Aoris Investment Management recently released its Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download below. The Aoris International Fund aims to generate returns of 8–12% p.a. over a market cycle. The portfolio is long-only and highly selective. You should check out Aoris Investment Management’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash. There weren’t a lot of funds who could deliver these kinds of returns without shorting the market or using aggressive put options.
In the said letter, Aoris Investment Management highlighted a few stocks and Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) is one of them. Accenture is engaged in providing management and technology consulting services. Year-to-date, Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) stock lost 8.9% and on May 21st it had a closing price of $193.50. Here is what Aoris Investment Management said:
“Accenture is the world’s largest IT consulting and outsourcing company. It has $6 billion of cash on its balance sheet and negligible debt. It has unusually stable management, with an average tenure of the top 5000 executives of 15 years. Accenture has an outstanding record over the last decade of consistently taking market share, drawing on its enormous benefits of size and scale and leadership.
Over the next 6–18 months, some of Accenture’s consulting engagements will likely be deferred. On the other hand, many of Accenture’s large private and public sector clients will emerge from this period with new problems to be solved, such as the IT infrastructure to better enable safe and productive working from home in the future. We expect Accenture to take market share at an accelerating rate and have additional opportunities for sensible bolt-on acquisitions that add discrete capabilities.”
In Q4 2019, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) stock decreased by about 9% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with ACN’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) isn’t 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.
Video: Top 5 Stocks Among Hedge Funds
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