Here is What Hedge Funds Think About Teck Resources Ltd (TECK)

In this article we will analyze whether Teck Resources Ltd (NYSE:TECK) is a good investment right now by following the lead of some of the best investors in the world and piggybacking their ideas. There’s no better way to get these firms’ immense resources and analytical capabilities working for us than to follow their lead into their best ideas. While not all of these picks will be winners, our research shows that these picks historically outperformed the market by double digits annually.

Is Teck Resources Ltd (NYSE:TECK) going to take off soon? The smart money was becoming less confident. The number of bullish hedge fund positions shrunk by 1 lately. Teck Resources Ltd (NYSE:TECK) was in 30 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2021. The all time high for this statistic is 41. Our calculations also showed that TECK isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings).

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Harold Levy of Iridian Asset Management

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Do Hedge Funds Think TECK Is A Good Stock To Buy Now?

At the end of March, a total of 30 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of -3% from one quarter earlier. By comparison, 24 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in TECK a year ago. With hedge funds’ positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists an “upper tier” of key hedge fund managers who were boosting their stakes substantially (or already accumulated large positions).

According to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, Arrowstreet Capital, managed by Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell, holds the biggest position in Teck Resources Ltd (NYSE:TECK). Arrowstreet Capital has a $179.4 million position in the stock, comprising 0.2% of its 13F portfolio. Sitting at the No. 2 spot is Contrarius Investment Management, led by Stephen Mildenhall, holding a $151.6 million position; 8.6% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the stock. Remaining professional money managers with similar optimism consist of David Cohen and Harold Levy’s Iridian Asset Management, Jacob Mitchell’s Antipodes Partners and Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Capital. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Contrarius Investment Management allocated the biggest weight to Teck Resources Ltd (NYSE:TECK), around 8.57% of its 13F portfolio. Castle Hook Partners is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 6.77 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to TECK.

Seeing as Teck Resources Ltd (NYSE:TECK) has faced declining sentiment from the aggregate hedge fund industry, logic holds that there is a sect of funds that slashed their full holdings heading into Q2. Intriguingly, Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management sold off the largest stake of the “upper crust” of funds watched by Insider Monkey, totaling about $12.3 million in stock. Ken Heebner’s fund, Capital Growth Management, also sold off its stock, about $11.8 million worth. These transactions are important to note, as aggregate hedge fund interest dropped by 1 funds heading into Q2.

Let’s now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Teck Resources Ltd (NYSE:TECK). These stocks are Watsco Inc (NYSE:WSO), Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE:CLF), Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB), Aegon N.V. (NYSE:AEG), Comerica Incorporated (NYSE:CMA), Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:FND), and Elastic N.V. (NYSE:ESTC). This group of stocks’ market caps match TECK’s market cap.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 31.4 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $821 million. That figure was $1072 million in TECK’s case. Elastic N.V. (NYSE:ESTC) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Aegon N.V. (NYSE:AEG) is the least popular one with only 6 bullish hedge fund positions. Teck Resources Ltd (NYSE:TECK) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for TECK is 52. 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. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on TECK as the stock returned 21.1% since the end of the first quarter (through 7/2) and outperformed the market by an even larger margin.

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