Is Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc (ADMS) A Good Stock To Buy?

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Is Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ADMS) a good stock to buy right now? Prominent investors are indeed becoming more confident. The number of long hedge fund positions that are disclosed in regulatory 13F filings improved by 2 lately. ADMS was in 17 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 15 hedge funds in our database with ADMS holdings at the end of the previous quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare ADMS to other stocks including Columbus McKinnon Corp. (NASDAQ:CMCO), CNX Coal Resources LP (NYSE:CNXC), and Triumph Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ:TBK) to get a better sense of its popularity.

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Now, we’re going to take a gander at the new action regarding Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ADMS).

Hedge fund activity in Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ADMS)

At Q3’s end, a total of 17 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 13% from one quarter earlier. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards ADMS over the last 5 quarters. With hedgies’ positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists an “upper tier” of noteworthy hedge fund managers who were boosting their holdings significantly (or already accumulated large positions).

Of the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, Great Point Partners, led by Jeffrey Jay and David Kroin, holds the biggest position in Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ADMS). Great Point Partners has a $42.7 million position in the stock, comprising 10.9% of its 13F portfolio. Coming in second is Joshua Kaufman and Craig Nerenberg of Brenner West Capital Partners, with a $19.2 million position; the fund has 1.7% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Other members of the smart money that hold long positions contain Howard Shainker and Akiva Katz’s Bow Street LLC, Millennium Management, one of the 10 largest hedge funds in the world and Ori Hershkovitz’s Nexthera Capital. 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.

With a general bullishness amongst the heavyweights, key money managers have been driving this bullishness. Bow Street LLC established the largest position in Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ADMS). Bow Street LLC had $18.9 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Warren Lammert’s Granite Point Capital also initiated a $3.7 million position during the quarter. The other funds with brand new ADMS positions are Philip Hempleman’s Ardsley Partners and Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group.

Let’s now review hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ADMS). We will take a look at Columbus McKinnon Corp. (NASDAQ:CMCO), CNX Coal Resources LP (NYSE:CNXC), Triumph Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ:TBK), and Peoples Utah Bancorp (NASDAQ:PUB). All of these stocks’ market caps are similar to ADMS’s market cap.

As you can see these stocks had an average of 7.75 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $48 million. That figure was $115 million in ADMS’s case. Columbus McKinnon Corp. (NASDAQ:CMCO) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Peoples Utah Bancorp (NASDAQ:PUB) is the least popular one with only 4 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ADMS) is more popular among hedge funds. Considering that hedge funds are fond of this stock in relation to its market cap peers and collectively they own nearly one third of the company, it may be a good idea to analyze it in detail and potentially include it in your portfolio.