Jim Simons acquired 2.45M Verisign shares worth $706M. That's 0.94% of their equity portfolio (10th largest holding). The investor owns 2.71% of the outstanding Verisign stock. The first Verisign trade was made in Q2 2013. Since then Jim Simons bought shares twenty more times and sold shares on 32 occasions. The stake costed the investor $225M, netting the investor a gain of 214% so far.