Phillip Frost Buys More Shares of Opko Health, While Keynote Systems Sees a Sale
Welcome to our daily roundup of top insider trades. Here's a look at the most significant inside sales and purchases filed with the SEC on Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
Notable Purchases:
- Daniel Ivascyn, the manager of the non-diversified, close-ended management investment company PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund ( PDI ), bought 35,997 shares of company stock for $991,030.
- Phillip Frost, the Chairman and CEO of multi-national pharmaceutical and diagnostics company Opko Health ( OPK ), bought 42,100 shares of company stock for $303,227.
- The independent investor Lloyd Miller III bought 31,965 shares of franchise restaurant chain Cosi ( COSI ) for $67,727.
Notable Sales:
- The employee-owned hedge fund sponsor Empire Capital Management sold 400,000 shares of global Internet and mobile cloud monitoring and testing company Keynote Systems ( KEYN ) for $7,994,500.
For more insider trades, see the charts below.
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Filer Name
Insider Titles
Company Name
Ticker
TransType
Dollar Value
1
Ivascyn Daniel J
O
Pimco Dyn Inc Fd
PDI
B
$991,030
2
Frost Phillip Md
CEO,CB,BO
Opko Health
OPK
B
$303,227
3
Miller Lloyd I Iii
BO
COSI
COSI
B
$67,727
4
Rosar Curtis A
DIR
Cardinal Ethanol
CRDE
JB*
$64,000
5
Steel Excel
BO
Forbes Energy
FES
B
$59,933
6
Walsh Stephen
MD,CIO
WAM Def Op Fd
DMO
B
$43,540
7
S Muoio & Co
BO
OPTI
OPTI
B
$15,847
8
Sucoff Cary
DIR
Premier Alliance
PIMO
B
$15,155
9
Aldrich Richard
DIR,BO
Verastem
VSTM
AB
$14,690
10
Rausch David M
PR,CEO,DIR
Kewaunee Scientific
KEQU
B
$12,625
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Filer Name
Insider Titles
Company Name
Ticker
TransType
Dollar Value
1
Hoffman Reid
DIR,BO
LinkedIn
LNKD
AS
$15,817,972
2
Empire Capital Mgt
BO
Keynote Systems
KEYN
S
$7,994,500
3
Weiner Jeff
CEO,DIR
LinkedIn
LNKD
AS
$7,023,548
4
Usrg Holdco V
BO
Ren Energy
REGI
AS
$6,288,141
5
Kupferberg Max L
DIR
NY Com Banc
NYCB
AS
$4,775,397
6
Dobkin Arkadiy
CEO,PR,CB
Epam Systems
EPAM
AS
$4,086,874
7
West Cent Coop
BO
Ren Energy
REGI
AS
$2,478,454
8
Singh Rajeev
COO,PR,DIR
Concur Tech
CNQR
AS
$2,160,445
9
Main Timothy L
DIR
Jabil Circuit
JBL
AS
$2,100,000
10
Keane Robert S
CEO,PR,CB
Vistaprint
VPRT
AS
$1,817,849
Source: InsiderInsights.com | Key to Insider Title and Trans Type Codes
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