Oakmark Funds recently released its second-quarter investor letter – a copy of which is available for download here. In their recent letter to investors, Oakmark Funds announced that OAKMX portfolio returned 23.0% in the second quarter, as compared to 20.5% of the S&P 500 Index. You should check out Oakmark Funds top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash.
In the said letter, Oakmark Funds highlighted a few stocks and General Dynamics Corp (NYSE:GD) is one of them. General Dynamics Corp (NYSE:GD) is an aerospace and defense company. Year-to-date, General Dynamics Corp (NYSE:GD) stock lost 19.8% and on July 9th it had a closing price of $138.02. Here is what Oakmark Funds said:
“General Dynamics is one of the leading U.S. defense contractors and controls the world’s premier business jet franchise (Gulfstream). Short-term fears that the coronavirus will hurt demand for business jets drove down the share price, so we were able to purchase this high-quality business at a large discount to both its historical and peer valuation levels. Taking a longer term view, we believe the company is poised to benefit from new product introductions within its business jet division, an improvement in free cash flow conversion and a highly visible, decade-long increase in deliveries of next generation nuclear-powered submarines. As these positives come into clearer view, we believe the discount to intrinsic value will close.”
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In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on General Dynamics Corp (NYSE:GD) stock decreased by about 15% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with General Dynamics’ upside potential. Our calculations showed that General Dynamics Corp (NYSE:GD) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 185% since the end of 2014 and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 109 percentage points. We know it sounds unbelievable. You have been dismissing our articles about top hedge fund stocks mostly because you were fed biased information by other media outlets about hedge funds’ poor performance. You could have doubled the size of your nest egg by investing in the top hedge fund stocks instead of dumb S&P 500 ETFs. Below you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.
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