AT&T Director Buys $731,787 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 Thursday 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 AT&T (T) Pardo Jaime Chico Fa DIR 30,000 $731,787 Allis Chalmers Energy (ALY) Bulgheroni Alejandro Pedro DIR,BO 71,839 $250,000 Wal Mart Stores (WMT) Breyer James DIR 5,000 $247,943 Masimo (MASI) Kiani Joe E CB,CEO, DIR 10,000 $231,540 Superconductor Technologies (SCON) Kopp Leroy C BO 55,000 $187,900 Chordiant Software (CHRD) Porter Orlin LLC BO 50,000 $156,500 Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) Krauss Kurt R DIR 2,500 $112,900 Ares Capital (ARCC) Davis Richard S CFO 15,000 $110,250 Fossil (FOSL) Stone Donald J DIR 5,000 $106,045 Praxair (PX) Wood Robert L DIR 1,500 $105,876

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Stryker (SYK) Stryker Ronda E DIR 60,000 $2,394,006 Morgan Stanley (MS) Chammah Walid A PR 80,000 $2,242,158 International Business Machines (IBM) Macdonald J Randall VP 17,000 $1,794,776 Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) Ortiz Steven L COO 133,900 $1,531,486 Tesco (TESO) Seldin Peter K BO 120,200 $1,134,789 Bebe Stores (BEBE) Mashouf Neda BO 124,782 $1,031,116 Lumber Liquidators (LL) Sullivan Thomas D CB,DIR, BO 50,000 $742,575 Sirona Dental Systems (SIRO) Slovin Jeffrey DIR,VP 35,900 $722,721 Dorman Products (DORM) Berman Richard N CEO,DIR 42,790 $499,547 Dynex Capital (DX) Buck Jay X 62,800 $476,914

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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