Is Discovery Communications Inc. (DISCA) A Good Stock To Buy?
Published on December 14, 2016 at 3:41 am by Abigail Fisher in Hedge Funds,News
The SEC requires hedge funds and wealthy investors with over a certain portfolio size to file a report that shows their positions at the end of every quarter. Even though it isn't the intention, these filings level the playing field for ordinary investors. The latest round of 13F filings discloses the funds' positions on September 30. We at Insider Monkey have compiled an extensive database of more than 700 of those successful funds and prominent investors' filings. In this article, we analyze how these successful funds and prominent investors traded Discovery Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:DISCA) based on those filings.
Is Discovery Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:DISCA) a first-rate investment today? Prominent investors are actually taking a bearish view. The number of long hedge fund positions that are disclosed in regulatory 13F filings slashed by3 recently. DISCA was in 27 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of September. There were 30 hedge funds in our database with DISCA positions at the end of the previous quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare DISCA to other stocks including Dell Technologies Inc (NYSE:DVMT), Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE:NLY), and Restaurant Brands International Inc (NYSE:QSR) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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How are hedge funds trading Discovery Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:DISCA)?
At the end of the third quarter, a total of 27 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, down by 10% from one quarter earlier. By comparison, 20 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in DISCA heading into this year. So, let's find out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
According to publicly available hedge fund and institutional investor holdings data compiled by Insider Monkey, Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group has the number one position in Discovery Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:DISCA), worth close to $84.3 million. The second largest stake is held by Mario Gabelli of GAMCO Investors, with a $61.3 million position. Some other hedge funds and institutional investors that hold long positions include John Brennan's Sirios Capital Management, Joel Greenblatt's Gotham Asset Management and Murray Stahl's Horizon Asset Management. We should note that none of these hedge funds are among our list of the 100 best performing hedge funds which is based on the performance of their 13F long positions in non-microcap stocks.
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