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Is LOGC a good stock to buy? LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOGC) investors should pay attention to a decrease in activity from the world’s largest hedge funds in recent months. LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOGC) was in 6 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of March. The all time high for this statistic is 8. Our calculations also showed that LOGC isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings).
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Do Hedge Funds Think LOGC Is A Good Stock To Buy Now?
At first quarter’s end, a total of 6 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -25% from one quarter earlier. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in LOGC over the last 23 quarters. With hedgies’ capital changing hands, there exists an “upper tier” of key hedge fund managers who were upping their holdings substantially (or already accumulated large positions).
The largest stake in LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOGC) was held by OrbiMed Advisors, which reported holding $61.6 million worth of stock at the end of December. It was followed by Samlyn Capital with a $10.2 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included EcoR1 Capital, Lion Point, and Baker Bros. Advisors. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Lion Point allocated the biggest weight to LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOGC), around 0.66% of its 13F portfolio. OrbiMed Advisors is also relatively very bullish on the stock, designating 0.58 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to LOGC.
Because LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOGC) has witnessed declining sentiment from hedge fund managers, we can see that there exists a select few hedge funds that decided to sell off their full holdings by the end of the first quarter. Intriguingly, Israel Englander’s Millennium Management dumped the biggest stake of the 750 funds watched by Insider Monkey, totaling about $0.5 million in stock, and Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group was right behind this move, as the fund dumped about $0.2 million worth. These moves are interesting, as aggregate hedge fund interest dropped by 2 funds by the end of the first quarter.
Let’s also examine hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOGC) but similarly valued. We will take a look at PCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:PCB), Hurco Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ:HURC), Bluerock Residential Growth REIT Inc (NYSE:BRG), Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMR), Leaf Group Ltd (NYSE:LEAF), IntriCon Corporation (NASDAQ:IIN), and Central Valley Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CVCY). This group of stocks’ market valuations match LOGC’s market valuation.
| Ticker | No of HFs with positions | Total Value of HF Positions (x1000) | Change in HF Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCB | 4 | 29911 | -1 |
| HURC | 7 | 41714 | 4 |
| BRG | 7 | 7011 | 4 |
| AMR | 19 | 65061 | 0 |
| LEAF | 15 | 66994 | -5 |
| IIN | 3 | 39969 | 0 |
| CVCY | 3 | 4657 | -1 |
| Average | 8.3 | 36474 | 0.1 |
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 8.3 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $36 million. That figure was $86 million in LOGC’s case. Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMR) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand IntriCon Corporation (NASDAQ:IIN) is the least popular one with only 3 bullish hedge fund positions. LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOGC) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for LOGC is 34.9. Stocks with higher number of hedge fund positions relative to other stocks as well as relative to their historical range receive a higher sentiment score. This is a slightly negative signal and we’d rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. Our calculations showed that top 5 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 95.8% in 2019 and 2020, and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 40 percentage points. These stocks gained 19.3% in 2021 through June 25th and surpassed the market again by 4.8 percentage points. Unfortunately LOGC wasn’t nearly as popular as these 5 stocks (hedge fund sentiment was quite bearish); LOGC investors were disappointed as the stock returned -39.3% since the end of March (through 6/25) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 5 most popular stocks among hedge funds as most of these stocks already outperformed the market in 2021.
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