Ten Most Popular Hedge Fund Stocks

Investing.com - In case you can't afford to invest with a hedge fund, here's an alternative.Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has complied what it calls a VIP list of the 50 stocks that appeared most often in the top ten holdings of 808 hedge fund portfolios.The list, which covers the quarter ending in December, outperformed the market by 4.5 percentage points in 2018.The average investor may already own some of the stocks on the list because they are somewhat predictable, but a couple could be considered surprises.(insert graphic: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Time Warner, Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT))No 1. is Amazon, followed by Facebook, Time Warner, Alphabet and Microsoft.(insert graphic: Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), NXP Semiconductors, Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), Visa, Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA))The second half of the list is led by Bank of America at No 6, followed by NXP Semiconductors, Alibaba, Visa and Comcast.In case you are wondering about Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL); it just missed the top ten, ranking 11th.