Hedge fund quarterly letters

Whitney Tilson‘s Kase Capital keeps a comparatively modest equity portfolio and it has recently released its 3rd quarter page to people, revealing a 3.6% loss in September, underperforming the S&P 500 by under 1.0 portion point. In general, the fund is down by 8.5percent year-to-date, versus the 5.3% decrease the S&P. Into the page, the investment mentioned a few long-and-short opportunities that played essential functions with its overall performance and offered its outlook on these firms, and we’ll unveil these thoughts below.

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Whitney Tilson

Let’s start with examining both brief roles in Kase’s portfolio, specifically Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE: and Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:. So far, the bet on Lumber Liquidators has played completely really, because of the stock down by nearly 75% year-to-date. Tilson covered 20percent of this place in August, but held the remainder, thinking so it might lose a lot more surface. In reality, the investor considers that there surely is a “decent chance” your stock is a zero and an even greater probability that it'll drop to single digits. Moreover, according to Tilson, Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE:LL) is facing numerous dilemmas about its management, irrespective of legal actions from regulators. Other people will also be fleeing the company. During the 2nd one-fourth, the amount of resources from our database with lengthy stakes in Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE:LL) declined to 14 from 28, while the aggregate worth of their stakes slumped to $69.57 million, though nevertheless representing 12% associated with business.