Hedge Funds Are Selling Intuit Inc. (INTU)

The 700+ hedge funds and money managers tracked by Insider Monkey have already compiled and submitted their 13F filings for the third quarter, which unveil their equity positions as of September 30. We went through these filings, fixed typos and other more significant errors and identified the changes in hedge fund positions. Our extensive review of these public filings is finally over, so this article is set to reveal the smart money sentiment towards Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU).

Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU) was in 26 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. INTU investors should be aware of a decrease in hedge fund interest recently. There were 28 hedge funds in our database with INTU holdings at the end of the previous quarter. The level and the change in hedge fund popularity aren’t the only variables you need to analyze to decipher hedge funds’ perspectives. A stock may witness a boost in popularity but it may still be less popular than similarly priced stocks. That’s why at the end of this article we will examine companies such as Vale SA (ADR) (NYSE:VALE), Prologis Inc (NYSE:PLD), and Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM) to gather more data points.

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How are hedge funds trading Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU)?

Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 26 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a fall of 7% from the previous quarter. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in INTU over the last 5 quarters. So, let’s review which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

Of the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, David Blood and Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management has the most valuable position in Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU), worth close to $124.9 million, amounting to 1.4% of its total 13F portfolio. On Generation Investment Management’s heels is AQR Capital Management, led by Cliff Asness, holding a $89.1 million position. Some other hedge funds and institutional investors that hold long positions comprise John Overdeck and David Siegel’s Two Sigma Advisors, Paul Marshall and Ian Wace’s Marshall Wace LLP and Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies. We should note that none of these hedge funds are among our list of the 100 best performing hedge funds which is based on the performance of their 13F long positions in non-microcap stocks.