Top Stock Picks of Billionaires and Hedge Funds in 2018

WalletHub has very recently analyzed the filings of over 400 top hedge funds. From these hedge funds, Wallet Hub identified their biggest holdings, new positions and recent exits. Hedge Funds and Billionaires play an important role in the market as they can affect the market in few minutes only. They make a move on a single day and get profits.  The top stock picks form the popular Hedge Funds and Billionaires

Top Ten Popular Hedge Fund Stocks

The top stock picks that form the popular Hedge funds are: Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com, Inc., Apple, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Alphabet, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., UnitedHealth Group, Inc., Bank of America Corp., Visa, Inc.

Lot of companies declared their first quarter results. Hedge Funds such as Goldman Sachs had made $200 million in profit on February 5th when the VIX surged 116 percent, the biggest one-day move on record, as the S&P 500 fell 4.1 percent. The investment bank took the position on Cboe Volatility Index as Goldman’s hedge fund and asset management clients clamored for VIX exposure. Goldman’s volatility led to the 38 percent rise in first-quarter equities trading revenue to $2.3 billion, which exceeded the rise by Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan

Top Stock Picks of Billionaires

The biggest and the experienced investors such as Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman are making profit from their investments.

Warren Buffett
Biggest Buy	Apple, Inc. (AAPL)
Biggest Sell	Phillips 66 (PSX)
Top Holdings	Apple Inc., Well Fargo & Company and Bank of America Corp.

 

George Soros
Biggest Buy	VICI Properties, Inc. (VICI)
Biggest Sell	Overstock.com, Inc. (OSTK)
Top Holdings	Liberty Broadband Corp., Caesars Entertainment Corp., VICI Properties Inc

 

Carl Icahn
Biggest Buy	Newell Brands, Inc. (NWL)
Biggest Sell	American International Group, Inc. (AIG)
Top Holdings	CVR Energy, Inc., Cheniere Energy, Inc., Herbalife Ltd.

 

David Tepper
Biggest Buy	Micron Technology, Inc. (MU)
Biggest Sell	Apple, Inc. (AAPL)
Top Holdings	Micron Technology, Inc., Facebook Inc., Altaba, Inc.

 

John Paulson
Biggest Buy	Discovery, Inc. (DISCK)
Biggest Sell	Caesars Entertainment Corp. (CZR)
Top Holdings	Valeant Pharmaceuticals Int, Inc., Mylan N.V., Time Warner, Inc.

 

Hedge Funds Investments by Sector in Q1 2018

 

Hedge funds have invested mostly in Technology stocks, Financial stocks, Services and Healthcare in Q1 2018. Therefore the top stocks that are worth investing are Microsoft and Apple from the Technology space, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo from the Financial space and UnitedHealth Group, Inc. from Healthcare sector.