How Care Capital Properties Inc (CCP) Stacks Up Against Its Peers - InvestingChannel

How Care Capital Properties Inc (CCP) Stacks Up Against Its Peers

The 700+ hedge funds and money managers tracked by Insider Monkey have already compiled and submitted their 13F filings for the third quarter, which unveil their equity positions as of September 30. We went through these filings, fixed typos and other more significant errors and identified the changes in hedge fund positions. Our extensive review of these public filings is finally over, so this article is set to reveal the smart money sentiment towards Care Capital Properties Inc (NYSE:CCP) .

Is Care Capital Properties Inc (NYSE:CCP) a great investment right now? Investors who are in the know are definitely becoming more confident. The number of long hedge fund positions that are disclosed in regulatory 13F filings went up by 2 recently. CCP was in 13 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2016. There were 11 hedge funds in our database with CCP positions at the end of the previous quarter. The level and the change in hedge fund popularity aren’t the only variables you need to analyze to decipher hedge funds’ perspectives. A stock may witness a boost in popularity but it may still be less popular than similarly priced stocks. That’s why at the end of this article we will examine companies such as Virgin America Inc (NASDAQ:VA), Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GNRC), and Retail Opportunity Investments Corp (NASDAQ:ROIC) to gather more data points.

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With all of this in mind, let’s take a look at the recent action regarding Care Capital Properties Inc (NYSE:CCP).

What have hedge funds been doing with Care Capital Properties Inc (NYSE:CCP)?

At the end of the third quarter, a total of 13 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of 18% from the second quarter of 2016. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in CCP over the last 5 quarters. So, let’s see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

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According to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, Millennium Management, one of the 10 largest hedge funds in the world, holds the number one position in Care Capital Properties Inc (NYSE:CCP). Millennium Management has a $16.2 million position in the stock, comprising less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio. The second most bullish fund manager is D E Shaw, a quant hedge fund, holding a $7.6 million position; less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Other members of the smart money that hold long positions consist of Anand Parekh’s Alyeska Investment Group, Jim Simons’s Renaissance Technologies and John Overdeck and David Siegel’s Two Sigma Advisors. 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.

As aggregate interest increased, key hedge funds have jumped into Care Capital Properties Inc (NYSE:CCP) headfirst. Alyeska Investment Group, led by Anand Parekh, assembled the biggest position in Care Capital Properties Inc (NYSE:CCP). Alyeska Investment Group had $4.9 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Dmitry Balyasny’s Balyasny Asset Management also initiated a $1.2 million position during the quarter. The other funds with brand new CCP positions are David Harding’s Winton Capital Management and Michael Platt and William Reeves’s BlueCrest Capital Mgmt..

Let’s also examine hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as Care Capital Properties Inc (NYSE:CCP) but similarly valued. These stocks are Virgin America Inc (NASDAQ:VA), Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GNRC), Retail Opportunity Investments Corp (NASDAQ:ROIC), and Weibo Corp (ADR) (NASDAQ:WB). This group of stocks’ market valuations are closest to CCP’s market valuation.

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Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position
VA,25,881734,0
GNRC,16,159459,3
ROIC,8,26035,1
WB,29,201128,17
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 19.5 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $317 million. That figure was $44 million in CCP’s case. Weibo Corp (ADR) (NASDAQ:WB) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Retail Opportunity Investments Corp (NASDAQ:ROIC) is the least popular one with only 8 bullish hedge fund positions. Care Capital Properties Inc (NYSE:CCP) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. This is a slightly negative signal and we’d rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. In this regard WB might be a better candidate to consider taking a long position in.

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