5 Best Fast Money Stocks To Buy According To Hedge Funds

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1. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 258     

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) develops, licenses, supports software, services, devices, and solutions worldwide. It is one of the most prominent fast money stocks to invest in. On October 5, Brazil’s antitrust regulator approved the $69 billion Microsoft takeover of video game maker Activision. The deal was approved without any conditions, according to a filing on the regulator’s website. Competitors Sony and Google had raised their concerns about the deal to regulators. 

On September 29, Raymond James analyst Andrew Marok resumed coverage of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock with an Outperform rating and $300 price target, noting the firm had strong positioning in public cloud, gaming, and digital advertising. 

At the end of the second quarter of 2022, 258 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $56 billion in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), compared to 259 in the previous quarter worth $66 billion.

In its Q2 2022 investor letter, Baron Funds, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“Shares of Microsoft Corporation, a leading global provider of software solutions, declined 16.6% in the quarter along with the broader software group as well as due to growing concerns of a potential macro-driven slowdown. This is despite the company posting strong quarterly financial results and successfully absorbing headwinds from the war in Ukraine. The company had 21% revenue growth, 23% operating income growth, and 35% growth in Microsoft Cloud (all year-over-year in constant currency), which now represents 47% of total revenues. (read more…

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