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Is Sandstorm Gold Ltd. (NYSEMKT:SAND) a bargain? The best stock pickers are altogether getting more bullish. The number of long hedge fund positions experienced an increase of 1 in recent months. There were 10 hedge funds in our database with SAND holdings at the end of the previous quarter, versus 11 at the end of Q3. At the end of this article we will also compare SAND to other stocks including Encore Wire Corporation (NASDAQ:WIRE), Constellium NV (NYSE:CSTM), and Wave Life Sciences Ltd (NASDAQ:WVE) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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Now, we’re going to take a glance at the fresh action regarding Sandstorm Gold Ltd. (NYSEMKT:SAND).
Hedge fund activity in Sandstorm Gold Ltd. (NYSE:SAND)
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 11 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 10% from one quarter earlier. By comparison, 8 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in SAND heading into this year. With the smart money’s positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists an “upper tier” of key hedge fund managers who were upping their holdings 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, has the most valuable position in Sandstorm Gold Ltd. (NYSE:SAND), worth close to $7.1 million, corresponding to less than 0.1% of its total 13F portfolio. Coming in second is D E Shaw, with a $4.2 million position; the fund has less than 0.1% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Other peers with similar optimism include Israel Englander’s Millennium Management, Brad Dunkley and Blair Levinsky’s Waratah Capital Advisors and Murray Stahl’s Horizon Asset Management. We should note that none of these hedge funds 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.
