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Lakewood Capital Q2 2018 Letter: Short Defense Firm Akin To Tesla

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Lakewood Capital Management has just released its Q2 2018 letter to investors. The hedge fund reported net losses of 1.2%. At the end of the second quarter, Lakewood's exposure was 88% long and 28.1% short. The $5 billion fund headed up by Anthony Bozza was also 2.7% long on fixed income securities. Lakewood's five biggest positions made up 26.5% of its equity capital.

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Bozza noted that Q2 was again marked by strength in "story stocks" and weakness in value stocks. He believes investors have gotten more speculative recently because of the "numerous" big tech and...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.