Published on 8 Nov 2021 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance
In this article you are going to find out whether hedge funds think RH (NYSE:RH) is a good investment right now. We like to check what the smart money thinks first before doing extensive research on a given stock. Although there have been several high profile failed hedge fund picks, the consensus picks among hedge fund investors have historically outperformed the market after adjusting for known risk attributes. It's not surprising given that hedge funds have access to better information and more resources to predict the winners in the stock market.
Is RH (NYSE:RH) worth your attention right now? The smart money was taking a bullish view. The number of long hedge fund positions rose by 4 in recent months. RH (NYSE:RH) was in 54 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of June. The all time high for this statistic was previously 50. This means the bullish number of hedge fund positions in this stock currently sits at its all time high. Our calculations also showed that RH isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q2 rankings). There were 50 hedge funds in our database with RH positions at the end of the first quarter.
To the average investor there are several indicators shareholders use to evaluate publicly traded companies. A couple of the best indicators are hedge fund and insider trading activity. Our researchers have shown that, historically, those who follow the top picks of the best fund managers can outpace their index-focused peers by a very impressive amount (see the details here). Also, our monthly newsletter's portfolio of long stock picks returned 185.4% since March 2017 (through August 2021) and beat the S&P 500 Index by more than 79 percentage points. You can download a sample issue of this newsletter on our website.