Brown Advisory recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Large-Cap Sustainable Growth Fund posted a return of 29.62% for the quarter, outperforming its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Growth Index which returned 27.84% in the same quarter. You should check out Brown Advisory’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, Brown Advisory highlighted a few stocks and Ball Corp (NYSE:BLL) is one of them. Ball Corp (NYSE:BLL) supplies metal and plastic packaging to the beverage and food industries. Year-to-date, Ball Corp (NYSE:BLL) stock gained 13.3% and on July 22nd it had a closing price of $73.18. Here is what Brown Advisory said:
“Ball Corporation kept our grocery stores stocked while managing through the dramatic worldwide demand shifts from restaurant and bar consumption to in-home. While Brazil is a particularly challenged geography, and higher-margin specialty cans made way for more straight-forward production of 6-pack beverages, Ball was able to expand margins on flat sales relative to last year in the same quarter. We maintained our position.”
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In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Ball Corp (NYSE:BLL) stock decreased by about 7% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with Ball’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Ball Corp (NYSE:BLL) 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.
Video: Top 5 Stocks Among Hedge Funds
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