Evermore Global Advisors recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Evermore Global Value Fund posted a return of 10.35% for the quarter, underperforming its benchmarks, the MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (MSCI ACWI ex USA), the MSCI All Country World Index (MSCI ACWI), and the Morningstar World Small/Mid Stock Category Average. You should check out Evermore Global Advisors’ 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, Evermore Global Advisors’ highlighted a few stocks and Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) is one of them. Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) is a multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. Year-to-date, Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) stock lost 19.1% and on July 31st it had a closing price of $116.94. Here is what Evermore Global Advisors’ said:
“The Walt Disney Company (Country: U.S.; Ticker: DIS US) – The Fund exited its position in The Walt Disney Company (“DIS”) in Q2. DIS faces challenges of unknown duration in several businesses due to COVID-19; theme parks around the world are shut down or operating at a very limited capacity, Hollywood studio production has come to a standstill, professional and collegiate sports leagues in the U.S. are attempting to operate in uncharted waters, and movie theaters face an increasingly unknown future. While we remain constructive on the transformation that is ongoing at DIS, we made the decision to allocate capital to other ideas in the portfolio given the aforementioned business challenges.”
Last month, we published an article revealing that NZS Capital is bullish about Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) stock. The investment firm believes that the company would evolve stronger post the pandemic.
In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) stock decreased by about 14% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers seem to agree with Walt Disney’s downside potential. Our calculations showed that Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) is ranked #20 among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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