The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. We at Insider Monkey have plowed through 821 13F filings that hedge funds and well-known value investors are required to file by the SEC. The 13F filings show the funds’ and investors’ portfolio positions as of March 31st, a week after the market trough. We are almost done with the second quarter. Investors decided to bet on the economic recovery and a stock market rebound. S&P 500 Index returned almost 20% this quarter. In this article we look at how hedge funds traded IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE:IAG) and determine whether the smart money was really smart about this stock.
IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE:IAG) shares haven’t seen a lot of action during the first quarter. Overall, hedge fund sentiment was unchanged. The stock was in 17 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2020. At the end of this article we will also compare IAG to other stocks including HNI Corp (NYSE:HNI), Tennant Company (NYSE:TNC), and Six Flags Entertainment Corp (NYSE:SIX) to get a better sense of its popularity.
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How are hedge funds trading IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE:IAG)?
At Q1’s end, a total of 17 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of 0% from the previous quarter. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards IAG over the last 18 quarters. With hedgies’ capital changing hands, there exists a few notable hedge fund managers who were increasing their stakes considerably (or already accumulated large positions).
Among these funds, Renaissance Technologies held the most valuable stake in IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE:IAG), which was worth $53.2 million at the end of the third quarter. On the second spot was Two Sigma Advisors which amassed $11.2 million worth of shares. Citadel Investment Group, Contrarius Investment Management, and Sprott Asset Management 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 Contrarius Investment Management allocated the biggest weight to IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE:IAG), around 0.87% of its 13F portfolio. Sprott Asset Management is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 0.61 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to IAG.
Seeing as IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE:IAG) has faced falling interest from the entirety of the hedge funds we track, it’s safe to say that there exists a select few fund managers that slashed their full holdings heading into Q4. Intriguingly, Peter Franklin Palmedo’s Sun Valley Gold dropped the biggest position of the “upper crust” of funds monitored by Insider Monkey, worth about $16.9 million in stock. Michael Platt and William Reeves’s fund, BlueCrest Capital Mgmt., also dropped its stock, about $0.3 million worth. These transactions are interesting, as total hedge fund interest stayed the same (this is a bearish signal in our experience).
Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE:IAG) but similarly valued. These stocks are HNI Corp (NYSE:HNI), Tennant Company (NYSE:TNC), Six Flags Entertainment Corp (NYSE:SIX), and Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE:ABG). This group of stocks’ market caps match IAG’s market cap.
| Ticker | No of HFs with positions | Total Value of HF Positions (x1000) | Change in HF Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| HNI | 15 | 47165 | -5 |
| TNC | 11 | 89348 | 0 |
| SIX | 30 | 240206 | -8 |
| ABG | 19 | 248518 | -5 |
| Average | 18.75 | 156309 | -4.5 |
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 18.75 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $156 million. That figure was $107 million in IAG’s case. Six Flags Entertainment Corp (NYSE:SIX) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Tennant Company (NYSE:TNC) is the least popular one with only 11 bullish hedge fund positions. IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE:IAG) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. Our calculations showed that top 10 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 41.4% in 2019 and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 10.1 percentage points. These stocks gained 18.6% in 2020 through July 27th and still beat the market by 17.1 percentage points. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on IAG as the stock returned 120.2% since the end of March and outperformed the market by an even larger margin.
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