Brown Advisory recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Mid-Cap Growth Fund posted a return of 31.64% for the quarter, outperforming its benchmark, the Russell Midcap Growth Index which returned 30.26% 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 Verisk Analytics Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSK) is one of them. Verisk Analytics Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSK) is a data analytics and risk assessment firm. Year-to-date, Verisk Analytics Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSK) stock gained 20.9% and on July 23rd it had a closing price of $180.63. Here is what Brown Advisory said:
“We took advantage of market weakness to initiate a position in Verisk, whose proprietary data is heavily used by property and casualty insurers. Steady low- double-digit earnings expansion should continue over the next several years driven by increased analytics and automation in underwriting and claims.”
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In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Verisk Analytics Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSK) 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 Verisk’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Verisk Analytics Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSK) 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.
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