Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Soros’s Firm Buys Financials in Q1


From Bloomberg: Billionaire George Soros’s investment firm added to financial stocks in the first quarter, including shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Suntrust Banks Inc.  He sold the company’s stake in Google Inc.

The $25 billion Soros Fund Management LLC, based in New York, increased the value of its stake in financials by 7 percent, including 606,000 shares of JPMorgan worth $28 million as of March 31, and 3.2 million shares of Atlanta-based Suntrust valued at $77 million, according to a filing yesterday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Soros also purchased 3.75 million shares of Sugar Land, Texas-based CVR Energy Inc. (CVI) valued at $100 million as of March 31. On May 7, billionaire Carl Icahn won the right to acquire the oil refiner after a majority of CVR shareholders agreed to sell their stakes to him for $30 a share. The shares have climbed 62 percent this year….

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