Most 13F’s for Q4 2011 are in.  By sometime Friday the latest stats should be posted and all the other useful utilities on the site such as the Heat Map and Guru Report will be updated for the latest quarter. At the time of this article, we have received 13F’s from 3,102 distinct filers.  Of [...]

We just received a new 13G from Blackrock (see original SEC filing) that shows them owning 153,885,999 shares of Citigroup representing 5.26% stake and a huge increase from the 6,688,042 shares reported on 9/30/11.  The event date is December 30, 2011 (why is this filing coming in so late?).  The closing price on Dec. 30th [...]

As of the time of this article only about one third of all 13F filings for the Dec. 31, 2011 quarter have come in.  Most of the big names won’t file until the last minute, but there are a few interesting filings that have been received so far. As you can see from the tables [...]

One of the reasons we look at 13f filings is to attempt to copy those we consider to be good stock pickers.  And the ultimate stock pickers have to be the hedge fund managers.  Their job is to invest large amounts of capital with the goal of maximizing return while minimizing risk.   By comparing [...]