What's George Soros Investing In? Top 5 Undervalued Holdings And More

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Now at age 87 and with a , he stands as the 19th richest person in the United States and 29th richest in the world. His philanthropic organization, the Open Society Foundations, supports democracy and human rights in more than 100 countries.

George Soros has often attributed much of his investing success to his Theory of Reflexivity. The key idea behind the theory is that markets are battling two realities; Objective Realities and Subjective realities. Markets reflect beliefs that directly affect the underlying fundamentals and fundamentals, in turn, form the basis for beliefs. This feedback loop sometimes causes prices and expectations to diverge from reality drastically.

The Open Society Foundation posted a series of lectures on his theory and its applications in the financial markets as well as a public policy driven philanthropist. You can find the videos starting here:

On August 14th, 2017, Soros' firm Soros Fund Management LLC filed its quarterly . In this post, I share my findings after reviewing his latest 13F filing that lists holdings in his multi-billion dollar portfolio.

Soros Fund's reported holdings totaling over $5.6 billion. Since I was mostly interested in reviewing his filing for his current equity strategy, I excluded his bond holdings such as the $233 million Note in FireEye (1% coupon due 2035) and the $184 million Nuance Communications bond (2.75% Note due November 2031). I also excluded stocks like Reynolds American Inc and Kate Spade & Co which have since been delisted or acquired.

Excluding these positions, Soros portfolio holdings totaled just over $4.4 billion. The fund had over $1 billion of holdings in the Consumer Discretionary sector and owned over 50 stocks worth around $700 million in the Information Technology sector.

The Ideas section of finbox.io tracks top investors and trending investment themes. You can get the latest data on the holdings discussed below . The following table summarizes Soros Fund Management LLC's largest stock holdings reported in the last filing:

It was interesting to find his largest holding is also a new position in the PowerShares NASDAQ 100 Index ETF (QQQ). He also added $152.2 million to his stake in SPY, the popular S & P 500 ETF. Altaba, the investment company, left behind after Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo! Inc's internet business was also a big new addition of $138.7 million.

To find stocks in his portfolio that may be unpopular at the moment and trading at cheap valuations, I ranked his holdings by price pullbacks. The ranking table below lists the stocks in Soros's portfolio by stock price performance over the last 30 days.

Bed Bath & Beyond made the list which has been a polarizing stock. That said, I found the stock in David Dreman, Jeremy Grantham, and Ray Dalio's portfolios as well. I would love to hear if you think it's a buy in the comments section below! It's a profitable retailer trading at 0.4x Price / LTM Sales. Are the Amazon fears overblown?

The next ranking table lists the stocks in Soros's portfolio with the best dividend yields. Dividend seekers can appreciate stocks that earn upwards of 6% excluding price appreciation and are also backed by a prominent investor.

To determine which stocks are trading below their intrinsic value, aka "fair value" I used the finbox.io . The finbox.io fair value is derived by applying valuation and risk models like Discounted Cash Flow Analysis, Dividend Discount Model, Earnings Power Value and more.

I also wanted to blend in some indication of which stocks might be ready to make a move up soon because they're popular with Wall Street analysts. Therefore I calculated an average using the finbox.io fair value upside and analyst upside to create a blended upside which I then used to rank the most undervalued holdings.

Here are the Top 5 stocks based on my calculations:

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