American Century recently released its Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download below. American Century Focused Global Growth Fund posted a return of -16.95% for the quarter, outperforming its benchmark, the MSCI ACWI Index which returned -21.37% in the same quarter. You should check out American Century’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash. There weren’t a lot of funds who could deliver these kinds of returns without shorting the market or using aggressive put options.
In the said letter, American Century highlighted a few stocks and Lowes Companies Inc (NYSE:LOW) is one of them. Lowe’s is a retail company specializing in home improvement. Year-to-date, Lowes Companies Inc (NYSE:LOW) stock gained 0.7% and on May 20th it had a closing price of $116.99. Here is what American Century said:
“Lowe’s Companies. This U.S. home improvement company sells building materials and supplies, and we believe it is in the early stages of benefiting from new cost savings initiatives and marketing strategies. The U.S. renovation and remodel market remains healthy and should continue to be a tailwind for Lowe’s, along with lower interest rates.”
In Q4 2019, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Lowes Companies Inc (NYSE:LOW) stock increased by about 1% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers seem to agree with LOW’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that LOW isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 185% since the end of 2014 and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 109 percentage points. We know it sounds unbelievable. You have been dismissing our articles about top hedge fund stocks mostly because you were fed biased information by other media outlets about hedge funds’ poor performance. You could have doubled the size of your nest egg by investing in the top hedge fund stocks instead of dumb S&P 500 ETFs. Below you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.
Video: Top 5 Stocks Among Hedge Funds
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