It is already common knowledge that individual investors do not usually have the necessary resources and abilities to properly research an investment opportunity. As a result, most investors pick their illusory “winners” by making a superficial analysis and research that leads to poor performance on aggregate. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index returned 7.6% over the 12-month period ending November 21, while more than 51% of the constituents of the index underperformed the benchmark. Hence, a random stock picking process will most likely lead to disappointment. At the same time, the 30 most favored mid-cap stocks by the best performing hedge funds monitored by Insider Monkey generated a return of 18% over the same time span. Of course, hedge funds do make wrong bets on some occasions and these get disproportionately publicized on financial media, but piggybacking their moves can beat the broader market on average. That’s why we are going to go over recent hedge fund activity in Entercom Communications Corp. (NYSE:ETM).
Hedge fund interest in Entercom Communications Corp. (NYSE:ETM) shares was flat during the third quarter. This is usually a negative indicator. 10 hedge funds that we track owned the stock on September 30, same as on June 30. At the end of this article we will also compare ETM to other stocks including JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE:JKS), Matrix Service Co (NASDAQ:MTRX), and Waterstone Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSBF) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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What does the smart money think about Entercom Communications Corp. (NYSE:ETM)?
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 10 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, unchanged from one quarter earlier. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in ETM over the last 5 quarters, which has remained within a narrow range. 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, Brandon Osten’s Venator Capital Management has the biggest position in Entercom Communications Corp. (NYSE:ETM), worth close to $29 million, accounting for 19.1% of its total 13F portfolio. The second most bullish fund manager is Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell’s Arrowstreet Capital which holds a $2.4 million position. Other members of the smart money that are bullish comprise D E Shaw, one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, Mark Coe’s Coe Capital Management, and Israel Englander’s Millennium 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.
