Elevation Partners Buys $35M Worth of Palm

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.

Palm (PALM) Elevation Partners LP DIR,BO 2,153,846 $34,999,998 Palm (PALM) Mcnamee Roger DIR,BO 123,077 $2,000,001 Bruker (BRKR) Laukien Frank H CEO,PR, DIR,BO 100,000 $985,000 Synovus Financial (SNV) Goodrich T Michael DIR 62,500 $250,000 Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI) Shara Thomas CEO,PR 10,000 $80,000 Synovus Financial (SNV) Blanchard James H DIR 15,000 $60,000 Synovus Financial (SNV) Purcell J Neal DIR 10,000 $40,000 Securecare Technologies (SCUC) Larter Joseph DIR,BO 312,500 $25,000 Chyron (CHYR) Wellesley-Wesley Michael CEO,PR,DIR 10,000 $24,190 Acco Brands (ABD) Norkus Michael DIR 2,000 $14,000

Staples (SPLS) Miles Michael DIR 150,000 $3,493,500 FMC Technologies (FTI) Halvorsen Tore VP 24,036 $1,305,806 Rackspace Hosting (RAX) Bishkin S James DIR 64,000 $1,088,122 Orexigen Therapeutics (OREX) Turner Daniel K III DIR 100,000 $1,021,820 Telik (TELK) Flother Karl Heinz BO 1,075,191 $952,233 Hittite Microwave (HITT) Ayasli Children LLC BO 21,000 $801,623 Advanced Energy (AEIS) Schatz Douglas S & Schatz Jill E Family Tr BO 57,156 $753,463 Transdigm Group (TDG) Barr David DIR 16,278 $730,566 Mens Wearhouse (MW) Zimmer George CB,CEO,DIR 25,000 $628,498 Carters (CRI) Pulver David DIR 22,182 $598,914