PGT, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGTI) was in 7 hedge funds’ portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012. PGTI investors should pay attention to an increase in enthusiasm from smart money lately. There were 5 hedge funds in our database with PGTI holdings at the end of the previous quarter.
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With all of this in mind, we’re going to take a gander at the key action surrounding PGT, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGTI).
What have hedge funds been doing with PGT, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGTI)?
At year’s end, a total of 7 of the hedge funds we track held long positions in this stock, a change of 40% from one quarter earlier. With hedgies’ positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists a few key hedge fund managers who were increasing their stakes significantly.
Of the funds we track, Phill Gross and Robert Atchinson’s Adage Capital Management had the most valuable position in PGT, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGTI), worth close to $19.7 million, comprising 0.1% of its total 13F portfolio. Sitting at the No. 2 spot is Chuck Royce of Royce & Associates, with a $5.1 million position; less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Some other peers that hold long positions include Jim Simons’s Renaissance Technologies, Richard Driehaus’s Driehaus Capital and Israel Englander’s Millennium Management.
What do corporate executives and insiders think about PGT, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGTI)?
Insider buying is particularly usable when the company we’re looking at has experienced transactions within the past six months. Over the latest 180-day time frame, PGT, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGTI) has seen zero unique insiders buying, and 3 insider sales (see the details of insider trades here).
Let’s also review hedge fund and insider activity in other stocks similar to PGT, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGTI). These stocks are US Concrete Inc (NASDAQ:USCR), AAON, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAON), Quanex Building Products Corporation (NYSE:NX), U.S. Lime & Minerals Inc. (NASDAQ:USLM), and NCI Building Systems, Inc. (NYSE:NCS). This group of stocks are the members of the general building materials industry and their market caps resemble PGTI’s market cap.
| Company Name | # of Hedge Funds | # of Insiders Buying | # of Insiders Selling |
| US Concrete Inc (NASDAQ:USCR) | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| AAON, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAON) | 10 | 0 | 3 |
| Quanex Building Products Corporation (NYSE:NX) | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| U.S. Lime & Minerals Inc. (NASDAQ:USLM) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| NCI Building Systems, Inc. (NYSE:NCS) | 15 | 0 | 6 |
With the returns demonstrated by our time-tested strategies, retail investors should always monitor hedge fund and insider trading sentiment, and PGT, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGTI) shareholders fit into this picture quite nicely.
