Palm Valley Capital recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The fund posted a return of 0.89% for the quarter, underperforming its benchmark, the S&P Small Cap 600 Index which returned 3.17% in the same quarter. You should check out Palm Valley Capital’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of this year.
In the said letter, Palm Valley Capital highlighted a few stocks and Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ:SCHL) is one of them. Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ:SCHL) publishes and distributes children’s books worldwide. Year-to-date, Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ:SCHL) stock lost 44.0% and on October 7th it had a closing price of $21.55. Here is what Palm Valley Capital said:
“We have keenly focused on limiting financial risk for our energy investments, given the volatility of the industry, and several non-energy holdings in our portfolio were valued using the balance sheet as a foundation. Scholastic (ticker: SCHL) is the world’s largest publisher of children’s books and has been around for 100 years. The company’s net cash equals 20% of its market cap, and it owns two 10 story buildings in Manhattan. The stock was slammed by a steep drop in the number of schools conducting book fairs as a result of COVID-19 concerns. We believe the firm will move past this issue next year, and in the meantime, Scholastic is ringing up strong sales of bestsellers like Dog Man: Grime and Punishment (#1 book in the world). Scholastic trades at nearly a 30% discount to tangible book value.”
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In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ:SCHL) stock decreased by about 27% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with Scholastic’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ:SCHL) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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