Published on 22 Jun 2021 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance
With the first-quarter round of 13F filings behind us it is time to take a look at the stocks in which some of the best money managers in the world preferred to invest or sell heading into the second quarter of 2021. One of these stocks was PARTS iD, Inc. (NYSE:ID).
Is PARTS iD, Inc. (NYSE:ID) worth your attention right now? Hedge funds were in an optimistic mood. The number of long hedge fund bets rose by 2 recently. PARTS iD, Inc. (NYSE:ID) was in 6 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2021. The all time high for this statistic is 4. This means the bullish number of hedge fund positions in this stock currently sits at its all time high. Our calculations also showed that ID isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings). There were 4 hedge funds in our database with ID positions at the end of the fourth quarter.
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