As part of the weekly research here at The Acquirer’s Multiple we’re always interested in superinvestors who hold the same stocks that appear in our Acquirer’s Multiple Stock Screeners, based on their latest 13F’s. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Seth Klarman, Ray Dalio, and Howard Marks.
While doing this research we’ve also uncovered a number of stocks that superinvestors have sold, or reduced in their portfolios, according to their latest 13f’s. So we’re now providing a new weekly feature article called ‘One Stock Superinvestors Are Selling‘. This week we’ll take a look at:
Philip Morris International Inc (PM)
Philip Morris International is an international tobacco company with a product portfolio primarily consisting of cigarettes and reduced-risk products, including heat-not-burn, vapor and oral nicotine products, which are sold in markets outside the United States. The company diversified away from cigarettes with the acquisition in 2022 of Swedish Match, a leading manufacturer of traditional oral tobacco products and nicotine pouches, primarily in the US and Scandinavia. It diversified away from nicotine products with the acquisition of Vectura, a provider of innovative inhaled drug delivery solutions, in 2021.
A quick look at the price chart below for the company shows us that the stock is up 14.34% in the past twelve month
Source: Google Finance
Superinvestors who reduced, or sold out of the company’s stock, according to their latest 13Fs, include:
(Remaining shares)
Terry Smith – 14,822,237
Tom Russo – 5,551,197
Steve Cohen – 888,449
Israel Englander – 715,053
John Rogers – 422,888
Ray Dalio – 399,410
Cliff Asness – 248,809
Mario Gabelli – 13,250
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