CEO Sells $4.8M Worth of LHC Group

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.

Carefusion (CFN) Schlotterbeck David L CEO,DIR 26,300 $512,324 Cushing MLP Tot Ret Fd (SRV) Swank Jerry V CEO,PR,DIR 50,000 $301,000 Zygo (ZIGO) Mak Capital One LLC BO 36,359 $252,172 Protection One (PONE) Nevin Darius G CFO,VP 53,000 $197,744 Sun Bancorp Nj (SNBC) Brown Sidney R VCB,DIR,TR, SEC 15,125 $82,119 Harvard Bioscience (HBIO) Lewis Earl R DIR 20,000 $74,517 Acco Brands (ABD) Jenkins Robert H DIR 10,000 $64,464 Carefusion (CFN) Schlotterbeck David L CEO,DIR 2,300 $44,850 Investors Real Estate Trust (IRET) Reed John T DIR 4,000 $36,758 Empire Resorts (NYNY) Ehrlich Clifford PR 5,000 $15,000

Carnival Plc (CUK) Artsfare 2006 Trust No 2 BO 171,428 $5,606,124 LHC Group (LHCG) Myers Keith G CEO,PR,DIR, BO 159,041 $4,792,659 Carnival (CCL) Nickel Continued Irrevocable Trust BO 84,982 $2,779,009 NxStage Medical (NXTM) Flynn James E BO 226,638 $1,549,744 Bway Holding (BWY) Valueact Smallcap Mgt LP BO 60,000 $1,104,600 Raymond James Financial (RJF) Riess Richard K VP 46,184 $1,057,655 Coldwater Creek (CWTR) Pence Dennis C CB,CEO,PR, DIR,BO 150,000 $1,031,190 Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Hirani Sunil G CEO 10,000 $869,700 Pinnacle West Capital (PNW) Post William J DIR 22,192 $723,681 Wells Fargo (WFC) Oman Mark C VP 25,000 $716,574