Fund Manager Murray Stahl’s Stock Picks Include Autonation
Murray Stahl founded Horizon Asset Management- which has since grown into the larger investment organization Horizon Kinetics- in 1994.
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Billionaire Louis Bacon’s Cheap Stock Picks Include Wells Fargo
Price-to-earnings multiples shouldn’t be used as the sole criterion for making an investment decision- in particular, they give little to no weight to future growth in favor...
Jeffrey Vinik’s Most Promising Stock Picks
We follow hedge fund activity in general, but we are particularly interested in finding small-cap and mid-cap stocks that hedge funds like.
Hedge Funds Are Snapping Up Transocean and More
The most up-to-date publicly available information on hedge funds comes from 13D and 13G filings, which take place shortly after a fund or other institutional investor owns over...
Billionaire George Soros’s High Upside Potential Picks Include AIG
One way to estimate the upside potential of a stock is to look for a low PEG ratio, a financial metric that adjusts the traditional P/E multiple according to the consensus earnings...
A Hedge Fund Owns Almost 13% of LogMeIn
Cadian Capital Management, a hedge fund managed by former Perry Capital technology portfolio manager Eric Bannasch, has reported a position of 3.1 million shares in LogMeIn Inc...
Insiders Have Bought Alcoa, Darden, and More This Year
We track insider purchases filed with the SEC because, in contrast to insider sales (which can often occur merely because an insider is rationally diversifying away from their...
A Synageva Board Member’s Trusts Bought Shares
Trusts related to Board of Directors member Thomas Tisch purchased about 21,000 shares of Synageva Biopharma Corp (NASDAQ:GEVA) on January 9th at an average price of $47.53 per...
A Board Member Bought Almost $500,000 Worth of Darden
According to a filing with the SEC, William Lewis Jr., who serves on the Board of Directors at Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Most Promising Stock Picks
The most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds tend to generate significant alpha- about 120 basis points per month, per our own analysis.
Edgar Wachenheim’s Stock Picks Include Lowe’s
Edgar Wachenheim manages a fairly small-scale operation at Greenhaven Associates considering the size of its assets under management: billions of dollars are capital are invested...
Billionaire Kerr Neilson’s Cheap Stock Picks Include Microsoft
Value investors often start by looking at the price-to-earnings ratio of a stock, using either the trailing earnings or- because a stock grants ownership over future cash flows...
Billionaire Howard Marks’ Cheap Stock Picks Include GM
Earnings multiples are very basic value metrics, but we think they are still useful in the sense that stocks with low P/Es can be a good place to start looking for undervalued...
Billionaire James Dinan’s Most Promising Stock Picks Include United Rentals
Small-cap and mid-cap stocks are the source of much of a hedge fund’s alpha, as these stocks are less covered by the media and other large investors and therefore are more likely...
Did Billionaire Carl Icahn Spot an Opportunity at Transocean?
Transocean LTD (NYSE:RIG)’s stock actually initially recovered after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, nearly reaching its pre-spill levels in the first quarter of 2011.
Big Investors are Trading DaVita and More
We track filings from hedge funds and many other large investors not because it’s always a good idea to copy these moves, but because the stocks that these market players are...
Scopia Capital Has Almost 10% of PHH Corp
Scopia Capital now owns 5.7 million shares of PHH Corporation (NYSE:PHH), which according to a filing with the SEC gives it almost 10% of the total shares outstanding.
Insiders Have Been Buying These Stocks
Studies show that statistically stocks bought by insiders tend to outperform the market (read about studies on insider trading) though overall the effect is not very large and...
Don’t Copy the Insider Purchase at Guidewire
A filing with the SEC has disclosed that John Cavoores and his wife have jointly purchased 1,000 shares of Guidewire Software Inc (NYSE:GWRE) on January 9th at an average price...
Hedge Fund Cantillon Capital Management’s Stock Picks for 2013
William von Mueffling founded Cantillon Capital Management in 2003 after a very successful stint at Lazard.
Hedge Fund Manager Boykin Curry’s Top Stock Picks
Ravenel Boykin Curry III founded Eagle Capital Management in 1988.
Sandy Nairn’s Latest Stock Picks Include Google Inc (GOOG)
Edinburgh Partners has about $13 billion under management, and while the fund is based in Scotland it does make substantial investments in U.S.
Billionaire Steve Cohen’s Most Promising Stock Picks
Small-cap and mid-cap stocks don’t get as much attention from bankers, third-party analysts, and the media, which often leaves them less efficiently priced than large- and mega...
Is Wells Fargo’s Report Good News or Bad News?
The first large bank to report its quarterly earnings, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), beat expectations for the fourth quarter of 2012 with a 24% increase in net income (earnings...
