Insiders Trading GPS, GOOG, TXI and HALL

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 last session 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.

Hallmark Financial Svs (HALL) Detroit Stoker Co O 159,800 $1,400,346 Texas Industries (TXI) NNS Holding BO 32,065 $1,103,563 Winmark Corp (WINA) Morgan John L CB,CEO,BO 6,000 $207,540 Tower Financial (TOFC) Busse Keith E DIR 22,000 $154,000 Blackrock (BLK) Bank Of America DIR 704 $119,978 Clough Global Opp Fund (GLO) Clough Charles Jr A 4,000 $52,796 Diamond Foods (DMND) Mendes Michael J CB,PR,CEO 1,000 $42,740 VSB Bancorp (VSBN) Johnsen Alfred C DIR 2,492 $29,116 Bionovo (BNVI) Cohen Isaac CB,CEO,BO 15,000 $15,153 Opko Health (OPK) Frost Phillip Md Et Al CEO,CB,BO 5,000 $12,660 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

Gap (GPS) Fisher Doris F O 2,000,000 $38,184,500 Google (GOOG) Page Lawrence PR,DIR,BO 55,556 $30,200,184 Moodys Corp (MCO) Berkshire Hathaway BO 370,146 $10,234,222 Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) Taylor Wayne Kent CB,BO 516,867 $7,896,245 Fastenal Co (FAST) Kierlin Robert A DIR 100,000 $5,238,270 MetroPCS Communications (PCS) TA Associates DIR 233,100 $2,506,171 CSX Corp (CSX) Munoz Oscar VP,CFO 25,000 $1,500,495 Salesforce.Com (CRM) Benioff Marc CB,CEO,BO 10,000 $1,069,639 Toll Brothers (TOL) Toll Robert I CB,BO 55,650 $1,034,450 First Pactrust Bancorp (FPTB) Investors Of America LP BO 85,700 $904,252 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, EVP=Executive Vice President, 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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