Chairman Sells Chunk of Fossil

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 Monday 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.

Geeknet (LNUX) Marlin Sams Fund LP BO 500,000 $625,000 Advocat (AVCA) Marlin Capital Partners LLC BO 39,000 $217,199 Adaptec (ADPT) Steel Partners II LP BO 64,564 $208,814 Meadowbrook Insurance (MIG) Thal Bruce E DIR 29,000 $197,643 Novadel Pharma (NVD) Ratoff Steven B CEO,DIR 1,000,000 $159,211 Endwave (ENWV) Empire Capital Mgt LLC BO 61,494 $143,896 Franklin Street Props (FSP) Carter George J PR,DIR 10,000 $129,996 Pharmathene (PIP) Pappajohn John DIR 100,000 $118,930 Constellation Energy (CEP) Ward Charles C CFO,TR 32,500 $107,499 Panhandle Oil Gas (PHX) Ligon Duke R DIR 3,833 $92,827

Moodys Corp (MCO) Berkshire Hathaway Inc BO 3,454,791 $90,187,012 Fossil (FOSL) Kartsotis Tom CB,DIR, BO 548,137 $17,638,729 Calpine (CPN) Harbinger Capital Master Fund I Ltd BO 1,464,487 $16,732,180 Kirkland S (KIRK) Kirkland Carl DIR,BO 500,000 $8,443,280 Carefusion (CFN) Cardinal Health Inc BO 342,000 $8,339,200 Black Decker (BDK) Fenton Charles E VP,GC 48,563 $3,013,334 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill Melinda Gates Foundation BO 900 $2,952,648 Tyler Technologies (TYL) Marr John S Jr CEO,PR, DIR 150,000 $2,858,768 Iac/Interactivecorp (IACI) Liberty Media Corp BO 96,300 $1,837,590 Emeritus Corp (ESC) Apollo RE Advisors III LP BO 100,000 $1,692,000

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