Insiders Buy the Plunge in Shares of Scientific Games

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 Friday 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.

Editor's note: There were three buyers in SGMS; only two made it into the Top 10.

Adaptec (ADPT) Steel Partners II LP BO 610,970 $1,965,311 Mexico Fund (MXF) Clariond Eugenio DIR 75,000 $1,552,950 Parallel Petroleum (PLLL) Plll Acquisition Co. BO 414,965 $1,307,140 L 3 Communications (LLL) Millard Robert B DIR 10,000 $731,400 Guaranty Bancorp (GBNK) Eggemeyer John M III DIR,BO 200,000 $271,000 Pier 1 Imports (PIR) Greek Investments Inc BO 50,000 $185,735 Scientific Games (SGMS) Schwartz Barry F DIR 10,000 $141,800 Scientific Games (SGMS) Kennedy David L DIR 10,000 $137,600 Bemis (BMS) Seashore Gene H VP 5,000 $133,563 Tractor Supply (TSCO) Bingleman John C DIR 2,500 $113,525

Qwest Communications (Q) Anschutz Philip F BO 17,200,000 $59,615,200 Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 2,000,000 $56,593,800 Moodys Corp (MCO) Berkshire Hathaway Inc BO 1,152,627 $28,666,590 IAC/ Interactivecorp (IACI) Liberty Media Corp BO 345,500 $6,572,160 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 892 $2,942,581 FMC Technologies (FTI) Kinnear Peter D CB,CEO, PR,DIR 52,560 $2,866,301 Riverbed Technology (RVBD) Kennelly Jerry M CB,CEO, DIR 100,000 $2,096,423 Devry (DV) Hamburger Daniel CEO,PR 15,432 $888,272 Boston Scientific (BSX) Abele John E DIR 100,000 $823,055 Platinum Underwriters (PTP) Porter Robert S CEO 20,000 $724,062

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