Hedge Funds Love These 7 High-Growth Semiconductors

Interested in adding some growth to your portfolio? For a closer look at some high-growth names from the semiconductors industry, we ran a screen.

We began by screening the semiconductors industry of the tech sector for stocks with high growth projections, with 5-year projected EPS growth rates above 15%.

We then screened for those with bullish sentiment from institutional investors, with significant net institutional purchases over the last quarter representing at least 5% of share float. This indicates that institutional investors such as hedge fund managers and mutual fund managers expect these names to outperform into the future.

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Do you think these companies will meet their high growth expectations? Use this list as a starting point for your own analysis.

List sorted by net institutional purchases over the last quarter as a percent of share float.

1. Cirrus Logic Inc. (CRUS): Develops high-precision analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Market cap at $1.77B, most recent closing price at $27.46. 5-year projected EPS growth at 20.00%. Net institutional purchases in the current quarter at 9.9M shares, which represents about 15.45% of the company's float of 64.08M shares.

2. IPG Photonics Corporation (IPGP): Manufactures fiber lasers and amplifiers for use in a range of markets, such as materials processing, advanced technologies, telecommunications, and medical applications. Market cap at $2.15B, most recent closing price at $42.10. 5-year projected EPS growth at 24.24%. Net institutional purchases in the current quarter at 4.8M shares, which represents about 11.78% of the company's float of 40.75M shares.

3. EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (EZCH): Engages in the development and marketing of Ethernet network processors for networking equipment. Market cap at $1.01B, most recent closing price at $35.88. 5-year projected EPS growth at 30.17%. Net institutional purchases in the current quarter at 2.2M shares, which represents about 8.21% of the company's float of 26.80M shares.

4. Cree, Inc. (CREE): Develops and manufactures light emitting diode products, silicon carbide and gallium nitride material products, and power and radio frequency products. Market cap at $2.67B, most recent closing price at $22.99. 5-year projected EPS growth at 23.77%. Net institutional purchases in the current quarter at 7.5M shares, which represents about 6.64% of the company's float of 112.98M shares.

5. Mattson Technology Inc. (MTSN): Designs, manufactures, and markets semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits for the semiconductor manufacturing industry worldwide. Market cap at $115.29M, most recent closing price at $1.84. 5-year projected EPS growth at 20.00%. Net institutional purchases in the current quarter at 3.1M shares, which represents about 5.8% of the company's float of 53.49M shares.

6. Mindspeed Technologies Inc. (MSPD): Designs, develops, and sells semiconductor networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, broadband access, metropolitan, and wide-area networks. Market cap at $123.99M, most recent closing price at $3.0. 5-year projected EPS growth at 18.33%. Net institutional purchases in the current quarter at 2.2M shares, which represents about 5.61% of the company's float of 39.25M shares.

7. Volterra Semiconductor Corporation (VLTR): Engages in the design, development, and marketing of analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking, and consumer markets. Market cap at $654.55M, most recent closing price at $25.80. 5-year projected EPS growth at 15.90%. Net institutional purchases in the current quarter at 1.3M shares, which represents about 5.25% of the company's float of 24.76M shares.

*Institutional data sourced from Fidelity, all other data sourced from Finviz.

By Kapitalwire

Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.