As you can see these stocks had an average of 34.4 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $1323 million. That figure was $876 million in PXD's case. Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC ) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Rocket Companies, Inc. (NYSE: RKT ) is the least popular one with only 13 bullish hedge fund positions. Pioneer Natural Resources Company (NYSE:PXD) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for PXD is 74. Stocks with higher number of hedge fund positions relative to other stocks as well as relative to their historical range receive a higher sentiment score. Our calculations showed that top 5 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 95.8% in 2019 and 2020, and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 40 percentage points. These stocks gained 22.9% in 2021 through October 1st and still beat the market by 5.6 percentage points.