According to a 13G filed with the SEC, Glenhill Advisors owns 2.7 million shares of The Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack (NYSE:PBY), an auto parts retailer and auto maintenance company...
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July 12 - Hedge Funds
Data storage, infrastructure, and security company EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) has been left out of the stock market’s rise year to date, with its current stock price at about...
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July 12 - Stock Analysis
Harvard Management alum Jonathan Jacobson co-founded Highfields Capital Management in 1998, with the endowment providing $500 million of the fund’s initial fundraising.
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July 11 - Hedge Funds
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds and other notable investors, having found that the information in these filings can be useful in developing investment...
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July 11 - Hedge Funds
Even if CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE:CNX) has not been hit quite as hard as some of its peers by the weakened demand for coal, the business has still been struggling recently.
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July 11 - Stock Analysis
Many discount retailers got off to a slow start at the beginning of this fiscal year, and Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT), whose fiscal Q1 ended in early May, was no exception.
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July 10 - Stock Analysis
In May, Jeffrey Altman’s Owl Creek Asset Management filed its quarterly 13F with the SEC, disclosing many of its long equity positions in U.S. stocks as of the end of March.
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July 10 - Hedge Funds
In May, Generation Investment Management, a hedge fund co-managed by David Blood and former Vice President Al Gore, filed its 13F for the first quarter of 2013 with the SEC.
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July 10 - Hedge Funds
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds, including Ron Gutfleish’s Elm Ridge Capital.
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July 10 - Hedge Funds
In May, Kahn Brothers, a hedge fund which has been managed by Irving and Thomas Kahn since 1978, filed their 13F for the first quarter of 2013 with the SEC, disclosing many of...
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July 10 - Hedge Funds
Despite a boom in oil and gas activity in the onshore U.S., Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) did not report particularly strong results in the first quarter of 2013.
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July 9 - Stock Analysis
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds, including Glenn Greenberg’s Brave Warrior Capital, using the results to help us develop investment strategies (we...
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July 9 - Hedge Funds
Francis Chou, of Chou Associates Management, was recognized by Morningstar with the Fund Manager of the Decade award in 2004.
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July 9 - Hedge Funds
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds, including Philippe Jabre’s Jabre Capital Partners, as part of our work researching investment strategies; we have...
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July 9 - Hedge Funds
In May, Sandell Asset Management, a hedge fund founded and managed by Tom Sandell, filed its 13F for the first quarter of 2013 with the SEC.
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July 8 - Hedge Funds
A family limited partnership connected to Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) officer Stephen Rohleder purchased 20,000 shares of the company’s stock on July 2nd at an average price of...
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July 8 - Insider Trading
The most comprehensive picture of activity by hedge funds and other notable investors comes in the form of quarterly 13F filings, and we’ve found that tracking these picks can...
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July 8 - Hedge Funds
According to a 13G recently filed with the SEC, SPO Advisory- an investment fund managed by John Scully- controls a total of nearly 2.8 million shares of Equinix Inc (NASDAQ:EQIX...
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July 8 - Hedge Funds
According to a filing with the SEC, Warren Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway has continued to buy shares of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc (NYSE:DVA), a $12 billion...
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July 8 - Hedge Funds
We can screen stocks for “upside potential” through the PEG ratio, which takes into account both a stock’s price-to-earnings multiple and analyst expectations for future...
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July 4 - Hedge Funds
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) is hoping to report better results for the second quarter of 2013 after starting the year off poorly during Q1.
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July 3 - Stock Analysis
In May, billionaire Louis Bacon’s Moore Global filed its 13F with the SEC for the first quarter of 2013.
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July 3 - Hedge Funds
In addition to using our database of quarterly 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors as a tool in researching investment strategies (we have found, for example...
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July 3 - Hedge Funds
According to our review of studies on insider trading, stocks bought by insiders tend to narrowly outperform the market.
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July 3 - Insider Trading
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds and other notable investors, using the results to help us identify investing strategies; we have found, for example...
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July 2 - Hedge Funds
Despite its large size, Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) had a quite successful second quarter of its fiscal year (Q2 ended in March), with the company’s revenue growing ...
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July 2 - Stock Analysis
Value investors often begin their search for attractive stocks by looking for those which are “cheap” in terms of having low price-to-earnings multiples.
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July 2 - Hedge Funds
Our analysis of investment strategies related to quarterly 13F filings has found that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds generate an average excess return of ...
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July 2 - Hedge Funds
On June 25th, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE:ANF) Board member Craig Stapleton directly acquired 10,000 shares of stock at prices of about $44 per share.
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July 2 - Insider Trading
After falling from above $50 per share at the beginning of 2010 to under $13 per share late last year, Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) has rallied to nearly $25 as markets ...
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July 2 - Stock Analysis
The PEG ratio takes into account both a stock’s P/E multiple and analyst expectations for future earnings growth, and therefore serves as one way to measure its upside potential...
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July 2 - Hedge Funds
Even with the market as a whole doing well over the last year, a number of stocks have seen significant declines in their stock prices.
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July 1 - Stock Analysis
When we went through the most recent 13F filing for Cliff Asness’s AQR Capital Management (we track 13Fs from hundreds of hedge funds and other notable investors as part of ...
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July 1 - Hedge Funds
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds as part of our work researching investment strategies, and have found that the most popular small cap stocks among ...
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July 1 - Hedge Funds
A Form 4 filed with the SEC has disclosed that Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) Board member Jeffrey Sonnenfeld directly acquired over 3,300 shares of stock on June 27th at an average...
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July 1 - Insider Trading
Israel Englander founded Millennium Management in 1989 and the hedge fund has since grown to over $10 billion in assets under management.
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July 1 - Hedge Funds
While the trailing P/E multiple is a useful value metric, it does not take a company’s future growth prospects into account.
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June 28 - Hedge Funds
The second quarter of Deere & Company (NYSE:DE)’s fiscal year ended in April, with the company experiencing a 9% increase in revenue versus a year earlier but only a 3% rise...
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June 28 - Stock Analysis
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds, including Caxton Associates (whose founder, Bruce Kovner, became a billionaire due to the fund’s success).
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June 28 - Hedge Funds
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) is coming off a strong performance in the first quarter of 2013, in which its net income was 15% higher on a q/q basis and 33% above its levels...
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June 27 - Stock Analysis
A recent filing with the SEC has disclosed that Nina Vaca, a member of the Board of Directors at Kohl's Corporation (NYSE:KSS), purchased about 1,600 shares of the company’s...
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June 27 - Insider Trading
In May, Bridgewater Associates- one of the largest hedge funds in the world, managed by billionaire Ray Dalio- filed its 13F for the first quarter of 2013.
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June 27 - Hedge Funds
The most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds, as determined from quarterly 13F filings tend to outperform the S&P 500 by an average of 18 percentage points per year (learn...
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June 27 - Hedge Funds
Our analysis of studies on insider trading has led us to conclude that stocks bought by insiders slightly outperform the market.
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June 26 - Insider Trading
In May, Joel Greenblatt- the former manager of Gotham Capital, who many investors might recognize as the author of You Can Be A Stock Market Genius- filed his 13F for the first...
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June 26 - Hedge Funds
Offshore driller Transocean LTD (NYSE:RIG) has not been earning much money over the last year compared to its market capitalization of $17 billion, but the company experienced...
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June 26 - Stock Analysis
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds and other notable investors as part of our work researching investment strategies; we have found, for example, that...
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June 26 - Hedge Funds
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds, including billionaire Kerr Neilson’s Platinum Asset Management.
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June 26 - Hedge Funds