In the Margins

Funds bet on America's gun love

December 10, 2015

By MarketWatch

Shares of gunmakers Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. and Sturm, Ruger & Co. have shot up over the past year, and a number of mutual funds are buying up the companies' shares in order to cash in on America's love of firearms. There are 151 mutual funds holding Smith & Wesson’s stock and 131 mutual funds holding Sturm, Ruger’s stock, according to Morningstar’s most recently available data. Read the original story from MarketWatch.

 

 

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