VLTAVA Fund recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. VLTAVA is a global equity investment fund launched by Daniel Gladis in 2004. You should check out VLTAVA Fund’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners this year.
In the said letter, VLTAVA Fund highlighted a few stocks and CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) is one of them. CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) is a healthcare company. Year-to-date, CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) stock lost 19.6% and on October 12th it had a closing price of $59.72. Here is what VLTAVA Fund said:
“During the past quarter, we acquired one new position, CVS Health Corporation. It is a relatively large American company with sales around the same level as Apple. CVS is a health care company. To put it simply, its business can be divided into three areas: a retail pharmacies chain, pharmacy benefit management services, and health insurance.
We have been following CVS for a long time. We began monitoring the company more closely in 2018, when CVS acquired the health insurance company Aetna, a direct competitor of Humana, into which we first invested in 2009. We like CVS’s new integrated business model, but, as tends to be the case with such a large acquisition, it often brings with it some problems. In most cases, acquisitions prove to be overpriced and come with large debt and integration issues. We decided to wait and see how things developed. Now, two years later, integration has not caused fundamental problems, the debt has been declining rather quickly, and the cost of the acquisition has long been reflected in the stock price. Today that price is around the same level as it was in 2013 and meanwhile the earnings per share have doubled. We acquired CVS at 7.5 times this year’s earnings and with a double-digit free cash flow return.”
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In Q2 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) stock decreased by about 8% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with CVS’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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