5 Biggest Data Science Companies In USA

1. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 258

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is an American technology company that sells both software and hardware. The firm’s Windows operating system is the most widely used globally, and it also sells laptops and gaming consoles. It is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, the United States.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has a wide variety of data analysis services in its portfolio, such as Azure Data Factory and Data Lake. These let users store and process data through a variety of languages. Additionally, the firm also lets SQL users manipulate their data into chunks for useful analysis, and it also uses machine learning to answer user queries.

As part of their second quarter of 2022 investments, 258 out of the 895 hedge funds part of Insider Monkey’s database owned Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s shares.

Out of these, Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management is Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s largest investor. It owns 28 million shares that are worth $7.3 billion.

Lakehouse Capital mentioned the company in its September 2022 investor letter. Here is what the fund said:

“During the month, the Fund initiated a new position in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), a name that is no doubt familiar to our investors. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in a friend’s garage in 1975 and began dominating the operating system market with MS-DOS by the mid-1980s. The company has come a long way since then and is now widely considered the most critical and indispensable IT mega-vendor for businesses globally. In addition to its well-known Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite, the company has a broad portfolio of strategic products, including a rapidly growing public cloud business in Azure and a sizeable gaming presence.

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