Where Do Hedge Funds Stand On China Jo Jo Drugstores Inc (CJJD)?

Although the masses and most of the financial media blame hedge funds for their exorbitant fee structure and disappointing performance, these investors have proved to have great stock picking abilities over the years (that’s why their assets under management continue to swell). We believe hedge fund sentiment should serve as a crucial tool of an individual investor’s stock selection process, as it may offer great insights of how the brightest minds of the finance industry feel about specific stocks. After all, these people have access to smartest analysts and expensive data/information sources that individual investors can’t match. So should one consider investing in China Jo Jo Drugstores Inc (NASDAQ:CJJD)? The smart money sentiment can provide an answer to this question.

China Jo Jo Drugstores Inc (NASDAQ:CJJD) investors should be aware of an increase in hedge fund interest lately. China Jo Jo Drugstores Inc (NASDAQ:CJJD) was in 6 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of March. The all time high for this statistic is 6. This means the bullish number of hedge fund positions in this stock currently sits at its all time high. There were 5 hedge funds in our database with CJJD positions at the end of the fourth quarter. Our calculations also showed that CJJD isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings).

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Lei Zhang of Hillhouse Capital Management

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Do Hedge Funds Think CJJD Is A Good Stock To Buy Now?

At Q1’s end, a total of 6 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of 20% from the fourth quarter of 2020. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards CJJD over the last 23 quarters. So, let’s review which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

More specifically, Hillhouse Capital Management was the largest shareholder of China Jo Jo Drugstores Inc (NASDAQ:CJJD), with a stake worth $5.4 million reported as of the end of March. Trailing Hillhouse Capital Management was Renaissance Technologies, which amassed a stake valued at $2 million. Citadel Investment Group, Two Sigma Advisors, and Sabby Capital were also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Hillhouse Capital Management allocated the biggest weight to China Jo Jo Drugstores Inc (NASDAQ:CJJD), around 0.05% of its 13F portfolio. Sabby Capital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 0.01 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to CJJD.

Now, specific money managers were leading the bulls’ herd. Citadel Investment Group, managed by Ken Griffin, initiated the largest position in China Jo Jo Drugstores Inc (NASDAQ:CJJD). Citadel Investment Group had $0.2 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter.

Let’s now review hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as China Jo Jo Drugstores Inc (NASDAQ:CJJD) but similarly valued. We will take a look at Air Industries Group (NYSE:AIRI), Elmira Savings Bank (NASDAQ:ESBK), Pintec Technology Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:PT), Forward Pharma A/S (NASDAQ:FWP), Daxor Corporation (NYSE:DXR), Harbor Custom Development, Inc. (NASDAQ:HCDI), and Cuentas Inc. (NASDAQ:CUEN). This group of stocks’ market values resemble CJJD’s market value.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 1.9 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $1 million. That figure was $8 million in CJJD’s case. Forward Pharma A/S (NASDAQ:FWP) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Air Industries Group (NYSE:AIRI) is the least popular one with only 1 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks China Jo Jo Drugstores Inc (NASDAQ:CJJD) is more popular among hedge funds. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for CJJD is 86. Stocks with higher number of hedge fund positions relative to other stocks as well as relative to their historical range receive a higher sentiment score. Our calculations showed that top 5 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 95.8% in 2019 and 2020, and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 40 percentage points. These stocks gained 19.3% in 2021 through June 25th and still beat the market by 4.8 percentage points. Unfortunately CJJD wasn’t nearly as popular as these 5 stocks and hedge funds that were betting on CJJD were disappointed as the stock returned -13.4% since the end of the first quarter (through 6/25) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 5 most popular stocks among hedge funds as most of these stocks already outperformed the market since 2019.

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Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.