Trade War Couldn’t Stop Hedge Funds From Buying These Chinese Stocks
The prolonged and escalating trade war between the United States and China didn't stop the collection of leading hedge funds in our database from buying into numerous Chinese ...
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Billionaires Were Buying These Stocks in Q2 When Everyone Else Was Selling
Legendary hedge fund manager and value investor Warren Buffett has shared countless pearls of investing wisdom during his career.
FGL Holdings (FG), Rigel Pharmaceuticals (RIGL), Kemper (KMPR): Top Insider Buys of the Past Week
September has seen a huge uptick in terms of insider buying activity, with the five most active days for insider purchasing this year all having fallen within the past two weeks...
Hedge Funds’ Favorite Apparel Stocks; Nike (NKE) Beaten for the Top Spot
Equity hedge funds performed well in August, leading all stock-picking strategies with 1.1% gains, which pushed their yearly gains to 3.5% according to data compiled by Hedge ...
Hedge Funds’ #1 Stock Picks in Video Games, Casinos, Restaurants, & More
Rising net demand for allocating to hedge funds has hit a three-year high, as the $3 trillion hedge fund industry scored high marks among investors for its performance during ...
Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), Pioneer (PXD): Hedge Funds’ Favorite Energy Stocks
After swooning in early-August, energy stocks are building up steam again as crude oil prices rebound.
Perspecta (PRSP), Wyndham Hotels (WH) Tops Among Hedge Funds’ Favorite Newly-Listed Stocks
2018 has been a big year for IPOs, in terms of both quantity and performance.
Qurate Retail (QRTEA), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Macquarie (MIC): Insider Buys of the Week
Insider buying spiked to 82 purchases on Friday, the second-most active day for insider buying in the past two months, though insider sales outpaced insider buying at a 3:1 pace...
Starbucks (SBUX), Wyndham (WYND), Aptiv (APTV): Insider Buys of the Week
Following a lethargic July, insider buying and selling activity have both increased in August, with insider selling activity being particularly robust.
Hedge Funds’ 5 Favorite Dividend Stocks With 4%+ Yields
With the ten-year treasury yield having risen at a brisk pace in the last year, dividend stocks have lost some momentum as investors diversify their portfolios away from income...
Facebook Dominates List of Most Popular Tech Stocks Among Hedge Funds
Privacy concerns and slowing user growth haven't dampened hedge funds' enthusiasm for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) in the slightest.
3 Hot IPOs With Insider Buying Activity
After a slow start to the year, IPO activity has begun to pick up in the second-quarter, with 43 IPOs having been launched since April 19.
3 Stocks With Insanely Low P/S Ratios That Hedge Funds Are Bullish On
Taken individually, the price-to-sales and price-to-earnings ratios of companies are useful measures for determining their relative valuation, particularly in comparison to other...
Marijuana Legalization in Canada Could Lift These 3 Stocks Very High
On October 17, Canada will become just the second nation in the world to fully legalize the cultivation, sale, and possession of marijuana, joining (nope, it's not The Netherlands...
Insiders Say Restaurant Brands (QSR), Dollar Tree (DLTR), and TechnipFMC (FTI) Are Cheap
Insider buying remained muted last week, with just 271 purchases made during the week according to SEC filing data.
3 Forgotten Tech Stocks That Aren’t Dead Yet
The tech world moves at a breakneck pace, which inevitably leaves dozens of formerly successful companies on the outside looking in as forgotten relics of the past.
Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Will Hurt These 5 Stocks
At the end of May, U.S President Trump announced tariffs on the steel (25%) and aluminum (10%) imports coming from fellow NAFTA members Canada and Mexico, as well as the European...
3 Stocks That Will Benefit from New Video Game Consoles in 2020
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the biggest video game gathering in the world, took place last week in Los Angeles.
Legendary Investor Bill Miller Talks Amazon (AMZN), Disney (DIS) Takeover
The father-son duo of Bill Miller and Bill Miller IV appeared on CNBC on Father's Day to discuss some of the favorite stock picks of Miller Value Investors, including Amazon.com...
Are Candy Stocks like Mondelez (MDLZ) Doomed by the Rise of Online Grocery Shopping?
To journey through the average department or grocery store is to be bombarbed with hundreds of decadent products that we'd love to buy for their great taste, if only they weren...
Top Weekly Insider Buys Include International Flavors & Fragrances Inc (IFF), ProAssurance Corporation (PRA)
Overall insider buying was relatively muted last week as trade war fears continue to weigh on the market and the global economy.
Insiders Buying Into the Huge Rallies in Evolus (EOLS), Verastem (VSTM)
Insiders are masters of snatching up shares of their companies at a discount, expanding their positions during weakness in the stock.
Why Citron Research Hates Netflix (NFLX), Inogen (INGN), Likes This Social Media Company
Citron Research is one of the most respected short sellers in the financial world, owning a lengthy history of correctly predicting stocks that would eventually run into difficulties...
Heavy Insider Buying Says These 3 Stocks Are Ultra Cheap
After the biggest insider buying day of 2018 so far on Friday, May 18 (114 purchases), insider buying activity slowed considerably last week, being outpaced nearly 3-1 by insider...
3 Fortnite Stocks Cashing In On The Battle Royale Game’s Ridiculous Success
The free-to-play game Fortnite is all anyone in the gaming world is talking about.
