One Stock Superinvestors Are Buying

As part of the weekly research here at The Acquirer’s Multiple we’re always interested in investing gurus who hold the same stocks that appear in our Acquirer’s Multiple Stock Screeners, based on their latest 13F’s. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Seth Klarman, Ray Dalio, and Howard Marks.

While doing this research we’ve also uncovered a number of common stocks that investing gurus have recently bought, or continuing to hold in their portfolios, according to their latest 13f’s. So we’re now providing a new weekly feature article called ‘One Stock Superinvestors Are Buying’. This week we’ll take a look at:

Capital One Financial Corp (COF)

Capital One is a diversified financial services holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Originally a spinoff of Signet Financial’s credit card division in 1994, the company is now primarily involved in credit card lending, auto loans, and commercial lending.

A quick look at the price chart below for the company shows us that the stock is down 17.56% in the past twelve months.

COF data by YCharts

Superinvestors who recently bought, or continue to hold the stock, according to their latest 13Fs include:

(Shares)

Ken Fisher – 9,956,047

Warren Buffett – 9,922,000

Rich Pzena – 6,993,002

Jim Simons – 1,030,099

Cliff Asness – 745,609

Steve Cohen – 448,651

Louis Bacon – 396,346

Bill Miller – 353,310

Michael Burry – 75,000

Tom Gayner – 46,000