Insiders Sell $6M Worth of Valmont

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 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! 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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Orexigen Therapeutics (OREX) Domain Parters VII LP BO 406,074 $3,246,675 Brinks Home Security (CFL) Sloane Carl S DIR 4,000 $117,416 Mueller Water Products (MWA) Leggett Robert COO 20,000 $77,500 Orexigen Therapeutics (OREX) DP VII Associates LP BO 6,926 $55,375 Heckmann (HEK) Seidel Andrew D DIR 10,000 $39,900 Premierwest Bancorp (PRWT) Duke John A DIR 10,000 $28,908 AdventClaymore Global Convertible Secs (AGC) Seizert Gerald L DIR,TT 3,000 $22,333 Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR) Smith Scott W CEO,PR 1,500 $21,180 AdventClaymore Enhanced Growth & Inc (LCM) Seizert Gerald L DIR,TT 2,000 $20,600 Canyon Copper (CNYC) Harvey Anthony R CB,CEO,DIR 278,333 $16,700

Valmont Industries (VMI) Bay Mogens C CB,CEO,DIR 50,000 $4,250,880 Valmont Industries (VMI) Mcclain Terry J CFO,VP 20,000 $1,699,800 Magnetek (MAG) Riley Bryant R BO 950,800 $1,438,403 Ariba (ARBA) Calderoni Robert CB,CEO,DIR 50,000 $600,000 Multi Fineline Electronix (MFLX) Harding Philip DIR 21,800 $556,318 Belo (BLC) Decherd Robert W DIR 120,000 $405,372 Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF) Drake Joseph COO 62,500 $391,399 Cell Therapeutics (CTIC) Nudelman Phillip M Phd DIR 164,000 $257,480 Park Ohio Holdings (PKOH) Crawford Edward F CB,CEO, DIR,BO 30,388 $256,290 CSS Industries (CSS) Kurtzman Ellen B BO 11,700 $254,530