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KKR & Co. L.P. (NYSE:KKR) shares didn’t see a lot of action during the third quarter. Overall, hedge fund sentiment was unchanged. The stock was in 24 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2016, same as a quarter earlier. 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 WABCO Holdings Inc. (NYSE:WBC), Companhia de Saneamento Basico (ADR) (NYSE:SBS), and OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE:OGE) to gather more data points.
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Hedge fund activity in KKR & Co. L.P. (NYSE:KKR)
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 24 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, unchanged from the second quarter of 2016. On the other hand, there were a total of 23 hedge funds with a bullish position in KKR at the beginning of this year, so hedge fund ownership of the stock is up minimally in 2016. So, let’s see 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, John W. Rogers’ Ariel Investments has the most valuable position in KKR & Co. L.P. (NYSE:KKR), worth close to $152 million, accounting for 1.8% of its total 13F portfolio. The second most bullish fund manager is GMT Capital, led by Thomas E. Claugus, holding a $74.1 million position; the fund has 1.5% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Other members of the smart money that hold long positions comprise John A. Levin’s Levin Capital Strategies and Gregg J. Powers’ Private Capital 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.
