15 important things you should know about Hancock Horizon HIBUX mutual fund

Updated: September 18, 2020

Bull Case

No sales load or distribution fees

Bear Case

Low net assets
3-year return below the benchmark
5-year return below the benchmark
10-year return below the benchmark
High expense ratio

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Are you looking to buy or sell HIBUX? Or perhaps you’re looking for HIBUX fact sheet, and learn about its alternatives? If so, you came to the right place.

In this HIBUX mutual fund review, we’ll address key questions our readers have been asking us about this fund, above and beyond what you can find in its prospectus, and on Morningstar or Yahoo Finance.

Here is what you’ll be able to find in this review:

Fact Sheet: HIBUX performance, returns, expense ratio, holdings and dividend yield;
Analysis: HIBUX buy or sell; the pros and cons of investing in HIBUX mutual fund;
Alternatives: other ETFs and mutual funds you should consider as alternatives to HIBUX.

And here is the list of questions we’ll answer:

Describe Advisors' Inner Circle Fund II: Hancock Horizon Burkenroad Small Cap Fund; Institutional Class Shares (HIBUX).
What are HIBUX holdings?
What is HIBUX performance? What are HIBUX historical returns?
How many up and down years did HIBUX have historically?
What is HIBUX dividend yield?
What is HIBUX minimum initial investment amount?
What is HIBUX expense ratio?
Does HIBUX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?
What is HIBUX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?
What is HIBUX beta? How would you assess HIBUX risk?
What is HIBUX Sharpe ratio?
What is HIBUX Finny Score? HIBUX buy or sell?
What are the pros of investing in HIBUX? What are HIBUX buy reasons?
What are the cons of investing in HIBUX? What are HIBUX sell reasons?

So let’s start. Scroll down to the question that interests you the most.

Fact Sheet

1. Describe Advisors' Inner Circle Fund II: Hancock Horizon Burkenroad Small Cap Fund; Institutional Class Shares (HIBUX).

The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in the common stocks and other equity securities of companies with small capitalizations (less than $1billion) located or doing business in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

2. What are HIBUX top holdings?

HIBUX has 70 stock holdings and 0 bond holdings.

The top 10 holdings represent 22.85% of total assets. Here are the top holdings:

Name	Symbol	% Assets
Pool Corp	POOL	2.79%
RealPage Inc	RP	2.36%
Integer Holdings Corp	ITGR	2.29%
TopBuild Corp	BLD	2.29%
Amedisys Inc	AMED	2.28%
Cirrus Logic Inc	CRUS	2.25%
Encompass Health Corp	EHC	2.22%
Lumentum Holdings Inc	LITE	2.17%
Diodes Inc	DIOD	2.13%
Cardlytics Inc	CDLX	2.07%

3. What is HIBUX performance? What are HIBUX historical returns?

HIBUX has generated the following returns:

1-month return is 0.42%;
3-month return is 3.53%;
1-year return is -6.58%;
3-year return is -2.22%;
5-year return is 2.67%;
10-year return is 8.91%.

4. How many up and down years did HIBUX have historically?

In the last 10 years, HIBUX had 7 up years and 3 down years. See Performances

5. What is HIBUX dividend yield?

HIBUX yield is 0%.

6. What is HIBUX minimum initial investment amount?

HIBUX minimum initial investment amount is N/A.

7. What is HIBUX expense ratio?

HIBUX expense ratio is 1%. The expense ratio of a fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, and all other expenses. See Expenses

8. Does HIBUX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?

HIBUX 12b-1 distribution fee is 0. HIBUX front-end sales load is 0. HIBUX back-end sales load is 0.

9. What is HIBUX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?

1-year ax cost ratio is 6.4%;
3-year ax cost ratio is 4.92%.

See Taxes

10. What is HIBUX beta? How would you assess HIBUX risk?

3-year beta is 1.42;
5-year beta is 1.32;
10-year beta is 1.24.

See Risks

11. What is HIBUX Sharpe ratio?

3-year Sharpe ratio is -0.10;
5-year Sharpe ratio is 0.05;
10-year Sharpe ratio is 0.51.

See Risks

Analysis

12. What is Finny Score? buy or sell?

Finny Score is 17. Our quantitative analysis shows 1 reason to buy and 5 reasons to sell it, resulting in the Finny Score of 17.

13. What are the pros of investing in HIBUX? What are HIBUX buy reasons?

The following are HIBUX strengths from our perspective:

Good news: this fund does not have 12b1, front-end or back-end sales fees.

14. What are the cons of investing in HIBUX? What are HIBUX negatives?

The following are HIBUX weaknesses from our perspective:

HIBUX net assets are $106.40 million. This fund is not a popular choice with retail investors.
HIBUX 3-year return is -2.22%, which is lower than the 3-year return of the benchmark index (Russell 2000 TR USD), 4.23%.
HIBUX 5-year return is 2.67%, which is lower than the 5-year return of the benchmark index (Russell 2000 TR USD), 7.72%.
HIBUX 10-year return is 8.91%, which is lower than the 10-year return of the benchmark index (Russell 2000 TR USD), 10.6%.
HIBUX expense ratio is 1%, which is not negligible. Is the fund expensive to you, and does it align to your investment strategy?

In the HIBUX review, we covered HIBUX key stats (return, performance, yield, expense ratio, and holdings), buy and sell analysis, and alternative investments. If this review was helpful to you, feel free to check out other mutual fund and ETF reviews.