SECOND TEAM

Glen Yeung  Citi

Citi’s Glen Yeung, who is based in San Francisco, jumps from runner-up to second place. “He made a number of very good calls on stocks this year, including Nvidia,” says one fan. Yeung downgraded Santa Clara, California–based Nvidia Corp., a high-end graphics card maker, from buy to hold in February, at $23.38, citing increased competitive risk and the threat of excess tablet inventory; the following month, after the share price had slid to $19.14, he downgraded further, to sell. The stock had plunged to $13.31 by the end of August, for a loss of 30.5 percent since the second downgrade that trailed the Philadelphia Stock Exchange semiconductor index by 12.4 percentage points. Yeung’s “detailed channel checks out of Asia give him an edge on the cycle,” notes one investor.