Here is What Hedge Funds Think About DSP Group, Inc. (DSPG)

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Now, key money managers were leading the bulls’ herd. Israel Englander’s Millennium Management, assembled the biggest position in DSP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DSPG). Millennium Management had $0.7 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell’s  Arrowstreet Capital  also made a $0.3 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new DSPG investors: Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group and Gavin Saitowitz and Cisco J. del Valle’s Springbok Capital.
Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as DSP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DSPG) but similarly valued. These stocks are Pioneer Energy Services Corp (NYSE:PES), Ignyta Inc (NASDAQ:RXDX), Safeguard Scientifics, Inc (NYSE:SFE), and Kandi Technolgies Corp. (NASDAQ:KNDI). This group of stocks’ market caps match DSPG’s market cap.

Ticker No of HFs with positions Total Value of HF Positions (x1000) Change in HF Position
PES 10 4083 -1
RXDX 16 94094 0
SFE 5 3546 -1
KNDI 3 741 2

As you can see these stocks had an average of 8.5 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $26 million. That figure was $59 million in DSPG’s case. Ignyta Inc (NASDAQ:RXDX) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Kandi Technolgies Corp. (NASDAQ:KNDI) is the least popular one with only 3 bullish hedge fund positions. DSP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DSPG) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. This is a slightly positive signal but we’d rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. In this regard RXDX might be a better candidate to consider taking a long position in.


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