Chairman Richard Kinder Buys $1.3M Worth of Kinder Morgan

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.

Kinder Morgan Mgt Llc (KMR) Kinder Richard D CB,CEO,DIR 25,000 $1,311,159 Legg Mason (LM) Sullivan Joseph A VP 42,600 $1,064,190 Micrel (MCRL) Zinn Raymond D CEO,PR,F, DIR,BO 40,000 $295,002 City Holding (CHCO) Elliot John R DIR 6,320 $194,039 Media General (MEG) Wortham Coleman III DIR 20,000 $165,298 Falconstor Software (FALC) Lieber Irwin DIR 50,000 $149,998 Falconstor Software (FALC) Rubenstein Barry DIR 50,000 $149,998 Dover Motorsports (DVD) Cibelli Mario BO 35,800 $71,600 Tompkins Financial (TMP) Alexander John E DIR 2,000 $70,000 Health Management Assoc (HMA) Curry Kelly E CFO,VP 10,000 $67,600

Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 2,000,000 $56,116,000 IAC Interactivecorp (IACI) Liberty Media Corp BO 661,400 $13,798,380 Becton Dickinson (BDX) Becton Henry P Jr DIR 55,000 $4,145,900 Biospecifics Technologies (BSTC) RA Capital Mgt LLC BO 132,833 $3,825,590 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill Melinda Gates Foundation BO 50,000 $3,622,802 Sohu.com (SOHU) Roberts Edward B DIR 57,000 $2,809,234 Cardtronics (CATM) TA Associates Inc DIR,BO 101,700 $1,213,866 Solera Holdings (SLH) Aquila Tony CEO,PR, DIR 33,334 $1,129,313 Caterpillar (CAT) Oberhelman Douglas R VCB,CEO 19,822 $1,021,382 Salesforce.com (CRM) Benioff Marc CB,CEO ,DIR,BO 10,000 $623,651

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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