Insider Sells $1.5M Worth of Micromet

• ByJonathan Moreland, RealMoney Contributor
• On 12:00 pm EDT, Monday August 3, 2009

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 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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Tollgrade Communications Pa (TLGD) Ramius LLC BO 18,008 $97,397 General American Investors (GAM) Neidich Daniel DIR 2,000 $42,290 FCStone Group (FCSX) Soman Jeff VP 5,000 $24,350 National Penn Bancshares (NPBC) Worthington Donald P VP 5,000 $23,400 Sun Bancorp Nj (SNBC) Brown Bernard A CB,DIR ,BO 4,900 $21,775 Bank Of South Carolina (BKSC) Stevenson Thomas C III DIR 1,645 $21,384 Pulaski Financial (PULB) Hogan Michael R DIR 3,000 $21,000 DRI (TBUS) Higgins John Debree DIR 10,000 $17,500 National Penn Bancshares (NPBC) Moyer Glenn E CEO,PR ,DIR 2,650 $12,317 Southern Community Financial (SCMF) Smoak W Samuel DIR 4,000 $10,917

Equinix (EQIX) Crosslink Capital Inc DIR 22,400 $1,750,457 Micromet (MITI) Omega Fund Mgt Ltd BO 250,000 $1,488,520 Synnex (SNX) Peer Developments Ltd BO 36,052 $1,000,820 Kapstone Paper & Packaging (KPPC) Elm Ridge Capital Mgt LLC BO 148,305 $763,771 Sensient Technologies (SXT) Manning Kenneth P CB,CEO ,DIR 29,556 $741,542 Park Electrochemical (PKE) Shore Brian E CB,CEO, PR,DIR 25,759 $611,881 Biomed Realty Trust (BMR) Gold Alan D CB,CEO, DIR 50,000 $563,875 American Superconductor (AMSC) Yurek Gregory J CB,CEO, PR,DIR 12,562 $398,585 CKE Restaurants (CKR) Karcher Carl L DIR 39,000 $353,466 Corning (GLW) Mcrae Lawrence D VP 17,571 $293,324

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