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Is Teladoc Inc (NYSE:TDOC) a worthy investment today? Investors who are in the know are definitely taking a bearish view. The number of long hedge fund positions shrank by 1 lately. TDOC was in 6 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 7 hedge funds in our database with TDOC holdings at the end of June. At the end of this article we will also compare TDOC to other stocks including Meridian Interstate Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:EBSB), Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ:ERII), and Raven Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:RAVN) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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How are hedge funds trading Teladoc Inc (NYSE:TDOC)?
At the end of the third quarter, a total of 6 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a fall of 14% from the previous quarter. On the other hand, there were a total of 14 hedge funds with a bullish position in TDOC at the beginning of October, so hedge fund ownership fell substantially over the following year. With the smart money’s capital changing hands, there exists a select group of noteworthy hedge fund managers who were increasing their stakes significantly (or already accumulated large positions).
Of the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, Jerome Pfund and Michael Sjostrom’s Sectoral Asset Management holds the most valuable position in Teladoc Inc (NYSE:TDOC). Sectoral Asset Management has a $28.2 million position in the stock, comprising 2.8% of its 13F portfolio. On Sectoral Asset Management’s heels is Millennium Management, one of the 10 largest hedge funds in the world, with a $10 million position. Remaining professional money managers that are bullish include Justin John Ferayorni’s Tamarack Capital Management, Peter A. Wright’s P.A.W. CAPITAL PARTNERS, and Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group. 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-micro-cap stocks.
