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5. First Citizens BancShares Inc (Delaware) Class A (NASDAQ:FCNCA)
Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 54
Hope Bryant Holding, with Vice Chairwoman status at First Citizens BancShares Inc (Delaware) Class A’s (NASDAQ:FCNCA) board, bought 766 shares of First Citizens BancShares Inc (Delaware) Class A (NASDAQ:FCNCA) at $1,314.97 per share on February 20. Since then through March 21 the stock has gained about 6.29%.
As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, 54 hedge funds out of the 933 funds tracked by Insider Monkey had stakes in First Citizens BancShares Inc (Delaware) Class A (NASDAQ:FCNCA). The most notable stake in First Citizens BancShares Inc (Delaware) Class A (NASDAQ:FCNCA) is owned by Natixis Global Asset Management’s Harris Associates which owns a $711 million stake in First Citizens BancShares Inc (Delaware) Class A (NASDAQ:FCNCA).
Gator Capital Management made the following comment about First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ:FCNCA) in its Q3 2023 investor letter:
“The Fund’s largest position is First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ:FCNCA) (“First Citizens” or “FCNCA”). We acquired our stake over the past three years. Initially, we owned and traded around a small position in CIT Group Inc. (“CIT”) during the summer of 2020. We felt CIT was undervalued and management was making progress in reducing risk during the Covid-19 pandemic. In late 2020, CIT agreed to be acquired by First Citizens. We added to our CIT stake the morning of the acquisition announcement because we thought the acquisition was so financially attractive that First Citizens’ shares would rally and pull CIT’s shares higher. Our CIT shares were exchanged for First Citizens shares when the merger completed. We held onto our First Citizens shares because we admired the management team, we felt the bank was undervalued, and we projected the bank would benefit from higher interest rates. Then, earlier this year, First Citizens was the winning bidder in the FDIC’s auction of the failed Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). We added significantly to the Fund’s First Citizens position on the following Monday morning because the deal was unbelievably favorable for First Citizens.
First Citizens’s stock price rose more than 50% that day and has risen another 40% in the months since the SVB acquisition. We have not sold any shares. We believe the stock still has the potential to double over the next three years. Despite this attractive upside, we think the downside is minimal. Our downside scenario is an unchanged stock price in three years…” (Click here to read the full text)
