RCI Hospitality Holdings (RICK): Bireme Capital Hit The Bullseye

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Bireme Capital, an investment management firm, published its fourth-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A net return of 47.1% was recorded by the fund for 2020, outperforming its S&P500 benchmark that delivered an 18.3% return. You can view the fund’s top 5 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.

Bireme Capital, in their Q4 2020 investor letter, said that RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:RICK) has blown past the estimates they made early in the pandemic. Bireme Capital identifies RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. as one of the companies at the other side of the value spread, the other end of the “barbell market”. RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. is a nightclub company based in Houston, Texas. It currently has a $557.9 million market capitalization. Since the beginning of the year, RICK delivered a 57.20% return, impressively extending its 12-month gains to 253.68%. As of March 4, the stock closed at $65.10 per share.

Here is what Bireme Capital has to say about RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. in their Q4 2020 investor letter:

"Since March we have increasingly tilted the long book towards stocks whose businesses will improve as the pandemic fades, a strategy we first discussed in our 1Q20 letter. Now that 2020 is — thankfully — over, let’s take a look back at some of our predictions from Q1.