Is TGH A Good Stock To Buy Now?

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. Insider Monkey finished processing 817 13F filings submitted by hedge funds and prominent investors. These filings show these funds’ portfolio positions as of September 30th, 2020. What do these smart investors think about Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE:TGH)?

Is TGH a good stock to buy now? Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE:TGH) shares haven’t seen a lot of action during the second quarter. Overall, hedge fund sentiment was unchanged. The stock was in 9 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. Our calculations also showed that TGH 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). At the end of this article we will also compare TGH to other stocks including Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE:SRG), Phoenix Tree Holdings Limited (NYSE:DNK), and Nantkwest Inc (NASDAQ:NK) to get a better sense of its popularity.

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Do Hedge Funds Think TGH Is A Good Stock To Buy Now?

At Q3’s end, a total of 9 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of 0% from one quarter earlier. By comparison, 9 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in TGH a year ago. So, let’s find out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

The largest stake in Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE:TGH) was held by Rutabaga Capital Management, which reported holding $5.4 million worth of stock at the end of September. It was followed by Arrowstreet Capital with a $4.5 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Renaissance Technologies, Millennium Management, and Marshall Wace LLP. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Rutabaga Capital Management allocated the biggest weight to Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE:TGH), around 3.06% of its 13F portfolio. Tudor Investment Corp is also relatively very bullish on the stock, dishing out 0.01 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to TGH.

Since Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE:TGH) has faced bearish sentiment from hedge fund managers, it’s safe to say that there was a specific group of hedgies who were dropping their positions entirely heading into Q4. At the top of the heap, Greg Eisner’s Engineers Gate Manager said goodbye to the biggest investment of the 750 funds watched by Insider Monkey, totaling an estimated $0.3 million in stock. Donald Sussman’s fund, Paloma Partners, also dropped its stock, about $0.2 million worth. These bearish behaviors are important to note, as total hedge fund interest stayed the same (this is a bearish signal in our experience).

Let’s now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE:TGH). These stocks are Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE:SRG), Phoenix Tree Holdings Limited (NYSE:DNK), Nantkwest Inc (NASDAQ:NK), Central Securities Corporation (NYSE:CET), Vapotherm, Inc. (NYSE:VAPO), Criteo SA (NASDAQ:CRTO), and PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PAR). All of these stocks’ market caps match TGH’s market cap.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 9.9 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $115 million. That figure was $18 million in TGH’s case. Vapotherm, Inc. (NYSE:VAPO) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Phoenix Tree Holdings Limited (NYSE:DNK) is the least popular one with only 3 bullish hedge fund positions. Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE:TGH) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for TGH is 45.8. 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 32.9% in 2020 through December 8th and still beat the market by 16.2 percentage points. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on TGH as the stock returned 35.6% since the end of the third quarter (through 12/8) and outperformed the market by an even larger margin.

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