Top Industrial Picks Of Impax Asset Management: Xylem Inc (XYL), Pentair plc. Ordinary Share (PNR), Danaher Corporation (DHR)

Ian Simm’s Impax Asset Management has filed its 13F with the SEC, disclosing its public equity holdings as of June 30. The investment firm was founded in 1998 and currently has assets worth $4.8 billion under management. According to the firm’s website, it seeks out “companies that operate in markets where there are long term themes that underpin growth and where those companies are poorly understood and, therefore, inefficiently priced to provide opportunities for a specialist active manager to add value.” Its latest 13F filing indicates an equity portfolio valued at $1.59 billion, with its top ten stocks accounting for 35.88% of the overall portfolio. Impax Asset Management hasan inclination towards industrial stocks, with nearly 57% of its equity portfolio dedicated towards them. Xylem Inc (NYSE:XYL), Pentair plc. Ordinary Share (NYSE:PNR), and Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) are the top industrial stock positions of the investment manager and we’ll study them in this article.

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With more than half of its equity investments directed towards the industrial sector, it’s no surprise that Xylem Inc (NYSE:XYL), an industrial stock, is the top holding of Impax Asset Management. The investment advisory firm boosted its investment in the water-specific service provider by 7% in the second quarter to 2.29 million shares valued at $85.05 million. In its second quarter of 2015, Xylem Inc (NYSE:XYL) was able to match the markets’ earnings expectations of $0.43, although its revenue came in slightly short at $920.0 million. Its EPS declined by 10.41% in comparison with the prior-year quarter, whereas revenue was down by 8.5%. The shares of Xylem Inc (NYSE:XYL) have declined by 12.54% year-to-date and its shares are trading at $33.67 as of the reporting period. Among the hedge funds in our database that have filed 13Fs for the current reporting period, Adage Capital Management, led by Phill Gross and Robert Atchinson, has a position in the company of 53,691 shares valued at $1.99 million.