4 Bargain-Priced Dividend Stocks Near 52-Week Lows
Dividend investors love nothing more than to buy shares of their favorite dividend-paying stock at a discount, locking in an impressive yield along with the added upside of potentially...
The Case Against The New York Times Co (NYT)
New York Times Co (NYSE:NYT) has enjoyed a strong bull run over the past 20 months, more than doubling in value since the beginning of October 2016, just before the Presidential...
Why Shorts Are Dead Wrong About These 2 Stocks (and Right About This 1)
Short selling stocks is never easy at the best of times, less so when the market is in the midst of a nine-year bull run and historically low interest rates help prop up suspect...
3 Sports Betting Stocks Positioned for Massive Growth
The Supreme Court's decision last week to strike down The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, a law which made sports betting illegal across much of the U.S, has triggered...
Activists Are Ganging Up On United Technologies (UTX), Energen (EGN), and Newell Brands (NWL)
While activist investors have their detractors, who often accuse them of putting short-term shareholder returns above the long-term welfare of a company and its employees, it'...
3 Small-Cap Biotech Stocks That Could be Poised to Explode
With the threat of severe drug pricing regulations behind it for now, the biotech sector has launched a rally in recent days, with the iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index (ETF) (...
2017’s Billion-Earning Hedge Fund Managers All Love These Surprising Stocks
Michael Platt of BlueCrest Capital cemented his position atop the list of highest-earning hedge fund managers, taking home a cool $2 billion in earnings in 2017.
3 Underrated Stocks That Just Hit Goldman’s Hedge Fund VIP List
Each quarter, Goldman Sachs releases a list of the 50 stocks that appeared most often among the top-10 holdings of 800+ fundamentally-driven hedge funds during the latest 13F ...
Insiders See Huge Bargains in Shares of Philip Morris (PM), Ford (F), Valeant (VRX)
Last week was a rough one for investors, as ten-year treasury yields pushed to seven-year highs and President Trump sounded skeptical about the U.S/China trade war coming to an...
Nuclear Fallout: Winning and Losing Stocks from Trump’s Iran Deal Exit
President Trump pulled the United States out of the "horrible, one-sided" Iran nuclear pact yesterday, a move that was met with widespread consternation and condemnation in Europe...
Will Cruise Stocks Sink Your Portfolio in 2018?
The cruise industry is enjoying a period of undeniable growth.
Insider Buying at CVS Health Corp (CVS) for the First Time in 5 Years Tops List of Must-See Insider Moves
Sell in May and go away is an old investment adage that references the fact that, historically, stocks have done far poorer during the six-month period beginning in May than during...
Insider Buying Roundup: Elon Musk Buys Tesla (TSLA) Shares After Earnings Call Backlash
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has made amends with investors of his company after a poorly handled earnings call last week sent shares of the electric automaker...
3 Stocks to Buy Ahead of the 2018 World Cup
The World Cup is the globe's biggest sporting event, with the 2014 iteration of the tournament being seen by over 3 billion people, including more than 1 billion watching the ...
Loot Box Legislation: Three Video Game Stocks That Could Lose a Level
Video game stocks have been on a roll over the past few years, buoyed by high-margin new revenue streams in the form of digital loot boxes.
Sohn Conference: D. R. Horton (DHI), Assured Guaranty (AGO), and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Put Under the Microscope
The Sohn Conference in New York, one of the biggest annual investment events, took place yesterday, with presentations from titans of the investment world like Larry Robbins of...
2 Bulls, 1 Bear: Sohn Conference Takes On Facebook (FB), GrubHub (GRUB), Box (BOX)
Several of the most respected and successful hedge fund managers in the world descended on New York yesterday for the Sohn Conference, one of the premier global investment conferences...
Insiders Show Confidence in Signet Jewelers (SIG), AutoZone (AZO), and Tupperware (TUP)
At Insider Monkey, we track insider trading and hedge fund activity to uncover actionable patterns and profit from them.
Why it May be Time to Give Education Stocks Another Chance
Once a booming industry that was a darling on Wall Street, for-profit education has suffered an ignominious decline in recent years (at least in the U.S), exemplified by the collapse...
Rise of the Machines: Why It’s Time to Invest in Robots
If you can't beat them (and you can't), invest in them.
Why Food Stocks May Spoil in Your Portfolio in 2018
Food stocks have been a staple of investors' portfolios for decades and have rewarded them with fat returns throughout that time.
Insider Buying Heating Up At Worthington (WOR), Knowles (KN), and Churchill Downs (CHDN)
At Insider Monkey, we track insider trading and hedge fund activity to uncover actionable patterns and profit from them.
Insider Buying Says LCI Industries (LCI), American Woodmark (AMWD), and Colony NorthStar (CLNS) Are All Undervalued
China has taken aim at U.S President Donald Trump's supporters with its list of 106 imported products from the U.S that will be hit with tariffs amounting to an additional 25% ...
Were Fossil Group Inc (FOSL)’s 63% Q1 Gains Just the Tip of the Iceberg?
Fossil Group Inc (NASDAQ:FOSL) was one of the top performing stocks on the Nasdaq in the first quarter, jumping by 63.5%.
Insider Buying Says Schlumberger (SLB), Entercom (ETM) and Hawaiian Holdings (HA) Are Undervalued
The market continues to reverse course this week, making up half of last week's losses as fears that a China/U.S trade war could be imminent begin to fade.
