Curreen Capital recently released its Q1 2021 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The fund posted a return of 36.7% for the quarter, outperforming their benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 6.17% in the same quarter. You should check out Curreen Capital’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of this year.
In the Q1 2021 Investor Letter, the fund highlighted a few stocks and Credit Acceptance Corp (NASDAQ:CACC) is one of them. Credit Acceptance Corp (NASDAQ:CACC) is an auto finance company. In the last three months, Credit Acceptance Corp (NASDAQ:CACC) stock gained 3%. Curreen Capital cared to mention Credit Acceptance Corp (NASDAQ:CACC) in its investor letter, though they didn’t say why they really like the stock. All they said is this:
“Credit Acceptance is a subprime auto lender, enabling subprime borrowers to buy vehicles from used car dealerships. The business has profitably gained share in a large and difficult market for more than two decades. Management allocates free cash flow to growing the business and repurchasing shares at attractive prices. Credit Acceptance currently trades at an attractive upside-to-downside ratio.”
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Curreen Capital has been a long time Credit Acceptance Corp (NASDAQ:CACC) bull. In January 2021, we shared Curreen Capital CACC’s thesis in this article.
In Q4 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Credit Acceptance Corp (NASDAQ:CACC) stock remained unchanged from the previous quarter (see the chart here). Our calculations showed that Credit Acceptance Corp (NASDAQ:CACC) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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