The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. We at Insider Monkey have plowed through 817 13F filings that hedge funds and well-known value investors are required to file by the SEC. The 13F filings show the funds’ and investors’ portfolio positions as of September 30th, about a month before the elections. In this article we look at what those investors think of Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS).
Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS) investors should be aware of an increase in enthusiasm from smart money in recent months. Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS) was in 3 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2020. The all time high for this statistics is 2. This means the bullish number of hedge fund positions in this stock currently sits at its all time high. Our calculations also showed that SMTS isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video for a quick look at the top 5 stocks).
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Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors
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Hedge fund activity in Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS)
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2020, a total of 3 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 50% from the second quarter of 2020. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards SMTS over the last 21 quarters. So, let’s review which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
According to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, Leon Cooperman’s Omega Advisors has the largest position in Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS), worth close to $1.2 million, accounting for 0.1% of its total 13F portfolio. On Omega Advisors’s heels is Two Sigma Advisors, managed by John Overdeck and David Siegel, which holds a $0.1 million position; the fund has less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Omega Advisors allocated the biggest weight to Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS), around 0.12% of its 13F portfolio. Two Sigma Advisors is also relatively very bullish on the stock, designating 0.0001 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to SMTS.
As one would reasonably expect, key money managers have jumped into Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS) headfirst. Two Sigma Advisors, managed by John Overdeck and David Siegel, established the largest position in Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS). Two Sigma Advisors had $0.1 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter.
Let’s now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS). These stocks are Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE:GORO), American Renal Associates Holdings, Inc (NYSE:ARA), TELA Bio, Inc. (NASDAQ:TELA), Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:EIGR), Value Line, Inc. (NASDAQ:VALU), Astronics Corporation (NASDAQ:ATRO), and NVE Corporation (NASDAQ:NVEC). This group of stocks’ market caps are similar to SMTS’s market cap.
| Ticker | No of HFs with positions | Total Value of HF Positions (x1000) | Change in HF Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORO | 4 | 1738 | -3 |
| ARA | 5 | 130082 | 0 |
| TELA | 7 | 75777 | -2 |
| EIGR | 26 | 87225 | 0 |
| VALU | 2 | 2198 | 0 |
| ATRO | 21 | 50971 | -2 |
| NVEC | 9 | 16734 | 0 |
| Average | 10.6 | 52104 | -1 |
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 10.6 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $52 million. That figure was $1 million in SMTS’s case. Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:EIGR) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Value Line, Inc. (NASDAQ:VALU) is the least popular one with only 2 bullish hedge fund positions. Sierra Metals Inc. (NYSE:SMTS) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for SMTS is 38.1. 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. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 41.3% in 2019 and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 10 percentage points. These stocks gained 28.1% in 2020 through November 23rd and still beat the market by 15.4 percentage points. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on SMTS as the stock returned 93.9% since the end of the third quarter (through 11/23) and outperformed the market by an even larger margin.
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