Whitney Tilson

Ivan Feinseth, chief investment officer at Tigress Financial, joined Benzinga’s Premarket Prep trading show on Wednesday morning. Feinseth discussed the extreme volatility among marijuana stocks in recent months and whether or not cannabis share prices are out of control. 'It's A Bit...

Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, perhaps best known for his short thesis on Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE: LL), has decided to call it quits. Tilson's hedge fund, Kase Capital, will be closing shop after offering investors a disappointing return profile, the Wall Street Journal reported....

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has soared more than 8 percent since the November 8 presidential election, but not all fund managers are convinced the rally is here to stay. Whitney Tilson, founder of the hedge fund Kase Capital, counts himself as a skeptic and thinks the creation of $1.6 trillion...

Whitney Tilson moved two stocks on Tuesday with his long-short views on the pair, with Wingstop Inc (NASDAQ: WING) finding itself on the wrong side of his equation, while Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE: LL) was back in favor. At the Robin Hood Conference, Tilson, who runs the hedge fund...

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) can be an extremely useful and tradable tool for investors, but only if you follow the right people. Here’s a look at 10 hedge fund managers that have the potential for market-moving tweets. 1. Carl Icahn - @Carl_C_Icahn Icahn is the founder and majority...

Whitney Tilson is long Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS). "The financial sector has been hit the hardest by the Brexit vote," Tilson wrote in an email, "so today I'm adding to the only financial stock I own (unless you count Berkshire), which is Goldman Sachs. At the current...

Shares of Insys Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: INSY) plunged on Monday after the company provided preliminary first-quarter results. Insys Therapeutics, a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops supportive care products, announced that it expects its first-quarter revenue to fall in a range of $...

Earlier this week, hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson attended an event, during which Andrew Fastow spoke. Fastow was the CFO of Enron Corporation until right before the company filed bankruptcy. Fastow was criminally charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, securities fraud, false...

Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson says Donald Trump is "the devil, and brings out the very worst in human nature." The comments from Tilson came after a prediction site showed that Trump is 72.2 percent likely the Republican nominee, while Hillary Clinton's chance as a democratic...