Director Richard Emmitt Sells $8.8M Worth of EV3

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.

Boulder Growth & Inc Fund (BIF) Ernest Horejsi Trust No 1b BO 82,734 $483,317 Gabelli Dividend Inc Trust (GDV) Gabelli Mario J DIR 20,000 $270,000 Kayne Anderson MLP Investment (KYN) Baker James C VP 7,500 $177,075 Endevco (EDVC) Lessard Joseph P CFO 615,667 $92,350 Bemis (BMS) Weaver Philip G DIR 3,013 $90,028 Bemis (BMS) Manganello Timothy DIR 2,511 $75,029 Bemis (BMS) O Shaughnessy Roger D DIR 2,511 $75,029 Peregrine Pharmaceuticals (PPHM) Swartz Eric S DIR 20,000 $64,100 Goodrich Petroleum (GDP) Turnham Robert C Jr PR,DIR, COO 2,300 $50,186 Keystone Consolidated Ind (KYCN) Corsair Capital Mgt BO 9,000 $42,300

Heinz H J (HNZ) Peltz Nelson DIR,BO 700,000 $30,043,175 Tiffany (TIF) May Peter W DIR,BO 208,600 $9,560,393 Ev3 (EVVV) Emmitt Richard B DIR 600,000 $8,756,643 Kellogg (K) Kellogg W K Foundation BO 110,000 $5,989,511 Pioneer Drilling (PDC) Fares Issam M BO 400,000 $3,864,000 Unitrin (UTR) Singleton Group LLC CEO,DIR 64,000 $1,686,956 World Fuel Services (INT) Stebbins Paul H BO 70,000 $1,595,300 Wyndham Worldwide (WYN) Hanning Franz S CEO,PR 63,088 $1,451,024 ICU Medical (ICUI) Lopez George A CB,CB,DIR 36,490 $1,353,461 3par (PAR) Mayfield Ix O 100,000 $1,109,990

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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