Oakmark Select Fund: ‘Citigroup (C) Remained Profitable Amidst the Pandemic’
Oakmark Select Fund, an investment advisory firm that provides asset and wealth management published its third-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be seen here. A return of 5.2% was recorded by the fund for the 3rd Quarter of 2020, trailing below its S&P 500 benchmark that returned 8.9%. You can view the fund’s top 10 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Oakmark Select Fund, in their Q3 2020 Investor Letter said that they were able to distinguish a value in Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and still maintains their position in the company even after a bad performance during the pandemic. Citigroup Inc. is a global investment bank and financial services corporation that currently has a $133.727 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, C delivered a 48.71% return and settled at $64.23 per share at the closing of January 15th.
Here is what Oakmark Select Fund has to say about Citigroup Inc. in their Investor Letter:
"Citigroup was our largest detractor for the period due to Covid-19-related concerns that have hurt the entire financial sector, as well as a handful of Citigroup-specific headlines that amplified near-term uncertainty. We believe that investors’ short-term focus can cause them to miss the bigger picture. The company has remained profitable throughout the Covid-19 crisis to date. It continues to operate with significant excess capital relative to regulatory minimums, even as it has added more than $10.5B to credit reserves year to date. We believe the company is proving its resilience during a real-life stress test. Yet, despite this positive early evidence, Citigroup currently trades at only 60% of tangible book value and slightly over 5x 2019 earnings per share. Given that we think the company’s normalized earnings power is greater than what it achieved in 2019, we find these valuation metrics especially attractive. As we move beyond the pandemic, we think investors’ focus will shift to the underlying quality of the business and they will value the resilience Citigroup demonstrated during this crisis."
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