As Red Hat (RHT) Share Value Rose, Calamos Advisors Upped Its Position by $300,831; Chilton Capital Management Increases Stake in Equinix (EQIX)

June 18, 2018 - By Ellis Scott

Chilton Capital Management Llc increased its stake in Equinix Inc (EQIX) by 13.63% based on its latest 2018Q1 regulatory filing with the SEC. Chilton Capital Management Llc bought 6,505 shares as the company’s stock declined 1.56% with the market. The institutional investor held 54,232 shares of the consumer services company at the end of 2018Q1, valued at $22.68 million, up from 47,727 at the end of the previous reported quarter. Chilton Capital Management Llc who had been investing in Equinix Inc for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $31.69B market cap company. The stock increased 0.51% or $2.02 during the last trading session, reaching $398.76. About 568,151 shares traded or 1.48% up from the average. Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX) has declined 12.79% since June 18, 2017 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 25.36% the S&P500.

Calamos Advisors Llc increased its stake in Red Hat Inc (RHT) by 4.88% based on its latest 2018Q1 regulatory filing with the SEC. Calamos Advisors Llc bought 2,019 shares as the company’s stock rose 11.53% while stock markets declined. The institutional investor held 43,374 shares of the technology company at the end of 2018Q1, valued at $6.49M, up from 41,355 at the end of the previous reported quarter. Calamos Advisors Llc who had been investing in Red Hat Inc for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $31.09 billion market cap company. The stock decreased 0.52% or $0.91 during the last trading session, reaching $174.99. About 1.88 million shares traded or 4.35% up from the average. Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) has risen 85.99% since June 18, 2017 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 73.42% the S&P500. Some Historical RHT News: 26/03/2018 – RED HAT CFO – ALSO RELATED TO THE U.S TAX REFORM, REPATRIATED $486 MLN OF FOREIGN EARNINGS – CONF CALL; 07/05/2018 – Growing Number of Organizations Around the World Choose Red Hat Container-Native Storage with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform; 08/05/2018 – IBM and Red Hat Join Forces to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption; 07/05/2018 – Using OpenShift on OpenStack, Red Hat Customers Power Infrastructure and Application Modernization; 07/05/2018 – Lufthansa Technik Builds its Digital Future with Red Hat; 09/05/2018 – Red Hat Collaborates with the Massachusetts Open Cloud and Leading Children’s Hospital to Help Shape the Future of Medical; 27/03/2018 – RED HAT INC RHT.N : RBC RAISES TARGET PRICE TO $172 FROM $160; 26/03/2018 – Red Hat 4Q Loss/Shr 7c; 26/03/2018 – RED HAT SEES 1Q REV. $800M TO $810.0M, EST. $795.0M; 31/05/2018 – Maxta Announces Support for Comprehensive Private Cloud Infrastructure Based on Red Hat Virtualization and Red Hat OpenShift Co

Calamos Advisors Llc, which manages about $26.54 billion and $15.37B US Long portfolio, decreased its stake in Altaba Inc (Prn) by 3.07M shares to 49.49M shares, valued at $68.93M in 2018Q1, according to the filing. It also reduced its holding in On Semiconductor Corp (Prn) by 8.20 million shares in the quarter, leaving it with 41.02M shares, and cut its stake in Alphabet Inc.

Investors sentiment decreased to 0.86 in Q1 2018. Its down 0.26, from 1.12 in 2017Q4. It fall, as 46 investors sold RHT shares while 214 reduced holdings. 80 funds opened positions while 144 raised stakes. 160.68 million shares or 0.87% more from 159.29 million shares in 2017Q4 were reported. Advisor Partners Limited Liability Com invested in 0.06% or 2,204 shares. Tci Wealth owns 13 shares. Los Angeles Capital Mngmt And Equity Research Incorporated holds 31,658 shares or 0.03% of its portfolio. Comerica Comml Bank owns 103,107 shares or 0.12% of their US portfolio. Canada Pension Plan Board, a Ontario – Canada-based fund reported 170,910 shares. Lpl Ltd Co holds 54,474 shares or 0.02% of its portfolio. Lombard Odier Asset Management (Europe) holds 0.02% or 1,878 shares. Moreover, Whale Rock Cap Mngmt Ltd Com has 1.94% invested in Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT). First Foundation invested in 0.06% or 7,289 shares. Cleararc Capital invested 0.1% in Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT). Meiji Yasuda Life reported 0.06% in Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT). Rampart Invest Mgmt Co Ltd Liability Co invested 0.07% of its portfolio in Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT). Fred Alger Mngmt Inc invested in 1.2% or 1.73 million shares. Sumitomo Life Ins has invested 0.26% in Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT). Davis R M Incorporated holds 360,123 shares.

