTOX) Powell Samuel C DIR 34,600 $242,632

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Silgan Holdings (SLGN) Horrigan D Greg DIR,BO 138,248 $7,012,442 IACInteractivecorp (IACI) Liberty Media Corp BO 359,200 $5,411,629 Brinks (BCO) Pirate Capital LLC DIR 131,474 $3,556,372 Linear Technology (LLTC) Dobkin Robert C VP,CTO 100,000 $2,403,700 Boston Scientific (BSX) Abele John E DIR 175,000 $1,559,775 Corporate Office Props Tr (OFC) Shidler Jay H DIR,TT 35,263 $846,312 Allis Chalmers Energy (ALY) Hidayatallah Munawar H CB,CEO, DIR 198,316 $526,023 Contango Oil & Gas (MCF) Sellers Capital LLC BO 8,000 $360,240 Angiodynamics (ANGO) Hobbs Eamonn P CEO,PR, DIR 15,000 $194,775 Comstock Resources (CRK) Neukom Stephen E VP,SO 5,000 $179,762

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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