On the 31st of December, Royce & Associates bought 131 thousand Shoe Carnival , Inc. (NASDAQ:SCVL) shares for $5.1 million at an average price of $39.09 per share. Shares of Shoe Carnival (NYSE:CUK), Inc. are up 10.43% since the transaction.
Royce & Associates's holding in Shoe Carnival, Inc. increased to about 958 thousand shares with the purchase.
Royce & Associates first bought Shoe Carnival, Inc. stock in the third quarter of 2010. Royce & Associates also owns Rent-A-Center Inc . (NASDAQ:RCII), Sonic Automotive Inc (NYSE:SAH), Lumber Liquidators Holdings, In (NYSE:LL) and American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO). Shoe Carnival, Inc. is its number one position by number of shares and market value among retail - specialty stocks.
Other investors who also added to their Shoe Carnival, Inc. shares include Squarepoint Ops. In contrast, Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Victory Capital Management reduced SCVL shares, while Millennium Management sold all their SCVL shares.
Royce & Associates also reduced their share in Hurco Companies, Inc. (HURC), Century Casinos , Inc. (NASDAQ:CNTY), Intevac , Inc. (NASDAQ:IVAC), Haynes International, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAYN), Kimball International, Inc. (KBAL), Insteel Industries , Inc. (NASDAQ:IIIN), FARO Technologies, Inc. (FARO), Bowl America, Inc. (BWL.A), Lindsay Corporation (NYSE:LNN), Frequency Electronics, Inc. (FEIM), Miller Industries, Inc. (MLR), Synalloy Corporation (SYNL), LSI Industries Inc. (LYTS), Preformed Line Products Company (PLPC), GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE:GPX), Northrim BanCorp Inc (NRIM), Gencor Industries Inc. (GENC), New Home Company Inc. (The) (NWHM) and SEACOR Marine Holdings Inc . (NYSE:SMHI). The total value of the shares sold is estimated at around $74 million.
Additionally, Royce & Associates added to their share in Houston Wire & Cable Company (HWCC), Northwest Pipe Company (NASDAQ:NWPX), National Presto Industries, Inc (NPK), John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. (JBSS), Hooker Furniture Corporation (NASDAQ:HOFT), Johnson Outdoors Inc. (NASDAQ:JOUT), Forrester Research , Inc. (NASDAQ:FORR), PCTEL, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCTI), Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (RELL), Seneca Foods Corp. (SENEA), Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. (FBSS), AstroNova, Inc. (ALOT), Flexsteel Industries, Inc. (FLXS), IntriCon Corporation (IIN), Mesa Laboratories , Inc. (NASDAQ:MLAB), America's Car-Mart, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRMT), CPI Aerostructures, Inc. (NYSE:CVU), EVI Industries, Inc. (EVI), Iteris , Inc. (NASDAQ:ITI), Aviat Networks , Inc. (NASDAQ:AVNW), Horizon Global Corporation (NYSE:HZN), MasterCraft Boat Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCFT), SecureWorks Corp. (NASDAQ:SCWX), International Money Express, In (NASDAQ:IMXI), RA Medical Systems Inc (RMED) and OneWater Marine Inc. (NASDAQ:ONEW). The total value of the shares bought is estimated at around $105 million.