Hedge Funds Are Snapping Up Resonant Inc. (RESN)

The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. Insider Monkey finished processing 873 13F filings submitted by hedge funds and prominent investors. These filings show these funds’ portfolio positions as of June 30th, 2021. What do these smart investors think about Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ:RESN)?

Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ:RESN) shareholders have witnessed an increase in hedge fund interest lately. Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ:RESN) was in 10 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of June. The all time high for this statistic is 6. This means the bullish number of hedge fund positions in this stock currently sits at its all time high. Our calculations also showed that RESN isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q2 rankings).

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Do Hedge Funds Think RESN Is A Good Stock To Buy Now?

At second quarter’s end, a total of 10 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 67% from the first quarter of 2020. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in RESN over the last 24 quarters. So, let’s examine which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

Among these funds, Millennium Management held the most valuable stake in Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ:RESN), which was worth $5.4 million at the end of the second quarter. On the second spot was Renaissance Technologies which amassed $1 million worth of shares. Two Sigma Advisors, Citadel Investment Group, and D E Shaw were also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position PDT Partners allocated the biggest weight to Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ:RESN), around 0.01% of its 13F portfolio. Paloma Partners is also relatively very bullish on the stock, setting aside 0.0033 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to RESN.

Now, key money managers were leading the bulls’ herd. D E Shaw, managed by D. E. Shaw, created the most outsized position in Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ:RESN). D E Shaw had $0.3 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Donald Sussman’s Paloma Partners also initiated a $0.2 million position during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new RESN investors: Michael Gelband’s ExodusPoint Capital, Ben Levine, Andrew Manuel and Stefan Renold’s LMR Partners, and Paul Marshall and Ian Wace’s Marshall Wace LLP.

Let’s also examine hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ:RESN) but similarly valued. These stocks are Ucommune International Ltd (NASDAQ:UK), Takung Art Co., Ltd. (NYSE:TKAT), Lannett Company, Inc. (NYSE:LCI), Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:NEPT), Savara, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVRA), Aptinyx Inc. (NASDAQ:APTX), and Broadway Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:BYFC). This group of stocks’ market values resemble RESN’s market value.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 6.6 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $15 million. That figure was $8 million in RESN’s case. Lannett Company, Inc. (NYSE:LCI) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Takung Art Co., Ltd. (NYSE:TKAT) is the least popular one with only 1 bullish hedge fund positions. Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ:RESN) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for RESN is 73.6. Stocks with higher number of hedge fund positions relative to other stocks as well as relative to their historical range receive a higher sentiment score. This is a slightly positive signal but we’d rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. Our calculations showed that top 5 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 95.8% in 2019 and 2020, and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 40 percentage points. These stocks gained 25.7% in 2021 through September 27th and beat the market again by 6.2 percentage points. Unfortunately RESN wasn’t nearly as popular as these 5 stocks and hedge funds that were betting on RESN were disappointed as the stock returned -13.7% since the end of June (through 9/27) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 5 most popular stocks among hedge funds as many of these stocks already outperformed the market since 2019.

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