Saturna Capital Corporation is the investment management company of Sextant Mutual Funds. Sextant Mutual Funds recently released Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Sextant Growth Fund posted a return of -15.13% for the quarter, outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned -19.60% in the same quarter. You should check out Sextant Mutual Fund’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash.
In the said letter, Sextant highlighted a few stocks and Take Two Interactive Software Inc (NASDAQ:TTWO) is one of them. Take Two Interactive Software is a video game holding company. Year-to-date, Take Two Interactive Software Inc (NASDAQ:TTWO) stock gained 15.0% and on June 18th it had a closing price of $141.25. Here is what Sextant said:
“We mentioned the Xbox, but gamers also need games. We invested in Take-Two last year on the thesis that gaming demonstrates attractive long-term growth opportunities and online distribution would reduce costs and improve margins. With a ready-made excuse to spend eight hours in front of a screen in the basement, such online game delivery must have helped Take-Two.”
In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Take Two Interactive Software Inc (NASDAQ:TTWO) stock increased by about 12% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers seem to agree with Take-Two’s upside potential. Our calculations showed that Take Two Interactive Software Inc (NASDAQ:TTWO) isn’t ranked 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.
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