Jim Simons

Renaissance Technologies LLC

Last Update: 2013-05-14

Number of Stocks: 2848
Number of New Stocks: 750

Total Value: $41,273 Mil
Q/Q Turnover: 42%

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Cardinal Financial Reports Insider Cluster Buy and Quarterly Dividend Increase
by Monica Wolfe - Apr 25, 2013
Cardinal Financial Corporation (CFNL) reported three insider buys as the company’s price took a sharp drop.

On April 23, COO Alice Frazier bought 2,000 shares at $14.65 each. This transaction cost her $29,300. She now owns at least 3,500 shares of company stock. Continue Reading »
American Insider Buys
by Monica Wolfe - Apr 19, 2013
This week in American insider trading, we saw an increase in cluster buys coming from corporate executives. The banking and oil and gas industries saw the highest increase in insider buys. The following insider cluster buys were the largest for this week.

1. AGCO Corp (AGCO) Continue Reading »
CFOs Make Insider Buys at 3-Year Lows and Highs
by Monica Wolfe - Apr 16, 2013
Several CFOs have bought back shares into their companies this week. This is important to note because as the head of these corporations' financial departments, CFOs offer a keen insight and knowledge into the financial stability and growth of their companies. It is also interesting to note that insider transactions coming from corporate officers within the past three months have typically signaled big gains to come. The biggest returns have been found after insider buys of undervalued stocks.

1. Casella Waste Systems (CWST) Continue Reading »
The Best Top Consumer Staple: Mondelez and More
by mdhargrave - Mar 19, 2013
Mondelez International Inc. (MDLZ) is quite the dividend and growth combo stock, and is better positioned than the other major food stocks with robust international exposure The stock pays a dividend yield of 1.8% and could be undervalued by as much as 15%. Mondelez is the result of a 2012 division of Kraft Foods; Mondelez makes up the global snacks company and the spinoff, Kraft Foods Group, is the North American grocery segment.

Mondelez reported fourth quarter and full year 2012 results reflecting solid organic revenue growth, and higher gross and operating margins. Organic revenues increased 4.4% year over year, while power brands, including Oreo and Cadbury, grew nearly double the company rate at 8.1%. Mondelez is still reaping the benefits of its 2010 Cadbury acquisition, where Cadbury has given Mondelez access to distribution networks in India, Brazil and Mexico, and is estimated to have saved the company $800 million in 2012 with similar savings expectations for future years. Continue Reading »
Hedge Funds Love Advance Auto, Starbucks and More
by mdhargrave - Mar 19, 2013
After reviewing the hedge fund filings for last quarter, there are five stocks that stood out as being loved by hedge funds. The hedge fund activity in these five stocks were flagged as "unusual" in the sense that they saw a number of major investors that have to disclose their holdings to the SEC quarterly upping their stakes in the company. A few are "under the radar" picks and lesser known to conventional investors, but worth checking out.

Williams Companies Inc. (WMB) is an energy infrastructure company in North America focused on natural gas and natural gas liquids. There are five hedge funds and major investors with Williams in its top 10 (as measured by portfolio weighting). There were also 20 investors increasing there positions last quarter. The top hedge fund owner is Viking Global, who has 4.6% of its portfolio invested in the company. Also, the second and third hedge fund owners, Senator Investment and Corvex Capital, increased their stakes by over 150% each during the fourth quarter (see all the hedge funds owning Williams). Continue Reading »
Nature's Sunshine CEO Resigns and Director Buys 365,000 Shares
by Monica Wolfe - Mar 12, 2013
On March 6, Nature’s Sunshine Products Inc. (NATR) released a press statement along with their quarterly earnings that CEO Michael Dean would be resigning effective March 31, 2013. The executive chairman, Gregory Probert, will step up and become an interim CEO until the board of directors appoints a new CEO.

In preparing for the resignation of Dean, Nature’s Sunshine Director Willem Mesdag purchased 367,447 shares of NATR on March 11 for $14.16 per share. The total transaction amount was $5.2 million. The director now holds 2,350,049 shares of Nature’s Sunshine. Continue Reading »
ExamWorks Reports Insider Buys
by Monica Wolfe - Mar 05, 2013
The CEO of ExamWorks Group Inc. (EXAM) James K. Price bought 14,500 shares of EXAM on Friday, March 1, 2013. The average price of each share was $13.97 for a total transaction amount of 202,565. Mr. Price owns at least 1,240,765 shares after this buy. Since this purchase the price of stock has increased by 4.08%.

Prior to this purchase Price bought 18,000 shares of EXAM on Nov. 14, 2012. Price has seen this stock value increase 26.32%. Continue Reading »
Why Jim Simons Owns CA Technologies
by matsandalex - Nov 05, 2012
CA Technologies (CA) has been battered in recent weeks as most big cap tech stocks have reported poor third quarter earnings. The stock is down 16% over the past eight weeks.

Is now a good time to load up on shares? Continue Reading »
Jim Simons Buys Time Warner, Research In Motion, JC Penney, CME and Schlumberger
by Holly LaFon - May 15, 2012
Jim Simons bought 463 new stocks for his firm Renaissance Technologies’ portfolio, which contains 2,805 holdings. The top new buys are: Time Warner Inc. (TWX), Research In Motion (RIMM), JCP Penney Inc. (JCP), CME Group (CME) and Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB).

