Alluvium Asset Management, an asset management company, released its “Conventum – Alluvium Global Fund” second-quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. The Fund retreated by 2.3%, 3.0%, and 5.3% in EUR, USD, and AUD respectively, in the quarter. Excitement over AI continues, and some are drawing comparisons between the current environment and the late 1990s dot-com bubble. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2024.
Conventum – Alluvium Global Fund highlighted stocks like Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI), in the second quarter 2024 investor letter. Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI) operates in the automotive retail industry, headquartered in Houston, Texas. One-month return of Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI) was 19.21%, and its shares gained 30.96% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On August 2, 2024, Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI) stock closed at $342.89 per share with a market capitalization of $4.596 billion.
Conventum – Alluvium Global Fund stated the following regarding Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI) in its Q2 2024 investor letter:
“As most readers know, the Fund is constrained by “risk” regulations, one of which stipulates that no more than 40% of the Fund’s assets can be held in positions of above 5% and no position can be greater than 10% (known as the 5/10/40 rule). By early May, as a result of our March buying and the share price rising, Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI) (up 1.9%) had come to represent more than 5% of the Fund’s assets. Whilst we like Group 1, we also like all the other Fund holdings that are above 5%. And, unlike those, when it comes to Group 1 there is another attractive company in the same sector available for our investment. Although we prefer the Group 1 model, the economics of Autonation look attractive to us. And by introducing this into the portfolio we could thereby invest more than 5% of assets in this sector without necessitating the sale of other attractive large positions. And so after selling a little Group 1 and buying Autonation we ended the quarter with 4.1% and 1.9% positions respectively.”
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Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI) is not on our list of 31 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 38 hedge fund portfolios held Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI) at the end of the first quarter which was 33 in the previous quarter. Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI) recorded a quarterly adjusted diluted EPS from continuing operations of $9.80, adjusted net income of $133.1 million, and total revenues of $4.7 billion in the second quarter of 2024. While we acknowledge the potential of Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE:GPI) as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is as promising as NVIDIA but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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