Hedge funds run by legendary names like Nelson Peltz and David Tepper make billions of dollars a year for themselves and their super-rich accredited investors (you’ve got to have a minimum of $1 million liquid to invest in a hedge fund) by spending enormous resources on analyzing and uncovering data about small-cap stocks that the big brokerage houses don’t follow. Small caps are where they can generate significant out-performance. These stocks have been on a tear since the end of June, outperforming large-cap index funds by more than 10 percentage points. That’s why we pay special attention to hedge fund activity in these stocks.
Is Metaldyne Performance Group Inc (NYSE:MPG) a buy right now? Investors who are in the know are undeniably taking an optimistic view. The number of long hedge fund positions that are disclosed in regulatory 13F filings increased by 4 lately. There were 12 hedge funds in our database with MPG positions at the end of the 2016 third 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 Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAWW), MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI), and Tutor Perini Corp (NYSE:TPC) to gather more data points.
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How are hedge funds trading Metaldyne Performance Group Inc (NYSE:MPG)?
At Q3’s end, a total of 12 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a jump of 50% from the previous quarter. On the other hand, there were a total of 9 hedge funds with a bullish position in MPG at the beginning of this year. With the smart money’s sentiment swirling, there exists a few key hedge fund managers who were upping their stakes substantially (or already accumulated large positions).
According to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, John A. Levin’s Levin Capital Strategies has the number one position in Metaldyne Performance Group Inc (NYSE:MPG), worth close to $49.9 million, corresponding to 0.7% of its total 13F portfolio. The second largest stake is held by Anchorage Advisors, led by Kevin Michael Ulrich and Anthony Davis, holding a $21.7 million position; the fund has 2.2% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Some other members of the smart money with similar optimism consist of Andrew Feldstein and Stephen Siderow’s Blue Mountain Capital, Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell’s Arrowstreet Capital and Charles Paquelet’s Skylands Capital. 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.
