Distillate Capital recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Distillate Capital’s U.S. Fundamental Stability & Value (U.S. FSV) strategy’s year-to-date decline of 1.19% through Q2 2020, is ahead of the comparable drop of 3.08% for the S&P 500 and 15.1 percentage points above the -16.3% return for the iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF. You should check out Distillate Capital’s 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, Distillate Capital highlighted a few stocks and Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM) is one of them. Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM) is a cigarette and tobacco manufacturing company. Year-to-date, Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM) stock lost 11.5% and on July 16th it had a closing price of $75.35. Here is what Distillate Capital said:
“The biggest additions to the portfolio in the rebalance were Biogen and Philip Morris, each increasing around 30 basis points as their relative valuations improved over the quarter.”
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In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM) stock decreased by about 16% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with Philip Morris’ growth potential. Our calculations showed that Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM) 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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