Insiders Trading RSG, BKS, TWI, GE

Jonathan Moreland

05/03/12 - 08:55 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 Wednesday, May 2, 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.

Republic Services (RSG) Cascade Investment BO 1,102,700 30,219,052 Fuelcell Energy(FCEL) Posco Energy BO 20,000,000 30,000,000 Titan International(TWI) Cashin Richard M Jr DIR 350,000 10,042,112 Atlas Resource Partners (ARP) Cohen Jonathan Z VCB,DIR 200,000 4,000,000 Prime Global Capital (HMTO) Wong Weng Kung CEO,DIR 540,000 1,518,480 Isramco (ISRL) Naphtha Holding BO 7,262 676,744 General Electric(GE) Lafley Alan G DIR 30,000 584,700 Global Indemnity(GBLI) Richmond Hill Investments BO 20,719 371,845 Sprint Nextel (S) Euteneuer Joseph J CFO 100,000 255,000 Nyse Euronext(NYX) McFarland Duncan M DIR 10,000 254,800 Source: Insider Insights

Barnes & Noble(BKS) Jana Partners BO 1,000,000 24,420,000 Stericycle(SRCL) Miller Mark C CB,CEO,DIR 199,293 17,429,506 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals(REGN) Schleifer Leonard S PR,CEO,DIR 100,000 13,482,553 Google(GOOG) Doerr L John DIR 13,713 8,333,701 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals(REGN) Yancopoulos George VP,PR,DIR 33,165 4,471,669 Lumber Liquidators (LL) Sullivan Thomas D CB,F,DIR 127,000 3,649,002 Bankunited(BKU) Lefrak Richard S DIR 135,733 3,343,891 Red Hat (RHT) Cormier Paul J VP 50,107 3,009,427 International Business Machines (IBM) Kelly John E III VP 12,378 2,583,402 Chefs Warehouse(CHEF) Pappas John VCB,DIR,BO 90,000 2,160,900 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.