Activist investor Carl Icahn had an abysmal third quarter.
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November 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Many prominent investors, including Warren Buffett, David Tepper and Stan Druckenmiller, have been cautious regarding the current bull market and missed out as the stock market...
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October 26 - Hedge Funds, News
How do you pick the next stock to invest in? One way would be to spend days of research browsing through thousands of publicly traded companies.
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August 31 - Hedge Funds, News
At the end of February we announced the arrival of the first US recession since 2009 and we predicted that the market will decline by at least 20% in (see why hell is coming).
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July 8 - Hedge Funds, News
Insider Monkey has processed numerous 13F filings of hedge funds and successful value investors to create an extensive database of hedge fund holdings.
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May 27 - Hedge Funds, News
We hate to say this but, we told you so.
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May 3 - Hedge Funds, News
Coronavirus is probably the #1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be.
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March 11 - Hedge Funds, News
We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged in 2019.
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December 25 - Hedge Funds, News
The 700+ hedge funds and famous money managers tracked by Insider Monkey have already compiled and submitted their 13F filings for the third quarter, which unveil their equity...
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November 28 - Hedge Funds, News
Hedge fund managers like David Einhorn, Bill Ackman, or Carl Icahn became billionaires through reaping large profits for their investors, which is why piggybacking their stock...
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October 10 - Hedge Funds, News
Is Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) a good bet right now? We like to analyze hedge fund sentiment before doing days of in-depth research.
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June 10 - Hedge Funds, News
Like everyone else, elite investors make mistakes. Some of their top consensus picks, such as Amazon, Facebook and Alibaba, have not done well in Q4 due to various reasons.
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March 27 - Hedge Funds, News
Our extensive research has shown that imitating the smart money can generate significant returns for retail investors, which is why we track more than 700 prominent money managers...
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December 9 - Hedge Funds, News
The biotech sector is well known for its M&A activity, but billionaire fund managers don’t seem to be attracted by the frenzy.
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February 5 - Hedge Funds, News
“U.S. stocks traded mostly higher Wednesday, with energy leading, as investors digested economic data and the start of the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union.
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March 29 - Commodities, Gold, Market Movers, News
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) shares have popped almost 19% in the pre-market after the company released positive results from two studies.
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March 29 - Market Movers, News
Hedge fund managers like David Einhorn, Dan Loeb, or Carl Icahn became billionaires through reaping large profits for their investors, which is why piggybacking their stock picks...
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November 25 - Hedge Funds, News
Bringing something new to the table is something that seems to be difficult these days, considering that many things have already been done, have already been invented, and have...
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October 26 - Hedge Funds, Lists, News
There probably is no other sector that has burned hedge funds this year as bad as healthcare has.
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April 12 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
There are several ways to beat the market, and investing in small cap stocks has historically been one of them.
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November 24 - Hedge Funds, News
It's the start of another week of what should amount to compelling trading activity and shares of Amazon.com, Inc.
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November 2 - Market Movers, News
With the earnings season in progress, a number of stocks are registering significant moves on the back of earnings releases and other news.
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October 29 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News, Tech
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) is up more than 42% after reporting successful results of its cystic fibrosis treatment.
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June 24 - Market Movers, News
Outerwall, Pandora, Achillion, hedge funds: It’s no secret that at Insider Monkey, we track hedge funds (discover why here).
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October 11 - Hedge Funds, News
It's really amazing to think about how far we've come over even the past decade in the health-care arena.
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September 23 - News
Ray Dalio manages the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. It has a tremendous track record, so when the man talks about markets, people usually listen.
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September 23 - Hedge Funds
There are few, if any, businesses in the world where innovation isn't the top priority.
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September 14 - News
Yesterday, shareholders in chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) and defense contractor SAIC, Inc. (NYSE:SAI) got what seemed like bad news.
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September 13 - News
As fast as we can type this, Phill Gross and Robert Atchinson's hedge fund, Adage Capital Partners, disclosed ownership of about 3.7 million shares of Onyx Pharmaceuticals, ...
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September 9 - News
If you were to ask many investors, hedge funds are viewed as delayed, outdated investment vehicles of an era lost to time.
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August 29 - News
One of the company's ushering in the next generation of hepatitis-C treatment is Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD).
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August 28 - News
In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are tons of metrics market participants can use to track the equity markets.
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August 26 - News
In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are tons of metrics shareholders can use to track publicly traded companies.
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August 26 - News
In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are dozens of indicators investors can use to analyze Mr. Market.
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August 26 - News
In the financial world, there are dozens of gauges shareholders can use to analyze stocks. Two of the most under-the-radar are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.
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August 26 - News
If you were to ask many investors, hedge funds are assumed to be useless, old investment tools of a period lost to current times.
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August 23 - News
In after hours trading on April 18, a few hours after the release of my previous article focusing on Exelixis, Inc.
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August 23 - News
If you've ever taken the time to really follow the biopharmaceutical sector, you know very well that failures are a dime a dozen, and success stories are few and far between.
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August 19 - News
The S&P 500 includes 500 of the biggest stocks in the market.
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August 5 - News
Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you.
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August 1 - News
Cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disorder that affects the lungs, the pancreas, liver, and intestine, is the second most common inherited disorder in the United States, after sickle...
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August 1 - News
With the SPDR S&P Biotech Index up 29% over the trailing-12-month period, it's evident that investment dollars are willingly flowing into the biotech sector.
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July 29 - News
Biotechnology stocks are usually valued on the potential of their pipelines, especially if there is no drug already in the market.
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July 29 - News
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD)' shares surged over 5% in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company announced its second-quarter earnings before giving up some of...
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July 29 - News
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) reported its second quarter on Tuesday, and turned in some positive numbers. Revenue grew 8.5%, year-over-year, up to $17.9 billion.
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July 19 - News
To prove my point, I looked at the multi-year chart and picked out some of the peaks.
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July 1 - News
When the stock price of a company increases significantly, investors are curious to know whether it is likely to increase further.
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June 27 - News
Hepatitis-C is a contagious virus that attacks the liver and can be found in acute or chronic forms.
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June 24 - News
Our job here is to examine companies through an investing perspective.
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June 12 - News
A recent report by EvaluatePharma claims that sales of orphan drugs -- ones that target rare diseases -- will grow at twice the rate of the overall prescription market.
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May 30 - News