As you can see these stocks had an average of 24.6 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $637 million. That figure was $835 million in NTLA's case. EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT ) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Methanex Corporation (NASDAQ: MEOH ) is the least popular one with only 12 bullish hedge fund positions. Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTLA) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for NTLA is 69. 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 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 81.2% in 2019 and 2020, and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 26 percentage points. These stocks gained 12.2% in 2021 through April 12th and still beat the market by 1.5 percentage points.