VMware Shareholder Buys $27M Worth

By Jonathan Moreland, founder of InsiderInsights.com and author of Profit From Legal Insider Trading.

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.

Vmware (VMW) Emc Corp BO 505,000 $27,017,120 Americredit (ACF) Leucadia National Corp BO 300,000 $7,221,850 American Superconductor (AMSC) Douglas Kevin BO 100,000 $2,611,000 Kit Digital (KITD) Isaza Tuzman Kalei CB,CEO, DIR,BO 179,856 $1,749,999 American Dairy (ADY) You Bin Leng CB,CEO, PR,DIR 47,890 $995,633 UGI Corp (UGI) Kelly Peter VP,FO 10,000 $258,608 QLT BC (QLTI) Nb Public Equity K S BO 40,896 $203,977 Pain Therapeutics (PTIE) Schoenhard Grant O 35,000 $175,250 Dex One (DEXO) Liddell W Kirk DIR 5,000 $134,970 Insweb (INSW) Osmium Partners LLC BO 24,158 $111,229 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

Exide Technologies (XIDE) Gendell Jeffrey L Et Al BO 2,966,734 $16,950,284 Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Mccormack Robert C DIR 172,900 $7,943,125 China Gengsheng Minerals (CHGS) Zhang Shunqing CEO,PR, DIR,BO 1,336,898 $5,106,950 GSI Commerce (GSIC) Rubin Michael CEO,PR, DIR 150,000 $4,200,000 Fiserv (FISV) Dillon Donald F DIR 75,000 $3,845,333 LKQ (LKQX) Meister Paul M DIR 173,774 $3,563,140 Interpublic Group (IPG) Dooner John J Jr CB,CEO, PR 400,000 $3,405,160 Cavium Networks (CAVM) Reddy C DIR 50,888 $1,284,823 Baldwin Lyons (BWINB) Weil John D DIR,BO 40,000 $1,036,688 U S Physical Therapy (USPH) Kosberg J Livingston DIR 52,312 $945,278 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

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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