Stocks Being Bought By Hedge Funds

Also see: Dividend Stocks Being Bought

Looking at the share counts across all funds whose 13F filings we have looked at for the most recent filing period, and comparing against the share counts for those same funds at the prior filing period, we are able to assemble the top stocks ordered by greatest percentage increase in total share count across those funds. The aim of this exercise is to filter out a list of stocks being bought by hedge funds, as a research tool for users to generate ideas that merit further research. In preparing these lists, we have looked at 5018 filings, for the most recent filing period of 12/31/2018, and compare to those same filers at the 09/30/2018 period.

Symbol	Prior Share Count	Latest Share Count	Change	% Change
LIN	20,629	402,365,925	+402,345,296	+1,950,387%
IGIB	8,779	57,006,056	+56,997,277	+649,246%
MRKR	3,563	15,576,334	+15,572,771	+437,069%
USIG	12,794	31,167,290	+31,154,496	+243,509%
TAK	31,176	54,001,915	+53,970,739	+173,116%
ACB	145,674	87,742,278	+87,596,604	+60,132%
IGSB	168,021	78,725,797	+78,557,776	+46,755%
SLDA	8,000	3,702,277	+3,694,277	+46,178%
BNDW	2,006	566,801	+564,795	+28,155%
APHA	151,988	26,040,256	+25,888,268	+17,033%
JHEM	90,589	12,186,702	+12,096,113	+13,353%
SNCR	190,075	16,865,799	+16,675,724	+8,773%
COOP	1,009,307	78,067,510	+77,058,203	+7,635%
ALTM	1,026,100	58,723,672	+57,697,572	+5,623%
USLB	102,286	5,230,200	+5,127,914	+5,013%
NMRKV	2,127,494	101,372,918	+99,245,424	+4,665%
CNPLL	460,345	18,270,509	+17,810,164	+3,869%
FBZ	250,164	9,400,271	+9,150,107	+3,658%
VRRM	1,516,085	54,766,960	+53,250,875	+3,512%
SITC	4,177,168	148,078,872	+143,901,704	+3,445%
USEQ	84,947	1,987,102	+1,902,155	+2,239%
USWS	1,610,770	29,697,199	+28,086,429	+1,744%
HMOP	151,504	2,455,665	+2,304,161	+1,521%
TPCO	1,147,038	15,144,038	+13,997,000	+1,220%
FTDRV	5,006,496	63,653,073	+58,646,577	+1,171%
DRSK	191,536	2,194,969	+2,003,433	+1,046%
ACWF	599,753	6,264,129	+5,664,376	+944%
USWSW	3,057,470	31,813,557	+28,756,087	+941%
JHMD	1,600,520	16,551,594	+14,951,074	+934%
GTX	6,309,407	61,595,817	+55,286,410	+876%
RAMP	7,983,837	74,131,649	+66,147,812	+829%
JHSC	1,519,110	12,903,454	+11,384,344	+749%
AUSF	919,411	7,388,242	+6,468,831	+704%
PUI	331,634	2,607,455	+2,275,821	+686%
SCO	184,318	1,341,919	+1,157,601	+628%
ESGV	89,908	596,343	+506,435	+563%
ISCF	292,039	1,624,722	+1,332,683	+456%
PPLC	328,730	1,669,432	+1,340,702	+408%
IBDT	336,660	1,629,028	+1,292,368	+384%
PULS	418,365	1,920,144	+1,501,779	+359%
USFR	5,628,921	23,971,251	+18,342,330	+326%
EIS	673,705	2,723,300	+2,049,595	+304%
USMF	334,412	1,335,527	+1,001,115	+299%
BIL	17,884,583	65,467,743	+47,583,160	+266%
IQLT	821,490	2,980,762	+2,159,272	+263%
TMF	433,376	1,542,428	+1,109,052	+256%
TERP	55,196,428	196,085,967	+140,889,539	+255%
LAIX	1,764,561	5,948,864	+4,184,303	+237%
RYU	228,022	733,712	+505,690	+222%
AXON	9,428,745	30,140,079	+20,711,334	+220%