Published on 8 Dec 2020 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance
Although the masses and most of the financial media blame hedge funds for their exorbitant fee structure and disappointing performance, these investors have proved to have great stock picking abilities over the years (that's why their assets under management continue to swell). We believe hedge fund sentiment should serve as a crucial tool of an individual investor’s stock selection process, as it may offer great insights of how the brightest minds of the finance industry feel about specific stocks. After all, these people have access to smartest analysts and expensive data/information sources that individual investors can't match. So should one consider investing in Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. (NYSE:NGS)? The smart money sentiment can provide an answer to this question.
Is NGS a good stock to buy now? Investors who are in the know were becoming hopeful. The number of bullish hedge fund positions moved up by 1 recently. Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. (NYSE:NGS) was in 11 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2020. The all time high for this statistics is 12. Our calculations also showed that NGS isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video for a quick look at the top 5 stocks). There were 10 hedge funds in our database with NGS positions at the end of the second quarter.