Month: December 2019

It’s only natural that many investors, especially those who are new to the game, prefer to buy shares in ‘sexy’ stocks… …read more […]

The November jobs report crushed expectations on Friday, sending the stock market surging. …read more […]

Zoom Video Communications, a video conferencing company, reported strong top and bottom lines during its third quarter and boosted its full-year revenue guidance. But analysts are saying perhaps investors were looking for an even bigger beat and raise. Yahoo Finance’s Dan Roberts, Heidi Chung and Kristin Myers discuss on YFi AM. …read more […]

The beauty retailer, Ulta Beauty, reported better-than-expected third quarter earnings and raised the low end of its 2020 guidance. Yahoo Finance’s Dan Roberts, Heidi Chung and Kristin Myers discuss on YFi AM. …read more […]

We’ve lost count of how many times insiders have accumulated shares in a company that goes on to improve markedly… …read more […]

The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. Insider Monkey finished processing more than 750 13F filings submitted by hedge funds and prominent investors. These filings show these funds’ portfolio positions as of September […] …read more […]

Hedge funds are known to underperform the bull markets but that’s not because they are bad at investing. Truth be told, most hedge fund managers and other smaller players within this industry are very smart and skilled investors. Of course, they may also make wrong bets in some instances, but no one knows what the […] …read more […]

Before putting in our own effort and resources into finding a good investment, we can quickly utilize hedge fund expertise to give us a quick glimpse of whether that stock could make for a good addition to our portfolios. The odds are not exactly stacked in investors’ favor when it comes to beating the market, […] …read more […]

Is FibroGen Inc (NASDAQ:FGEN) a good investment right now? We check hedge fund and billionaire investor sentiment before delving into hours of research. Hedge funds spend millions of dollars on Ivy League graduates, unconventional data sources, expert networks, and get tips from investment bankers and industry insiders. Sure they sometimes fail miserably, but their consensus […] …read more […]

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 of 2018 due to various reasons. Nevertheless, the data show elite investors’ consensus picks have done well on average over the long-term. The top 20 stocks among hedge funds beat […] …read more […]

“Since 2006, value stocks (IVE vs IVW) have underperformed 11 of the 13 calendar years and when they beat growth, it wasn’t by much. Cumulatively, through this week, it has been a 122% differential (up 52% for value vs up 174% for growth). This appears to be the longest and most severe drought for value […] …read more […]