Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:MIG) has experienced a decrease in activity from the world’s largest hedge funds lately.
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Now, we’re going to take a peek at the recent action encompassing Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:MIG).
How have hedgies been trading Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:MIG)?
Heading into Q2, a total of 10 of the hedge funds we track were long in this stock, a change of -9% from one quarter earlier. With hedgies’ capital changing hands, there exists an “upper tier” of notable hedge fund managers who were increasing their stakes considerably.
According to our comprehensive database, Jason F. Harris’s Kendall Square Capital had the largest position in Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:MIG), worth close to $8.7 million, accounting for 5.8% of its total 13F portfolio. The second largest stake is held by Israel Englander of Millennium Management, with a $2.5 million position; the fund has less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Other hedge funds with similar optimism include Jacob Gottlieb’s Visium Asset Management, Peter Algert and Kevin Coldiron’s Algert Coldiron Investors and John Overdeck and David Siegel’s Two Sigma Advisors.
Judging by the fact that Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:MIG) has faced a declination in interest from hedge fund managers, logic holds that there was a specific group of funds that elected to cut their full holdings in Q1. Interestingly, Paul Tudor Jones’s Tudor Investment Corp dropped the biggest investment of the “upper crust” of funds we monitor, totaling close to $0.6 million in stock., and Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies was right behind this move, as the fund cut about $0.4 million worth. These moves are interesting, as total hedge fund interest was cut by 1 funds in Q1.
Insider trading activity in Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:MIG)
Insider trading activity, especially when it’s bullish, is most useful when the company in question has experienced transactions within the past half-year. Over the last half-year time period, Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:MIG) has seen 8 unique insiders purchasing, and zero insider sales (see the details of insider trades here).
With the results exhibited by Insider Monkey’s studies, retail investors should always monitor hedge fund and insider trading sentiment, and Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:MIG) is an important part of this process.
