Top 5 Stocks Billionaire George Soros Just Bought

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Below we present the list of Top 5 Stocks Billionaire George Soros Just Bought. For more background on George Soros and some of his other top stock picks, please see Top 10 Stocks Billionaire George Soros Just Bought.

  1. Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (NYSE:VAR

The second-half of our list is kicked off with another merger-arb play, as Soros Fund Management bought 145,058 shares of Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (NYSE:VAR) during Q3, a holding valued at $24.5 million at the end of September.

David Blood and Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management owned by far the largest position in Varian at the end of Q2 among the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, valued at just over $400 million. That set them up for a major payday after Varian jumped by over 21% following the August announcement that it would be acquired by Siemens Healthineers for $16.4 billion in cash.

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