Here is What Hedge Funds Think About Everi Holdings Inc (EVRI)

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Is Everi Holdings Inc (NYSE:EVRI) ready to rally soon? Prominent investors are surely becoming hopeful. The number of bullish hedge fund positions that are disclosed in regulatory 13F filings grew by 1 recently. EVRI was in 18 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 17 hedge funds in our database with EVRI positions at the end of the previous quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare EVRI to other stocks including Vectrus Inc (NYSE:VEC), Sientra Inc (NASDAQ:SIEN), and RealNetworks Inc (NASDAQ:RNWK) to get a better sense of its popularity.

We care about hedge fund sentiment because historically hedge funds’ stock picks delivered strong risk adjusted returns. There are certain segments of the market where hedge funds’ stock picks performed much better than its benchmarks. For instance, the 30 most popular mid-cap stocks among the best performing hedge funds returned 18% over the last 12 months outpacing S&P 500 Index by more than 10 percentage points. We developed this strategy 2.5 years ago and started sharing its picks in our quarterly newsletter. It bested the S&P 500 Index ETFs by delivering a solid 39% vs. 22% gain for its benchmarks.

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What does the smart money think about Everi Holdings Inc (NYSE:EVRI)?

At the end of the third quarter, a total of 18 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a gain of 6% from one quarter earlier. On the other hand, there were a total of 15 hedge funds with a bullish position in EVRI at the beginning of this year. So, let’s find out 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, Archer Capital Management, led by Eric Edidin and Josh Lobel, holds the most valuable position in Everi Holdings Inc (NYSE:EVRI). Archer Capital Management has a $12 million position in the stock, comprising 3% of its 13F portfolio. Sitting at the No. 2 spot is Private Capital Management, led by Gregg J. Powers, holding a $9.2 million position; the fund has 1.4% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Other professional money managers with similar optimism encompass Derek C. Schrier’s Indaba Capital Management, Didric Cederholm’s Lion Point and Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies. We should note that two of these hedge funds (Archer Capital Management and Lion Point) 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.