If you are looking for the best ideas for your portfolio you may want to consider some of Palm Valley Capital Management’s top stock picks. Palm Valley Capital, an investment management firm, is bullish on Crawford & Co (NYSE:CRD.B) stock. In its Q2 2019 investor letter – you can download a copy here – the firm discussed its investment thesis on Crawford & Co (NYSE:CRD.B) stock. Crawford & Co (NYSE:CRD.B) is the world’s largest independent claims management company.
On July 1, 2019, Palm Valley Capital had released its Q2 2019 investor letter. The investment firm said that Crawford & Co (NYSE:CRD.B) was one of the ten equities that the fund held in Q2 2019. The stock has posted a return of -22.7% in the trailing one year period, underperforming fund’s benchmark the S&P Small Cap 600 Index which returned -2.2% in the same period. This suggests that the investment firm was wrong in its decision. On a year-to-date basis, Crawford & Co (NYSE:CRD.B) stock has fallen by 31.4%.
Palm Valley Capital fund posted a return of 0.7% from April 30, 2019 through June 30, 2019, outperforming fund’s benchmark the S&P Small Cap 600 Index which returned -1.9% in the same period. Let’s take a look at comments made by Palm Valley Capital about Crawford & Co (NYSE:CRD.B) in the Q2 2019 investor letter.
“Crawford & Co. is one of the world’s largest independent providers of claims management services to insurance companies and self-insured entities. Demand is tied to industrywide claims volumes, weather events, economic activity, employment, and workplace injuries, as well as the propensity for insurers to outsource adjusting work. A restructuring program has significantly improved underlying profitability in Crawford’s core businesses, but this was overshadowed by a declining contribution from administering class action services related to the BP oil spill. The class action business was sold last year, which allowed Crawford to reduce debt. We own Crawford’s Class B voting shares, which have historically sold at periodic premiums to the Class A nonvoting shares but traded at a discount during June as a result of anticipated rebalancing of Russell indexes.”
In Q2 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Crawford & Co (NYSE:CRD.B) stock remained unchanged from the previous quarter (see the chart here). Our calculations showed that Crawford & Co (NYSE:CRD.B) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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