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 Everyday Health Inc (NYSE:EVDY).
Is Everyday Health Inc (NYSE:EVDY) a sound investment right now? Hedge funds are thoroughly betting on the stock. The number of bullish hedge fund investments inched up by 4 lately. 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 Federated National Holding Co (NASDAQ:FNHC), Hawaiian Telcom HoldCo Inc (NASDAQ:HCOM), and Nobilis Health Corp (NYSEMKT:HLTH) to gather more data points.
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How have hedgies been trading Everyday Health Inc (NYSE:EVDY)?
At the end of the third quarter, a total of 12 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a 50% jump from the previous quarter. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards EVDY over the last 5 quarters, which included a mild decline in the first-half of the year before the latest surge. So, let’s find out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
According to publicly available hedge fund and institutional investor holdings data compiled by Insider Monkey, Alyeska Investment Group, led by Anand Parekh, holds the largest position in Everyday Health Inc (NYSE:EVDY). Alyeska Investment Group has a $4.1 million position in the stock. Coming in second is D E Shaw, one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, holding a $3.5 million position. Remaining professional money managers with similar optimism include Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies, Israel Englander’s Millennium Management, and John Overdeck and David Siegel’s Two Sigma Advisors. 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-microcap stocks.
