Virtus Investment Advisers Inc. Has 531,000 Stock Holdings in NetApp, Inc.
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Slightly above 54% of First Investors' investor base is interested to short. The analysis of overall sentiment of trading First Investors Select mutual fund suggests that many investors are impartial at this time. First Investors' investing sentiment can be driven by a variety of factors including economic data, First Investors' earnings reports, geopolitical events, and overall market trends.
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Virtus Investment Advisers Inc. raised its stake in shares of NetApp, Inc. by 168.8 percent in the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities Exchange Commission. The firm owned 4,300 shares of the data storage providers stock after buying an additional 2,700 shares during the period.
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First Investors Fundamental Analysis
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First Investors Select Potential Pair-trading
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First Investors Related Equities
| OCIEX | Optimum International | 0.23 |
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| OCLGX | Optimum Large | 0.29 |
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| IMAAX | Ivy Apollo | 0.42 |
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| OCFIX | Optimum Fixed | 0.46 |
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| OCLVX | Optimum Large | 0.53 |
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| OASVX | Optimum Small | 0.58 |
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| OASGX | Optimum Small | 0.80 |
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| OCSGX | Optimum Small | 0.82 |
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| WSGAX | Ivy Small | 6.12 |
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| WASAX | Ivy Asset | 6.22 |
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