Is E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (ETWO) A Good Stock To Buy?

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 866 13F filings submitted by hedge funds and prominent investors. These filings show these funds’ portfolio positions as of March 31st, 2020. What do these smart investors think about E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ETWO)?

Is ETWO a good stock to buy? Prominent investors were becoming hopeful. The number of long hedge fund positions improved by 35 recently. E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ETWO) was in 35 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of March. Our calculations also showed that ETWO isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings).

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

At the end of March, a total of 35 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 35 from the fourth quarter of 2020. By comparison, 0 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in ETWO a year ago. So, let’s find out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.

The largest stake in E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ETWO) was held by Elliott Investment Management, which reported holding $250.7 million worth of stock at the end of December. It was followed by Windacre Partnership with a $177.5 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Luxor Capital Group, Eminence Capital, and Alyeska Investment Group. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Altai Capital allocated the biggest weight to E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ETWO), around 25.47% of its 13F portfolio. Shelter Haven Capital Management is also relatively very bullish on the stock, setting aside 9.27 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to ETWO.

As industrywide interest jumped, some big names have been driving this bullishness. Elliott Investment Management, managed by Paul Singer, created the most outsized position in E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ETWO). Elliott Investment Management had $250.7 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Snehal Amin’s Windacre Partnership also made a $177.5 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with brand new ETWO positions are Christian Leone’s Luxor Capital Group, Ricky Sandler’s Eminence Capital, and Anand Parekh’s Alyeska Investment Group.

Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ETWO). These stocks are The ODP Corporation (NASDAQ:ODP), Hub Group Inc (NASDAQ:HUBG), BancFirst Corporation (NASDAQ:BANF), Cactus, Inc. (NYSE:WHD), NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV), Welbilt, Inc. (NYSE:WBT), and Phreesia, Inc. (NYSE:PHR). This group of stocks’ market values match ETWO’s market value.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 22.3 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $246 million. That figure was $998 million in ETWO’s case. NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand BancFirst Corporation (NASDAQ:BANF) is the least popular one with only 4 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ETWO) is more popular among hedge funds. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for ETWO is 90. 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. 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 returned 19.3% in 2021 through June 25th but still managed to beat the market by 4.8 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on ETWO as the stock returned 18.5% since the end of March (through 6/25) and outperformed the market by an even larger margin. Hedge funds were clearly right about piling into this stock relative to other stocks with similar market capitalizations.

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