Harbinger Capital Sells $40.4M Worth of New York Times

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.

Sandridge Energy (SD) Fairfax Financial Holdings BO 7,000,000 $50,050,000 Material Sciences (MASC) Rbf Capital LLC O 430,187 $1,204,524 Northern Trust (NTRS) Crown Susan DIR 10,000 $539,788 WHX (WXCO) Steel Partners II LP BO 88,811 $432,579 TCW Strategic Inc Fund (TSI) Rivelle Tad O 89,908 $432,036 Boulder Total Return Fund (BTF) Lola Brown Trust 1b BO 6,000 $89,720 Legend International (LGDI) Attara Capital LP BO 50,100 $53,165 Mistras Group (MG) Burgess Elizabeth DIR 2,668 $30,015 Nexstar Broadcasting (NXST) Pompadur Martin DIR 3,730 $25,215 First Citizens Banc(FCZA) Nickles Allen R DIR 5,000 $24,750 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

Alphatec Holdings (ATEC) Healthpoint- capital Partners LP DIR,BO 9,200,000 $43,700,000 New York Times (NYT) Harbinger Capital Master Fund I BO 3,250,000 $40,412,500 TD Ameritrade Holding (AMTD) Ricketts J Joe DIR,BO 653,829 $13,404,095 Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Sprecher Jeffrey C CEO,DIR 103,300 $11,621,757 Fastenal (FAST) Kierlin Robert A DIR 150,000 $8,107,830 Dynegy (DYN) Ls Power Development L L C BO 3,609,840 $4,419,900 Devry (DV) Keller Dennis J BO 60,000 $4,360,454 Becton Dickinson (BDX) Becton Henry P Jr DIR 47,370 $3,625,700 Kaiser Aluminum (KALU) Veba For Retirees Of Kaiser Aluminum BO 53,527 $2,165,428 Wiley John Sons (JWA) Swanson Eric VP 30,000 $1,283,340 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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