The Insider Monkey team has completed processing the quarterly 13F filings for the September quarter submitted by the hedge funds and other money managers included in our extensive database. Most hedge funds have been producing disappointing net returns in recent years, however that was partly due to the poor performance of small-cap stocks in general. Well, small-cap stocks finally turned the corner and have been beating the large-cap stocks by more than 10 percentage points over the last 5 months.This means the relevancy of hedge funds’ public filings became inarguable, as they may reveal numerous high-potential stocks. The following article will discuss the smart money sentiment towards Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:CCOI).
Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:CCOI) shares didn’t see a lot of action during the third quarter. Overall, hedge fund sentiment was unchanged. The stock was in 16 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September, as at the end of June. 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 Houlihan Lokey Inc (NYSE:HLI), OM Asset Management PLC (NYSE:OMAM), and ExlService Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXLS) to gather more data points.
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How have hedgies been trading Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:CCOI)?
At the end of the third quarter, a total of 16 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, unchanged from the second quarter of 2016. There were also a total of 16 hedge funds with a bullish position in CCOI at the beginning of this year, so hedge fund sentiment is also flat in 2016. With hedgies’ capital changing hands, there exists a few noteworthy hedge fund managers who were increasing their stakes meaningfully (or already accumulated large positions).
According to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, Renaissance Technologies, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, holds the largest position in Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:CCOI). Renaissance Technologies has a $54.4 million position in the stock. Sitting at the No. 2 spot is Rivulet Capital, led by Barry Lebovits and Joshua Kuntz, holding a $19.4 million position; 4% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the stock. Remaining hedge funds and institutional investors that hold long positions contain Beeneet Kothari’s Tekne Capital Management, Joshua Nash’s Ulysses Management, and Francis Cueto’s Asturias Capital. We should note that two of these hedge funds (Rivulet Capital and Ulysses Management) are among our list of the 100 best performing hedge funds which is based on the performance of their 13F long positions in non-microcap stocks.
