Aoris Investment Management recently released its Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download below. The Aoris International Fund aims to generate returns of 8–12% p.a. over a market cycle. The portfolio is long-only and highly selective. You should check out Aoris Investment Management’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, Aoris Investment Management highlighted a few stocks and Amphenol Corp (NYSE:APH) is one of them. Amphenol is fiber optic cable manufacturing company. Year-to-date, Amphenol Corp (NYSE:APH) stock lost 16.9% and on May 21st it had a closing price of $90.21. Here is what Aoris Investment Management said:
“Amphenol is a world-leading maker of electronic connectors, which are used to join electrical circuits. It has a strong corporate culture and managers ‘spend shareholders’ money as if it were their own’. Tenure at the executive and general manager levels is unusually long. Net debt to EBITDA ended 2019 at 1.4x, a level we view as comfortable.
Sales this year will decline, reflecting soft end markets, particularly automotive production. As end markets begin to recover, we expect Amphenol to take share at an accelerating rate, benefiting from its proven ability to rapidly increase production. Amphenol has an excellent record of adding value through bolt-on acquisitions, and we expect the next few years to be particularly productive on this front.”
In Q4 2019, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Amphenol Corp (NYSE:APH) stock increased by about 9% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers seem to agree with APH’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Amphenol Corp (NYSE:APH) isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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