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  • Has Billionaire Ken Griffin Found Alpha in Small Caps?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - June 3, 2013 | Tickers: GPOR, LSI, RAM, SLE, SM

    We have found that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds -- as determined by an analysis of 13F filings -- outperform the S&P 500 by an average of 18 percentage points per year, and our live testing of this strategy has returned 38% since September 2012. Why do hedge funds’ small cap picks do so well? We think that it is because these stocks generally receive less attention more »

  • Billionaire Israel Englander Catapults New Stocks

    By Marshall Hargrave - May 31, 2013 | Tickers: AAP, IRM, SLE

    Billionaire Israel Englander is a founding member of Millennium Management, with some $22 billion in assets under management. Englander also runs a $200 million subsidiary fund known as Catapult Capital. Founded in 2006, Catapult focuses on fundamental analysis. Outlined below are Catapult's top five stocks at the end of the first quarter (check out Catapult's portfolio).
     
    M&A play
     
    Catapult's number-one stock was Virgin Media, after adding more »

  • $6 Billion Hedge Fund Bullish on Hillshire Brands and These Little Guys

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 1, 2013 | Tickers: EPL, EXH, HCBK, SLE, SWC

    Because small cap stocks receive less attention from large institutional investors and the financial media, they are more likely to be mis-priced. We can also look at top small cap picks from individual managers to see what they like in this range; investors can then do more research on any interesting names. Clint Carlson’s Dallas-Based Carlson Capital is a multi-billion dollar, multi-strategy fund—no those two traits don’t more »

  • What Happened To That Classic Company?

    By Mike Thiessen - February 13, 2013 | Tickers: SLE, TSN

    In late June of 2012, famed prepared-foods company Sara Lee announced that it had finalized the spin-off of its global bakery and beverage businesses. The transaction split the decades-old company into two components: Chicago-based Hillshire Brands (NYSE: HSH) and Utrecht, Netherlands-based D.E. Master Blenders 1753. Most of Sara Lee's North American assets were subsumed into Hillshire Brands. Meanwhile, D.E. absorbed the company's coffee and tea businesses more »

  • A Profitable and High Yielding Food Company

    By Anh HOANG - February 1, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, SLE, TSN

    Mario Gabelli, the Chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors, is famous for his long-term investment track record. Since 1986, he has beaten the S&P 500 by more than 2% per year. He also has grown the assets under management to over $30 billion. In a recent 2013 Barron’s Roundtable, Mario Gabelli talked about several stocks that he felt confident about. Let’s look closer into his thesis to more »

  • 5 High-Potential Stock Picks From Billionaires Bill Ackman & Dan Loeb

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - January 14, 2013 | Tickers: ALEX, HHC, MATX, SLE, WCC

    Hedge funds generate a substantial portion of their alpha from the small-cap space. On the whole, public research about the little guys tends to be less efficient. According to our own analysis, investing in hedgies’ most popular small-cap picks has produced an alpha of close to 120 basis points per month. We started publishing a quarterly newsletter at the end of August and shared the stock picks of this strategy more »

  • 5 Stocks Targeted by Billionaire Activist Investor Dan Loeb

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - December 12, 2012 | Tickers: CCE, NWL, SLE, UTX, WLP

    Billionaire Daniel Loeb founded his New York-based hedge fund Third Point Management in 1995 with just over $3 million. Since its inception, the fund has returned roughly 25% annually. Loeb graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and worked at Jefferies & Company and Citibank before starting Third Point. Loeb is considered an activist investor that takes outsized positions to “strong arm” companies into making changes, so to speak. We believe that more »

  • This Bakery is Getting Expensive

    By Anh HOANG - November 20, 2012 | Tickers: CPB, FLO, SLE

    Beaten down companies can create investment opportunities. That is why I am interested in stocks approaching their 52 week lows, or stocks which have plunged recently. I have noticed a decent bakery that has consistently delivered a double-digit return on equity since 2005. It is Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO). The stock has experienced quite a few ups and downs, but in a narrow range. That is why it is considered more »

  • Carlson Capital’s Most Recent Stock Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - November 14, 2012 | Tickers: C, NRG, PNC, SLE, SRZ.DL

    Clint Carlson’s Carlson Capital is a multi-strategy hedge fund located in Texas which takes pride in a contrarian approach to investing. It also likes to emphasize a company’s philosophy of doing business as well as more measurable characteristics. Carlson recently filed its 13F with the SEC, which discloses many of the stocks that the fund owns and the sizes of those positions. Read on for our quick take more »

  • One Spin-Off to Buy, One to Avoid

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - November 9, 2012 | Tickers: COP, HRL, PSX, SLE, TSN

    In the wide world of investing, there are many ways for a company’s executives to boost the wealth their shareholders, though one of the most underrated approaches is the stock spin-off. Typically, a spin-off occurs when a large cap company wants to separate its most creative departments from the inundations of typical corporate structure. Other reasons to create spin-offs include efficiency gains and an increase in the breadth of more »

  • The Sweet Taste of Smuckers

    By John Casteele - October 14, 2012 | Tickers: SJM, SLE

    You may have heard that J.M. Smuckers (NYSE: SJM) is currently facing problems regarding its Folgers coffee products; there was a problem with the supplier that provides the company with coffee canisters. This has led to a bit of inventory juggling to make sure that stores have enough coffee to meet consumer demand, though Smuckers is confident that this is merely a short-term setback that will be overcome fairly more »

  • This Stock is Cheap and Ready to Take-Off!

