Bed Bath & Beyond CEO Sells $5M 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! Please note, however, that these are factual lists, not buy and sell recommendations. Dollar value is only one metric to assess the importance of an insider transaction.

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Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX) Valueact Holdings LP BO 100,000 $2,415,750 Tollgrade Communications (TLGD) Ramius LLC BO 44,987 $235,856 Semgroup Energy LP (SGLP) Msd Capital L P BO 38,800 $228,547 Och-ziff Capital Management (OZM) Kenney Jerome P DIR 20,000 $197,938 Pier 1 Imports (PIR) Greek Investments Inc BO 84,108 $177,116 Angiodynamics (ANGO) Keltjens Jan CEO,PR 5,000 $56,250 Regions Financial (RF) Esteves Irene M O 15,000 $53,250 Angiodynamics (ANGO) Donnelly Howard W DIR 2,000 $23,000 Angiodynamics (ANGO) Laporte Steve DIR 2,000 $22,847 Tix (TIXC) Ashraf Iqbal BO 7,000 $17,300

Apollo Group (APOL) Sperling John G CB,DIR, BO 80,298 $5,558,729 Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) Temares Steven H CEO, DIR 147,001 $4,958,775 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust BO 1,310 $3,905,699 Lumber Liquidators (LL) TA Associates Inc DIR 160,000 $2,657,903 Liberty Media (LMDIA) Bennett Robert R DIR 93,050 $2,475,085 ICU Medical (ICUI) Lopez George A CB,CB, DIR 50,000 $1,957,672 Synnex (SNX) Miau Matthew DIR 55,989 $1,643,948 Carnival (CCL) Frank Howard S VCB,DIR, COO 54,000 $1,476,173 Pride International (PDE) Eads Rodney W VP,COO 38,758 $1,027,087 Atheros Communications (ATHR) Barratt Craig H CEO,PR, DIR 35,000 $858,872

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