VP Finance/CFO of Micrel Inc. (MCRL) Ray Wallin sells 9,500 shares of MCRL on 11/30/2010 at an average price of $12.45 a share.

Micrel Inc. has a market cap of $822 million; its shares were traded at around $13.4 with a P/E ratio of 18.6 and P/S ratio of 3.8. The dividend yield of Micrel Inc. stocks is 1%.

MCRL is in the portfolios of Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Paul Tudor Jones of The Tudor Group, Steven Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors, Jeremy Grantham of GMO LLC, George Soros of Soros Fund Management LLC.

CFO Recent Trades:

• Sell: VP Finance/CFO Ray Wallin sold 5,000 shares of MCRL stock on 11/23/2010 at the average price of 12.14. Ray Wallin owns at least 9,852 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 10.38% since.


• Sell: VP Finance/CFO Ray Wallin sold 5,626 shares of MCRL stock on 11/15/2010 at the average price of 12.1. Ray Wallin owns at least 14,852 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 10.74% since.

This is the insider trade history vs. stock price of MCRL. For the complete insider trading history of MCRL, click here.

Directors and Officers Recent Trades:

• Buy: Director John Bourgoin bought 5,000 shares of MCRL stock on 11/11/2010 at the average price of 12.19. John Bourgoin owns at least 5,000 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 9.93% since.


• Buy: Co-founder Raymond D Zinn bought 2,500 shares of MCRL stock on 08/31/2010 at the average price of 8.83. Raymond D Zinn owns at least 11,611,246 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 51.76% since.


• Buy: Director Frank Schneider bought 2,318 shares of MCRL stock on 08/27/2010 at the average price of 9. Frank Schneider owns at least 43,000 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 48.89% since.


• Buy: Co-founder Raymond D Zinn bought 2,500 shares of MCRL stock on 08/19/2010 at the average price of 9.16. Raymond D Zinn owns at least 11,608,746 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 46.29% since.


• Buy: Co-founder Raymond D Zinn bought 5,000 shares of MCRL stock on 08/05/2010 at the average price of 9.75. Raymond D Zinn owns at least 11,603,746 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 37.44% since.

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