Whitney Tilson Praises Obama for Stock Market, Discusses Herbalife, Walmart, Wells Fargo
Whitney Tilson is a famous value investing fund manager and is the founder of Kase Capital Management. Tilson has been in the investing business for 18...
Posts Tagged ‘Herbalife (HLF)’
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF): Two Men Charged With Insider Trading By SEC
Security and Exchange Commission has charged two men with insider trading in Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) shares, according to a CNBC report by Scott Wapner...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) In A Vacuum of Information: Duane Stanford
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF)’s up by about 7% during the day and trades at around $43.1, after a long slide that started at the end of July. The company...
Carl Icahn To Get Three More Board Seats at Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)
Carl Icahn and Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) have strengthened their ties, with the company having agreed to offer Icahn more board seats. According to an...
Druckenmiller’s 4Q13 Portfolio Changes
Stan Druckenmiller is a billionaire, and was the long-time manager of Duquesne Capital. Now, he oversees a family office, but his investing strategy is...
Even After Dell Inc. (DELL) Stalemate, Icahn Is Still A Success
On September 9th, billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who manages Icahn Capital (find Icahn’s favorite stocks), conceded his battle over Dell...
Equinix Inc (EQIX), J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (JCP)–Hedge Fund Battleground Stocks: What Should You Do?
A popular misconception among investors is that the rounds of 13F filings released by hedge funds and other notable investors several weeks after the...
Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc (QCOR), J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (JCP): Hedge Funds, Not So Good At Shorting, Great At Picking Small Caps
So far this year, the 30 most widely shorted stocks from the beginning of 2013- as measured by the number of shares short as a percentage of the float...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF), J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (JCP): Ackman Is Just One Of Many Short Sellers Having a Tough 2013
Recently, Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) climbed above $60, meaning that billionaire Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is finally underwater from its short...
George Soros’s Hedge Fund Bullish On J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (JCP) & Herbalife Ltd. (HLF), Selling Airlines
Billionaire George Soros is best known for its profitable macro investments, particularly in currency instruments, but his hedge fund Soros Fund Management...
Billionaire Carl Icahn Has Been Buying Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) and Transocean LTD (RIG)
By tracking quarterly 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors, we have been able to use the included information to develop investment...
Ken Heebner’s Capital Growth Management’s Small Cap Picks Include Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)
The most popular small cap stocks (which we define as having market capitalizations between $1 billion and $5 billion) among hedge funds generate an average...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) & 4 More: Hedge Fund Tiger Consumer Management’s Best Picks
Tiger Consumer Management is a “Tiger Cub” hedge fund, so named because founder Patrick McCormack had previously worked at legendary investor Julian...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF), Intel Corporation (INTC): Pay Attention to This or Lose 44.7% of Investment Returns
They are not usually exciting and they don’t normally make splashy headlines; but, on average, stocks that pay dividends outperform the market average...
Billionaire Dan Loeb’s Small Cap Stock Picks Include Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)
Our work developing investment strategies has found that on average the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds generate an average excess return...
Delphi Automotive PLC (DLPH), Herbalife Ltd. (HLF): Billionaire Dan Loeb’s High Upside Potential Picks
One way to quantitatively measure a stock’s upside potential is with the PEG ratio, which incorporates both the P/E multiple and analyst consensus estimates...
Ken Heebner’s 3% Yield and Higher Picks Include Herbalife (HLF)
We track 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors; the most recent round of filings disclosed many long equity positions as of the end...
Hedge Funds Have Bought Herbalife, Tempur-Pedic, and More
While 13F filings provide the most complete picture of what stocks hedge funds own, they are somewhat out of date by the time they are released. This...
Billionaire Dan Loeb and Insiders Are Bullish on These Stocks: Herbalife Ltd. (HLF), Apple Inc. (AAPL)
On the whole, hedge funds have underperformed the market in recent years. This is no secret. To most members of the financial media, their coverage of...
Hillshire Brands (HSH) & Other Lesser Known Stocks From Rivals Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb
Hedge funds generate a substantial portion of their alpha from the small-cap space. On the whole, public research about the little guys tends to be less...
Hedge Funds Are Buying Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) and These Other Stocks
13D and 13G filings from hedge funds reveal large positions taken by hedge funds (or significant changes in these positions) fairly recently after the...
What Else is Dan Loeb Bullish On Besides Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)?
