Goldman Sachs' Hedge Fund VIP List (CIT, CF, ACL, GILD, more...)

Goldman Sachs updated their hedge fund VIP list, following 13F filings for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. The list identifies 50 stocks that matter most to hedge funds. These are the stocks that most frequently appear among the largest 10 holdings of hedge funds.

The firm notes this list has outperformed the S&P 500 by 67 bp on a quarterly basis since 2001, with a Sharpe ratio of 0.24.

New to the list:
CIT Group (NYSE: CIT), CF Industries (NYSE: CF), Alcon (NYSE: ACL), Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE), Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT), Xerox Corp (NYSE: XRX), Assured Guaranty Ltd (NYSE: AGO), Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), Gilead Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD), Liberty Global Inc. (Nasdaq: LBTYA), News Corp (Nasdaq: NWSA).

Repeats on the list:
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), Bank Of America Corp (NYSE: BAC), Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM), Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM), Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Mastercard (NYSE: MA), Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Wellpoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), Directv (NYSE: DTV), Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE: HPQ), Lear Corp (NYSE: LEA), Mcdonald's Corp (NYSE: MCD), Oracle Corp (Nasdaq: ORCL), Teva Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: TEVA), Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), EMC (NYSE: EMC), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Liberty Media Starz Group (Nasdaq: LSTZA), Crown Castle (NYSE: CCI), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM), Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC), Ebay (Nasdaq: EBAY), Express Scripts (Nasdaq: ESRX), Ford Motor (NYSE: F), Mead Johnson (NYSE: MJN), Merck & Co (NYSE: MRK), Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO), Amazon.Com (Nasdaq: AMZN).

At No. 1, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) appeared in the top 10 holdings of 72 hedge funds, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was second at 46.

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