In this article, we discuss the 5 best software stocks to buy according to hedge funds. If you want to read our detailed analysis of these stocks, go directly to the 12 Best Software Stocks To Buy According To Hedge Funds.
5. ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOW)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 91
ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOW) is ranked fifth on our list of 12 best software stocks to buy according to hedge funds. The firm provides enterprise cloud computing solutions. It is headquartered in California.
On September 26, investment advisory Summit Insights initiated coverage of ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOW) stock with a Buy rating and a price target of $750. Srini Nandury, an analyst at the advisory, issued the ratings update.
Out of the hedge funds being tracked by Insider Monkey, Connecticut-based investment firm Lone Pine Capital is a leading shareholder in ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOW) with 2.4 million shares worth more than $1.3 billion.
In its Q1 2021 investor letter, Palm Capital, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOW) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:
“ServiceNow provides software solutions to structure and automate various task and processes for large businesses. The company began in 2004 with a solution to help businesses manage the IT services they offer employees and customers. Unlike the existing solutions in the market, ServiceNow’s offering was built using modern architecture that was flexible, modular, and user-friendly. And it left the incumbents – large companies such as BMC, IBM and MicroFocus – playing catch up.
As the company grew to dominate this market, it saw the opportunity to expand its offering to include the broader task of IT Operations Management – or the monitoring and control of an entire business’s IT infrastructure. And over time its success in improving productivity and user experience in IT resulted in customers asking the company to expand its offering into other business workflows including HR Management and Customer Services – which it has since done.
All ServiceNow’s applications (including those built by customers and third parties) are built on its ‘Now’ platform. This allows the company and its customers to innovate and deploy new solutions quickly. And it helps ServiceNow gather a large amount of data to gain insights into and use machine learning to build solutions to meet customer needs in other areas. Crucially, this platform can interface with other SaaS and legacy software services used by its customers. Not only does this allow an IT department to manage all the myriad software services used by a business from a single point of control, it also reduces the operational disruption risk for those transitioning from legacy software systems to the cloud.
Aside from the ease of use of ServiceNow’s offerings, the other factor driving its growth is that its ‘land and expand’ strategy starts in the IT department of customers – the very department whose task it is to recommend other software solutions for businesses. It is therefore no surprise that more than 75% of ServiceNow’s customers use more than one of its products and 80% of its new business is from existing clients.
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