Hedge fund managers like David Einhorn, Dan Loeb, or Carl Icahn became billionaires through reaping large profits for their investors, which is why piggybacking their stock picks may provide us with significant returns as well. Many hedge funds, like Paul Singer’s Elliott Management, are pretty secretive, but we can still get some insights by analyzing their quarterly 13F filings. One of the most fertile grounds for large abnormal returns is hedge funds’ most popular small-cap picks, which are not so widely followed and often trade at a discount to their intrinsic value. In this article we will check out hedge fund activity in another small-cap stock: Supreme Industries, Inc. (NYSEAMEX:STS).
Supreme Industries, Inc. (NYSEAMEX:STS) shareholders have witnessed an increase in support from the world’s most successful money managers of late. STS was in 9 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 6 hedge funds in our database with STS holdings at the end of the previous quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare STS to other stocks including Renewable Energy Group Inc (NASDAQ:REGI), Lumos Networks Corp (NASDAQ:LMOS), and Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTG) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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How have hedgies been trading Supreme Industries, Inc. (NYSEAMEX:STS)?
At Q3’s end, a total of 9 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a gain of 50% from the second quarter of 2016. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards STS over the last 5 quarters. 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 publicly available hedge fund and institutional investor holdings data compiled by Insider Monkey, Renaissance Technologies, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, holds the most valuable position in Supreme Industries, Inc. (NYSEAMEX:STS). Renaissance Technologies has a $9.3 million position in the stock. Coming in second is AQR Capital Management, led by Cliff Asness, holding a $7.1 million position. Some other professional money managers that are bullish comprise Peter Algert and Kevin Coldiron’s Algert Coldiron Investors, Robert B. Gillam’s McKinley Capital Management and Peter Muller’s PDT Partners. 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.
