Here is How Hedge Funds Traded Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI) Recently

We at Insider Monkey have gone over 821 13F filings that hedge funds and prominent investors are required to file by the SEC The 13F filings show the funds’ and investors’ portfolio positions as of March 31st, near the height of the coronavirus market crash. In this article, we look at what those funds think of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI) based on that data.

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI) was in 26 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2020. ATI investors should pay attention to a decrease in activity from the world’s largest hedge funds of late. There were 27 hedge funds in our database with ATI positions at the end of the previous quarter. Our calculations also showed that ATI isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings and see the video for a quick look at the top 5 stocks).

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Ken Fisher of Fisher Asset Management

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How are hedge funds trading Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI)?

At Q1’s end, a total of 26 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of -4% from one quarter earlier. On the other hand, there were a total of 25 hedge funds with a bullish position in ATI a year ago. So, let’s review which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

According to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, D. E. Shaw’s D E Shaw has the most valuable position in Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI), worth close to $15.3 million, corresponding to less than 0.1%% of its total 13F portfolio. The second largest stake is held by Water Street Capital, managed by Gilchrist Berg, which holds a $11.6 million position; 1.3% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Other hedge funds and institutional investors that are bullish consist of Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management, Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group and Israel Englander’s Millennium Management. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Mountaineer Partners Management allocated the biggest weight to Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI), around 4.09% of its 13F portfolio. Water Street Capital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, designating 1.27 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to ATI.

Due to the fact that Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI) has witnessed falling interest from the aggregate hedge fund industry, we can see that there is a sect of funds that elected to cut their positions entirely last quarter. Intriguingly, Brandon Haley’s Holocene Advisors cut the largest position of the 750 funds monitored by Insider Monkey, comprising an estimated $3.7 million in stock, and Noam Gottesman’s GLG Partners was right behind this move, as the fund said goodbye to about $1.6 million worth. These moves are intriguing to say the least, as aggregate hedge fund interest dropped by 1 funds last quarter.

Let’s also examine hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI) but similarly valued. These stocks are Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR), S & T Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ:STBA), Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE:AMRX), and Air Transport Services Group Inc. (NASDAQ:ATSG). This group of stocks’ market valuations resemble ATI’s market valuation.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 11.75 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $39 million. That figure was $95 million in ATI’s case. Air Transport Services Group Inc. (NASDAQ:ATSG) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand S & T Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ:STBA) is the least popular one with only 4 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI) is more popular among hedge funds. Our calculations showed that top 10 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 41.4% in 2019 and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 10.1 percentage points. These stocks gained 8.3% in 2020 through the end of May and still beat the market by 13.2 percentage points. Unfortunately ATI wasn’t nearly as popular as these 10 stocks and hedge funds that were betting on ATI were disappointed as the stock returned 2.1% during the second quarter (through the end of May) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 10 most popular stocks among hedge funds as most of these stocks already outperformed the market in 2020.

Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.