Stanley Druckenmiller (Trades, Portfolio) is the president, CEO and chairman of Duquesne Capital, which he founded in 1981. The fund manages a portfolio composed of 19 stocks with total value of $1.18 billion.
The following are the most heavily weighted buys based on the impact the transaction had on the fund’s total assets.
The largest buy was Facebook Inc. (FB). Druckenmiller increased his stake by 118.58% with an impact of 16.97% on his portfolio, reaching a total of more than 4 million shares. The current stake is 0.14% of the company’s outstanding shares.
The company is a social networking website that builds products that creates utility for users, developers, and advertisers.Ă‚
Facebook has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 7/10. It has good returns with ROE of 8.00% and ROA of 7.18% that are outperforming 58% of other companies in the Global Internet Content & Information industry
The company’s largest shareholder among the gurus is Frank Sands (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.89% of outstanding shares, followed by Steve Mandel (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.38% and John Griffin (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.11%.
The second largest buy was Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN). The investor bought 97,300 shares with an impact of 4.23% on his portfolio.Ă‚
Amazon has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 7/10. It has weak returns with ROE of 2.92% and ROA of 0.65% that are underperforming 68% of other companies in the Global Specialty Retail industry.
Chase Coleman (Trades, Portfolio) is largest shareholder of the company among the gurus with 0.68% of outstanding shares, followed by Chris Davis (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.67%, Andreas Halvorsen (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.67% and Ken Fisher (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.53%.
Druckenmiller bought 259,800 shares of Under Armour Inc. (UA) with an impact of 2.14% on his portfolio. The stake is 0.12% of the company’s outstanding shares and 2.14% of the investor’s total assets.
The company is engaged in the design, development, marketing and distribution of technologically advanced, branded performance products for men, women and youth. Revenue had an increase of 23% in the third quarter and net income increased 23% year over year.
Under Armour has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 7/10. It has good returns with ROE of 15.47% and ROA of 8.64% that are outperforming 75% of other companies in the Global Apparel Manufacturing industry.
The company’s largest shareholder among the gurus is Ron Baron (Trades, Portfolio) with 2.47% of outstanding shares, followed by Frank Sands (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.43%.
Druckenmiller bought 173,000 shares of Expedia Inc. (EXPE) with an impact of 0.13% on his portfolio.
The company is an online travel company. The company offers holiday packages, rental cars, cruises, as well as destination services and activities.
Expedia has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 7/10. It has good returns with ROE of 42.64% and ROA of 7.98% that are outperforming 81% of other companies in the Global Leisure industry.
Steve Mandel (Trades, Portfolio) is the largest shareholder among the gurus with 0.8% of outstanding shares, then Jim Simons (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.11% and Steven Cohen (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.03%.
He also bought 388,400 shares of Carnival Corp. (CCL) with an impact of 1.64% on his portfolio.
The company is a global cruise company and one of the largest vacation companies in the world. The company operates 100 cruise ships within a portfolio of 10 leading cruise brands that sell cruise products and services in all the world's major vacation markets.Ă‚
Carnival has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 7/10. It has good returns with ROE of 7.38% and ROA of 4.51% that are outperforming 59% of other companies in the Global Leisure industry.
The company’s largest shareholder among the gurus is PRIMECAP Management (Trades, Portfolio) with 2.79% of outstanding shares, followed by James Barrow (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.83%, T Rowe Price Equity Income Fund (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.48% and Sarah Ketterer (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.27%.
Druckenmiller bought 15,600 shares of Priceline Group Inc. (PCLN) with an impact of 1.64% on his portfolio.Ă‚
The company is a provider of online travel and travel related reservation and search services. The company offer consumers accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands.
Priceline Group has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 8/10. It has good returns with ROE of 29.05% and ROA of 15.50% that are outperforming 92% of other companies in the Global Leisure industry.
Frank Sands (Trades, Portfolio) is the largest shareholder of the company among the gurus, with 2.37% of outstanding shares, followed by Steve Mandel (Trades, Portfolio) with 1.99%, Dodge & Cox with 1.35% and Manning & Napier Advisors with 0.76%.
He bought more than 1 million shares of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) with an impact of 1.62% on his portfolio.Ă‚
The company operates in the cruise vacation industry. The company owns Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, Azamara Club Cruises, CDF Croisières de France and a 50% joint venture interest in TUI Cruises.Â
Royal Caribbean has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 8/10. It has good returns with ROE of 6.79% and ROA of 2.75% that are outperforming 52% of other companies in the Global Leisure industry.
The largest shareholder among the gurus is PRIMECAP Management (Trades, Portfolio) with 2.31% of outstanding shares, followed by James Barrow (Trades, Portfolio) with 1.91%, John Rogers (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.43% and Donald Smith (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.33%.
Druckenmiller increased his holding of Ctrip.com International Ltd. (CTRP) by 138.63% and with an impact of 1.5% on his portfolio.Ă‚
The company provides travel related services including hotel reservation, air-ticketing, packaged-tour services, corporate travel management services as well as, to a much lesser extent, Internet-related advertising and other related services
Ctrip.com International has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 6/10. It has good returns with ROE of 21.55% and ROA of 5.79% that are outperforming 72% of other companies in the Global Lodging industry.
Andreas Halvorsen (Trades, Portfolio) is the largest shareholder among the gurus with 3.5% of outstanding shares, followed by Ken Fisher (Trades, Portfolio) with 2.89% and George Soros (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.41%.
He increased by 81.85% his stake in JD.com Inc. (JD) with an impact of 1.08% on its portfolio. The current stake is 0.08% of outstanding shares and 2.39% of Druckenmiller's total assets.
The company is an online direct sales company in China. JD.com has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 2/10. It has negative returns with ROE of 5.87% and ROA of 2.90% that are underperforming 74% of other companies in the Global Internet Content & Information industry.
The largest shareholder among the gurus is Chase Coleman (Trades, Portfolio) with 4.21% of outstanding shares, followed by Steve Mandel (Trades, Portfolio) with 3.18%, Jeremy Grantham (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.59% and Andreas Halvorsen (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.34%.
Druckenmiller increased by 72.84% his stake in PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) with an impact of 0.63% on the portfolio.Ă‚
PayPal has a GuruFocus profitability and growth rating of 4/10. It has good returns with ROE of 13.59% and ROA of 5.78% that are outperforming 71% of other companies in the Global Credit Services industry.
Carl Icahn (Trades, Portfolio) is the largest shareholder among the gurus, with 3.79% of outstanding shares, followed by Dodge & Cox with 0.93%, Seth Klarman (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.89% and Manning & Napier Advisors with 0.62%.
