Brown Advisory recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Equity Income Fund posted a return of 18.29% for the quarter, underperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 20.55% in the same quarter. You should check out Brown Advisory’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash.
In the said letter, Brown Advisory highlighted a few stocks and Kontoor Brands Inc. (NYSE:KTB) is one of them. Kontoor Brands Inc. (NYSE:KTB) is a clothing company. Year-to-date, Kontoor Brands Inc. (NYSE:KTB) stock lost 58.5% and on July 16th it had a closing price of $17.71. Here is what Brown Advisory said:
“Jeans and apparel maker Kontoor Brands declined as retailers globally closed their stores or significantly reduced in-store shopper traffic in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We eliminated our position in Kontoor prior to the company’s announcement of weaker-than-expected quarterly results and the suspension of its dividend.”
In Q4 2019, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Kontoor Brands Inc. (NYSE:KTB) stock decreased by about 33% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers seem to agree with Kontoor Brands’ downside potential. Our calculations showed that Kontoor Brands Inc. (NYSE:KTB) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 185% since the end of 2014 and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 109 percentage points. We know it sounds unbelievable. You have been dismissing our articles about top hedge fund stocks mostly because you were fed biased information by other media outlets about hedge funds’ poor performance. You could have doubled the size of your nest egg by investing in the top hedge fund stocks instead of dumb S&P 500 ETFs. Below you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.
Video: Top 5 Stocks Among Hedge Funds
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