Fred Alger Management, an investment management company, released its “Alger Spectra Fund” first quarter 2023 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. In the first quarter, Class A shares of the fund underperformed the Russell 3000 Growth Index and returned 7.98% (with sales charges) compared to the Index return of 13.85%. Consumer Discretionary and Industrials were the leading contributors to the fund’s relative performance in the quarter, while Information technology and Health care sectors detracted. In addition, you can check the top 5 holdings of the fund to know its best picks in 2023.
Alger Spectra Fund highlighted stocks like Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in the first quarter 2023 investor letter. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is a multinational technology company that designs and manufactures smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories. On May 22, 2023, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock closed at $174.20 per share. One-month return of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) was 6.37%, and its shares gained 24.11% of their value over the last 52 weeks. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has a market capitalization of $2.74 trillion.
Alger Spectra Fund made the following comment about Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in its Q1 2023 investor letter:
“Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is a leading technology provider in telecommunications, computing, and services. Apple’s iOS operating system is the company’s unique intellectual property and competitive strength. This software drives particularly tight engagement with consumers and enterprises, which is fostering the growing purchase of high margin services like music, apps, and Apple Pay. While iPhone sales were down year-over-year (YoY). services revenues grew 7% YoY which was slightly above analyst estimates. Company earnings were also better-than-anticipated due to lower input costs, such as memory chips and cost control initiatives. Aside from production disruptions, negative sentiment had also weighed on shares as investors questioned how an economic slowdown would affect consumer demand for Apple products in 2023. However, management projected an acceleration in earnings for the fiscal first quarter, where they noted that iPhone and services growth should remain strong, along with encouraging impacts around product mix, lower input costs, and continued cost controls.”
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is in 8th position on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 135 hedge fund portfolios held Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) at the end of the fourth quarter which was 140 in the previous quarter.
We discussed Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in another article and shared the list most popular consumer electronics brands. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q1 2023 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
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