Yahoo Finance Is S&P Global (SPGI) A Good Stock To Buy?
Bretton Fund recently released its Q4 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The fund posted a return of 11.52% for the quarter, underperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 12.15% in the same quarter. You should check out Brown Capital Management's top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of 2021.
In the Q4 2020 Investor Letter, the fund highlighted a few stocks and S&P Global Inc. (NYSE:SPGI) is one of them. S&P Global Inc. (NYSE:SPGI) is a financial services company. In the last three months, S&P Global Inc. (NYSE:SPGI) stock lost 1.6% and on March 2nd it had a closing price of $332.94. Here is what the fund said:
"The main laggard was S&P Global, which took off 0.3% from performance. The company announced a large acquisition of another market-data provider, which may have dampened its share price. While we’re generally skeptical of mega mergers, we’re optimistic this will turn out well for the company. We bought more shares during the quarter."
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In Q3 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on S&P Global Inc. (NYSE:SPGI) stock remained unchanged from the previous quarter (see the chart here). Our calculations showed that S&P Global Inc. (NYSE:SPGI) isn't ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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