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Is At Home Group Inc. (NYSE:HOME) ready to rally soon? The smart money was getting less bullish. The number of bullish hedge fund positions were trimmed by 1 in recent months. At Home Group Inc. (NYSE:HOME) was in 30 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2021. The all time high for this statistic is 34. Our calculations also showed that HOME isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings).
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Do Hedge Funds Think HOME Is A Good Stock To Buy Now?
At Q1’s end, a total of 30 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -3% from one quarter earlier. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards HOME over the last 23 quarters. So, let’s see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
More specifically, CAS Investment Partners was the largest shareholder of At Home Group Inc. (NYSE:HOME), with a stake worth $318 million reported as of the end of March. Trailing CAS Investment Partners was North Peak Capital, which amassed a stake valued at $120.5 million. Renaissance Technologies, D E Shaw, and Two Sigma Advisors were also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position North Peak Capital allocated the biggest weight to At Home Group Inc. (NYSE:HOME), around 26.67% of its 13F portfolio. CAS Investment Partners is also relatively very bullish on the stock, designating 16.25 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to HOME.
Since At Home Group Inc. (NYSE:HOME) has witnessed falling interest from hedge fund managers, we can see that there is a sect of hedgies who were dropping their entire stakes last quarter. Interestingly, Angela Aldrich’s Bayberry Capital Partners dropped the largest investment of the “upper crust” of funds monitored by Insider Monkey, comprising close to $18.4 million in stock. Marc Majzner’s fund, Clearline Capital, also said goodbye to its stock, about $10.2 million worth. These bearish behaviors are interesting, as total hedge fund interest dropped by 1 funds last quarter.
Let’s check out hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to At Home Group Inc. (NYSE:HOME). These stocks are Cal-Maine Foods Inc (NASDAQ:CALM), Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDGL), ADC Therapeutics SA (NYSE:ADCT), NuStar Energy L.P. (NYSE:NS), Kura Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:KURA), Vista Outdoor Inc (NYSE:VSTO), and Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE:WRE). This group of stocks’ market values match HOME’s market value.
| Ticker | No of HFs with positions | Total Value of HF Positions (x1000) | Change in HF Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALM | 20 | 224111 | -1 |
| MDGL | 17 | 494379 | 2 |
| ADCT | 8 | 233473 | -4 |
| NS | 4 | 17919 | 0 |
| KURA | 32 | 591074 | -11 |
| VSTO | 22 | 344887 | -1 |
| WRE | 10 | 64215 | -1 |
| Average | 16.1 | 281437 | -2.3 |
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 16.1 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $281 million. That figure was $807 million in HOME’s case. Kura Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:KURA) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand NuStar Energy L.P. (NYSE:NS) is the least popular one with only 4 bullish hedge fund positions. At Home Group Inc. (NYSE:HOME) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for HOME is 76.9. Stocks with higher number of hedge fund positions relative to other stocks as well as relative to their historical range receive a higher sentiment score. Our calculations showed that top 5 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 95.8% in 2019 and 2020, and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 40 percentage points. These stocks gained 22.8% in 2021 through July 2nd and still beat the market by 6 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on HOME as the stock returned 28.3% since the end of Q1 (through 7/2) and outperformed the market. Hedge funds were rewarded for their relative bullishness.
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