Philippine Long Distance Telephone (ADR) (NYSE:PHI) investors: listen up.
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Now that that’s out of the way, it’s important to study the newest info for Philippine Long Distance Telephone (ADR) (NYSE:PHI).
Hedge fund activity in Philippine Long Distance Telephone (ADR) (NYSE:PHI)
Heading into Q3, a total of 9 of the hedge funds we track were long in this stock, a change of 29% from the first quarter. With hedgies’ sentiment swirling, there exists an “upper tier” of noteworthy hedge fund managers who were upping their stakes substantially.
Out of the hedge funds we follow, Jim Simons’s Renaissance Technologies had the biggest position in Philippine Long Distance Telephone (ADR) (NYSE:PHI), worth close to $147.7 million, accounting for 0.4% of its total 13F portfolio. Sitting at the No. 2 spot is First Eagle Investment Management, managed by Matt McLennan, which held a $2.7 million position; less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Remaining hedge funds with similar optimism include Israel Englander’s Millennium Management, Jane Mendillo’s Harvard Management Co and Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell’s Arrowstreet Capital.
As industrywide interest increased, specific money managers have been driving this bullishness. Renaissance Technologies, managed by Jim Simons, initiated the largest position in Philippine Long Distance Telephone (ADR) (NYSE:PHI). Renaissance Technologies had 147.7 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Matt McLennan’s First Eagle Investment Management also made a $2.7 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with new positions in the stock are Israel Englander’s Millennium Management, Jane Mendillo’s Harvard Management Co, and Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell’s Arrowstreet Capital.
Insider trading activity in Philippine Long Distance Telephone (ADR) (NYSE:PHI)
Insider buying is best served when the company we’re looking at has seen transactions within the past half-year. Over the last 180-day time period, Philippine Long Distance Telephone (ADR) (NYSE:PHI) has experienced zero unique insiders buying, and zero insider sales (see the details of insider trades here).
We’ll check out the relationship between both of these indicators in other stocks similar to Philippine Long Distance Telephone (ADR) (NYSE:PHI). These stocks are BT Group plc (ADR) (NYSE:BT), Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), KT Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:KT), France Telecom SA (ADR) (NYSE:FTE), and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (ADR) (NYSE:TLK). All of these stocks are in the telecom services – foreign industry and their market caps are similar to PHI’s market cap.
