Carl Icahn Buys $4.8M Worth of Lions Gate

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 Thursday 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.

Chattem (CHTT) Sanofi Aventis BO 853,257 $79,779,530 Solar Capital Ltd (SLRC) Gross Michael S CB,CEO, PR 600,000 $11,100,000 Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF) Icahn Carl C BO 945,139 $4,835,030 Gencorp (GY) Lichtenstein Warren G DIR 200,000 $770,510 Nyse Euronext (NYX) Niederauer Duncan L CEO,DIR 25,000 $607,993 Endwave (ENWV) Empire Capital Management BO 121,464 $303,660 EV Energy LP (EVEP) Walker John B CEO,DIR 10,000 $280,800 Bancorp Rhode Island (BARI) Chace Malcolm G DIR,BO 10,000 $250,273 Brinks (BCO) Dan Michael T CB,CEO, PR 10,000 $243,500 Chimera Investment (CIM) Lambiase Matthew CEO,PR, DIR 55,000 $203,050

Microsoft (MSFT) Gates William H III DIR 2,000,000 $56,179,600 China Valves Technology (CVVT) Kitt Barry M BO 500,000 $5,325,000 Stryker (SYK) Stryker Ronda E DIR 90,000 $4,675,016 M T Bank (MTB) Sadler Robert E Jr VCB,DIR 55,000 $3,982,934 OSI Systems (OSIS) Chopra Deepak CEO,PR, DIR 120,000 $3,270,816 3par (PAR) Mayfield Ix O 275,893 $2,601,754 Gentex (GNTX) Bauer Fred CB,CEO, DIR 137,500 $2,565,890 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill Melinda Gates Foundatio BO 21,802 $1,623,710 Aflac (AFL) Amos John Shelby II DIR 27,000 $1,348,901 Ralcorp Holdings (RAH) Hunt Kevin J CEO,PR, DIR 20,715 $1,346,637

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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