Weekly Top Insider Sells: Oracle Corp, Apple Inc., Murphy Oil Corp., Agilent Technologies Inc.

Weekly Top Insider Sells: ORCL, AAPL, MUR, A

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Apr 04, 2010
According to GuruFocus Insider Data, these are the largest insider sells during the past week.

Executive Vice President-Ops of Oracle Corp. (ORCL, Financial) Keith Block sold 1,561,500 shares on 04/01/2010 at an average price of $25.46.

Oracle Corporation is one of the world's suppliers of software for information management. Oracle Corp. has a market cap of $127.59 billion; its shares were traded at around $25.46 with a P/E ratio of 17.4 and P/S ratio of 5.4. The dividend yield of Oracle Corp. stocks is 0.8%. Oracle Corp. had an annual average earning growth of 20.5% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Oracle Corp. the business predictability rank of 3-star.

Oracle Corp. is owned by many Gurus. Lee Ainslie, Andreas Halvorsen, Bill Nygren, Kenneth Fisher, and PRIMECAP Management own positions in this stock.

Insiders Executive Vice President-Ops Keith Block, President Safra Catz, EVP-Product Development Thomas Kurian, Controller, SVP, CAO W Corey West, and Director Hector Garcia-molina sold some of this stock recently.

Apple Inc. (AAPL, Financial): COO Timothy D Cook sold 159,960 Shares

COO of Apple Inc. (AAPL) Timothy D Cook sold 159,960 shares on 03/25/2010 at an average price of $235.97.

Apple Computer, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets personal computers and related personal computing and communicating solutions for sale primarily to education, creative, consumer, and business customers. Apple Inc. has a market cap of $213.98 billion; its shares were traded at around $235.97 with a P/E ratio of 28.8 and

Apple recently announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter ended December 26, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion, or $3.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $11.88 billion and net quarterly profit of $2.26 billion, or $2.50 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 40.9 percent, up from 37.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple Inc. is owned by several Gurus. Lee Ainslie, John Griffin, Ken Heebner, and Steve Mandel have positions in this stock.

Senior Vice President, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, Senior Vice President Bertrand Serlet, Senior Vice President Philip W Schiller, Senior Vice President Ronald B Johnson, COO Timothy D Cook all sold some of this stock recently.

Murphy Oil Corp. (MUR, Financial): Director Claiborne P Deming sold 160,894 Shares

Director of Murphy Oil Corp. (MUR) Claiborne P Deming sold 160,894 shares on 03/29/2010 at an average price of $57.64.

Murphy Oil Corporation is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom and crude oil transportation and trading operations in Canada. Murphy Oil Corp. has a market cap of $11.02 billion; its shares were traded at around $57.64 with a P/E ratio of 19.5 and P/S ratio of 0.6. The dividend yield of Murphy Oil Corp. stocks is 1.8%. Murphy Oil Corp. had an annual average earning growth of 19.3% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Murphy Oil Corp. the business predictability rank of 4.5-star.

Murphy Oil Corporation announced recently that net income in the fourth quarter of 2009 was $318.8 million ($1.65 per diluted share), compared to net income of $127.4 million ($0.67 per diluted share) in the fourth quarter 2008.

Murphy Oil Corp. is owned by 5 Gurus. Brian Rogers and PRIMECAP Management own positions in this stock.

Sell:: Director Claiborne P Deming sold 20,900 shares of MUR stock on 01/11/2010 at the average price of 60.06, the price of the stock has decreased by 4.03% since.

Sell:: Vice President & Controller John W Eckart sold 30,000 shares of MUR stock on 11/11/2009 at the average price of 61.65, the price of the stock has decreased by 6.5% since.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (A, Financial): EVP, Finance & Admin., CFO Adrian T Dillon sold 191,715 Shares

EVP, Finance & Admin., CFO of Agilent Technologies Inc. (A) Adrian T Dillon sold 191,715 shares on 03/30/2010 at an average price of $34.55.

Agilent Technologies is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. Agilent Technologies Inc. has a market cap of $12.05 billion; its shares were traded at around $34.55 with a P/E ratio of 35.7 and P/S ratio of 2.7.

Agilent Technologies Inc. reported recently revenues of $1.21 billion for the first fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31, 2010, 4 percent above one year ago. First quarter GAAP net income was $79 million, or $0.22 per diluted share. Last year's first quarter GAAP net income was $64 million, or $0.18 per share.

Gurus' Positions with A

Agilent Technologies Inc. is owned by 7 Gurus. Richard Snow, Chris Davis, and Robert Olstein own positions in this stock.

Many insiders sold company's stock:

Sell:: President and CEO William P Sullivan sold 202,384 shares of A stock on 03/11/2010 at the average price of 33.42, the price of the stock has increased by 3.38% since.

Sell:: President and CEO William P Sullivan sold 448,937 shares of A stock on 02/16/2010 at the average price of 30.05, the price of the stock has increased by 14.98% since.

Sell:: EVP, Finance & Admin., CFO Adrian T Dillon sold 191,715 shares of A stock on 03/30/2010 at the average price of 34.61, the price of the stock has decreased by 0.17% since.

Sell:: EVP, Finance & Admin., CFO Adrian T Dillon sold 149,206 shares of A stock on 12/15/2009 at the average price of 30.02, the price of the stock has increased by 15.09% since.

Sell:: Senior Vice President Ronald S. Nersesian sold 19,690 shares of A stock on 03/22/2010 at the average price of 33.69, the price of the stock has increased by 2.55% since.

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