Alan Fournier—Reduces PHH

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Mar 16, 2013
On March 14, 2013, Alan Fournier, fund manager of Pennant Capital Management, reduced his position on PHH Corporation (PHH, Financial) by 38.73%, leaving the value investor with 2,845,982 PHH shares. The current share price is $21.81. PHH Corporation has two different segments of business: mortgage services and fleet management outsourcing. PHH Mortgage sells its loans to secondary market investors. The company posted net income of $58 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to $46 million for the same period in the previous year.

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PHH Corporation has a market cap of $1.24 billion. The company has a P/E ratio of 36.4, a P/B of 0.8 and a P/S ratio of 0.5023.

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Other recent Guru trades show that Arnold Schneider sold out his PHH shares on December 31, 2013 when Jim Simons reduced his position by 34.42%, and Steve Cohen made a new buy the same day, with 18,651 shares.

PHH Corporation, like other financial services companies, is adjusting to a changing and more regulated environment. Mortgage firms are seeing lower margins, and according to Bloomberg: “The amount that lenders make from packaging each loan into securities and selling them to investors may be down as much as 40 percent from last quarter...”

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Fournier’s company Pennant Capital Management’s portfolio lists 42 stocks with a total value of $4.7 billion, and a quarter-over-quarter turnover of 10%. The Pennant Capital portfolio heavyweight sectors are currently technology 28.7%, consumer cyclical 17.7%, and healthcare 13.7%.

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