Insider Buys $5.6M Worth of Tesco

• ByJonathan Moreland, RealMoney Contributor
• On 9:13 am EDT, Wednesday September 2, 2009

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 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.

Tesco (TESO) LRP V Luxembourg Holdings SA BO 733,339 $5,572,383 Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR) Arcturus Holdings LLC DIR 90,000 $1,245,600 Fulton Financial (FULT) Wenger E Philip PR,COO 12,604 $93,592 Tix (TIXC) Ashraf Iqbal BO 24,400 $79,390 Global LP (GLP) Global Gp LLC DIR,PT 3,100 $67,744 Zygo (ZIGO) Worster Bruce DIR 5,000 $34,050 Salary Com (SLRY) Martin William C DIR 10,000 $28,770 International Assets (IAAC) Fowler John Moore DIR 1,700 $28,560 Trailer Bridge (TRBR) Schimmel Douglas E DIR 5,000 $24,500 Endwave (ENWV) Eaglerock Capital Management LLC BO 8,801 $24,123

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 880 $2,875,881 Carnival (CCL) Artsfare 2006 Trust No 2 BO 88,293 $2,677,209 Interline Brandsde (IBI) Jacquet Ernest K DIR 120,271 $2,000,592 China Transinfo Technology (CTFO) Kitt Barry M BO 232,825 $1,895,537 Raymond James Financial (RJF) Zank Dennis W PR 56,250 $1,271,981 Endwave (ENWV) Potomac Capital Mgt LLC BO 286,081 $905,409 Copano Energy Llc (CPNO) Eckel John R Jr CB,CEO, DIR 40,000 $620,368 United Online (UNTD) Armstrong James T DIR 73,346 $508,198 Devry (DV) Taylor Ronald L DIR 8,900 $469,762 KBW (KBW) Duffy John G CB,CEO, DIR 15,000 $426,900

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