Tao Value, an investment management firm, published its second quarter 2021 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of -2.07% was delivered by the fund for the Q2 of 2021, trailing the MSCI All Country World Index that delivered a +7.11% return for the same period. You can take a look at the fund’s top 5 holdings to have an idea about their top bets for 2021.
In the Q2 2021 investor letter of Tao Value, the fund mentioned Atlassian Corporation Plc (NASDAQ: TEAM), and discussed its stance on the firm. Atlassian Corporation Plc is a Sydney, Australia-based software company, that currently has an $82.7 billion market capitalization. TEAM delivered a 41.35% return since the beginning of the year, extending its 12-month returns to 105.25%. The stock closed at $327.52 per share on August 10, 2021.
Here is what Tao Value has to say about Atlassian Corporation Plc in its Q2 2021 investor letter:
“Atlassian is in the middle of a multi-year migration from on-premise to cloud. In Feb 2021, Atlassian stopped new sales of server license and increased price as planned. It created “pull-forward” effects that incentivize users to renew early, leading to strong revenue & billings growth. It also introduced its newest innovative product called “Point A”, which enables product development teams to collaborate with customers to drive faster and more targeted solution building. Outside of the financial numbers, Atlassian is also empowering many small teams that use its free tier enterprise cloud solution, including our team. I remain confident that Atlassian has the potential to serve all kinds of team collaboration regardless of sector, implying strong growth in years to come.”
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Based on our calculations, Atlassian Corporation Plc (NASDAQ: TEAM) was not able to clinch a spot in our list of the 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. TEAM was in 67 hedge fund portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2021, compared to 69 funds in the fourth quarter of 2020. Atlassian Corporation Plc (NASDAQ: TEAM) delivered a 47.91% return in the past 3 months.
Hedge funds’ reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn’t keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds’ small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the S&P 500 ETFs by 115 percentage points since March 2017 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter.
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