It is already common knowledge that individual investors do not usually have the necessary resources and abilities to properly research an investment opportunity. As a result, most investors pick their illusory “winners” by making a superficial analysis and research that leads to poor performance on aggregate. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index returned 7.6% over the 12-month period ending November 21, while more than 51% of the constituents of the index underperformed the benchmark. Hence, a random stock picking process will most likely lead to disappointment. At the same time, the 30 most favored mid-cap stocks by the best performing hedge funds monitored by Insider Monkey generated a return of 18% over the same time span. Of course, hedge funds do make wrong bets on some occasions and these get disproportionately publicized on financial media, but piggybacking their moves can beat the broader market on average. That’s why we are going to go over recent hedge fund activity in MINDBODY Inc (NASDAQ:MB) .
MINDBODY Inc (NASDAQ:MB) has experienced an increase in enthusiasm from smart money of late. MB was in 20 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 12 hedge funds in our database with MB positions 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 Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:DCOM), JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE:JKS), and Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ:LSCC) to gather more data points.
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What does the smart money think about MINDBODY Inc (NASDAQ:MB)?
At Q3’s end, a total of 20 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a gain of 67% from one quarter earlier. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in MB over the last 5 quarters. With hedge funds’ capital changing hands, there exists a few noteworthy hedge fund managers who were increasing their holdings substantially (or already accumulated large positions).
According to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, Colin Moran’s Abdiel Capital Advisors has the largest position in MINDBODY Inc (NASDAQ:MB), worth close to $69.1 million, accounting for 20.3% of its total 13F portfolio. On Abdiel Capital Advisors’s heels is Alexander Captain of Cat Rock Capital, with a $12.8 million position; 7% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the stock. Other hedge funds and institutional investors that hold long positions contain Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies, Christian Leone’s Luxor Capital Group and Brad Dunkley and Blair Levinsky’s Waratah Capital Advisors. We should note that Cat Rock Capital is 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.
