Published on 22 Jun 2021 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance

Where Do Hedge Funds Stand On Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. (SHIP)?

Our extensive research has shown that imitating the smart money can generate significant returns for retail investors, which is why we track nearly 900 active prominent money managers and analyze their quarterly 13F filings. The stocks that are heavily bought by hedge funds historically outperformed the market, though there is no shortage of high profile failures like hedge funds' 2018 losses in Facebook and Apple. Let’s take a closer look at what the funds we track think about Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:SHIP) in this article.

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:SHIP) investors should pay attention to an increase in hedge fund interest of late. Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:SHIP) was in 3 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of March. The all time high for this statistic is 4. There were 2 hedge funds in our database with SHIP positions at the end of the fourth quarter. Our calculations also showed that SHIP isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings).

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