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3. Block, Inc. (NYSE:SQ)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 98    

98 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey were long Block, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) at the end of the third quarter of 2021 with stakes worth $8.8 billion. The overwhelming confidence that the hedge fund industry displays in Block, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) speaks volumes about the reliability of the company. Block, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) is a payments technology firm with hundreds of millions invested in crypto assets. 

Susquehanna analyst James Friedman has a Positive rating on Block, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) stock with a price target of $275. Mizuho and Jefferies are also bullish on the stock for 2022 despite market fears around inflation and their effect on growth stocks. 

In its Q1 2021 investor letter, RiverPark Funds, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Block, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“We established a position in leading Financial Technology provider Square during the quarter. Through one integrated system, SQ is a hybrid of two businesses: its Seller Business (charging small and medium-sized businesses about 3% for transaction payment processing, plus other services such as instant funds access, and software for everything from customer engagement to payroll), and its Cash App (originally for person-to-person cash transfers and now a growing digital financial services provider for consumers).

The combined business has grown gross profit at a 37% CAGR over the past five years to $2.7 billion (due to pass through costs, gross profit is more reflective of top-line growth) and we believe that the company has an enormous long-term runway, as it has less than a 2% share of a more than $160 billion market. It is our view that the company’s Cash App (which has grown

from nothing in 2015 to $1.2 billion gross profit last year) has a particularly large opportunity with its powerful ecosystem of digital financial services including digital wallets, direct deposits, stock trading, bitcoin trading, and business and tax services, which are all relatively new. The vast majority of Cash App’s more than 36 million users are younger and, importantly, are willing to replace their bank and other financial services accounts with the app.

We estimate that the company can grow its gross profit more than 30% and EBITDA more than 50% annually for the foreseeable future, and while most of the company’s current profit is from its Seller Business, we believe most of Square’s future value will be from its Cash App business.”