Yucaipa's Burkle Buys $81M Worth of Barnes & Noble

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.

Barnes & Noble (BKS) Burkle Ronald W BO 4,035,156 $80,916,532 Geeknet (LNUX) Marlin Sams Fund LP BO 1,197,285 $1,386,540 Eplus (PLUS) Hovde Eric D DIR,BO 45,661 $723,270 Hyatt Hotels (H) Hoplamazian Mark Samuel CEO,PR,DIR 20,000 $588,045 CVS Caremark (CVS) Ryan Thomas M CEO,PR,DIR 17,000 $509,342 Americredit (ACF) Leucadia National Corp BO 21,400 $419,226 California Coastal Comms (CALC) Hovde Eric D BO 348,471 $337,752 Simmons First National (SFNC) Makris George Jr DIR 13,500 $337,500 Tix (TIXC) Ashraf Iqbal BO 91,366 $297,383 Simmons First National (SFNC) Makris George Jr DIR 8,800 $215,600

Liberty Media (LMDIA) Malone John C CB,DIR,BO 1,400,000 $47,719,000 I2 Technologies (ITWO) Sidhu Sanjiv S BO 275,909 $5,078,556 General Mills (GIS) Belton Y Marc VP 75,000 $5,038,793 Cameron International (CAM) Erikson Sheldon R DIR 100,000 $4,005,700 Juniper Networks (JNPR) Sindhu Pradeep DIR,CTO 150,000 $3,825,990 Kellogg (K) Kellogg W K Foundation Trust BO 56,100 $2,973,485 Protalix Biotherapeutics (PLX) Hurvitz Eli DIR 250,000 $2,690,000 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 700 $2,381,105 Tetra Technologies (TTI) Symens Raymond D VP 217,654 $2,261,425 Ace Ltd (ACE) Greenberg Evan G CB,CEO,DIR 38,500 $2,002,000

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.