Guru Steve Mandel has recently been increasing his holdings of Dollar Tree Stores Inc. (DLTR, Financial) and Williams Companies (WMB, Financial).
Mandel graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978, and later graduated with an MBA from Harvard University. Mandel has been managing hedge funds since 1990, when he was the manager of Tiger Management. He then left Tiger and formed his own hedge fund, Lone Pine Capital, in 1997. Mandel has a net worth of $2.3 billion, according to Forbes.com
On Nov. 13, he added an additional 8,054,727 shares to his position in Dollar Tree Stores, an increase of 156.73%. He held a total of 13,194,122 shares after the increase.
Dollar Tree Stores Inc. is an operator of discount variety stores offering merchandise at the fixed price of $1.00. At Jan. 31, the company operated 5,367 retail locations.
Dollar Tree Stores has a market cap of $18.17 billion, a P/E ratio of 62.99, an enterprise value of $25.41 billion and a quick ratio of 0.67.
Below is a Peter Lynch chart for Dollar Tree Stores.
On Nov. 20, Mandel added 24,291,126 shares of Williams Companies Inc., an increase of 137.43%. Lone Pine Capital held a total of 41,966,355 shares of Williams Companies after the increase.
Williams Companies was founded in 1908, originally incorporated in the state of Nevada in 1949 and reincorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware in 1987. It is an energy infrastructure company focused on growing markets for natural gas. Williams Companies is primarily based in the U.S. but is also located in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and all the way up in the Canadian oil sands.
Williams Companies Inc. has a market cap of $23.96 billion, a P/E ratio of 71.53, a P/B ratio of 3.35 and a dividend yield of 7.30.
Below is a Peter Lynch chart for Williams Companies Inc.
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