Ronda Stryker Sells $19.6M Worth of Stryker

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 Monday 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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Synovus Financial (SNV) Blanchard James H DIR 50,000 $147,000 Hunt J B Transport (JBHT) Harper Alfred C VP,COO 5,109 $139,989 Winmark (WINA) Morgan John L CB,CEO, DIR,BO 6,900 $124,131 Heico (HEI) Higginbottom Samuel L DIR 1,985 $79,618 Tix (TIXC) Ashraf Iqbal BO 17,155 $48,152 Green Bankshares (GRNB) Leonard Robert K DIR 10,000 $41,900 Tollgrade Communications (TLGD) Ramius LLC BO 4,582 $24,001 Saga Communications (SGA) Tisch Daniel R BO 3,700 $22,200 Western Asset High Inc Opp Fd (HIO) Colman Carol L DIR 4,200 $21,294 Soapstone Networks (SOAP) Tisch Daniel R BO 1,800 $7,496

Stryker (SYK) Stryker Ronda E DIR 500,000 $19,658,350 Liberty Media (LMDIA) Bennett Robert R DIR 255,000 $6,929,472 Shutterfly (SFLY) Clark James H BO 175,442 $2,715,026 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 600 $1,857,039 Accenture Ltd (ACN) Flother Karl Heinz CEO,TO 37,880 $1,325,800 Aecom Technology (ACM) Newman Richard G CB,DIR 46,660 $1,520,637 JDA Software Group (JDAS) Koziol Christopher J COO 30,706 $629,473 Biodel (BIOD) Kroin David DIR 78,955 $411,801 JDA Software Group (JDAS) Dziersk Thomas VP 18,169 $370,004 Schnitzer Steel (SCHN) Schnitzer Gregory BO 10,000 $535,718

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