What Do Hedge Funds Think of Enable Midstream Partners LP (ENBL)?

There are several ways to beat the market, and investing in small cap stocks has historically been one of them. We like to improve the odds of beating the market further by examining what famous hedge fund operators such as Carl Icahn and George Soros think. Those hedge fund operators make billions of dollars each year by hiring the best and the brightest to do research on stocks, including small cap stocks that big brokerage houses simply don’t cover. Because of Carl Icahn and other elite funds’ exemplary historical records, we pay attention to their small cap picks. In this article, we use hedge fund filing data to analyze Enable Midstream Partners LP (NYSE:ENBL).

Enable Midstream Partners LP (NYSE:ENBL) has seen an increase in enthusiasm from smart money of late. ENBL was in 4 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 2 hedge funds in our database with ENBL positions at the end of the previous quarter. The level and the change in hedge fund popularity aren’t the only variables you need to analyze to decipher hedge funds’ perspectives. A stock may witness a boost in popularity but it may still be less popular than similarly priced stocks. That’s why at the end of this article we will examine companies such as Liberty Broadband Corp (NASDAQ:LBRDA), The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAIN), and AMC Networks Inc (NASDAQ:AMCX) to gather more data points.

With all of this in mind, we’re going to analyze the recent action surrounding Enable Midstream Partners LP (NYSE:ENBL).

What have hedge funds been doing with Enable Midstream Partners LP (NYSE:ENBL)?

At Q3’s end, a total of 4 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 100% from the second quarter. With hedge funds’ positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists an “upper tier” of notable hedge fund managers who were increasing their holdings considerably (or already accumulated large positions).

Of the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, George Hall’s Clinton Group has the number one position in Enable Midstream Partners LP (NYSE:ENBL), worth close to $0.2 million, comprising less than 0.1% of its total 13F portfolio. Coming in second is Zimmer Partners, led by Stuart J. Zimmer, holding a $0.2 million position; less than 0.1% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Other members of the smart money that are bullish comprise Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group, and David Dreman’s Dreman Value Management.