Worthington Chairman Sells $6.2M Worth

• ByJonathan Moreland, RealMoney Contributor
• On 9:39 am EDT, Wednesday October 14, 2009

Editor's note: Only three purchases to report.

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.

Stewart Information Svs (STC) Smith Edgar Ashley VP,LO 1,600 $16,640 MDU Communications (MDTV) Newman Richard DIR 5,000 $2,200 Blackrock Defined Opp Credit Tr (BHL) Marshall Adrian C O 48 $558

Carnival Plc (CUK) Artsfare 2006 Trust No 2 BO 257,142 $8,474,243 Worthington Industries (WOR) Mcconnell John Poh CB,CEO, DIR 450,000 $6,175,119 Carnival (CCL) Nickel Continued Irrevocable Trust BO 127,473 $4,201,204 SBA Communications (SBAC) Stoops Jeffrey CEO,DIR 134,056 $3,754,909 Och-Ziff Capital Mgt (OZM) Blockinger Jeffrey C LO 130,189 $1,635,348 Bway Holding (BWY) Valueact Smallcap Mgt LP BO 60,000 $1,176,600 Boston Scientific (BSX) Nicholas Peter M DIR 100,000 $1,031,080 Discover Financial Svs (DFS) Talwar Harit VP 60,000 $989,400 Virtual Radiologic (VRAD) Casey Sean BO 44,100 $591,030 Lumber Liquidators (LL) Sullivan Thomas D CB,DIR, BO 25,000 $559,563

Buzz up!