5 Best Tech Stocks For Long Term Investment

1. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 269     

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) develops, licenses, and supports software, services, devices, and solutions worldwide. On December 12, Microsoft signed a ten-year commercial deal with the London Stock Exchange Group to migrate the exchange data platform into the cloud. As part of the deal, the tech company will enable the digital transformation of LSEG’s technology infrastructure and Refinitiv platforms onto the Microsoft Cloud and in exchange, it will acquire a 4% equity stake in the financial firm, which owns the London Stock Exchange.

On October 26, RBC Capital analyst Rishi Jaluria maintained an Outperform rating on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock and lowered the price target to $310 from $380, noting that several near-term headwinds are now expected to pressure operating margins in financial year 2023, which Microsoft management now expects to contract by a point.

At the end of the third quarter of 2022, 269 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $61.2 billion in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), compared to 258 in the previous quarter worth $56 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 (NASDAQ:MSFT), 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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