5 Best Stocks to Buy According to David Rodriguez-Fraile’s BlueMar Capital

2. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V)

BlueMar Capital’s Stake Value: $17,592,000

Percentage of BlueMar Capital’s 13F Portfolio: 11.81% 

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 166

Among the 895 funds tracked by Insider Monkey, Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) was the fifth consensus top stock pick, with 166 funds reporting a stake in the payment processing giant at the end of Q2. Although Visa Inc.’s (NYSE:V) stock has gone nowhere in the last three years, it is still one of the best-performing stocks over a long time horizon. Even when one calculates the returns from March 2008 at the onset of the financial crisis, the stock is currently up by more than eleven times.

On September 21, analysts at Bank of America removed Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) and added competitor PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) to their ‘US 1 list,’ which includes all the top ideas of the firm among its ‘Buy’ rated stocks in the US.