GOLDMAN SACHS: Buying the stocks most popular with hedge funds has been a market-crushing strategy. Here are the 17 they love the most.

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The stocks most owned by hedge funds have outperformed the broader market so far in 2019, and Goldman Sachs says they're poised for more gains.

This has been especially true so far in 2019. Boasting an 18% return, a-maintained basket of the stocks most popular with hedge funds has beaten the benchmark by a full three percentage points this year.

And lest you think it's too late to invest in these stocks since they've already risen so much, Goldman is here to dispel that notion. The firm has run the numbers and found that hedge-fund ownership has historically been a strong signal for future stock returns. "Rather than signaling 'over-ownership,' stocks with a large number of hedge fund owners have consistently outperformed peers," a group of Goldman strategists wrote in a recent client note."Surprisingly, this pattern has held even for stocks with elevated multiples relative to their histories."With that established, following the lead of hedge funds seems like a sound strategy. To that end, we've provided below the stocks most popular with them.

The list is based on the holdings of 855 hedge funds with $2.1 trillion of gross equity positions, as analyzed by Goldman at the start of the second quarter. The 17 most popular stocks are listed in increasing order of how many hedge funds own them.

 

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