Credit Acceptance CEO Sells $4.1M 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 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.

VMware (VMW) EMC Corp BO 500,000 $27,107,309 Select Comfort (SCSS) Adage Capital Partners Gp LLC BO 150,000 $1,082,754 World Heart (WHRT) Marxe Austin W G DIR,BO 330,200 $761,156 Maxlinear (MXL) Kibble Robert F BO 53,570 $749,980 Boulder Growth Inc Fund (BIF) Ernest Horejsi Trust No 1b BO 33,175 $212,411 Maxlinear (MXL) Alexander Edward E DIR,BO 10,538 $147,532 RMR Real Estateome Fund (RIF) Portnoy Adam PR,PR, DIR 5,000 $129,990 Northwestern (NWE) Rowe Robert C CEO,PR, DIR 4,925 $129,980 Petrohawk Energy (HK) Viggiano Christopher A DIR 5,000 $102,047 Blackrock (BLK) Bank Of America Corp DIR 365 $81,387 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

Credit Acceptance (CACC) Roberts Brett A CEO,DIR 100,000 $4,118,000 Kaiser Aluminum (KALU) Veba For Retirees Of Kaiser Aluminum BO 99,000 $3,796,650 Becton Dickinson (BDX) Becton Henry P Jr DIR 47,320 $3,712,727 World Heart (WHRT) Abiomed Inc BO 900,350 $2,178,847 Finish Line (FINL) Cohen Alan H CB,DIR, BO 100,000 $1,506,651 Vornado Realty Trust (VNO) Wight Russell B Jr DIR 12,100 $943,375 Perry Ellis International (PERY) Feldenkreis Oscar PR,DIR, COO,BO 40,041 $929,352 Arcsight (ARST) Njemanze Hugh VP,CTO 30,000 $825,285 Salesforce.Com (CRM) Benioff Marc CB,CEO, DIR,BO 10,000 $751,464 Stifel Financial (SF) Beda Bruce A DIR 9,871 $545,655 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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