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"Guru" Report Card: Grading the Picks of Top Pros Including Buffett, Tepper, Whitman and Hussman
Investors involved in the equity markets often pay close attention to which stocks the prominent fund managers in the market are buying and selling every quarter when 13F filings begin to roll in. These reports provide insight into how the brightest investing minds and most successful money managers are currently investing their money and shed light on any big bets being made by these "gurus".
Today we will highlight the stocks these "Gurus" have either recently added to their portfolios as new holdings or stocks that they have recently increased their position in the last quarter and rate them using the Economic Margin Valuation model. Specifically, we will be taking the pros picks and giving them letter grades (A, B, C, D, F) based on our valuation model. In addition, we will provide a Grade Point Average for each of the experts list of top holdings along with the largest increased positions.
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In the next quarter, we will review the performance of these stocks that we have attached a letter grade to, and compare the performance of each group of stocks (A's, B's, C's, D's, and F's) to find out how much value our analysis added. We hope that our insights will improve the performance of your portfolio by enabling you to view these companies through a different lens and help to identify firms likely to outperform as well as some potential torpedoes.
The charts below illustrate the top holdings and largest position increases from 7 of the top stock market "gurus" as well as a letter grade for each company based on how it ranks according to AFG's valuation model.
First we will look at the companies that make up the largest percentage of these experts portfolio. Some of these positions may have been trimmed over the past quarter, however they are still a top holding within their portfolio.
Click Here, to view this entire report with top holdings and largest increased positions and how each company ranks according to our valuation model.
Click Here, to view this entire report with top holdings and largest increased positions and how each company ranks according to our valuation model.
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The "Short List" of what to buy ?
but then, according to this one here: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/financial-voyeurism-why-you-cant-beat-f...
the case thats been made there cuts through all of this 13F-interpretation with the notion of some nice possibilities for the filing entity:
"in addition, managers can request confidential treatment of their filing if they feel that their strategy would be compromised by the disclosure. This includes circumstances where the manager has an ongoing acquisition or disposition program. Confidential treatment can last for three months to one year."
and we all know what that means....
reading further, the imagination of any relevance in 13Fs becomes impossible, at least to me:
"There is plenty that the 13F doesn’t reveal about the respective manager’s strategy. By not disclosing short positions, swaps and fixed income securities, outsiders will not be able to fully ascertain the extent to which a hedge fund is, well, hedged. Further, the 13F does not disclose positions in commodities, currencies, futures or other markets."
nothing more to say here!
famouse investors decisions could be wastly investments or strategies,as known that Warren Buffet lost his long position in US$ in about 2005 if i not mistaken after loosing shirt on it in a few billions just before it started run up
David Berkowitz - Fairholme???
I didn't know Son of Sam was now managing money....