Amana Mutual Funds Trust recently released its Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Amana Income Fund posted a return of -18.01% for the quarter, outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned -19.60% in the same quarter. You should check out Amana Mutual Fund’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash.
In the said letter, Amana Mutual Fund spoke about Eli Lilly & Co (NYSE:LLY) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) stocks. Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson are healthcare companies. Year-to-date, Eli Lilly & Co (NYSE:LLY) stock gained 24.6% and on June 16th it had a closing price of $163.71. Year-to-date, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) stock lost 1% and on June 16th it had a closing price of $144.46. Here is what Amana Mutual Fund said:
“Even so, Lilly stood out as one, among a handful, of companies that registered a positive return for the first quarter. In January, Lilly reported excellent fourth quarter results, with revenue growing at a faster clip than over the first three quarters of the year. Lilly is also financially strong with debt equivalent to only two times EBITDA3 and 12% of market capitalization. Johnson & Johnson, while trailing Lilly, shares many of the same characteristics and also outperformed.”
In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Eli Lilly & Co (NYSE:LLY) stock remained unchanged from the previous quarter (see the chart here).
In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) stock decreased by about 4% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with JNJ’s growth potential.
Our calculations showed that Eli Lilly & Co (NYSE:LLY) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) aren’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 185% since the end of 2014 and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 109 percentage points. We know it sounds unbelievable. You have been dismissing our articles about top hedge fund stocks mostly because you were fed biased information by other media outlets about hedge funds’ poor performance. You could have doubled the size of your nest egg by investing in the top hedge fund stocks instead of dumb S&P 500 ETFs. Below you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.
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