Triumph Group Inc (NYSE:TGI) investors: here’s some bullish news for you.
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Thus, let’s study the newest info for Triumph Group Inc (NYSE:TGI).
Hedge fund activity in Triumph Group Inc (NYSE:TGI)
At Q2’s end, a total of 25 of the hedge funds we track held long positions in this stock, a change of 14% from the previous quarter. With the smart money’s capital changing hands, there exists an “upper tier” of key hedge fund managers who were boosting their holdings meaningfully.
With a general bullishness amongst the titans, specific money managers were breaking ground themselves. Viking Global, managed by Andreas Halvorsen, established the biggest position in Triumph Group Inc (NYSE:TGI). Viking Global had 162.9 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Joe DiMenna’s ZWEIG DIMENNA PARTNERS also initiated a $30.2 million position during the quarter. The other funds with brand new TGI positions are Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management, D. E. Shaw’s D E Shaw, and Van Schreiber’s Bennett Lawrence Management.
What do corporate executives and insiders think about Triumph Group Inc (NYSE:TGI)?
Legal insider trading, particularly when it’s bullish, is at its handiest when the company in focus has experienced transactions within the past 180 days. Over the last half-year time frame, Triumph Group Inc (NYSE:TGI) has experienced zero unique insiders buying, and 1 insider sales (see the details of insider trades here).
We’ll also take a look at the relationship between both of these indicators in other stocks similar to Triumph Group Inc (NYSE:TGI). These stocks are Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (NYSE:HII), Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SPR), Hexcel Corporation (NYSE:HXL), Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), and FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR). All of these stocks are in the aerospace/defense products & services industry and their market caps are similar to TGI’s market cap.
