CEO Sells $16.9M Worth of J. Crew

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 Wednesday 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.

Pimco Inc Opportunity Fund (PKO) Ivascyn Daniel J O 12,534 $259,070 HCC Insurance Holdingsde (HCC) Rosholt Robert A DIR 9,400 $247,183 UFP Technologies (UFPT) Gestal Kenneth L DIR 10,000 $54,200 Cooper Companies (COO) Weiss Robert S CEO,PR,DIR 1,000 $27,550 Tix (TIXC) Ashraf Iqbal BO 7,500 $25,375 Adcare Health Systems (ADK) Brogdon Christopher F BO 10,000 $24,749 Bank Of South Carolina (BKSC) Stevenson Thomas C III DIR 1,000 $13,337 1st Source (SRCE) Johnson William P DIR 750 $11,613 Keithley Instruments (KEI) Keithley Joseph P CB,CEO, DIR,BO 2,000 $8,560 Sothern Comm Fincl (SCMF) Chrysson James G DIR 3,000 $8,250

J Crew Group (JCG) Drexler Millard S CEO,DIR,BO 500,000 $16,937,639 Microsoft (MSFT) Mundie Craig J O 70,000 $1,713,621 HCC Insurance Holdingsde (HCC) Ellis Edward H Jr DIR,VP 30,000 $791,166 Pinnacle Airlines (PNCL) Pabrai Mohnish BO 113,248 $777,942 Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY) Schimmel Paul DIR 29,400 $647,482 BPW Acquisition (BPW) Integrated Core Strategies (us) LLC BO 50,000 $487,000 Patterson Companies (PDCO) Wiltz James W CEO,PR,DIR 16,700 $456,199 Morningstar (MORN) Mansueto Joseph D CB,CEO,DIR 8,000 $344,607 Rackspace Hosting (RAX) Weston Graham M CB,DIR,BO 25,000 $341,648 J Crew Group (JCG) Grand-jean Steven D DIR 10,000 $329,725

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