Distillate Capital, an employee-owned investment management firm, published its fourth-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of 19.22% was recorded by the fund for the Q4 of 2020, above both its S&P 500 benchmark that returned 18.4% and the Russell 1000 Value ETF that delivered a 2.67% return. You can view the fund’s top 10 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Distillate Capital, in their Q4 2020 Investor Letter said that they took profits and sold their position in Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), because the company’s valuation already turned less attractive. Booking Holdings Inc. is a company in the online travel and related solutions provision that currently has an $81.2 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, BKNG delivered a decent 16.81% return and settled at $1,983.16 per share at the closing of January 26th.
Here is what Distillate Capital has to say about Booking Holdings Inc. in their Investor Letter:
“After outperforming the market by around 15% last quarter, Booking Holding was sold as its normalized free cash ϲow valuation became relatively less appealing. Lockheed Martin was exited as its cash ϲow stability dropped below the threshold for inclusion. These were the two largest sold positions.”
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Last November 2020, we published an article telling that Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG) was in 113 hedge fund portfolios, its all time high statistics. BKNG delivered a 3.43% return in the past 12 months.
Our calculations shows that Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG) is ranked 13th in our list of the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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