David Einhorn’s endorsement increased the market value of this stock by more than $325 Million. Bruce Berkowitz was talking about sending Einhorn a box of chocolate after his presentation about St. Joe (JOE). We think Aviva, which owns 57.6% of Delta Lloyd, and other investors of the company should take note. David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital owns between 5% and 10% of the Dutch insurer, so Greenlight had more than $17 million of paper profits in three days.
David Einhorn isn’t 50 Cent. This isn’t a pump and dump scheme in a penny stock.It's public knowledge that David Einhorn owns at least 5 percent of Delta Lloyd, according to a filing made on May 7th, 2010 in the Netherlands. Last year he shared this information with investors in one of his investor letters as well.
Investors have two things to learn from this story. First, they should follow David Einhorn’s comments because it can affect stock prices and they may be able to make money by monkeying him. Second, the Efficient Market Hypothesis is a HUGE lie. It took Delta Lloyd stock three days to digest Einhorn’s endorsement. It is not true that “markets are so efficient that they instantaneously reflect new information”. Insider Monkey beat the market by 20 percentage points in 6 months - Learn how!
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