    By Gayatri Sharma - September 21, 2012 | Tickers: HRL, KRFT, SLE, TSN

    After spinning off from Sara Lee Corporation, Hillshire Brands (NYSE: HSH) has underperformed the broader markets and its shares have seen a 9% downfall whereas the S&P500 has risen more than 7%. As a result, the company is now trading at a forward PE of 17.94 and looks undervalued on a PEG basis. The following table shows company’s valuation multiple and growth rate with respect to its more »

  • Top Stock Picks from Deccan Value Advisors

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 18, 2012 | Tickers: CCE, NWSA, SLE, STT, V

    Deccan Value Advisors closed in 2009 after one of its co-founders decided to leave the business. Vinit Bodas founded Deccan Value Investors the next year and focuses on the same strategy as the original Deccan fund, which at its peak had over a billion dollars under management: concentrated positions in a fairly small number of stocks. Deccan filed its 13F for the second quarter of 2012 in August and we more »

  • Drought Drying Up Profits for Companies

    By Erin McBride - September 4, 2012 | Tickers: ADM, SLE, TSN, VLO

    Plain and simple, American efforts to move to renewable energy sources (and to please the voters and politicians of early-caucus state Iowa) have made us too dependent on corn and at the mercy of rain.

    The Renewable Fuel Standard, a federal mandate enacted in 2005, and expanded in 2007, requires that 13.2 billion gallons of corn starch-derived biofuel (ethanol) be produced in 2012. The drought blistering most of the more »

  • Potential Take-out Candidate with Earning Upside

    By Ashish Sharma - August 18, 2012 | Tickers: HRL, KRFT, SLE, TSN

    On its earnings call on 9th August, Hillshire Brands (NYSE:HSH) only reported results down to the operating segment profit level. No 4Q12 results were given for corporate costs, discontinued operations, interest expense, tax rate or EPS. This absence of data was attributed to the ongoing investigation into accounting irregularities in the Brazilian operations of D.E. Master Blenders. The company expects this investigation to be completed by the more »

  • Hillshire Brands: Yet Another Spin-Off Success?

    By Soroush Pour - August 14, 2012 | Tickers: COP, HRL, KRFT, PSX, SLE, TSN

    From contrarian investing to Buffetology, there are many trading strategies being used in the financial markets today.  One tactic that usually flies under the radar is the spin-off play.  As we originally covered in the Kraft/Mondelez split, empirical evidence has shown that spin-offs: (1) outperform the market, (2) are underrated by Wall Street, (3) are undervalued immediately following the split, and (4) have typically been directed by highly motivated more »

  • This Coffee Maker’s Quarter Looks Refreshing

    By Himanshu Poddar - June 14, 2012 | Tickers: SJM, SLE

    The J.M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) posted energizing fourth quarter results recently meeting the Street’s expectations and making its investors happy in spite of various obstacles coming its way. Its revenue rose 14% to $1.36 billion and its earnings jumped 10% to $1.10 per share. Let’s delve deeper.

    Refreshing Quarter with Some Pain

    An increase in product prices in order to fight rising input costs more »

  • Billionaire George Soros’ Favorite Stocks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - June 12, 2012 | Tickers: BP, CVX, XOM, SLE

    Hungarian-born George Soros is oft-known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England.”

    Though now retired, his investment style was categorized as global macro. Soros gained some notoriety when he shorted ~£10 billion on Sept. 16, 1992, giving rise to the day’s name as “Black Wednesday.” Soros made an estimated $1.1 billion USD as the UK withdrew from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism causing the pound to more »

  • Ralcorp Posts a Disappointing Quarter

    By Himanshu Poddar - June 1, 2012 | Tickers: RAH, SLE

    The food industry has been suffering from cost inflation of its ingredients. Thus, it was no surprise that packaged food provider Ralcorp Holdings (NYSE: RAH) came out with its disappointing results. The results failed to please Mr. Market and Ralcorp’s shares fell drastically after the news. Let’s take a deeper look inside the company and its recent performance.

    Into the Numbers

    Increases in selling prices of the products more »

  • Is Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Oversold?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 10, 2012 | Tickers: GMCR, SLE, SBUX, WMT

    Is Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ (NASDAQ: GMCR) growth story dead? It sure trades like a broken one, after the 40% decline in stock price post-Q2 earnings last week. No doubt David Einhorn made out like a bandit with his well-publicized short position, while Patrick McCormack, Brett Barakett, and Philippe Laffont took hits to their long positions. Frankly, we think that the underlying growth is still there with GMCR’s Keurig more »

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