Insiders Trading V, PCYC, AAPL

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 Tuesday, February 14, 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.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL) Biglari Sardar BO 161,691 $8,608,112 Chemocentryx (CCXI) Techne Corp BO 500,000 $5,000,000 Pharmacyclics (PCYC) Baker Biotech Capital BO 150,000 $3,128,040 Theravance (THRX) Glaxosmithkline Plc BO 88,468 $1,603,040 Nyse Euronext (NYX) Carter Marshall N CB,DIR 52,125 $1,500,158 Cardica (CRDC) Sutter Hill Ventures BO 645,714 $1,065,428 Chromadex Corp (CDXC) Himmel Jeffrey CEO,DIR 1,333,333 $1,000,000 Roadrunner Transportation (RRTS) Rued Scott D CB,DIR BO 30,000 $522,444 Dominion Resources (D) Jepson Robert S Jr DIR 10,000 $502,890 Cardiovascular Systems (CSII) Nelson Glen D DIR 40,000 $356,860 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

Google (GOOG) Page Lawrence CEO,DIR BO 27,778 $16,875,224 Autonation (AN) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation O 261,965 $9,501,051 Visa (V) Pollitt Byron H Jr CFO 77,484 $8,776,613 Commvault Systems (CVLT) Hammer N Robert CB,PR CEO,DIR 125,000 $6,732,366 Apple (AAPL) Levinson Arthur D DIR 10,000 $4,996,137 Unitedhealth Group (UNH) Welters Anthony VP 76,000 $4,071,753 WCA Waste (WCAA) Loconti Joseph E BO 444,000 $2,863,800 Unitedhealth Group (UNH) Renfro Larry C VP,CEO 48,960 $2,627,860 Unitedhealth Group (UNH) Sweere Lori VP,HR 44,077 $2,363,832 Jones Group (JNY) Card Wesley R CEO,DIR 225,000 $2,192,625 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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