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ESL Partners Increase Stake in Sears (SHLD) and Show Small Decrease in AutoNation (AN) Holdings

Posted on June 6th, 2012 by daniel

ESL Partners through regulatory filings (here and here) disclosing that William Crowley is no longer Chief Operating Office (effective June 1, 2012) have tweaked their stakes in both SHLD and AN.  The hedge fund now owns 65,744,084 shares of SHLD or 61.8% of the company, up from the 60,866,177 shares reported in a 1/12/2012 regulatory filing. […]

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Seminole Management reduces stake in Yelp, Inc.

Posted on May 23rd, 2012 by daniel

Seminole Management, an employee owned hedge fund, filed a new 13G disclosing ownership of 189,022 shares of YELP as of May 9th.  This gives Seminole a 2.3% stake in the company and is a decrease of 791,288 shares from what they reported on their previous 13G on 4/11. From Yahoo! Finance, Yelp “operates Yelp.com, an online urban city guide […]

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Lone Pine Capital Increases Ulta Holdings.

Posted on May 21st, 2012 by daniel

Lone Pine Capital, a hedge fund run by Stephen F. Madel Jr., filed a new 13G disclosing ownership of 3,498,638 shares of Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc (ULTA) as of May 10th.  This gives Lone Pine a 5.6% stake in the company and is an increase of 2,168,372 shares over what they reported on […]

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Coatue invests in Virgin Media (VMED)

Posted on May 14th, 2012 by daniel

Philippe Laffont’s hedge fund, Coatue Management, disclosed a new position in VMED through an SEC filing today. As of May 2nd, Coatue owned 14,463,301 shares or 5.21% of VMED. From Yahoo Finance, “Virgin Media Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides entertainment and communications services in the United Kingdom.”

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Soros continues adding to Digital River (DRIV) Holdings

Posted on May 8th, 2012 by daniel

George Soros’ Soros Fund Management LLC has released a new 13G filing disclosing ownership of 4,162,494 shares of DRIV. This is an increase of 1,078,034 shares over what was reported on 3/29/12.  Soros now has a 10.13% stake in DRIV as of May 4th. Per Yahoo Finance, Digital River Inc “provides end-to-end global cloud-commerce and […]

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