Is Golub Capital BDC Inc (GBDC) A Good Stock To Buy?

It is already common knowledge that individual investors do not usually have the necessary resources and abilities to properly research an investment opportunity. As a result, most investors pick their illusory “winners” by making a superficial analysis and research that leads to poor performance on aggregate. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index returned 7.6% over the 12-month period ending November 21, while more than 51% of the constituents of the index underperformed the benchmark. Hence, a random stock picking process will most likely lead to disappointment. At the same time, the 30 most favored mid-cap stocks by the best performing hedge funds monitored by Insider Monkey generated a return of 18% over the same time span. Of course, hedge funds do make wrong bets on some occasions and these get disproportionately publicized on financial media, but piggybacking their moves can beat the broader market on average. That’s why we are going to go over recent hedge fund activity in Golub Capital BDC Inc (NASDAQ:GBDC).

Is Golub Capital BDC Inc (NASDAQ:GBDC) a good stock to buy now? Hedge funds are definitely actually taking a pessimistic view. The number of long hedge fund positions retreated by 1 in recent months. There were 7 hedge funds in our database with GBDC holdings at the end of the third quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare GBDC to other stocks including Boise Cascade Co (NYSE:BCC), Grupo Supervielle SA -ADR (NYSE:SUPV), and Marcus & Millichap Inc (NYSE:MMI) to get a better sense of its popularity.

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Now, we’re going to go over the new action regarding Golub Capital BDC Inc (NASDAQ:GBDC).

What does the smart money think about Golub Capital BDC Inc (NASDAQ:GBDC)?

Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 7 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a drop of 13% from one quarter earlier. By comparison, 6 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in GBDC heading into this year. So, let’s examine which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

When looking at the institutional investors followed by Insider Monkey, Amy Minella’s Cardinal Capital has the most valuable position in Golub Capital BDC Inc (NASDAQ:GBDC), worth close to $14.7 million. The second most bullish fund manager is Charles Clough of Clough Capital Partners, with a $13.6 million position. Some other peers with similar optimism include Robert B. Gillam’s McKinley Capital Management, Millennium Management, one of the 10 largest hedge funds in the world, and Mark Coe’s Coe Capital Management. We should note that none of these hedge funds are among our list of the 100 best performing hedge funds which is based on the performance of their 13F long positions in non-microcap stocks.