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Looking for stocks with high upside potential? Just follow the big players within the hedge fund industry. Why should you do so? Let’s take a brief look at what statistics have to say about hedge funds’ stock picking abilities to illustrate. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index returned approximately 26% in 2019 (through November 22nd). Conversely, hedge […] …read more […]

With the end of 2019 just around the corner, it’s time for investors to take stock of their stock holdings. Dividend investors often fall into this trap of thinking their stocks are good simply because they held steady and offered a decent stream of income. …read more […]

Total revenue rose 33% to $4.51 billion, above analysts’ estimates of $4.45 billion. The company, however, reported a net loss of $109 million, or 12 cents per share, in the latest quarter, compared with a profit of $105 million, or 13 cents per share, a year earlier. …read more […]

Shares of Salesforce bounced around in after-hours trading, after the cloud-based software company reported its third-quarter earnings results. Yahoo Finance’s Emily McCormick details the latest from the report. …read more […]

2019 has been a banner year for stocks, capping an incredible decade. The S&P 500 has risen 371% from its low in March 2009.
The performance is even more impressive when compared with global market averages. Over the same time frame, the MSCI World Index is up 237%, while the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF has risen 110%.
That’s right. Despite all the concerns about our “fading” superpower status, American stocks dramatically outperformed the rest of the world in the past decade.
And they did it during a period covering both Republican and Democratic administrations amid intense political partisanship.
I believe the red, white …read more […]

Concerns over rising interest rates and expected further rate increases have hit several stocks hard during the fourth quarter of 2018. Trends reversed 180 degrees in 2019 amid Powell’s pivot and optimistic expectations towards a trade deal with China. Hedge funds and institutional investors tracked by Insider Monkey usually invest a disproportionate amount of their […] …read more […]

In yesterday’s Trade of the Day, I asked…
Will December 2019 end a fantastic investing year with a Santa Claus rally? Or will 2019 end the way last year ended – with a massive market correction?
Well, this morning, we got a key component of that answer.
As I’m sure you know, President Donald Trump delivered the news that “the idea” of holding off on a U.S.-China trade deal until after the 2020 presidential election now has appeal.
As I’ve been reporting in The War Room, the market had priced in a Phase 1 deal for weeks – if not months – leading up …read more […]

Out of thousands of stocks that are currently traded on the market, it is difficult to identify those that will really generate strong returns. Hedge funds and institutional investors spend millions of dollars on analysts with MBAs and PhDs, who are industry experts and well connected to other industry and media insiders on top of that. Individual investors can piggyback […] …read more […]

Is The Kraft Heinz Company (NASDAQ:KHC) a good bet right now? We like to analyze hedge fund sentiment before conducting days of in-depth research. We do so because hedge funds and other elite investors have numerous Ivy League graduates, expert network advisers, and supply chain tipsters working or consulting for them. There is not a […] …read more […]

Insider Monkey has processed numerous 13F filings of hedge funds and successful value investors to create an extensive database of hedge fund holdings. The 13F filings show the hedge funds’ and successful investors’ positions as of the end of the third quarter. You can find articles about an individual hedge fund’s trades on numerous financial […] …read more […]

Hedge Funds and other institutional investors have just completed filing their 13Fs with the Securities and Exchange Commission, revealing their equity portfolios as of the end of June. At Insider Monkey, we follow nearly 750 active hedge funds and notable investors and by analyzing their 13F filings, we can determine the stocks that they are […] …read more […]

As we already know from media reports and hedge fund investor letters, hedge funds delivered their best returns in a decade. Most investors who decided to stick with hedge funds after a rough 2018 recouped their losses by the end of the third quarter. We get to see hedge funds’ thoughts towards the market and […] …read more […]

Investor’s largest sales of the 3rd quarter Continue reading… …read more […]

Here are eight upgraded stocks from the Bank of America analyst team in December. CBRE is the largest commercial real estate brokerage firm in the world. Analyst Michael Funk says CBRE is the market share leader in commercial real estate services, and its scale, diversification, growth opportunities and attractive valuation make it an exceptional long-term investment. …read more […]

2019 has been a wild year for stocks as investors pay close attention to the latest U.S.-China trade developments. Argus Research CEO John Eade joins Yahoo Finance’s Scott Gamm to discuss. …read more […]