Insiders Trading STX, LINKD, TSRO

Jonathan Moreland

07/06/12 - 09:41 AM EDT

By Jonathan Moreland, founder of Insider Insights and author of Profit From Legal Insider Trading.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Which insiders are selling and buying chunks of stocks?
Below are lists of the top 10 mainly open-market insider purchases and sales filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday, July 5, 2012 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.

Tesaro (TSRO) Interwest Partners X BO 444,444 5,999,994 Dynegy (DYN) Litespeed Management BO 1,264,251 745,016 Eqt Midstream Partners (EQM) Crawford Randall L VP,DIR 25,000 525,000 Eqt Midstream Partners (EQM) Porges David L CB,PR,CEO 20,000 420,000 Vistaprint(VPRT) Smith Thomas W BO 10,000 325,120 First Opportunity Fund (FOFI) Adams Nicholas C FO 37,476 266,800 Opko Health(OPK) Frost Phillip MD et al CEO,CB,BO 45,000 212,198 Global Income Fund (GIFD) Winmill & Co O 20,535 84,367 Sonic (SONC) Janjua Omar PR 5,000 51,250 General American Investors Co(GAM) Priest Jeffrey W PR 1,100 30,019 Source: Insider Insights

Google (GOOG) Brin Sergey F,DIR,BO 83,334 48,657,848 Seagate Technology(STX) Luczo Stephen J CB,PR,CEO 500,000 12,215,700 Encore Bancshares(EBTX) Williams Randa Duncan DIR 489,374 10,090,892 Linkedin (LNKD) Weiner Jeff CEO,DIR 74,584 7,969,650 Broadcom(BRCM) Samueli Henry CB,CTO,DIR 150,000 5,033,708 Logmein(LOGM) Benson Steven J DIR 130,000 4,024,973 Questcor Pharmaceuticals(QCOR) Blutt Mitchell J Md DIR 70,000 3,717,980 Encore Bancshares(EBTX) Williams J Harold BO 131,145 2,704,210 Encore Bancshares(EBTX) Moore Preston PR,DIR 122,614 2,528,301 Visa (V) Floum Joshua R GC 16,949 2,118,625 Source: Insider Insights

Key to Titles: A=Assistant, AI=Affiliated Investor, AO=Accounting Officer, BD=Business Development, BO=Beneficial Owner, CAO=Chief Accounting Officer, CB=Chairman, CCO=Chief Compliance Officer, CEO=Chief Executive Officer, CFO=Chief Financial Officer, CIO=Chief Information Officer, CO=Compliance Officer, COO=Chief Operating Officer, CT=Controller, CTO=Chief Technology Officer, DIR=Director, EVP=Executive Vice President, F=Founder, FO=Financial Officer, GC=General Counsel, HR=Human Resources, IO=Information Officer, IR=Investor Relations, LO=Legal Officer, MD=Managing Director, O=Officer, OO=Operating Officer, PR=President, PT=Partner, REL=Relative of an insider, SEC=Secretary, SH=Shareholder, SO=Sales Officer, TO=Technology Officer, TR=Treasurer, TT=Trustee, VCB=Vice Chairman, VP=Vice President, X=Ex Officer or other title displayed.