Insiders Trading COSH, CHKM, FSYS, SWI

By Jonathan Moreland, founder of Insider Insights 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 mainly open-market insider purchases and sales filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday, February 09, 2012 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.

Spectrum Brands (SPB) Harbinger Group BO 578,100 $17,057,334 Cooper Standard (COSH) Silver Point Capital BO 314,000 $12,560,000 Wendys (WEN) Trian Fund Management BO 2,500,000 $12,478,750 Fuel Systems Solutions (FSYS) Douglas Kevin BO 375,500 $8,918,709 Cempra (CEMP) Intersouth Associates BO 1,221,648 $7,329,888 Cempra (CEMP) Aisling Capital BO 1,213,663 $7,281,978 Greenway Medical Technologies (GWAY) Pamlico Capital BO 666,667 $6,666,670 Matador Resources (MTDR) Foran Joseph Wm CB,CEO PR,DIR 143,400 $1,719,700 Matador Resources (MTDR) Gummer Charles L DIR 22,000 $264,000 Matador Resources (MTDR) Massad Wade VP 21,000 $252,000 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

Chesapeake Midstream Partners (CHKM) Global Infrastructure Investors DIR,BO 10,497,003 $290,557,056 Solarwinds (SWI) Yonce Donald BO 1,000,000 $36,608,736 Hunt J B Transport (JBHT) Garrison Earl Wayne DIR 200,000 $10,370,160 Medivation (MDVN) Hung David PR,CEO DIR 100,000 $7,019,488 Affiliated Managers (AMG) Nutt William J DIR 44,482 $4,727,547 Epam Systems (EPAM) Dobkin Arkadiy CEO,PR CB,DIR BO 370,846 $4,450,152 Fidus Investment (FDUS) Pinebridge Secondary Partners BO 170,596 $2,343,355 Schulman A (SHLM) Mitarotonda James A DIR 78,502 $2,041,602 Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (IRWD) Ridgeback Capital BO 112,478 $1,672,867 Emc Corp (EMC) Coviello Arthur W Jr CB 60,000 $1,567,896 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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