Big-money investors are piling into these 10 'rising suns'

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on December 07, 2018 in New York City.

• Investors looking for stable growth stocks can get ideas from the holdings of equity funds that are focused on large-cap investing and only long stocks.
• Each quarter, RBC analyzes hundreds of long-only large-cap fund holdings to see what stocks they are buying the most.
• RBC calls these stocks "rising suns," because they have a tendency to climb gradually after being bought.
• In the third quarter, healthcare names were popular among large-cap funds.

Investors looking for stable growth stocks can get ideas from the holdings of equity funds that are focused on large-cap investing and only long stocks.

Usually, large-cap stocks have less variability and volatility than small-cap stocks, and long positions are less risky than short positions as the latter's potential loss is unlimited.

Each quarter, RBC analyzes hundreds of long-only large-cap fund holdings to see what stocks they are buying the most. RBC calls these stocks "rising suns," because the firm says they usually climb gradually after being bought.

In the third quarter, healthcare stocks were a popular addition, probably related to rising confidence in the sector after Democrats won the House in the 2018 mid-term election.

Below are the 10 "rising suns" that have seen the most new positions added by large-cap funds in the third quarter. They are ranked in ascending order based on the changes in the number of funds that own the stock on a quarterly basis: