Investing in hedge funds can bring large profits, but it’s not for everybody, since hedge funds are available only for high-net-worth individuals. They generate significant returns for investors to justify their large fees and they allocate a lot of time and employ a complex analysis to determine the best stocks to invest in. A particularly interesting group of stocks that hedge funds like is the small-caps. The huge amount of capital does not allow hedge funds to invest a lot in small-caps, but our research showed that their most popular small-cap ideas are less efficiently priced and generate stronger returns than their large- and mega-cap picks and the broader market. That is why we follow the hedge fund activity in the small-cap space.
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. (NYSE:ETH) was in 13 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. ETH investors should be aware of a decrease in support from the world’s most successful money managers recently. There were 16 hedge funds in our database with ETH holdings at the end of the previous 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 Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. (NYSE:TOO), Sun Hydraulics Corporation (NASDAQ:SNHY), and Solar Capital Ltd. (NASDAQ:SLRC) to gather more data points.
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Hedge fund activity in Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. (NYSE:ETH)
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 13 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, down by 19% from the second quarter of 2016. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in ETH over the last 5 quarters. So, let’s check 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, Chuck Royce’s Royce & Associates has the largest position in Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. (NYSE:ETH), worth close to $74.8 million. The second largest stake is held by Paul Hondros of AlphaOne Capital Partners, with a $4.2 million position; 1.4% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the stock. Other peers that hold long positions contain D. E. Shaw’s D E Shaw, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group and Ken Fisher’s Fisher 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.
