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Is EnerSys (NYSE:ENS) a buy now? The best stock pickers are getting less bullish. The number of bullish hedge fund positions retreated by 1 recently. ENS was in 21 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 22 hedge funds in our database with ENS holdings at the end of the previous quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare ENS to other stocks including Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ:MASI), Janus Capital Group Inc (NYSE:JNS), and The Wendy’s Company (NASDAQ:WEN) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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What have hedge funds been doing with EnerSys (NYSE:ENS)?
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 21 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a 5% drop from the previous quarter. That did follow a surge in ownership in Q2 however, when there was a greater than 50% increase in the number of hedge funds with long positions. With hedgies’ capital changing hands, there exists an “upper tier” of notable hedge fund managers who were upping their holdings substantially (or already accumulated large positions).
According to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, Joel Greenblatt’s Gotham Asset Management has the largest position in EnerSys (NYSE:ENS), worth close to $14.8 million. Sitting at the No. 2 spot is Benjamin A. Smith of Laurion Capital Management, with a $9.9 million position. Other members of the smart money with similar optimism consist of John Overdeck and David Siegel’s Two Sigma Advisors, Cliff Asness’ AQR Capital Management and Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies.
