Berkshire Sells $2.4M of Moody's

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.

Legg Mason (LM) Peltz Nelson DIR,BO 230,000 $6,756,818 Cowen Group (COWN) Kroll Jules B DIR 70,000 $350,000 Cowen Group (COWN) Wright Joseph R Jr DIR 50,000 $250,000 Internet Capital Group (ICGE) Gerrity Thomas P DIR 42,000 $249,451 Cowen Group (COWN) Nusbaum Jack H DIR 30,000 $150,000 FNB Bancorp (FNBG.OB) Atwood Thomas G BO 19,736 $146,046 Vector Group Ltd (VGR) Frost Phillip Md Et Al BO 10,000 $137,357 Cowen Group (COWN) Malcolm David M CEO,DIR 25,000 $125,000 Cowen Group (COWN) Markowitz Jerome S DIR 25,000 $125,000 Sports Properties Acquisition (HMR) Murstein Andrew DIR,SEC,BO 12,300 $122,207

Hunt J B Transport (JBHT) JB Hunt LLC BO 980,120 $32,800,413 I2 Technologies (ITWO) Sidhu Sanjiv S BO 181,552 $3,427,702 GSI Commerce (GSIC) Rubin Michael CEO,PR, DIR 100,000 $2,537,605 Accenture Plc (ACN) Green William D CB,CEO, DIR 60,000 $2,441,400 Moodys Corp (MCO) Berkshire Hathaway Inc BO 87,992 $2,355,387 NII Holdings (NIHD) Foyo Peter A PR 64,055 $2,158,712 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill Melinda Gates Foundation BO 620 $2,046,636 Metalico (MEA) Barandiaran Walter DIR 369,701 $1,657,075 Cowen Group (COWN) RCG Holdings LLC DIR,BO 284,655 $1,423,275 Rackspace Hosting (RAX) Schoenbaum Alan VP,GC, SEC 55,000 $1,241,423

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