Carl Icahn Buys $3.1M of Lions Gate

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 Republic Services (RSG) Cascade Investment LLC BO 402,000 $9,536,847 International Coal Group (ICO) Fairfax Financial Holdings Can BO 5,103,200 $8,042,553 Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF) Icahn Carl C BO 704,698 $3,095,116 Avid Technology (AVID) Blum Capital Partners LP BO 274,108 $2,748,587 Calpine (CPN) Luminus Energy Partners Master Fund BO 248,900 $1,511,739 James River Coal (JRCC) Steelhead Partners LLC O 100,000 $1,253,940 Calpine (CPN) Harbinger Capital Master Fund I BO 150,000 $955,500 QLT (QLTI) Nb Public Equity BO 184,981 $350,956 White Mountains Insurance (WTM) Barrette Raymond Joseph Rene CB,CEO, DIR 1,200 $265,118 Wells Fargo (WFC) Wright Michael W DIR 22,500 $243,149

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Ralcorp Holdings (RAH) Stiritz William P DIR 55,000 $3,430,218 Ebix (EBIX) Luxor Capital Group LP BO 90,684 $2,104,275 Boston Scientific (BSX) Abele John E DIR 150,000 $1,267,800 Activision Blizzard (ATVI) Doornink Ronald O 105,000 $1,013,588 Compass Minerals Intl (CMP) Underdown Rodney L CFO,VP 7,734 $458,240 Harris Corp (HRS) Thorsteinson Timothy E PR 8,000 $319,820 Ross Stores (ROST) Rentler Barbara VP 8,000 $243,418 Life Technologies (LIFE) Dansky Peter PR 5,455 $162,205 FEI (FEIC) Loh Benjamin Geklim VP,SO 9,000 $151,380 Heritage Commerce (HTBK) Peckham Jack L DIR 25,412 $149,362

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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