Iron Mountain Chair Sells $4.4M 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 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.

AVI Biopharma (AVII) Haywood, George Weaver O 480,000 $666,000 TBS Intl. LTD (TBSI) Royce, Elaine M BO 65,000 $486,285 Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl. (VRX) De Silva, Rajiv COO 9,007 $224,995 Partnerre LTD (PRE) Zweiner, David K DIR 2,800 $201,394 TBS Intl. LTD (TBSI) Blatte, Lawrence A VP 25,000 $174,688 SourceForge (LNUX) Sams, William M BO 114,063 $163,064 Flowers Foods (FLO) McMullian, Amos R CB,DIR 5,000 $118,288 Global Partners LP (GLP) Global GP LLC DIR,PT 4,900 $109,858 Tesco Corp. (TESO) LRP V Luxemborg Holdings SA RL BO 14,400 $109,320 Soapstone Networks (SOAP.PK) S Muoio & Co LLC BO 183,010 $80,524

Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Smith Harold B DIR 200,000 $8,491,340 Iron Mountain (IRM) Reese C Richard CB,DIR 147,000 $4,351,919 Lumber Liquidators (LL) Sullivan Thomas D CB,DIR, BO 125,000 $2,755,400 Compellent Technologies (CML) Beeler Charles DIR,BO 173,150 $2,600,519 Medifast (MED) Sheetz Margaret Macdonald PR,DIR, COO 75,000 $1,290,000 Dicks Sporting Goods (DKS) Stack Edward W CB,CEO, DIR,BO 50,000 $1,112,500 Franklin Resources (BEN) Ikeda Donna S VP,HR 11,542 $1,085,055 Demandtec (DMAN) Cargill Inc BO 106,767 $997,940 Rock-tenn (RKT) Russell Currey M DIR 19,088 $934,725 Hewlett Packard (HPQ) Holston Michael J VP,GC, SEC 20,000 $887,000