Berkshire Sells $21.6M Worth of Moodys

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- 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.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ) Enright Patrick G DIR 150,000 $1,082,315 Steak & Shake (SNS) Mustang Capital Management LLC BO 50,000 $521,465 Soapstone Networks (SOAP) Firefly Value Partners LP BO 371,163 $178,024 Harman International (HAR) Einsmann Harald DIR 3,600 $100,366 Siga Technologies (SIGA) Slovin Bruce DIR 10,000 $65,488 Community Bank System (CBU) Dicerbo Nicholas A DIR 3,000 $51,580 Hercules Technology Gr Cap (HTGC) Woodward Allyn C Jr DIR 4,300 $39,517 Amarillo Biosciences (AMAR) Coy Gary Wayne CFO,VP 408,486 $35,458 Vse (VSEC) Dacus Thomas G VP 950 $32,167 Digital Angel (DIGA) Grillo Joseph J CEO,PR, DIR 25,000 $28,600

Moodys Corp (MCO) Berkshire Hathaway Inc BO 794,388 $21,626,719 J Crew Group (JCG) Drexler Millard S CEO,DIR, BO 500,000 $16,220,907 Fossil (FOSL) Kartsotis Tom CB,DIR, BO 358,562 $9,244,400 Gartner (IT) Silver Lake Partners LP BO 216,033 $3,587,145 Microsoft (MSFT) Turner Brian Kevin COO 87,728 $2,103,204 Interline Brandsde (IBI) Jacquet Ernest K DIR 103,185 $1,656,219 Medassets (MDAS) Bardis John A CB,CEO, PR,DIR 70,000 $1,552,838 Prudential Financial (PRU) Grier Mark B VCB,DIR 32,000 $1,538,560 Markel (MKL) Markel Steven A VCB,DIR 3,700 $1,197,721 Rovi (ROVI) Amoroso Alfred J CEO,PR, DIR 39,500 $1,162,880

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