Here’s What Hedge Funds Think About PNM Resources, Inc. (PNM)

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Is PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE:PNM) an exceptional investment now? The best stock pickers are selling. The number of long hedge fund bets dropped by 1 in recent months. Our calculations also showed that pnm isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.

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Let’s go over the key hedge fund action regarding PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE:PNM).

What have hedge funds been doing with PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE:PNM)?

Heading into the first quarter of 2019, a total of 18 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -5% from the second quarter of 2018. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in PNM over the last 14 quarters. So, let’s review which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

According to publicly available hedge fund and institutional investor holdings data compiled by Insider Monkey, Jim Simons’s Renaissance Technologies has the number one position in PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE:PNM), worth close to $113.9 million, accounting for 0.1% of its total 13F portfolio. The second largest stake is held by GAMCO Investors, led by Mario Gabelli, holding a $86.1 million position; 0.7% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the stock. Some other professional money managers that hold long positions comprise Israel Englander’s Millennium Management, Cliff Asness’s AQR Capital Management and Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group.

Seeing as PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE:PNM) has witnessed bearish sentiment from the aggregate hedge fund industry, it’s easy to see that there is a sect of fund managers that slashed their positions entirely in the third quarter. At the top of the heap, David Harding’s Winton Capital Management dropped the largest stake of the 700 funds monitored by Insider Monkey, comprising an estimated $8.2 million in stock. Brandon Haley’s fund, Holocene Advisors, also dumped its stock, about $1 million worth. These bearish behaviors are important to note, as total hedge fund interest dropped by 1 funds in the third quarter.

Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE:PNM) but similarly valued. These stocks are The Brink’s Company (NYSE:BCO), Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALLO), Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG), and Apple Hospitality REIT Inc (NYSE:APLE). This group of stocks’ market caps are closest to PNM’s market cap.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 16 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $273 million. That figure was $323 million in PNM’s case. The Brink’s Company (NYSE:BCO) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALLO) is the least popular one with only 10 bullish hedge fund positions. PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE:PNM) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. This is a slightly positive signal but we’d rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. Our calculations showed that top 15 most popular stocks) among hedge funds returned 24.2% through April 22nd and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by more than 7 percentage points. Unfortunately PNM wasn’t nearly as popular as these 15 stock and hedge funds that were betting on PNM were disappointed as the stock returned 9.1% and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 15 most popular stocks) among hedge funds as 13 of these stocks already outperformed the market this year.

Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.