Alluvial Capital Management, an investment management firm, published its first quarter 2021 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of 12.4% was delivered by the fund for the Q1 of 2021, outperforming the MSCI World Sm+MicroCap NR benchmark that delivered a 9.8% return, but below the Russell MicroCap TR and Russell 2000 TR index that had a 23.9% and 12.7% gains respectively for the same period. You can view the fund’s top 5 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Alluvial Capital Management, in their Q1 2021 investor letter, mentioned Crawford United Corporation (NYSE: CRAWA), and shared their insights on the company. Crawford United Corporation is a Cleveland, Ohio-based holding company that currently has a $94.5 million market capitalization. Since the beginning of the year, CRAWA delivered a 48.08% return, extending its 12-month gains to 108.65%. As of April 30, 2021, the stock closed at $27.75 per share.
Here is what Alluvial Capital Management has to say about Crawford United Corporation in their Q1 2021 investor letter:
“Crawford United is once again playing the acquirer, this time purchasing the assets of GlobalTek Manufacturing, a producer of high specification machined components. Another acquisition complete and many more to go. Crawford has no shortage of quality acquisition opportunities. Intriguingly, Crawford United also seems to have plans for an industrial company in my backyard, Ampco-Pittsburgh. In September, Crawford bought nearly $1 million in Ampco-Pittsburgh shares. Crawford United Chairman (pending resumption of the chairman role following a stint as US Ambassador to Ireland) Edward F. Crawford also invested in Ampco-Pittsburgh through a trust he controls. Mr. Crawford has had conversations with Ampco-Pittsburgh about a possible combination of the air handling units of both businesses. A transaction could be extremely beneficial for both companies.”
Our calculations show that Crawford United Corporation (NYSE: CRAWA) does not belong in our list of the 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. CRAWA delivered a 32.14% return in the past 3 months.
The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 231.2% between 2015 and 2020, and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 126 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. Here you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.
At Insider Monkey, we scour multiple sources to uncover the next great investment idea. For example, Federal Reserve has been creating trillions of dollars electronically to keep the interest rates near zero. We believe this will lead to inflation and boost real estate prices. So, we recommended this real estate stock to our monthly premium newsletter subscribers. We go through lists like the 15 best innovative stocks to buy to pick the next Tesla that will deliver a 10x return. Even though we recommend positions in only a tiny fraction of the companies we analyze, we check out as many stocks as we can. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. You can subscribe to our free daily newsletter on our website:
Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
