Where Do Hedge Funds Stand On JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (JELD)?

At Insider Monkey, we pore over the filings of nearly 866 top investment firms every quarter, a process we have now completed for the latest reporting period. The data we’ve gathered as a result gives us access to a wealth of collective knowledge based on these firms’ portfolio holdings as of March 31st. In this article, we will use that wealth of knowledge to determine whether or not JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (NYSE:JELD) makes for a good investment right now.

JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (NYSE:JELD) was in 27 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2021. The all time high for this statistic is 29. JELD investors should pay attention to an increase in hedge fund interest in recent months. There were 22 hedge funds in our database with JELD positions at the end of the fourth quarter. Our calculations also showed that JELD isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings).

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

At the end of March, a total of 27 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 23% from the fourth quarter of 2020. On the other hand, there were a total of 20 hedge funds with a bullish position in JELD 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 JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (NYSE:JELD) was held by Pzena Investment Management, which reported holding $152.4 million worth of stock at the end of December. It was followed by Balyasny Asset Management with a $24.8 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Arrowstreet Capital, Royce & Associates, and CaaS Capital. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Soapstone Capital allocated the biggest weight to JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (NYSE:JELD), around 2.92% of its 13F portfolio. BeaconLight Capital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 1.34 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to JELD.

As industrywide interest jumped, specific money managers have been driving this bullishness. CaaS Capital, managed by Frank Fu, created the most outsized position in JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (NYSE:JELD). CaaS Capital had $9.8 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Ben Levine, Andrew Manuel and Stefan Renold’s LMR Partners also initiated a $4.2 million position during the quarter. The other funds with brand new JELD positions are Matthew L Pinz’s Pinz Capital, Mark Coe’s Intrinsic Edge Capital, and Paul Tudor Jones’s Tudor Investment Corp.

Let’s now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (NYSE:JELD). These stocks are ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. (NYSE:ZIM), Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:MGY), LendingTree, Inc (NASDAQ:TREE), Arconic Corporation (NYSE:ARNC), Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (NASDAQ:CORT), Fulgent Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLGT), and Nelnet, Inc. (NYSE:NNI). This group of stocks’ market caps are closest to JELD’s market cap.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 18.6 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $311 million. That figure was $290 million in JELD’s case. Arconic Corporation (NYSE:ARNC) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Nelnet, Inc. (NYSE:NNI) is the least popular one with only 11 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (NYSE:JELD) is more popular among hedge funds. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for JELD is 87.9. 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 gained 24% in 2021 through July 9th and still beat the market by 6.7 percentage points. Unfortunately JELD wasn’t nearly as popular as these 5 stocks and hedge funds that were betting on JELD were disappointed as the stock returned -8.3% since the end of the first quarter (through 7/9) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 5 most popular stocks among hedge funds as most of these stocks already outperformed the market since 2019.

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