Hedge Funds Goosing Up Their Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (GOOS) Bets

In this article you are going to find out whether hedge funds think Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GOOS) is a good investment right now. We like to check what the smart money thinks first before doing extensive research on a given stock. Although there have been several high profile failed hedge fund picks, the consensus picks among hedge fund investors have historically outperformed the market after adjusting for known risk attributes. It’s not surprising given that hedge funds have access to better information and more resources to predict the winners in the stock market.

Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GOOS) investors should pay attention to an increase in support from the world’s most elite money managers lately. Our calculations also showed that GOOS isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings and see the video for a quick look at the top 5 stocks).

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Hedge fund activity in Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GOOS)

At Q1’s end, a total of 26 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 30% from the previous quarter. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in GOOS over the last 18 quarters. With hedge funds’ positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists an “upper tier” of noteworthy hedge fund managers who were adding to their holdings considerably (or already accumulated large positions).

Among these funds, Select Equity Group held the most valuable stake in Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GOOS), which was worth $72.8 million at the end of the third quarter. On the second spot was Tiger Pacific Capital which amassed $32.1 million worth of shares. Viking Global, Citadel Investment Group, and Miller Value Partners 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 Tiger Pacific Capital allocated the biggest weight to Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GOOS), around 10.08% of its 13F portfolio. Ancient Art (Teton Capital) is also relatively very bullish on the stock, setting aside 1.78 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to GOOS.

Now, key hedge funds were leading the bulls’ herd. Tiger Pacific Capital, managed by Run Ye, Junji Takegami and Hoyon Hwang, assembled the most outsized position in Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GOOS). Tiger Pacific Capital had $32.1 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Bill Miller’s Miller Value Partners also made a $18 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new GOOS investors: Quincy Lee’s Ancient Art (Teton Capital), Kerr Neilson’s Platinum Asset Management, and Daniel S. Och’s OZ Management.

Let’s now review hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GOOS) but similarly valued. These stocks are Banner Corporation (NASDAQ:BANR), Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (NYSE:HMY), National Research Corporation (NASDAQ:NRC), and Uniti Group Inc. (NASDAQ:UNIT). All of these stocks’ market caps match GOOS’s market cap.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 11.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $52 million. That figure was $221 million in GOOS’s case. Banner Corporation (NASDAQ:BANR) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand National Research Corporation (NASDAQ:NRC) is the least popular one with only 8 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GOOS) is more popular among hedge funds. Our calculations showed that top 10 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 41.4% in 2019 and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 10.1 percentage points. These stocks gained 8.3% in 2020 through the end of May and still beat the market by 13.2 percentage points. Unfortunately GOOS wasn’t nearly as popular as these 10 stocks and hedge funds that were betting on GOOS were disappointed as the stock returned -1.9% during the second quarter (through the end of May) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 10 most popular stocks among hedge funds as most of these stocks already outperformed the market in 2020.

Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.