CEO Sells $10.8M Worth of Guess

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.

Stone Tan China Acquisition (STTA) Spac Trust BO 55,693 $442,737 Stone Tan China Acquisition (STTA) Stone Roger W CB,DIR,BO 37,130 $295,162 Webmedia Brands (WEBM) Meckler Alan M CB,CEO, DIR,BO 100,000 $66,500 Union Bankshares (UBSH) Beale G William CEO,PR,DIR 1,900 $25,175 Capital Southwest (CSWC) Peterson Jeffrey G VP 150 $11,579 Sunrise Telecom (SRTI) Wc Capital Management LLC BO 7,573 $6,268 Mgp Ingredients (MGPI) Rindom David E VP 922 $3,642 First Century Bankshares (FCBS) Chambers James Richard DIR 200 $3,350 Southside Bancshares (SBSI) Garrett John Robert DIR 62 $1,438 Cbiz (CBZ) Gerard Steven L CEO,DIR 164 $1,175

Guess (GES) Marciano Paul VCB,CEO, DIR,BO 300,000 $10,825,350 Neurogesx (NGSX) SVLSF IV LLC BO 615,000 $4,920,005 GSI Commerce (GSIC) Rubin Michael CEO,PR,DIR 207,596 $3,970,718 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 1,110 $3,735,541 Amazon.Com (AMZN) Szkutak Thomas J CFO,VP 20,000 $1,800,000 Oceaneering International (OII) Collins T Jay CEO,PR,DIR 29,800 $1,750,781 Medassets (MDAS) Claudius LLC BO 55,854 $1,239,155 Gartner (IT) Silver Lake Tech Investors BO 67,134 $1,164,775 Contango Oil & Gas (MCF) Peak Kenneth R CB,CEO, DIR,BO 21,414 $1,001,319 Westinghouse Air Brake (WAB) Kassling William E DIR 25,000 $980,950

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