VP Sells $1.6M Worth of Abbott Laboratories

• ByJonathan Moreland, RealMoney Contributor
• On 11:29 am EDT, Monday September 28, 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 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.

Seachange International (SEAC) Dunbar Edward PR,COO 25,500 $189,100 CLST Holdings (CLHI) Tornek David DIR 448,003 $93,471 New Concept Energy (NCE) International Health Products Inc BO 9,000 $62,100 International Speedway (ISCA) William C France Family Trust BO 900 $25,380 First Niagara Financial (FNFG) Baker Thomas E DIR 1,279 $15,847 Brady (BRC) Sephton Peter C VP 500 $14,390 Fredericks Of Hollywood (FOH) Lynch Thomas Jerome CB,CEO, DIR 4,400 $9,720 Capitol Bancorp Ltd (CBC) Nofziger Myrl D DIR 1,000 $3,500 CLST Holdings (CLHI) Kaiser Robert A CEO,CFO, DIR 12,990 $2,078 Hancock John Bank & Thrift Opp Fund (BTO) Pruchansky Steven R TT 150 $2,051

Abbott Laboratories (ABT) Landgraf John C VP 35,000 $1,645,000 RXI Pharmaceuticals (RXII) Cytrx Corp BO 500,000 $1,250,000 Carmax (KMX) Browning Keith D CFO,DIR, VP 50,000 $991,450 TCF Financial (TCB) Jeter Mark L PR 65,000 $976,206 Prosperity Bancshares (PRSP) Rollins James D III PR,DIR, COO 20,000 $715,000 Famous Daves Of America (DAVE) Vicuna Advisors LLC BO 123,000 $696,180 Adobe Systems (ADBE) Warnock John E CB,DIR 20,000 $654,828 Hittite Microwave (HITT) Ayasli Yalcin BO 14,500 $561,125 Crosstex Energy (XTXI) Chieftain Capital Mgt BO 63,725 $375,277 Agilysys (AGYS) Ramius LLC BO 46,211 $334,304

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