The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey have plowed through 823 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 June 30th, when the S&P 500 Index was trading around the 3100 level. Since the end of March, investors decided to bet on the economic recovery and a stock market rebound. S&P 500 Index returned more than 50% since its bottom. In this article you are going to find out whether hedge funds thought LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH) was a good investment heading into the third quarter and how the stock traded in comparison to the top hedge fund picks.
LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH) has seen an increase in support from the world’s most elite money managers of late. LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH) was in 22 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of June. The all time high for this statistics is 18. This means the bullish number of hedge fund positions in this stock currently sits at its all time high. Our calculations also showed that LGIH isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q2 rankings and see the video for a quick look at the top 5 stocks).
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What does smart money think about LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH)?
At the end of the second quarter, a total of 22 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of 57% from one quarter earlier. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in LGIH over the last 20 quarters. So, let’s check out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
More specifically, Capital Growth Management was the largest shareholder of LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH), with a stake worth $33.5 million reported as of the end of September. Trailing Capital Growth Management was Driehaus Capital, which amassed a stake valued at $15.7 million. Royce & Associates, Harspring Capital Management, and Voss Capital 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 DC Capital Partners allocated the biggest weight to LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH), around 8.34% of its 13F portfolio. Voss Capital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, setting aside 4.89 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to LGIH.
As aggregate interest increased, key hedge funds were leading the bulls’ herd. Harspring Capital Management, managed by Harry Gail, initiated the most outsized position in LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH). Harspring Capital Management had $11.6 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Travis Cocke’s Voss Capital also initiated a $7.3 million position during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new LGIH investors: Noam Gottesman’s GLG Partners, Blair Baker’s Precept Capital Management, and Paul Tudor Jones’s Tudor Investment Corp.
Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH). We will take a look at ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ESE), Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE:CLF), Progyny, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGNY), Primo Water Corporation (NYSE:PRMW), Shake Shack Inc (NYSE:SHAK), New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:NFE), and Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Inc (NYSE:KW). This group of stocks’ market caps are similar to LGIH’s market cap.
| Ticker | No of HFs with positions | Total Value of HF Positions (x1000) | Change in HF Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESE | 7 | 69080 | -1 |
| CLF | 25 | 161525 | 2 |
| PGNY | 19 | 64397 | 9 |
| PRMW | 31 | 624565 | -5 |
| SHAK | 22 | 458714 | 0 |
| NFE | 5 | 24818 | 3 |
| KW | 14 | 350773 | -8 |
| Average | 17.6 | 250553 | 0 |
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 17.6 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $251 million. That figure was $108 million in LGIH’s case. Primo Water Corporation (NYSE:PRMW) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:NFE) is the least popular one with only 5 bullish hedge fund positions. LGI Homes Inc (NASDAQ:LGIH) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for LGIH is 72.7. 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 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 24.8% in 2020 through the end of third quarter and still beat the market by 19.3 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on LGIH as the stock returned 32% during Q3 and outperformed the market. Hedge funds were rewarded for their relative bullishness.
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