Verifone Holdings CEO Buys $624,098 Worth

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 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 Viropharma (VPHM) Baker Brothers Life Sciences Capital (GP) LLC BO 440,623 $2,404,792 Verifone Holdings(PAY) Bergeron Douglas CEO,DIR 100,000 $624,098 Emeritus Corpwa(ESC) Baty Stanley L DIR,BO, BO 40,000 $541,713 Superconductor Technologies (SCON) Kopp Leroy C BO 148,000 $463,488 Boulder Growth & Home Fund (BIF) Ernest Horejsi Trust No 1B BO 96,967 $423,870 Livewire Mobile (LVWR) Miller Lloyd D I III BO 1,762,663 $177,324 Stereotaxis (STXS) Alafi Chris D DIR,BO 50,000 $174,231 Livewire Mobile (LVWR) Singer Karen BO 1,682,553 $168,255 Sunoco(SUN) Wulff John K DIR 5,500 $163,724 Unifi (UFI) Sams William M DIR 100,000 $146,938

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Global Cash Access (GCA) Cucinotta Robert BO 419,500 $3,057,442 Boston Scientific (BSX) Abele John E DIR 200,000 $1,778,400 Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN) Logie Andrew R DIR 105,834 $1,547,420 Sterling Construction (STRL) Mills Christopher H B DIR 48,500 $824,500 Infogroup (IUSA) Gupta Vinod DIR,BO 145,900 $736,050 Move (MOVE) Mcnamee Roger DIR 351,265 $688,590 Morgan Stanley (MS) Wirth Paul C CT 26,572 $687,155 Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR) Sciammas Maurice VP,SO, SO 35,000 $645,168 BMC Software (BMC) Ittycheria Dev PR,VP 16,974 $568,968 Sun Microsystems (JAVA) Papadopoulos Gregory M VP,CTO 61,086 $546,720

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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