What Hedge Funds Have to Say about These 3 Trending Stocks?

Then there is Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), which has inched down only slightly, although the news that set the spotlight on Ford suggest more upside potential for the stock. Earlier today, Ford has said that it will invest around $1.8 billion during the next five years to further develop its research & development in China, where the company already has established itself as the fifth-largest foreign automaker. Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) will develop more cars, especially hybrid and fully-electric models in order to get an even larger part of the largest auto market in the world by 2020. The news will please the investors, although hedge funds have been cautious towards the company so far. For example, among the funds that we track, only 36 investors reported stakes that amassed around 1.30% of the company at the end of June (by comparison, for General Motors these figures stand at 104 and 10.90% respectively). Nevertheless, between April and June, the number of funds with long positions went up by three, but the total value of their holdings declined to $754.96 million from $832.07 million. Richard S. Pzena’s Pzena Investment Management and Phill Gross and Robert Atchinson’s Adage Capital Management reported the largest stakes in Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) among the funds from our database, with stakes of 17.72 million shares and 4.76 million shares respectively.

The third stock that we would like to take a look at is Anheuser Busch Inbev SA (ADR) (NYSE:BUD), which is also flat as the company is said to increase its bid for the UK brewer SABMiller to around 43-44 GBP. The British company last week rejected the latest offer, which valued it at roughly $104 billion (see details). So far, hedge funds are underweight Anheuser Busch Inbev SA (ADR) (NYSE:BUD) as 41 funds from our database reported stakes worth $4.34 billion as of the end of June, up from 48 funds with positions worth $4.0 billion a quarter earlier. Still, these funds held only 2.20% of the company at the end of the second quarter. Eric W. Mandelblatt‘s Soroban Capital Partners is the largest shareholder of Anheuser Busch Inbev SA (ADR) (NYSE:BUD) among the funds we track, with a position that contains 7.45 million shares as of the end of June.

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