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 open-market insider purchases and sales filed at the
Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday, May 24, 2011 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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| China Biotics (CHBT) | Value Holdings Capital | BO | 350,000 | $3,479,656 | | Kinder Morgan (KMI) | Street James E | VP,HR | 72,800 | $2,067,908 | | Adpt Corp (ADPT) | Steel Partners | BO | 385,200 | $1,118,848 | | Move (MOVE) | Freshford Capital Mgt | BO | 356,600 | $712,700 | | Hot Topic (HOTT) | Drapkin Matthew A | DIR | 96,000 | $691,418 | | Swisher Hygiene (SWSH) | Hudson Harris W | DIR | 96,870 | $551,781 | | American Assets Trust (AAT) | Rady Ernest S | CB,DIR
BO | 25,000 | $535,182 | | China Biologic (CBPO) | Warburg Pincus Private Equity | DIR,BO | 34,899 | $518,919 | | Fluidigm (FLDM) | Jones Evan | DIR | 29,700 | $424,331 | | Banyan Rail Services (BARA) | Marino Gary O | PR,CEO
DIR,BO
| 150,000 | $300,000 | | Source: www.InsiderInsights.com | |
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| Rural Metro (RURL) | Falck Danmark | BO | 418,498 | $7,152,131 | | Gamestop (GME) | Dematteo Daniel A | CB,DIR | 200,000 | $5,547,940 | | Validus Holdings (VR) | Singh Alok | DIR | 157,683 | $5,148,871 | | Microstrategy (MSTR) | Saylor Michael J | CB,PR
CEO,DIR
BO | 30,000 | $4,206,542 | | Lumber Liquidators (LL) | Sullivan Thomas D | CB,F
DIR | 101,740 | $2,648,353 | | McKesson (MCK) | Julian Paul C | VP,PR | 20,586 | $1,725,309 | | Advance America (AEA) | Johnson George D Jr | BO | 254,197 | $1,491,199 | | Pride International (PDE) | Looser W Gregory | VP | 34,951 | $1,458,855 | | Kinder Morgan Management (KMR) | Street James E | VP,HR | 20,625 | $1,321,153 | | Maxwell Technologies (MXWL) | Cortes Jose | DIR | 76,200 | $1,216,156 | | 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.