Three Insiders Buy $3.3M Worth of Akamai

NEW YORK (TheStreet.com) -- 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 Tuesday 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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Akamai Technologies (AKAM) Leighton F Thomson DIR 100,000 $1,684,908 Akamai Technologies (AKAM) Conrades George H CB,DIR 66,250 $1,100,021 Pier 1 Importsde (PIR) Greek Investments Inc BO 253,662 $543,212 Akamai Technologies (AKAM) Sagan Paul CEO,PR, DIR 30,000 $502,500 Virtual Radiologic (VRAD) Casey Sean BO 26,000 $303,674 Covanta Holding (CVA) Holsten Joseph M DIR 15,000 $254,951 Tollgrade Communications (TLGD) Ramius LLC BO 16,680 $92,316 Kemet (KEM) Loof Per Olof CEO,DIR 100,000 $81,225 Transatlantic Petroleum (ANR) Bayley Brian E DIR 2,500,000 $75,000 NV Energy (NVE) Yackira Michael W CEO,PR 5,000 $57,994

Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 1,000,000 $23,781,000 SP Acquisition Holdings (DSP) Integrated Core Strategies LLC BO 700,000 $6,804,980 Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG) Hagedorn Partnership LP BO 147,290 $5,745,783 Kirby (KEX) Lawrence Charles Berdon CB,DIR 140,000 $5,348,280 Apple (AAPL) Ive Jonathan P VP 27,713 $4,539,847 Lender Processing Services (LPS) Kennedy Lee A DIR 95,931 $3,261,654 Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (SKT) Tanger Steven B CEO,PR, DIR 71,600 $2,573,227 Realty Income (O) Lewis Thomas A CEO,DIR 93,200 $2,207,908 Shutterfly (SFLY) Clark James H BO 128,166 $2,028,545 Atheros Communications (ATHR) Barratt Craig H CEO,PR, DIR 76,600 $1,907,846