Director Carey Chase Sells $9.5M Worth of DirecTV

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 Tuesday 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.

Counterpath (CPAH) Covington Venture Fund Inc BO 1,666,667 $1,000,000 Hyatt Hotels (H) Hoplamazian Mark Samuel CEO,PR, DIR 40,000 $1,137,281 Geeknet (LNUX) Marlin Sams Fund L P BO 400,000 $473,229 White Electronic Designs (WEDC) Desert Equity LP BO 81,800 $347,556 Adaptec (ADPT) Steel Partners II LP BO 76,776 $249,522 Phoenix Technologies (PTEC) Ramius LLC BO 83,182 $218,739 Aqua America (WTR) Debenedictis Nicholas CB,PR, DIR 10,000 $161,000 Thomas Weisel Partners (TWPG) Conacher Lionel F PR,COO 17,000 $82,586 Dover Motorsports (DVD) Tippie Henry B DIR,BO 46,600 $81,051 Unisource Energy (UNS) Bonavia Paul J CB,CEO, PR,DIR 2,500 $74,351

Microsoft Corp (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 2,000,000 $56,948,600 STR Holdings (STRI) Credit Suisse BO 5,390,598 $53,905,980 TexasRoadhouse (TXRH) Taylor Wayne Kent CB,DIR,BO 1,168,531 $12,625,170 DIRECTV Group (DTV) Carey Chase DIR 330,000 $9,497,703 Kellogg Co (K) Kellogg W K Foundation Trust BO 129,300 $6,804,981 STR Holdings (STRI) Jilot Dennis L CB,CEO, PR,DIR 487,001 $4,870,010 Carnival Corp (CCL) Arison Micky Meir CB,CEO, DIR,BO 115,018 $3,570,625 Advanced Energy Iindustries (AEIS) Schatz Douglas S Schatz Jill E Family Trust BO 300,000 $3,532,146 Ansys (ANSS) Smith PeterJ CB,DIR 65,000 $2,702,466 Taleo Corp (TLEO) Tierny Michael P DIR 100,000 $2,319,700

Key to Titles: A=Assistant, AI=Affiliated Investor, AO=Accounting Officer, BD=Business Development, BO=Beneficial Owner, CAO=Chief Accounting Officer, CB=Chairman, CCO=Chief Compliance Officer, CEO=Chief Executive Officer, CFO=Chief Financial Officer, CIO=Chief Information Officer, CO=Compliance Officer, COO=Chief Operating Officer, CT=Controller, CTO=Chief Technology Officer, DIR=Director, F=Founder, FO=Financial Officer, GC=General Counsel, HR=Human Resources, IO=Information Officer, IR=Investor Relations, LO=Legal Officer, MD=Managing Director, O=Officer, OO=Operating Officer, PR=President, PT=Partner, REL=Relative of an insider, SEC=Secretary, SH=Shareholder, SO=Sales Officer, TO=Technology Officer, TR=Treasurer, TT=Trustee, VCB=Vice Chairman, VP=Vice President, X=Ex Officer or other title displayed.

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