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) has had a wild ride over the past three weeks. On the afternoon of December 19th, news surfaced that Bill Ackman, manager of...
Billionaire Dan Loeb Ambushes Ackman On Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)
In December, billionaire Bill Ackman of Pershing Square (check out Ackman’s stock picks) gave an exhaustive short presentation on Herbalife Ltd. (...
Why Are Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) Shares Gaining Momentum?
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) has fallen close to 10% in value since December 19th, when reports first surfaced that Bill Ackman, manager of Pershing Square...
Hedge Fund News: Ken Griffin, John Paulson, General Motors Company (GM)
Citadel outpaces rivals with 26% gain in 2012 (ChicagoBusiness) The two biggest hedge funds led by Citadel LLC CEO Ken Griffin posted returns of about...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) Isn’t the Only Stock with a Bill Ackman-Whitney Tilson Connection
Billionaire Bill Ackman runs a niche equity portfolio, owning only around 10 stocks at a time. Ackman is a long-term activist and value investor, and...
Hedge Fund News: Louis Bacon, Leon Cooperman, BlackRock Inc. (BLK)
New Hedge Fund Firms Say They Can Profit in Tough Markets (InstitutionalInvestor) MACRO HEDGE FUND MANAGERS KNOW THE MARKETS can be a cruel mistress....
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF), Express, Inc. (EXPR) Among Joel Greenblatt’s Key Bets
Joel Greenblatt is well known in the value investing community, having penned a number of books on investing, including You Can Be A Stock Market Genius...
In The Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) Aftermath, Should Investors Buy Multi-Level Marketing Companies?
With all of the uncertainty surrounding Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), thanks in part to billionaire Bill Ackman’s barrage of attacks, we decided to...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF): Is The Selloff Overdone?
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) has fallen by more than 35% over the past week on news that billionaire investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital had...
Hedge Fund News: John Paulson, Whitney Tilson, SandRidge Energy Inc. (SD)
Hardly hedging (NYPost) John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made a fortune during the downturn but more recently blamed a bad 2012 performance on...
Did David Einhorn Short Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) With Bill Ackman?
Shares of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) have fallen over 38% since last Wednesday, amid reports that Bill Ackman, manager of the hedge fund Pershing Square...
Hedge Fund News: Carl Icahn, Citigroup Inc. (C), Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY)
Greenbrier rejects Icahn offer again, says it is ‘unacceptable’ (Reuters) U.S. railcar maker Greenbrier Companies Inc (NYSE:GBX) has yet again...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) Hammered Again, Ackman’s Four Pillars of a ‘Pyramid Scheme’
Yesterday, we discussed the jaw-dropping fall of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), which had lost over 12% due to allegations from Bill Ackman, manager of Pershing...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) CEO on Bill Ackman: ‘We Want The SEC to Take Action’
By now, you’ve probably heard what hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, manager of Pershing Square Capital, reportedly thinks of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE...
Hedge Fund News: Mitt Romney, Ricky Sandler, Louis Bacon
Secret Footage of Romney Was Filmed at Estate of Sex Party-Throwing Hedge Fund Manager (GAWKER) You know that really damaging hidden camera footage of...
Hedge Fund News: Louis Bacon, Carl Icahn, Dan Loeb
Bacon To Give Back $2 Billion Amid ‘Constrained’ Markets (Bloomberg) Louis Moore Bacon plans to give back $2 billion, or 25 percent of his main hedge...
Recap of Monday’s After-Market Large-Cap Earnings Reports
There were 17 large-cap companies that posted their quarterly earnings reports prior to Monday’s market open, and the results were received as generally...
The Direct Selling Association Responds to David Einhorn
This is an email we got from the Direct Selling Association: As the association representing more than 200 leading firms that manufacture and distribute...
Jim Simons Lost $50 Million Because of David Einhorn’s Question
Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies had nearly 3 million shares of Herbalife (HLF) at the end of December. The fund was quite bullish about the...
Ken Heebner’s Stock Picks with the Highest Upside Potential
Capital Growth Management was founded by Ken Heebner in 1990 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It provides services to charitable organizations,...
Hedge Fund Holdings In Cramer’s Stock Picks
Jim Cramer is one of the top watched TV personalities on CNBC. He is the host of Mad Money and also the co-founder and chairman of TheStreet.com. Nearly...
