Is TRC Companies, Inc. (TRR) A Good Stock To Buy?

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Hedge fund interest in TRC Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TRR) shares was flat at the end of last quarter. This is usually a negative indicator. At the end of this article we will also compare TRR to other stocks including Syndax Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:SNDX), Gladstone Investment Corporation (NASDAQ:GAIN), and Tilly’s Inc (NYSE:TLYS) to get a better sense of its popularity.

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Now, let’s take a look at the recent action regarding TRC Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TRR).

Hedge fund activity in TRC Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TRR)

At Q3’s end, a total of 6 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, unchanged from the second quarter of 2016. On the other hand, there were a total of 11 hedge funds with a bullish position in TRR at the beginning of this year. So, let’s see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

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According to publicly available hedge fund and institutional investor holdings data compiled by Insider Monkey, Chuck Royce’s Royce & Associates has the most valuable position in TRC Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TRR), worth close to $19.7 million, comprising 0.1% of its total 13F portfolio. Sitting at the No. 2 spot is Renaissance Technologies, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, which holds a $4.1 million position; the fund has less than 0.1% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Other peers that hold long positions comprise Peter Algert and Kevin Coldiron’s Algert Coldiron Investors, D. E. Shaw’s D E Shaw and Israel Englander’s Millennium Management. 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.

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