The 700+ hedge funds and 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 positions. Our extensive review of these public filings is finally over, so this article is set to reveal the smart money sentiment towards Taylor Morrison Home Corp (NYSE:TMHC).
Is Taylor Morrison Home Corp (NYSE:TMHC) a bargain? Money managers are actually in a bullish mood. The number of bullish hedge fund bets improved by 1 lately. In this way, there were 9 hedge funds in our database with TMHC holdings at the end of the last quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare TMHC to other stocks including Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ:NEOG), Moog Inc (NYSE:MOG), and Criteo SA (ADR) (NASDAQ:CRTO) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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What does the smart money think about Taylor Morrison Home Corp (NYSE:TMHC)?
At Q3’s end, a total of 9 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a gain of 13% from the second quarter of 2016. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in TMHC over the last 5 quarters. With hedgies’ capital changing hands, there exists an “upper tier” of notable hedge fund managers who were upping their holdings considerably (or already accumulated large positions).
Of the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, Millennium Management, one of the 10 largest hedge funds in the world, holds the number one position in Taylor Morrison Home Corp (NYSE:TMHC). Millennium Management has a $6.8 million position in the stock. Sitting at the No. 2 spot is Ken Heebner of Capital Growth Management, with a $2.6 million position. Some other members of the smart money with similar optimism contain D. E. Shaw’s D E Shaw, and Emanuel J. Friedman’s EJF Capital. 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.
