Brown Advisory recently released its Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download below. The Large-Cap Growth Fund posted a return of -13.05% for the quarter, outperforming its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Growth Index which returned -14.10% in the same quarter. You should check out Brown Advisory’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash. There weren’t a lot of funds who could deliver these kinds of returns without shorting the market or using aggressive put options.
In the said letter, Brown Advisory highlighted a few stocks and Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) is one of them. Booking Holdings is the world’s leader in online travel. Year-to-date, Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) stock lost 16.1% and on May 26th it had a closing price of $1,746.91. Here is what Brown Advisory said:
“We eliminated our position in online travel (OTA) company Booking Holdings Inc. The OTA industry has become more competitive and more mature which has led to slowing growth for all participants. Given the prevailing negative backdrop on top of the recent malaise for travel, our confidence in the company’s ability to meet our growth requirements for this strategy was severely diminished.”
In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) stock increased by about 22% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with BKNG’s downside potential. Our calculations showed that Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) is ranked #28 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.
Video: Top 5 Stocks Among Hedge Funds
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