After several tireless days we have finished crunching the numbers from the more than 700 13F filings issued by the elite hedge funds and other investment firms that we track at Insider Monkey, which disclosed those firms’ equity portfolios as of September 30. The results of that effort will be put on display in this article, as we share valuable insight into the smart money sentiment towards Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC).
Semtech Corporation is trading at 24.4 times forward earnings and it has registered a decrease in activity from the world’s largest hedge funds of late. There were 15 hedge funds in our database with SMTC holdings at the end of the previous quarter. 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 II-VI, Inc. (NASDAQ:IIVI), BancFirst Corporation (NASDAQ:BANF), and Archrock Partners LP (NASDAQ:APLP) to gather more data points.
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Keeping this in mind, let’s take a glance at the fresh action regarding Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC).
How have hedgies been trading Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC)?
Heading into Q4, a total of 13 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a decline of 13% from one quarter earlier. With the smart money’s sentiment swirling, there exists an “upper tier” of notable hedge fund managers who were boosting their holdings meaningfully (or already accumulated large positions).
When looking at the institutional investors followed by Insider Monkey, Gordy Holterman and Derek Dunn’s Overland Advisors has the largest position in Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC), worth close to $14.4 million, corresponding to 0.4% of its total 13F portfolio. The second largest stake is held by Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group, with a $14.3 million position; less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Remaining peers with similar optimism contain Lee Munder’s Lee Munder Capital Group and Dmitry Balyasny’s Balyasny Asset Management.
