Chairman Sells $2.6M Worth of Edwards

• ByJonathan Moreland, RealMoney Contributor
• On 11:21 am EDT, Monday July 13, 2009

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 Friday 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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Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX) Valueact Holdings LP BO 250,000 $5,754,500 Equity One (EQY) Katzman Chaim CB,DIR, BO 24,600 $301,104 DWS Global Commodities Stock Fd (GCS) Benchmark Plus Management LLC BO 25,235 $162,022 Lexaria (LXRP) Bunka Christopher CB,CEO, BO 1,600,000 $80,000 Famous Daves Of America (DAVE) Monfort Richard L DIR 7,953 $47,005 NN (NNBR) Zupan Thomas G VP 30,000 $42,000 Tix (TIXC) Ashraf Iqbal BO 13,500 $30,850 Greenbrier Companies (GBX) Furman William A CEO,PR, DIR 4,800 $28,663 Skye International (SKYI) Logan Perry D CEO,DIR, BO 20,000 $3,600 Candev Resource (CVRX) Mcleary Mark A PR,DIR, BO 10,000 $2,500

Edwards Lifesciences (EW) Mussallem Michael A CB,CEO, DIR 40,198 $2,618,325 Lumber Liquidators (LL) TA Associates Inc DIR 155,000 $2,451,652 Gilead Sciences (GILD) Young Kevin VP,OO 30,000 $1,338,990 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust BO 400 $1,114,314 TD Ameritrade (AMTD) Moglia Joseph H DIR 18,000 $304,620 Google (GOOG) Rosenberg Jonathan J VP 215 $86,304 Sourcefire (FIRE) Roesch Martin F DIR,CTO 5,000 $58,903 AEP Industries (AEPI) JMB Capital Partners Master Fund LP BO 1,500 $40,961 Candev Resource Exploration (CVRX) Mcleary Mark A PR,DIR, BO 97,500 $26,325 Fair Isaac (FIC) Osborne Charles M VP,FO 1,683 $23,562

Buzz up!