Chairman Buys $818K Worth of Kinder

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 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 Kinder Morgan Management (KMR) Kinder Richard D CB,CEO, DIR 20,000 $818,139 Ultralife (ULBI) Whitmore Bradford T DIR,BO 50,512 $383,365 Walter Investment Mgt (WAC) Dixon Denmar John DIR 9,535 $90,583 Caterpillar (CAT) Osborn William A DIR 2,000 $79,713 Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP) Alfiero Salvatore DIR 5,000 $70,935 Burger King Holdings (BKC) Goldman Sachs Group Inc BO 3,520 $59,816 MFA Financial (MFA) Zimmerman Stewart CB,CEO, DIR 7,000 $42,700 Mueller Industries (MLI) Fulvio Gennaro J DIR 1,687 $39,628 Enpro Industries (NPO) Holland William R DIR 4,000 $67,814 Heritage Commerce (HTBK) Conner Jack W DIR 4,000 $29,219

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 2,000,000 $40,311,800 Sourcefire (FIRE) New Enterprise Associates 10 L P BO 476,797 $5,617,432 Franklin Street Properties (FSP) Silverstein Barry DIR 400,100 $5,325,337 Steel Dynamics (STLD) Bates John C DIR 244,132 $3,406,048 Carters (CRI) Pulver David DIR 125,000 $2,865,800 Washington Post (WPO) Graham Donald CB,CEO, DIR,BO 6,500 $2,287,480 Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) Staubach Roger T CB,DIR 64,900 $2,284,315 Schnitzer Steel Industries (SCHN) Lewis Carol S BO 20,000 $1,084,334 Alcoa (AA) Belda Alain J P CB,DIR 100,000 $1,034,935 Tyler Technologies (TYL) Marr John S Jr CEO,PR, DIR 50,000 $839,250

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