Director David Abrams Sells $19.7M Worth of Crown Castle

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.

Avigen (AVGN) Burlingame Asset Management LLC BO 1,461,729 $1,967,028 White Electronic Designs (WEDC) Desert Equity LP BO 401,041 $1,751,310 Delek Us Holdings (DK) Delek Petroleum Ltd BO 122,971 $723,829 Lime Energy (LIME) Kiphart Richard P DIR,BO 106,308 $414,442 Penseco Financial Services (PFNS) Keisling James G DIR 11,288 $352,680 CACI International (CACI) England Gordon R DIR 5,000 $235,575 Apollo Commercial RE Finance (ARI) Abbey Douglas D DIR 10,000 $178,600 Fifth Street Finance (FSC) Tannenbaum Leonard M CEO,PR, DIR 10,000 $102,500 Hyperdynamics (HDY) Owen David DIR 92,604 $91,155 Taylor Capital Group (TAYC) Conte Randall CFO,COO 10,000 $78,172

Carefusion (CFN) Cardinal Health Inc BO 4,170,535 $101,750,399 Crown Castle Intl (CCI) Abrams David C DIR 537,369 $19,728,321 China Automotive Sys (CAAS) Qizhou Wu CEO,DIR 236,375 $4,838,926 Sunesis Pharmaceuticals (SNSS) Alta Biopharma Partners III LP BO 2,232,464 $4,485,914 Guess (GES) Marciano Maurice CB,DIR, BO 100,000 $4,421,500 Global Defense Tech (GTEC) Perl Andrew Damian DIR,BO 236,726 $3,077,438 Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA) Karabelas Argeris N DIR 228,924 $2,539,332 Martin Marietta Materials (MLM) Phoebe Snow Foundation O 28,600 $2,488,347 Marriott International (MAR) Marriott J W Jr CB,CEO, DIR,BO 80,000 $2,160,000 Sothebys (BID) Ruprecht William F CEO,PR, DIR 96,667 $2,114,068

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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