Insiders Sell $9.8M Worth of Vornado

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 Wednesday 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.

DWS Dreman Value Inc Edge Fund (DHG) Benchmark Plus Management LLC BO 22,703 $291,789 Securities Funding (VMO) Dammeyer Rodney F DIR 12,400 $171,859 Forward Industries (FORD) Johnson Frank L BO 48,250 $146,052 Van Kampen Select Sector Muni Tr (VKL) Dammeyer Rodney F DIR 11,000 $133,486 Boulder Growth Inc Fund (BIF) Ernest Horejsi Trust No 1b BO 19,759 $125,211 Air Transport Services (ATSG) Prescott Group Capital Management LLC BO 61,600 $116,912 TPC Group (TXPI) Crockett Russell VP 10,000 $100,000 Lubys (LUB) Pappas Christopher James CEO,PR, DIR,BO 26,253 $94,248 Orbit International (ORBT) Elkhorn Partners Limited Partnership BO 11,515 $42,078 Ticc Capital (TICC) Conroy Patrick CFO,SEC, CCO 6,104 $41,558 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

Kellogg (K) Kellogg W K Foundation Trust BO 150,000 $8,200,485 Vornado Realty Trust (VNO) Roth Steven CB,DIR 100,000 $7,561,780 Vornado Realty Trust (VNO) Wight Russell B Jr DIR 30,000 $2,263,434 Aeropostale (ARO) Lazic Zangas Olivera VP 67,500 $1,962,806 Rackspace Hosting (RAX) Weston Graham M CB,DIR, BO 100,000 $1,922,135 Metalico (MEA) Barandiaran Walter DIR 300,000 $1,777,133 Scotts Miracle Gro (SMG) Hagedorn Partnership L P BO 36,000 $1,629,480 World Heart (WHRT) Abiomed Inc BO 564,526 $1,504,484 J P Morgan Chase (JPM) Mandelbaum Jay VP 25,000 $1,118,750 Copart (CPRT) Smith Thomas DIR 25,000 $883,500 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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