Stadium Capital's Q3 return of 33.01% was best among all hedge funds in the WhaleWisdom universe*. Tiger Legatus ranked #2 with a 31.81% return for the third quarter. *Performance was measured based on a "manager weighted" portfolio of all hedge funds' top 10 holdings...
Cloning Carl Icahn is a good idea. Now I'm of course not talking about a laboratory experiment whereby we create an army of little corporate activists that will grow into so many billionaires. Rather, I'm referring to following the renowned...
It's been a challenging investing landscape over the last year, to say the least. From Sept. 30, 2019 through Feb. 19, 2020, the S&P 500 gained 14%. Then the Coronavirus pandemic swept in like a giant Black Swan. The market swooned 34% over the next month, bottoming...
Michael Burry bought Tailored Brands at $13 in Q4 2018. But over four months later, a TLRD insider bought the tumbling stock at $7.41. Tailored Brands (TLRD), a top Q4 holding of Michael Burry's Scion Hedge Fund, spiked higher Tuesday after a corporate insider...
At the Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference last year, Gil Simon of SoMa Equity Partners presented his best idea: SailPoint Technologies (SAIL). The Sohn conference is renowned as an annual event where hedge fund managers make market-moving presentations. Indeed, after Simon -- a rising star in the...
Starboard Value cut its Cars.com stake aggressively after the online auto retailer's strategic search failed and the company announced disappointing Q2 results. In a 13D/A filing submitted Wednesday afternoon, the hedge fund disclosed selling 4.47 million shares of the online automobile retailer on August 5-6 at...
Famed money manager Michael Burry, main character in the book and movie "The Big Short," began reporting his Scion Asset Management holdings in Q4 of 2018 after a two year hiatus. Since then, Scion has averaged about 12 positions in its quarterly 13F portfolio. But Scion's Q3...
If you had to choose one fund to follow, Tiger Global might be it. Chase Coleman's Tiger Global has been the best large hedge fund over the last 3 years. At least based on long-only positions disclosed via 13F filings. Copying or "cloning" Tiger Global's long positions...
RA Capital has outperformed all other healthcare hedge funds over the past decade, based on 13F holdings. In fact, RA's 30.88% annualized return of it's equal-weighted top 20 long portfolio led all other hedge funds over that period. So, when RA manager Peter Kolchinsky discloses portfolio changes,...
Tiger Global has been selling Sunrun shares as fellow "Tiger Cub" Coatue Management buys shares of the solar systems retailer. Sunrun Inc. (RUN) has been a huge winner for Tiger Global, surging 352% year-to-date. But since Oct. 1, the $41B hedge fun run by Chase Coleman has...