Is TNAV A Good Stock To Buy Now?

A whopping number of 13F filings filed with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been processed by Insider Monkey so that individual investors can look at the overall hedge fund sentiment towards the stocks included in their watchlists. These freshly-submitted public filings disclose money managers’ equity positions as of the end of the three-month period that ended September 30, so let’s proceed with the discussion of the hedge fund sentiment on Telenav Inc (NASDAQ:TNAV).

Is TNAV a good stock to buy now? Telenav Inc (NASDAQ:TNAV) investors should pay attention to an increase in activity from the world’s largest hedge funds lately. Telenav Inc (NASDAQ:TNAV) was in 11 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2020. The all time high for this statistics is 16. There were 10 hedge funds in our database with TNAV positions at the end of the second quarter. Our calculations also showed that TNAV 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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Do Hedge Funds Think TNAV Is A Good Stock To Buy Now?

Heading into the fourth quarter of 2020, a total of 11 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of 10% from the second quarter of 2020. By comparison, 13 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in TNAV a year ago. With the smart money’s positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists a select group of noteworthy hedge fund managers who were increasing their holdings considerably (or already accumulated large positions).

Of the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, Nokomis Capital, managed by Brett Hendrickson, holds the biggest position in Telenav Inc (NASDAQ:TNAV). Nokomis Capital has a $12.7 million position in the stock, comprising 5.9% of its 13F portfolio. The second largest stake is Renaissance Technologies, with a $8.1 million position; the fund has less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Some other peers that are bullish encompass Steven Baughman’s Divisar Capital, Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell’s Arrowstreet Capital and John Overdeck and David Siegel’s Two Sigma Advisors. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Nokomis Capital allocated the biggest weight to Telenav Inc (NASDAQ:TNAV), around 5.88% of its 13F portfolio. Divisar Capital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, dishing out 2.19 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to TNAV.

Consequently, key money managers have jumped into Telenav Inc (NASDAQ:TNAV) headfirst. Millennium Management, managed by Israel Englander, initiated the most outsized position in Telenav Inc (NASDAQ:TNAV). Millennium Management had $0.5 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Gavin Saitowitz and Cisco J. del Valle’s Prelude Capital (previously Springbok Capital) also made a $0.2 million investment in the stock during the quarter.

Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as Telenav Inc (NASDAQ:TNAV) but similarly valued. These stocks are NewAge, Inc. (NASDAQ:NBEV), Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE:AMPE), Kindred Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:KIN), GasLog Partners LP (NYSE:GLOP), Earthstone Energy, Inc. (NYSE:ESTE), Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI), and Axcella Health Inc. (NASDAQ:AXLA). This group of stocks’ market valuations resemble TNAV’s market valuation.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 6.1 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $15 million. That figure was $31 million in TNAV’s case. Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE:AMPE) is the least popular one with only 2 bullish hedge fund positions. Telenav Inc (NASDAQ:TNAV) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for TNAV is 61.2. 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. Hedge funds were also right about betting on TNAV as the stock returned 31.7% since the end of Q3 (through 12/8) and outperformed the market. Hedge funds were rewarded for their relative bullishness.

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