Simons runs an investment management company unusual from its peers. He relies on mathematical and statistical methods to make trades, which are often automated. A former mathematician at Harvard and MIT, Simons eschews Wall Street and mainly hires mathematicians, physicists, astronomers and computer scientists. The firm has $15 billion in assets under management and has achieved a 30 percent return since inception. Continue Reading »
Jim Simons' Stock Charm Communications Jumps 26.5%
by Holly LaFon - Apr 06, 2012
Jim Simons' Charm Communications (CHRM) is up 26.5% today, the most of any guru-held stock. Charm is the largest domestic Chinese advertising agency group. Charm Communications ADR has a market cap of $71.7 million; its shares were traded around $11.44 with a P/E ratio of 8.1 and P/S ratio of 0.3. The dividend yield of Charm Comm-adr stocks is 3.3%.

Simons, founder of private investment firm Renaissance Technologies LLC, owns 21,000 shares of Charm Communications. Continue Reading »
Jim Simons Interview (3 Videos): Mathematics, Common Sense, Good Luck & My Life and Careers
by Frank Voisin - Mar 29, 2012
Dr. Jim Simons of quant fund Renaissance Technologies rarely gives interviews or other public lectures, but when he does the audience is not left disappointed. Below are a few videos that are worth your time to watch.

MIT Lecture: Mathematics, Common Sense, Good Luck & My Life and Careers Continue Reading »
Interesting Top Buys from Jim Simons
by Mara Kohn - Jan 11, 2012
Jim Simons is the founder of Renaissance Technologies Corporation, a New York-based private investment firm. Now, he serves as CEO and Renaissance is considered one of the most successful hedge funds.

Renaissance, which operates in several markets, always employs complex mathematical models to review and execute trade. It uses computer-based models to forecast changes in prices in financial instruments. The idea is to analyze as much data as possible and look for expected movements to make predictions. Continue Reading »
Jim Simons’ Hedge Fund Renaissance Technologies Reports Q2 Portfolio; Buys AAPL, GOOG, PM, LLY, JPM
by gurufocus - Aug 18, 2011
Hedge fund giant Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies just reported his Q2 portfolio. As of 06/30/2011, Renaissance Technologies LLC owns 2801 stocks with a total value of $25.6 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells that have the impact to portfolio of more than .2%.

Jim Simons is one of the gurus we track for Premium Members. He is not a value investor, but what he does attracts a lot of attention from Wall Street. Above all, the math genius who explores the market inefficiencies through complex models, has produced an average annual return over 38 percent since 1989 from his flagship fund at Renaissance Technologies. He runs complex strategies and trades with large number of stocks. Simons shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, citing Benjamin the Donkey in Animal Farm for explanation: "God gave me a tail to keep off the flies. But I'd rather have had no tail and no flies." Continue Reading »
Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies Q1 New Purchases: TGT, GE, XOM, SPLS, EMR, OXY
by - May 17, 2011
Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies just reported his Q1 portfolio. This is the new buys that have the impact to portfolio of more than 0.1%.

Jim Simons is one of the gurus we track for Premium Members. He is not a value investor, but what he does attracts a lot of attention from Wall Street. Above all, the math genius who explores the market inefficiencies through complex models, has produced an average annual return over 38 percent since 1989 from his flagship fund at Renaissance Technologies. He runs complex strategies and trades with large number of stocks. Continue Reading »
Jim Simons: Mathematics, Common Sense, and Good Luck: My Life and Careers
by guruek - Jan 26, 2011
Jim Simons gave a speech in MIT:

Continue Reading »
Stocks Jim Simons Keeps on Buying: CL, Q, LMT, NVO, HRB
by guruek - Jan 25, 2011
Jim Simons, chairman and CEO of Renaissance Technologies Corporation, does not give many interviews. As he once put it, citing Benjamin the Donkey in Animal Farm: "God gave me a tail to keep off the flies. But I'd rather have had no tail and no flies".

Then we find him appearing in a least expected program: Continue Reading »
Hedge Fund Renaissance Technologies Buys AAPL, PG, NFLX, ORCL, BIDU, Sells CSCO, GE, BP, CVX, PFE
by gurufocus - Nov 17, 2010
Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies just reported his Q3 portfolio. This is the updates.

Jim Simons is one of the gurus we track for Premium Members. He is not a value investor, but what he does attracts a lot of attention from Wall Street. Above all, the math genius who explores the market inefficiencies through complex models, has produced an average annual return over 38 percent since 1989 from his flagship fund at Renaissance Technologies. He runs complex strategies and trades with large number of stocks. Continue Reading »
View on SILU
by - Sep 27, 2010
high insider ownership, Sprott is now managing and switching from real estate to junior mining financing, seems like a good long term play Continue Reading »
View on IPT
by - Sep 12, 2010
this small retailer is making strong numbers and adding new stores along with temp stores. stock should sell for 1.00 insiders buying Continue Reading »
View on CUR
by - Sep 11, 2010
Insider holdings still smaller than I care for but growing. Nice Quick Ratio. Undecided on Fair Value. Continue Reading »