As Value Outperforms, Einhorn Avoids Most of the Carnage

As Value Outperforms, Einhorn Avoids Most of the Carnage

It’s no secret that David Einhorn, founder of Greenlight Capital, favors value stocks, and that approach paid off in January as Greenlight fell only 0.6% amidst market turmoil, reports Yahoo! Finance. Meanwhile, the benchmarks S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite Index plummeted 5.3% and 9% respectively, while the S&P Value Index slipped only 1.7%.

In a letter to investors, Einhorn wrote that “The macro environment has continued to be favorable for us, [but now] the tailwinds are picking up speed,” as quoted in the article.

But Greenlight still has a lot of ground to make up for losses that go back to 2015, when the fund plunged 20%. Then in 2018, Einhorn lost another 34%—the biggest decline in the firm’s history. In order to break even, Yahoo! reports, Einhorn needs to gain 28%.