Franklin Resources Chair Sells $18M Worth

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 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.

AT&T (T) Aldinger William F III DIR 10,000 $254,050 Global LP (GLP) Global Gp LLC DIR,PT 9,400 $204,897 Orbit International (ORBT) Sunshine Dennis CEO,PR, DIR,BO 50,000 $140,000 International Assets Holding (IAAC) Fowler John Moore DIR 4,000 $67,020 Maiden Holdings Ltd (MHLD) Lyons Simcha G DIR 6,570 $49,998 Dct Industrial Trust (DCT) Mechem Daryl H MD,OO 7,955 $39,457 Strategic Diagnosticsde (SDIX) Becker Steven R DIR,BO 17,900 $29,535 Rand Logistics (RLOG) Levy Edward PR 8,000 $22,000 General American Investors (GAM) Neidich Daniel DIR 1,000 $21,300 Webmedia Brands (WEBM) Meckler Alan M CB,CEO, DIR,BO 30,600 $18,666

Franklin Resources (BEN) Johnson Charles B CB,DIR,BO 200,000 $18,426,000 Linn Energy Llc (LINE) Linn Michael C CB,CEO,DIR 592,600 $12,669,454 Lumber Liquidators (LL) TA Associates Inc DIR 228,100 $4,661,281 Marriott International Md (MAR) Marriott David S BO,BO 100,000 $2,421,000 Perficient (PRFT) Mcdonald John T CEO,DIR 238,000 $1,777,569 Hittite Microwave (HITT) Ayasli Yalcin BO 50,500 $1,716,822 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 500 $1,648,111 Belo (BLC) Herndon Dealey D DIR 434,279 $1,389,693 Alliance Data Systems (ADS) Utay Alan M VP,GC, SEC,CAO 18,790 $1,071,030 Concur Technologies (CNQR) Singh Sudhir Steven CEO,DIR 30,000 $1,050,000