ByJonathan Moreland, RealMoney Contributor
, On Wednesday October 28, 2009, 12:22 pm EDT
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.
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| Mexico Fund (MXF) | Clariond Eugenio | DIR | 45,000 | $970,250 | | Columbia Sportswear (COLM) | Mccormick Michael W | VP,SO | 2,500 | $100,000 | | Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) | Robertson William R | DIR | 15,000 | $61,500 | | Dole Food (DOLE) | Tesoriero Joseph S. | CFO,VP | 4,250 | $53,125 | | Privatebancorp (PVTB) | Rabin Edward W | DIR | 3,500 | $43,930 | | Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) | Little Gene E | DIR | 10,000 | $41,900 | | Homeland Security Capital (HOMS) | Ya Global Investments | BO | 248,210 | $39,714 | | Dole Food (DOLE) | Delorenzo David A | CEO,PR, DIR | 3,000 | $37,500 | | Allegheny Technologies (ATI) | Jeremiah Barabara S | DIR | 1,000 | $34,618 | | Privatebancorp (PVTB) | Silva Alejandro | DIR | 2,000 | $26,318 | |
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| Nike (NKE) | Knight Philip H | DIR,BO | 577,800 | $36,876,211 | | OpenTV (OPTV) | Discovery Group I LLC | BO | 5,016,230 | $7,725,061 | | Carnival (CCL) | Arison Micky Meir | CB,CEO, DIR,BO | 115,018 | $3,635,972 | | GSI Commerce (GSIC) | Rubin Michael | CEO,PR, DIR | 150,000 | $3,116,250 | | Applied Energetics (AERG) | Howard Robert | BO | 12,000,000 | $3,004,050 | | Cybersource (CYBS) | Cruickshank Scott Richard | PR,COO | 163,685 | $2,780,894 | | Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | BO | 500 | $1,657,471 | | Capital One Financial (COF) | Perlin Gary L | CFO | 38,880 | $1,595,246 | | Half Robert International /de/ (RHI) | Waddell M Keith | VCB,PR, DIR | 50,000 | $1,291,461 | | Boston Scientific (BSX) | Abele John E | DIR | 100,000 | $861,605 | |