H&R Block (HRB) was Up 11.1% in Q2

Alluvium Asset Management, an asset management company, released its “Conventum – Alluvium Global Fund” second-quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. The Fund retreated by 2.3%, 3.0%, and 5.3% in EUR, USD, and AUD respectively, in the quarter. Excitement over AI continues, and some are drawing comparisons between the current environment and the late 1990s dot-com bubble. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2024.

Conventum – Alluvium Global Fund highlighted stocks like H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB), in the second quarter 2024 investor letter. H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB) provides assisted income tax return preparation and do-it-yourself (DIY) tax return preparation services and products. One-month return of H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB) was 3.74%, and its shares gained 68.32% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On August 2, 2024, H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB) stock closed at $56.79 per share with a market capitalization of $7.924 billion.

Conventum – Alluvium Global Fund stated the following regarding H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB) in its Q2 2024 investor letter:

“H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB), the tax agents, was up 11.1%. This business has been a slow and steady performer. With some organic revenue growth, good returns from buying back franchises, and applying excess capital to stock buybacks, over the five years we have owned H&R Block it has doubled its earnings per share. But with the premium to our valuation that it now trades, and having grown to 4.9% of the Fund, we are closely monitoring.”

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H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB) is not on our list of 31 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 26 hedge fund portfolios held H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB) at the end of the first quarter which was 24 in the previous quarter. H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB) reported $2.2 billion in revenues in the third fiscal quarter of 2024, up 4% or $91 million compared to prior-year quarter. While we acknowledge the potential of H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB) as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is as promising as NVIDIA but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

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