The Insider Monkey team has completed processing the quarterly 13F filings for the September quarter submitted by the hedge funds and other money managers included in our extensive database. Most hedge funds have been producing disappointing net returns in recent years, however that was partly due to the poor performance of small-cap stocks in general. Well, small-cap stocks finally turned the corner and have been beating the large-cap stocks by more than 10 percentage points over the last 5 months.This means the relevancy of hedge funds’ public filings became inarguable, as they may reveal numerous high-potential stocks. The following article will discuss the smart money sentiment towards Immunomedics, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMMU) .
Is Immunomedics, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMMU) ready to rally soon? Prominent investors are getting more bullish. The number of long hedge fund positions that are disclosed in regulatory 13F filings moved up by 1 lately. At the end of this article we will also compare IMMU to other stocks including Agile Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:AGRX), Allied Motion Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMOT), and Franklin Covey Co. (NYSE:FC) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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How are hedge funds trading Immunomedics, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMMU)?
At Q3’s end, a total of 17 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a 6% increase from the previous quarter. There were a total of 11 hedge funds with a bullish position in IMMU at the beginning of this year, so hedge fund ownership has jumped by more than 50% this year. With hedge funds’ positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists a select group of notable hedge fund managers who were upping their holdings meaningfully (or already accumulated large positions).
When looking at the institutional investors followed by Insider Monkey, Behzad Aghazadeh’s venBio Select Advisor has the biggest position in Immunomedics, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMMU), worth close to $23.9 million, corresponding to 4.2% of its total 13F portfolio. The second most bullish fund manager is OrbiMed Advisors, led by Samuel Isaly, which holds a $12.4 million position. Remaining hedge funds and institutional investors with similar optimism contain Jason Karp’s Tourbillon Capital Partners, Ken Greenberg and David Kim’s Ghost Tree Capital, and Dmitry Balyasny’s Balyasny Asset 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.
