Top 5 Stock Picks of Matthew Halbower’s Pentwater Capital Management

In this piece, we will take a look at the top 5 stock picks of Matthew Halbower’s Pentwater Capital Management. For details about Mr. Halbower and his investment firm, head on over to the Top 10 Stock Picks of Matthew Halbower’s Pentwater Capital Management.

5. Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX)

Pentwater Capital’s Stake Value: $435 million

Percentage of Pentwater Capital’s 13F Portfolio: 4.42%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 61

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) is an American company that designs and sells programmable semiconductors known as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). These are generally used to assist large-scale datacenters in computing complex programs. Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) is under acquisition by chip designer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), and the pair expect the transaction to close by the end of the first quarter of this year.

During Q3 2021, Mr. Halbower’s investment firm owned 2.88 million Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) shares for a $435 million stake that represented 4.4% of its portfolio. During the same time period, 61 of 867 hedge funds surveyed by Insider Monkey also owned the company’s shares.

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX)’s largest investor according to Insider Monkey’s research is D. E. Shaw’s investment firm D E Shaw who owns 4.1 million shares worth $632 million.