5 Long-Term Stocks to Buy During Recessions

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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. Reports suggest that the $69 billion purchase of video game firm Activision by the tech giant is going to undergo an antitrust review in Europe. The tech firm is expected to file the necessary paperwork with authorities in the region within the next two weeks. Microsoft has stepped up investments in the gaming and metaverse domains as the competition heats up in the tech sector. 

On July 27, Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives maintained an Outperform rating on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock and lowered the price target to $320 from $340, noting that the metrics around cloud and commercial bookings looked strong for the firm.  

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 (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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