Signet Jewelers Ltd (SIG): Select Equity Group Ups Its Stake

A newly amended 13G filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showed that Robert Joseph Caruso‘s Select Equity Group has acquired more shares of Signet Jewelers Ltd. (NYSE:SIG) and now owns 8.02 million, or 10.2% of the total amount of shares. The stake was increased from 5.98 million shares, or 7.5 % of the company’s outstanding stock, that Select Equity Group disclosed in an earlier filing.

Signet Jewelers Limited is a big retailer of diamond jewelry that operates more than 3,600 stores under a variety of brands, such as Ernes Jones, Kay Jewelry, and H.Samuel to name a few, across the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Since the beginning of the year, Signet Jewelers’ stock has lost 12.47%. At the end of March, Goldman Sachs and Topeka Capital Markets boosted their price targets on the stock to $192.00 from $186.00 and to $170.00 from $169.00 , respectively, while maintaining their ‘Buy’ ratings.

The number of funds (among those we track) long Signet Jewelers Ltd. (NYSE:SIG) increased by six to 53 during the fourth quarter of 2015.   Select Equity Group disclosed the most valuable position, followed by Keith Meister’s Corvex Capital, with a $696.3 million stake. Other investors long the stock encompass Thomas Steyer’s Farallon Capital, Alan Fournier’s Pennant Capital Management, Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management, Michael A. Price and Amos Meron’s Empyrean Capital Partners, Ken Heebner’s Capital Growth Management, Gabriel Plotkin’s Melvin Capital Management, Gregg Moskowitz’s Interval Partners, and Benjamin A. Smith’s Laurion Capital Management.

You can access the original SEC filing by clicking here.

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