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Smart money is quietly loading 5 stocks

Scan day · Saturday, August 8, 2026

Comparing Q1 2026 (reportDate 2026-03-31) against Q4 2025 (reportDate 2025-12-31) across all five configured funds — Berkshire Hathaway, Bridgewater Associates, Renaissance Technologies, Citadel Advisors, and Two Sigma — 825 tickers cleared the raw acceleration filter (net buyers > sellers, ≥25% aggregate share increase OR ≥2 newly opened positions, puts excluded). After overlaying market cap ≥ $1B, quality-rail exclusions (mega-cap retail favorites, ETFs, SPACs), single-buyer >80% concentration limits, and the retail-attention filter, five names survived. The single most surprising finding: Berkshire did NOT anchor any top-20 candidate. Its incremental adds this window (GOOGL, DaVita, Pool Corp, Domino's, HEICO) either concentrated in mega-caps already tripped by the retail exclusion or lacked multi-fund confirmation. All five picks are therefore quant-plus-Bridgewater constructs; two of them (PACCAR and Barclays) show Bridgewater opening a genuinely NEW position, which weighs meaningfully more than a quant nudge given Bridgewater's slower turnover and macro-thesis orientation.

Headline pick — fully revealed

PCAR

PACCAR Inc
Industrials$69.8B mkt cap
Funds adding4
Total shares held1.9M
Position value$220.8M
Thesis

Bridgewater and RenTech both opened NEW positions in Q1 2026 while Citadel and Two Sigma each added materially — four independent managers converging on the Class-8 truck OEM. Bridgewater's macro tilt combined with a from-zero entry is the most thesis-driven signal in this run: it typically opens when the fundamental setup is inflecting, not for factor exposure. PACCAR's Q2 2026 print (revenue $7.5B, net income +24% sequentially, gross margin recovering to 14.4%) confirms the North American truck cycle is turning up. The catalyst retail hasn't priced: the EPA 2027 emissions rules drive a pre-buy cycle for Class-8 trucks starting late 2026, and PACCAR's parts business (higher-margin, less cyclical) is now ~30% of gross profit.

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