Here Are The Top 20 Stocks Owned By Hedge Funds

Goldman Sachs aggregated the stock holdings listed in 487 hedge funds' Q4 2009 13f reports to come up with a list of 50 "VIP" List of the most important stocks for hedge funds.

From MarketFolly:
Here are the top 20:

1. Apple (AAPL): 67 hedge funds hold it as a top ten holding

2. Pfizer (PFE): 45

3. Bank of America (BAC): 37

4. Google (GOOG): 37

5. JPMorgan Chase (JPM): 36

6. Microsoft (MSFT): 36

7. Mastercard (MA): 29

8. DirecTV (DTV): 27

9. Wells Fargo (WFC): 27

10. CVS Caremark (CVS): 24

11. Citigroup (C): 23

12. Hewlett Packard (HPQ): 23

13. Monsanto (MON): 23

14. Visa (V): 23

15. Cisco Systems (CSCO): 21

16. Walmart (WMT): 21

17. Oracle (ORCL): 18

18. Qualcomm (QCOM): 18

19. Exxon Mobil (XOM): 18

20. Ebay (EBAY): 17

Marketfolly also points out that the surprises here are the new additions to the list, stocks that hedge funds only recently started investing in. They are:

Wells Fargo (WFC), Mead Johnson (MJN), Merck (MRK), Liberty Media (LSTZA), Amazon (AMZN), Apache (APA), IBM (IBM), Lear (LEA), Crown Castle (CCI), SBA Communications (SBAC), US Bancorp (USB), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Target (TGT), American Tower (AMT), and Freeport McMoran (FCX).