Hedge Funds Are Dumping Diana Containerships Inc (DCIX)

Is Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ:DCIX) the right investment to pursue these days? The smart money is getting less optimistic. The number of bullish hedge fund bets stayed the same which is a slightly negative development in our experience

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With all of this in mind, let’s take a peek at the latest action regarding Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ:DCIX).

Hedge fund activity in Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ:DCIX)

At Q1’s end, a total of 7 of the hedge funds we track held long positions in this stock, a change of 0% from the first quarter. With hedgies’ sentiment swirling, there exists a select group of notable hedge fund managers who were increasing their holdings significantly.

Of the funds we track, Gruss Asset Management, managed by Howard Guberman, holds the biggest position in Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ:DCIX). Gruss Asset Management has a $4.5 million position in the stock, comprising 0.7% of its 13F portfolio. Coming in second is Chuck Royce of Royce & Associates, with a $2.3 million position; the fund has less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Some other peers that hold long positions include Jim Simons’s Renaissance Technologies, Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell’s Arrowstreet Capital and Israel Englander’s Millennium Management.

Judging by the fact that Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ:DCIX) has faced a declination in interest from the aggregate hedge fund industry, logic holds that there lies a certain “tier” of hedgies who were dropping their entire stakes in Q1. It’s worth mentioning that John Overdeck and David Siegel’s Two Sigma Advisors said goodbye to the largest investment of the “upper crust” of funds we watch, worth about $0.2 million in stock.. Ken Griffin’s fund, Citadel Investment Group, also cut its stock, about $0.1 million worth. These transactions are intriguing to say the least, as aggregate hedge fund interest stayed the same (this is a bearish signal in our experience).

How have insiders been trading Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ:DCIX)?

Insider purchases made by high-level executives is at its handiest when the company in question has experienced transactions within the past 180 days. Over the last half-year time period, Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ:DCIX) has seen zero unique insiders purchasing, and zero insider sales (see the details of insider trades here).

With the returns shown by Insider Monkey’s time-tested strategies, retail investors must always monitor hedge fund and insider trading sentiment, and Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ:DCIX) shareholders fit into this picture quite nicely.

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