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PS Business Parks Inc (NYSE:PSB) shares didn’t see a lot of action during the third quarter. Overall, hedge fund sentiment was unchanged. The stock was in 7 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. At the end of this article we will also compare PSB to other stocks including National Health Investors Inc (NYSE:NHI), Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc (NYSE:FDP), and Worthington Industries, Inc. (NYSE:WOR) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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Keeping this in mind, we’re going to take a look at the recent action surrounding PS Business Parks Inc (NYSE:PSB).
What have hedge funds been doing with PS Business Parks Inc (NYSE:PSB)?
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 7 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 0% from the second quarter of 2016. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in PSB over the last 5 quarters. With hedgies’ positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists a few key hedge fund managers who were increasing their stakes meaningfully (or already accumulated large positions).
Of the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, Millennium Management, one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, has the number one position in PS Business Parks Inc (NYSE:PSB), worth close to $38.6 million, amounting to 0.1% of its total 13F portfolio. Coming in second is Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies, with a $26.7 million position; less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Other professional money managers that are bullish comprise Greg Poole’s Echo Street Capital Management, Cliff Asness’s AQR Capital Management and John Overdeck and David Siegel’s Two Sigma Advisors. 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.
