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.
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| Jefferies Group (JEF) | Leucadia National | BO | 691,000 | $16,201,562 | | Saks (SKS) | Diego Della Valle & CSAPA | BO | 1,000,000 | $10,508,400 | | Pacific Sunwear (PSUN) | Greek Investments | BO | 858,358 | $5,108,845 | | Cano Petroleum (CFW) | Carlson Capital LP | BO | 800,000 | $366,000 | | New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT) | Harvest Capital Strategies Llc | BO | 19,629 | $124,314 | | ATS Corp (ATSC) | LC Capital Advisors Llc | BO | 41,988 | $119,965 | | Red Lion Hotels Corp (RLH) | Columbia Pacific Opp Fund LP | BO | 8,905 | $71,620 | | Bitstream (BITS) | Columbia Pacific Opp Fund LP | BO | 6,500 | $44,166 | | Alpine Global Dynamic Div Fund (AGD) | Evans Jill K | O | 4,300 | $29,785 | | Alpine Total Dynamic Div Fund (AOD) | Evans Jill K | O | 5,100 | $29,325 | | Source: www.InsiderInsights.com | |
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| Oracle (ORCL) | Ellison Lawrence Joseph | CEO,DIR,
BO | 1,000,000 | $28,861,300 | | Ensign Group (ENSG) | Christensen Roy E | CB,DIR,
BO | 152,742 | $2,765,695 | | Acme Packet (APKT) | Ory Andrew D | PR,CEO,
DIR | 67,857 | $2,491,927 | | Liquidity Services (LQDT) | Mateus Tique Jaime | DIR | 75,000 | $1,270,250 | | Salesforce.Com (CRM) | Benioff Marc | CB,CEO,
DIR,BO
| 10,000 | $1,042,928 | | Vocus (VOCS) | Rudman Richard E | CB,CEO,
PR,DIR
| 50,000 | $917,185 | | Ixys Corp (IXYS) | Zommer Nathan | CB,DIR,
BO | 62,852 | $659,804 | | Google (GOOG) | Mather Ann | DIR | 1,000 | $603,771 | | Adobe Systems (ADBE) | Warnock John E | CB,DIR | 20,000 | $550,722 | | Liquidity Services (LQDT) | Angrick William P III | CB,CEO,
DIR,BO
| 30,000 | $507,100 | | 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.