More recent Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) news were published by: Globenewswire.com which released: “Analysis: Positioning to Benefit within Ruth’s Hospitality Group, S&P Global, Shaw Communications, Leap Therapeutics …” on June 13, 2018. Also Investorplace.com published the news titled: “The Top 20 Stocks of 2018” on June 12, 2018. 247Wallst.com‘s news article titled: “Oracle, Micron, FedEx, and More Earnings Coming This Week” with publication date: June 17, 2018 was also an interesting one.

Among 40 analysts covering Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), 29 have Buy rating, 1 Sell and 10 Hold. Therefore 73% are positive. Red Hat had 135 analyst reports since August 25, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. Barclays Capital maintained the shares of RHT in report on Tuesday, September 26 with “Overweight” rating. The stock of Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) earned “Buy” rating by Wells Fargo on Tuesday, March 27. The rating was maintained by BMO Capital Markets with “Hold” on Monday, August 14. The company was maintained on Wednesday, December 20 by BMO Capital Markets. The stock has “Neutral” rating by Credit Suisse on Tuesday, September 26. As per Tuesday, June 20, the company rating was maintained by Jefferies. The rating was maintained by Wells Fargo with “Outperform” on Tuesday, September 19. The stock of Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) has “Neutral” rating given on Monday, March 12 by Mizuho. The firm has “Market Outperform” rating given on Tuesday, March 27 by JMP Securities. Barclays Capital maintained Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) rating on Wednesday, December 13. Barclays Capital has “Buy” rating and $145.0 target.

Chilton Capital Management Llc, which manages about $1.18 billion and $1.00 billion US Long portfolio, decreased its stake in Jbg Smith Pptys by 13,218 shares to 162,557 shares, valued at $5.48 million in 2018Q1, according to the filing. It also reduced its holding in Vornado Rlty Tr (NYSE:VNO) by 14,575 shares in the quarter, leaving it with 196,282 shares, and cut its stake in Starbucks Corp (NASDAQ:SBUX).

Among 24 analysts covering Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX), 23 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 1 Hold. Therefore 96% are positive. Equinix had 72 analyst reports since July 31, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. As per Monday, June 12, the company rating was maintained by Canaccord Genuity. RBC Capital Markets maintained Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:REIT) on Thursday, October 29 with “Outperform” rating. The firm has “Hold” rating given on Thursday, February 15 by Jefferies. On Thursday, August 4 the stock rating was maintained by Barclays Capital with “Equal-Weight”. Jefferies maintained the stock with “Hold” rating in Tuesday, September 5 report. The rating was upgraded by Wells Fargo on Monday, January 4 to “Outperform”. On Monday, January 29 the stock rating was upgraded by UBS to “Buy”. As per Thursday, February 15, the company rating was maintained by Guggenheim. The company was maintained on Thursday, August 18 by Barclays Capital. The stock of Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:REIT) has “Buy” rating given on Friday, July 7 by RBC Capital Markets.

Since January 16, 2018, it had 0 buys, and 31 selling transactions for $32.23 million activity. On Tuesday, February 27 the insider TAYLOR KEITH D sold $1.47 million. Another trade for 2,110 shares valued at $822,167 was sold by Schwartz Eric. $2.40 million worth of Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:REIT) was sold by Lee Yau Tat. The insider Campbell Michael Earl sold $186,550. On Tuesday, January 16 the insider STROHMEYER KARL sold $2.71M. 583 shares were sold by VAN CAMP PETER, worth $227,666 on Tuesday, February 27.