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BANK OF AMERICA: Money managers love these 9 stocks

  • Jul. 5, 2017, 8:11 AM
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Bank of America Merril Lynch released its equity and quant strategy analysts’ list of the most overowned stocks held by active managers.

The list is a part of a new report on active manager holdings.

According to BAML, the “overowned” list includes companies that meet the following criteria:

“Stock is 1.5x or more than its weight in the S&P 500 in the fund manager composite, and more than 35% of funds in the sample hold the stock.”

The list ranges from tech giants like Alphabet and Amazon to healthcare companies like Biogen and UnitedHealth.

Check out the list of nine stocks below:

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Comcast

Ticker:CMCSA

Sector: Discretionary

Relative Weight: 1.53

% of Funds Holding Stock: 51.7%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy, FactSet Ownership

Alphabet Class A

Alphabet Class A

Markets Insider

Ticker:GOOGL

Sector: Info Tech

Relative Weight: 1.59

% of Funds Holding Stock: 56.9%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy, FactSet Ownership

MasterCard

Ticker:MA

Sector: Information Technology

Relative Weight: 1.68

% of Funds Holding Stock: 37.0%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy, FactSet Ownership

Biogen

Biogen

Markets Insider

Ticker: BIIB

Sector: Healthcare

Relative Weight: 1.70

% of Funds Holding Stock: 36.3%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy, FactSet Ownership

Alphabet Class C

Alphabet Class C

Markets Insider

Ticker:GOOG

Sector: Information Technology

Relative Weight: 1.71

% of Funds Holding Stock: 53.1%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy, FactSet Ownership

UnitedHealth

UnitedHealth

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Ticker:UNH

Sector: Healthcare

Relative Weight: 1.82

% of Funds Holding Stock: 48.1%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy, FactSet Ownership

Amazon.com

Amazon.com

Markets Insider

Ticker:AMZN

Sector: Discretionary

Relative Weight: 1.93

% of Funds Holding Stock: 47.4%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy, FactSet Ownership

Visa Class A

Visa Class A

Markets Insider

Ticker:V

Sector: Information Technology

Relative Weight: 1.93

% of Funds Holding Stock: 51.5%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy, FactSet Ownership

Priceline

Priceline

Markets Insider

Ticker:PCLN

Sector: Discretionary

Relative Weight: 2.63

% of Funds Holding Stock: 35.4%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy, FactSet Ownership

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