Bill Miller, the venerable portfolio manager, told CNBC on Thursday the most interesting stock he's added recently was Avon Products, and the beauty company's stock surged as much as 20 percent immediately after his comments.
Shares of Avon were around $2.25 each in late-morning trade, a far cry from all-time per-share highs in the mid-$40s in 2004.
Miller told CNBC earlier this month his Miller Opportunity Trust is "off to a very strong start this year," after having a "pretty bad" 2018.
A star money manager at Legg Mason for decades, Miller is best known for beating the S&P 500 for 15 consecutive years through 2005. His track record more recently, particularly during the financial crisis, has been up and down.
In 2016, he went out on his own, forming Miller Value Partners.
A year later, he bought two mutual funds that he started at Legg Mason. The bigger of the two, Miller Opportunity Trust, beat the S&P 500 in 2017. But the fund trailed the index by about 6 percentage points last year.
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