On July 14, 2020, Wedgewood Partners released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Fund returned 27.13% for the second quarter of 2020. Meanwhile, the benchmark Russell 1000 Growth Index and the Russell 1000 Value Index gained 27.84% and 14.29%, respectively. You should check out Wedgewood Partners’ 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, Wedgewood Partners highlighted a few stocks and Paypal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) is one of them. Paypal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) engages in the development of technology platform for digital payments. Year-to-date, Paypal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) stock gained 55% and on July 13th it had a closing price of $171.51. Here is what Wedgewood Partners said:
“PayPal shares posted their best quarter since they were spun out of eBay in 2015. The Company appears to be an early beneficiary of the seismic social and economic shifts that occurred as a result of COVID-19. While much of the global economy ground to a halt during the month of April, PayPal managed to grow total payment volume (TPV) and revenue more than +20% during the month, which was a sizeable acceleration from the brief slowdown seen in March. We expect PayPal will continue to enable more merchants to quickly shift their offerings to an online or contactless payment experience, in the face of dramatically changing consumer behavior. Indeed, on this score the Company has recently stated the acceleration in e-commerce in certain customer sectors has grown so much over the past few months, from a pace measured in years they had previously expected pre-COVID-19 to a pace measured in just a few months.”
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In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Paypal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) stock decreased by about 6% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with Paypal’s upside potential. Our calculations showed that Paypal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) is ranked #11 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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