ByJonathan Moreland, RealMoney Contributor
, On Friday August 28, 2009, 10:17 am EDT
NEW YORK (TheStreet.com) -- 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 Thursday 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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| Hugoton Royalty Trust (HGT) | Simpson Bob R | CB | 282,138 | $3,960,971 | | World Fuel Services (INT) | Clementi Michael | PR | 10,101 | $474,227 | | Pier 1 Importsde (PIR) | Greek Investments Inc | DIR,BO | 101,300 | $265,933 | | MBIA CapitalClaymore Man Dur Inv Grd Muni Fd (MZF) | Benchmark Plus Management LLC | BO | 20,900 | $254,901 | | Tix (TIXC) | Ashraf Iqbal | BO | 62,700 | $201,533 | | Supergen (SUPG) | Nb Public Equity Ks | BO | 66,342 | $184,913 | | Infinera (INFN) | Redfield Carl | DIR | 20,000 | $139,000 | | Pixelworks (PXLW) | Chan Tzoyao | VP | 20,000 | $50,762 | | Iteris (ITI) | Mohaddes Abbas | CEO,DIR | 20,000 | $25,400 | | Vestin Realty Mortgage II (VRTB) | Shustek Michael V | CEO,PR, DIR,BO | 8,000 | $20,367 | |
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| TD Ameritrade Holding (AMTD) | Ricketts Marlene M | BO | 1,725,790 | $31,788,278 | | Dollar Tree (DLTR) | Brock Macon F Jr | CB,DIR | 150,000 | $7,550,250 | | Iron Mountain (IRM) | Reese C Richard | CB,DIR | 183,900 | $5,486,090 | | Kellogg (K) | Kellogg W K Foundation Trust | BO | 113,000 | $5,349,262 | | Knight Capital (NITE) | Smyth James P | VP | 80,000 | $1,642,560 | | Quixote (QUIX) | Belgrave Investment Holdings Ltd | BO | 788,800 | $1,617,300 | | Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust | BO | 300 | $996,343 | | Cavium Networks (CAVM) | Reddy C N | DIR | 45,994 | $949,537 | | Trex (TWP) | Ferrari Andrew U | DIR | 50,000 | $938,425 | | Starwood Hotel (HOT) | Prabhu Vasant M | VP | 30,000 | $915,422 | |