The 700+ hedge funds and famous money managers tracked by Insider Monkey have already compiled and submitted their 13F filings for the third quarter, which unveil their equity positions as of September 30. We went through these filings, fixed typos and other more significant errors and identified the changes in hedge fund portfolios. Our extensive review of these public filings is finally over, so this article is set to reveal the smart money sentiment towards Orange S.A. (NYSE:ORAN).
Is Orange S.A. (NYSE:ORAN) worth your attention right now? Money managers are becoming more confident. The number of long hedge fund positions increased by 1 lately. Our calculations also showed that ORAN isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds. ORAN was in 3 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2019. There were 2 hedge funds in our database with ORAN positions at the end of the previous quarter.
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Dmitry Balyasny of Balyasny Asset Managemnet
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What does smart money think about Orange S.A. (NYSE:ORAN)?
At Q3’s end, a total of 3 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of 50% from the second quarter of 2019. On the other hand, there were a total of 1 hedge funds with a bullish position in ORAN a year ago. So, let’s find out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
Among these funds, Millennium Management held the most valuable stake in Orange S.A. (NYSE:ORAN), which was worth $1.1 million at the end of the third quarter. On the second spot was Marshall Wace which amassed $0.8 million worth of shares. Balyasny Asset Management was also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Marshall Wace allocated the biggest weight to Orange S.A. (NYSE:ORAN), around 0.01% of its portfolio. Millennium Management is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 0.0017 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to ORAN.
As industrywide interest jumped, key hedge funds have jumped into Orange S.A. (NYSE:ORAN) headfirst. Marshall Wace, managed by Paul Marshall and Ian Wace, created the most outsized position in Orange S.A. (NYSE:ORAN). Marshall Wace had $0.8 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Dmitry Balyasny’s Balyasny Asset Management also initiated a $0.2 million position during the quarter.
Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Orange S.A. (NYSE:ORAN). These stocks are Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADI), JD.Com Inc (NASDAQ:JD), Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE:EMR), and HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE:HCA). All of these stocks’ market caps are closest to ORAN’s market cap.
| Ticker | No of HFs with positions | Total Value of HF Positions (x1000) | Change in HF Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADI | 43 | 2517774 | -1 |
| JD | 54 | 5279009 | 9 |
| EMR | 37 | 594019 | 5 |
| HCA | 55 | 2621149 | 4 |
| Average | 47.25 | 2752988 | 4.25 |
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 47.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $2753 million. That figure was $2 million in ORAN’s case. HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE:HCA) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE:EMR) is the least popular one with only 37 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Orange S.A. (NYSE:ORAN) is even less popular than EMR. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 34.7% in 2019 through November 22nd and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 8.5 percentage points. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on ORAN, though not to the same extent, as the stock returned 5.1% during the fourth quarter (through 11/22) and outperformed the market as well.
Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.
