Greenhaven Road Capital, an investment management firm, published its fourth-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A spectacular net return of 105% was recorded by the fund for the year end 2020, outperforming its Russell 2000 benchmark that returned 9.4%. You can view the fund’s top 5 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Greenhaven Road Capital, in their Q4 2020 Investor Letter said that Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC) is part of their top 5 holdings. Elastic N.V. is an information technology and data analysis provider that currently has a $13.2 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, ESTC delivered a 53.12% return and settled at $151.96 per share at the closing of January 29th.
Here is what Greenhaven Road Capital has to say about Elastic N.V. in their investor letter:
“This open-source software company monetizes a very small subset of their users. Therefore, CEO Shay Bannon is fighting a different fight than most software entrepreneurs. Elastic’s open-source model provides the community far more value than it extracts. Earlier this month, the company made a change to their licensing agreement, which will make it more difficult for others to commercialize Elastic’s software. The EV/sales multiple has clearly risen over the past year as the share price has roughly tripled our initial purchases at the end of 2019. The company prices software based on usage and benefits from the continued growth of data as well as their expanding product lines. With net revenue retention (purchases from their existing base of customers) remaining above 130% since before their IPO, Elastic has a long runway of 30%+ growth that should mute the impact of multiple compression when it occurs.”
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Last December 2020, we published an article telling that Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC) was in 36 hedge fund portfolios. Its all time high statistics is 43. ESTC delivered a massive 136.47% return in the past 12 months.
Our calculations show that Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC) does not belong in our list of the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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