Cooper Investors Exits HDFC Bank (HDB) Position
Cooper Investors, an employee-owned investment company that manages 7 pooled investment trusts, published its Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Hedged) third-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A positive return of 9.18% was recorded by the fund for the 3rd Quarter of 2020, ahead of its MSCI All Countries World benchmark that returned 6.94%. You can view the fund’s top 10 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Cooper Investors in their Q3 2020 Investor Letter said that they were able to distinguish a value in HDFC Bank Limited (HDB) but initiated a sell in their position. HDFC Bank Limited is an Indian banking and financial services company that currently has a $110.521 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, HDB delivered a 33.71% return and settled at $74.88 per share at the closing of January 15th.
Here is what Cooper Investors has to say about HDFC Bank Limited in their Investor Letter:
"The risk-adjusted value proposition has evolved materially in a short period since the Fund invested in HDFC Bank during March, especially as the share price appreciated over 40%. We still believe it stands out as the best bank in India and will weather the storm significantly better than peers, however industry trends have worsened with India not yet at the inflection point of COVID-19 as observed in other Asian economies. Across the system we expect bad debts to rise significantly over the next 6-24 months and small businesses are under particularly high pressure. While disliking short holding periods these events represent a change in risk-adjusted value latency that drove a decision to exit the small position."
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