11/30/15
Goldman Sachs just released its most loved stocks list among the hedge fund community. Goldman narrows the thousands of stocks represented in the most recent quarterly 13F filings down to their “most important” 25. At Billionairesportfolio.com, we’ve narrowed that list down to the five stocks owned by billionaire hedge fund managers with the most potential upside.
Below are the five stocks:
1) Charter Communications (CHTR) – Charter is one of the top ten most owned stocks by hedge funds. Billionaire hedge fund managers Stephen Mandel of Lone Pine Capital and John Paulson own large stakes in Charter. Mandel owns more than $1 billion worth of Charter. At the recent Robin Hood Investment Conference, one of Paulson’s portfolio managers said Charter could be worth as much as $325 a share, nearly 75% higher than current levels.
2) Yahoo (YHOO) – Yahoo is another popular stock owned by billionaire hedge fund managers. Billionaire David Einhorn and Starboard Value, a top $5 billion activist hedge fund, both own big stakes in Yahoo. The average analyst price target for Yahoo is $49 or a 50% potential return from its current share price.
3) General Motors (GM) – Another popular billionaire owned stock in the Goldman Sachs VIP (very important position) list is GM. Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper owns GM. If fact, GM is David Tepper’s largest equity position in his hedge fund. The average analyst price target for GM is $50 or almost a 50% return from its current share price.
4) AIG (AIG) – Billionaires Carl Icahn and John Paulson are two of the largest holders of AIG. Both billionaires have pushed for AIG to break up and spin off business units. Icahn recently said that if AIG breaks into three companies the company could be worth more than $100 a share. That would be a 56% return from its current share price.
5) Apple (AAPL) – Billionaires Carl Icahn and David Einhorn both hold Apple as their largest position. Icahn owns almost $6 billion of Apple. Piper Jaffrey recently put a $179 target price on Apple or a 51% return from its current share price.
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11/3/15
Last week we heard from three top billionaire investors, publicly, and for different reasons. In all cases, they gave us some valuable nuggets.
On Friday, Bill Ackman held a conference call defending his multi-billion dollar position in Valeant. In the face of the scrutiny, he predicted Valeant shares would trade $448 in three years — a quadruple from recent prices.
Dan Loeb wrote released his quarterly investment letter last week describing his weak performance for the year and the challenging investment climate, yet expressing his high conviction for two stocks (a good read and good game plan outlined): Baxter International and Seven & i Holdings.
And billionaire David Tepper, who famously coined the Bernanke put and sparked a broad stock market rally back in 2010, said on Friday that he thinks China needs to ease more and faster, and that could set up for a situation where the Fed has to tighten quicker and more aggressively. He likes GM as way to lever the U.S. economy. He also said he has added to HCA Holdings.
Today, at the DealBook Conference, we heard from two other influential and legendary billionaire investors, Carl Icahn and Stanley Druckenmiller. Druckenmiller said he is short euros. He thinks the currency move underway will last for years, not months. He is long Amazon and is short “a bunch of value companies that buy back stock and need cyclical growth.” He used IBM as an example of one of those companies (owned by Warren Buffett).
Icahn weighed in on the controversial Valeant (sort of), implying he was involved but not saying whether it was from the long or short side. Rather than talk specifics on stocks, he dropped some interesting perspectives on investing and his success. He admitted he wasn’t a brilliant stock picker, nor does he think anyone is. He’s in the business of finding problems and fixing them. He has famously said he makes money “studying natural stupidity.” Today he added that he’s made so much money over his career because there are people running companies that are in over their heads and have bad incentives, he makes money holding these people accountable.
What about the weak spots in his portfolio? He says “activists get caught in cycles, you need staying power, ability to buy more when they drop.”
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