Does A Good Fourth Quarter Make Chevron a Buy?
Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) rose slightly after hours on January 10th after the company announced that its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 would rise on a q/q basis...
Billionaire Leon Cooperman’s High Upside Potential Picks Include Apple Inc. (AAPL)
One way to estimate a stock’s upside potential- while, to some degree, restricting oneself to fairly reasonable earnings projections- is to use the PEG ratio, which is derived...
John Burbank’s Top Stock Picks Include Vivus
John Burbank founded Passport Capital in 2000 after deciding that financial markets were placing too much emphasis on short-term results and not spending enough time looking at...
Hedge Funds Are Buying Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) and These Other Stocks
13D and 13G filings from hedge funds reveal large positions taken by hedge funds (or significant changes in these positions) fairly recently after the fund has made its move, ...
Carlson Capital Owns 5% of EnergySolutions
A 13D filed with the SEC has Carlson Capital, a hedge fund managed by Clint Carlson, owning 8 million shares of EnergySolutions, Inc.
Billionaire Ken Fisher’s Latest Stock Picks Include Pfizer and Visa
Fisher Asset Management, which is managed by billionaire investor/author/Forbes columnist Ken Fisher, has released its 13F filing for December 2012, disclosing many of its long...
Should You Be Buying Coca-Cola with Warren Buffett?
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway’s largest 13F holding by market value at the end of September- as it has been for some time- was The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) with the...
Jim Cramer and Billionaire Ken Griffin Like Apple Inc. (AAPL) and These Stocks
Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group took severe losses during the financial crisis, but has climbed back above its high water mark and is earning profits for ...
Hedge Fund Manager Curtis Macnguyen Likes AIG and More
Curtis Macnguyen founded Ivory Capital in 1998 after five years at Siegler, Collery & Co. and after having worked in investment banking before that.
$21 Billion Farallon Capital’s Most Promising Stock Picks
Hedge funds get much of their alpha from small cap stocks, which makes sense as these names tend to be less widely followed and so for a given amount of in-depth research it is...
Is Cisco a Value Stock for 2013?
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO)’s impressive financial performance and fairly cheap valuation have made it a popular stock pick for 2013.
Billionaire Dan Loeb Ambushes Ackman On Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)
In December, billionaire Bill Ackman of Pershing Square (check out Ackman's stock picks) gave an exhaustive short presentation on Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF).
Cliff Asness Has Been Buying Up Kayak
A 13G filed with the SEC has disclosed that AQR Capital Management- a hedge fund managed by Cliff Asness- owns about 590,000 shares of Kayak Software Corp (NASDAQ:KYAK).
Billionaire James Dinan’s High Upside Potential Picks Include AIG
Value investors know that low price-to-earnings multiples are a good place to start looking for good values, but this metric gives no weight to a stock’s growth potential.
Healthcare Investor Sam Isaly’s Top Stock Picks Include Pfizer
Sam Isaly’s Orbimed Advisors is a large health care fund investing in companies at various stages from venture capital to the public markets.
An Insider Bought Shares of G-III Apparel
On January 2nd, Director of Business Development Jeffrey Goldfarb at G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GIII) bought 3,000 shares of the stock at an average price of $33.82.
Is Johnson & Johnson a Good Stock to Buy?
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) currently trades at 23 times trailing earnings, which we’d normally consider to be a bit high for a stable consumer health and healthcare company...
Royce & Associates Has Been Buying EnerSys
Royce & Associates now owns 2.7 million shares of EnerSys (NYSE:ENS), according to a recent 13G filed with the SEC.
Billionaire Kerr Neilson’s Favorite Tech Stocks Include Microsoft (MSFT)
Australian hedge fund Platinum Asset Management is managed by founder- and now billionaire- Kerr Neilson.
Billionaire Stephen Mandel’s High Upside Potential Picks Include Apple Inc. (AAPL)
Stephen Mandel worked at legendary investor Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management until 1997 when he left to launch Lone Pine Capital.
Wintergreen Advisors’ Top Stock Picks Include Altria Group
It’s supposed to be hard to find good companies with excellent management teams selling at cheap prices, and David Winters of Wintergreen Advisors has a history of dealing with...
Is Buying Caterpillar Really That Crazy?
An uncertain global macro environment has resulted in the markets valuing Caterpillar Inc.
Michael Price’s Cheap Stock Picks Include Intel (INTC)
Michael Price founded MFP Investors in 1998, two years after selling Heine Securities for $670 million.
Hedge Funds Bought Navistar And These Other Stocks
13F filings are a very complete picture of what a hedge fund has been doing, but unfortunately they are only released six to seven weeks after the end of a quarter.
