Where Do Hedge Funds Stand On HubSpot Inc (HUBS)?

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Is HubSpot Inc (NYSE:HUBS) a healthy stock for your portfolio? The best stock pickers were becoming less confident. The number of long hedge fund bets were cut by 6 lately. HubSpot Inc (NYSE:HUBS) was in 46 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2021. The all time high for this statistic is 52. Our calculations also showed that HUBS isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings).

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

At Q1’s end, a total of 46 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of -12% from the fourth quarter of 2020. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in HUBS over the last 23 quarters. So, let’s see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

Among these funds, SCGE Management held the most valuable stake in HubSpot Inc (NYSE:HUBS), which was worth $639.5 million at the end of the fourth quarter. On the second spot was Citadel Investment Group which amassed $193.4 million worth of shares. Polar Capital, SQN Investors, and Hitchwood Capital Management 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 SCGE Management allocated the biggest weight to HubSpot Inc (NYSE:HUBS), around 7.18% of its 13F portfolio. SQN Investors is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 4.86 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to HUBS.

Since HubSpot Inc (NYSE:HUBS) has experienced bearish sentiment from hedge fund managers, we can see that there lies a certain “tier” of funds who were dropping their full holdings last quarter. It’s worth mentioning that Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group cut the biggest investment of the 750 funds monitored by Insider Monkey, valued at an estimated $123.9 million in stock. Michael Kahan and Jeremy Kahan’s fund, North Peak Capital, also dropped its stock, about $60.7 million worth. These moves are important to note, as total hedge fund interest was cut by 6 funds last quarter.

Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as HubSpot Inc (NYSE:HUBS) but similarly valued. These stocks are Fox Corporation (NASDAQ:FOX), Fox Corporation (NASDAQ:FOXA), W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE:GWW), Enphase Energy Inc (NASDAQ:ENPH), Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (NYSE:MLM), West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. (NYSE:WST), and Lyft, Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT). This group of stocks’ market values are closest to HUBS’s market value.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 38.4 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $1017 million. That figure was $1739 million in HUBS’s case. Lyft, Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Fox Corporation (NASDAQ:FOX) is the least popular one with only 25 bullish hedge fund positions. HubSpot Inc (NYSE:HUBS) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for HUBS is 55.5. 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 17.4% in 2021 through June 18th and still beat the market by 6.1 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on HUBS as the stock returned 30.7% since the end of Q1 (through 6/18) and outperformed the market. Hedge funds were rewarded for their relative bullishness.

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