Inventure Foods Inc. (SNAK): Billionaire Mario Gabelli’s GAMCO Investors Slightly Raises Its Stake

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A freshly-amended 13D filing with the SEC revealed that billionaire Mario Gabelli‘s GAMCO Investors has acquired more shares of Inventure Foods Inc. (NASDAQ:SNAK), and now together with its partners holds in aggregate 1.36 million shares, which represent 6.91% of the float, while GAMCO alone owns 106,350 shares, accounting for 0.54% of the outstanding stock. As per its 13F for the reporting period of June 30, GAMCO alone held 85,350 common shares of the company.

Inventure Foods is a company that produces a variety of natural and healthy specialty snack food brands, which runs two divisions: snack products and frozen products. Year-to-date, the company’s stock is up by 8.17%. In its financial report for the third quarter of 2016, Inventure Foods reported a loss per share of $0.13 and revenue of $66.53 million, missing the estimates which called for EPS of $0.03 and revenue of $74.1 million.

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At the end of June, five hedge funds from Insider Monkey’s database were bullish on Inventure Foods (NASDAQ:SNAK), down by one from a quarter earlier. Investors with large positions in the company included Anand Parekh’s Alyeska Investment Group (893,119 shares), Chuck Royce’s Royce & Associates (807,072 shares), and John Zaro’s Bourgeon Capital (69,484 shares).

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Ownership Summary Table

Name Sole Voting Power Shared Voting Power Sole Dispositive Power Shared Dispositive Power Aggregate Amount Owned Power Percent of Class
Gabelli Funds 938,347 938,347 938,347 4.77%
GAMCO Asset Management Inc. 96,350 106,350 106,350 0.54%
Teton Advisors, Inc. 314,331 314,331 314,331 1.60%
GGCP, Inc. 0.00%
GAMCO Investors, Inc. 700 700 700 0.00%
Associated Capital Group, Inc. 0.00%
Mario J. Gabelli 0.00%

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
SCHEDULE 13D
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. 1)
Inventure Foods, Inc.
(Name of Issuer)
Common Stock, $.01 par value
(Title of Class of Securities)
                                                                                                                ________461212102_________
(CUSIP Number)
David Goldman
GAMCO Investors, Inc.
One Corporate Center
Rye, New York 10580-1435
(914) 921-5000
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)
______________________ November 4, 2016________________________
(Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)
If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§ 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box .

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