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Is Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc (NYSE:DO) a buy here? The best stock pickers are turning less bullish. The number of bullish hedge fund bets were trimmed by 1 in recent months. DO was in 24 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 25 hedge funds in our database with DO positions at the end of the previous quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare DO to other stocks including Outfront Media Inc (NYSE:OUT), Quanta Services Inc (NYSE:PWR), and PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ:PRXL) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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What have hedge funds been doing with Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc (NYSE:DO)?
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 24 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a 4% dip from the second quarter of 2016 and the second straight quarterly drop in hedge fund ownership, with it having fallen by 25% during that time. With the smart money’s capital changing hands, there exists an “upper tier” of key hedge fund managers who were upping their stakes substantially (or already accumulated large positions).
According to publicly available hedge fund and institutional investor holdings data compiled by Insider Monkey, Cliff Asness’ AQR Capital Management has the biggest position in Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc (NYSE:DO), worth close to $64.2 million. The second most bullish fund manager is Point72 Asset Management, led by Steve Cohen, holding a $19.1 million position. Remaining members of the smart money that hold long positions comprise Paul Marshall and Ian Wace’s Marshall Wace LLP, Vince Maddi and Shawn Brennan’s SIR Capital Management and Chuck Royce’s Royce & Associates.
