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Is Teekay Corporation (NYSE:TK) a bargain? Investors who are in the know are turning bullish. The number of long hedge fund positions advanced by 3 in recent months. Our calculations also showed that TK isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (see the video below).
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How are hedge funds trading Teekay Corporation (NYSE:TK)?
At the end of the second quarter, a total of 13 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 30% from one quarter earlier. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in TK over the last 16 quarters. So, let’s review which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
Among these funds, Renaissance Technologies held the most valuable stake in Teekay Corporation (NYSE:TK), which was worth $5.6 million at the end of the second quarter. On the second spot was Cobalt Capital Management which amassed $5.4 million worth of shares. Moreover, Orbis Investment Management, Dalton Investments, and Marshall Wace LLP were also bullish on Teekay Corporation (NYSE:TK), allocating a large percentage of their portfolios to this stock.
As industrywide interest jumped, key money managers were leading the bulls’ herd. Cobalt Capital Management, managed by Wayne Cooperman, created the most valuable position in Teekay Corporation (NYSE:TK). Cobalt Capital Management had $5.4 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Paul Marshall and Ian Wace’s Marshall Wace LLP also made a $0.5 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with new positions in the stock are Peter Muller’s PDT Partners, Paul Tudor Jones’s Tudor Investment Corp, and D. E. Shaw’s D E Shaw.
Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Teekay Corporation (NYSE:TK). These stocks are Standard Diversified Inc. (NYSE:SDI), SilverCrest Metals Inc. (NYSE:SILV), Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P (NASDAQ:CLMT), and Peoples Financial Services Corp. (NASDAQ:PFIS). All of these stocks’ market caps resemble TK’s market cap.
| Ticker | No of HFs with positions | Total Value of HF Positions (x1000) | Change in HF Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDI | 4 | 7173 | 1 |
| SILV | 2 | 12572 | -1 |
| CLMT | 5 | 10355 | 1 |
| PFIS | 1 | 2541 | 0 |
| Average | 3 | 8160 | 0.25 |
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 3 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $8 million. That figure was $19 million in TK’s case. Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P (NASDAQ:CLMT) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Peoples Financial Services Corp. (NASDAQ:PFIS) is the least popular one with only 1 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Teekay Corporation (NYSE:TK) is more popular among hedge funds. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 24.4% in 2019 through September 30th and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 4 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on TK as the stock returned 16.3% during Q3 and outperformed the market by an even larger margin. Hedge funds were clearly right about piling into this stock relative to other stocks with similar market capitalizations.
Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.
