Wasatch Advisors, an employee-owned investment manager, published its ‘Wasatch Micro Cap Value Fund’ third-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of 11.62% was recorded by the fund for the Q3 of 2020, above its Russel Microcap benchmark that returned 3.69%. You can view the fund’s top 10 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Wasatch Advisors, in their Q3 2020 Investor Letter said that the increase in enrollments of Aspen Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASPU) can be one of the factors of the company’s future growth. Aspen Group, Inc. is an education technology holding company that currently has a $247 million market cap. For the past 3 months, ASPU delivered a -10.74% return and settled at $10.14 per share at the closing of January 19th.
Here is what Wasatch Advisors has to say about Aspen Group, Inc. in their Investor Letter:
“A significant purchase during the quarter was Aspen Group, Inc. (ASPU). Aspen Group is a Colorado based operator of certificate programs and associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and doctor’s degree programs. We’re especially impressed with Aspen’s nursing programs, which we consider reasonably priced with excellent job-placement track records. Moreover, enrollments have been increasing at attractive rates.”
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Last December 2020, we published an article telling that Aspen Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASPU) was in 9 hedge fund portfolios. Its all time high statistics is 10. ASPU delivered a 20% return in the past 12 months.
As of September 2020, Wasatch Advisors had a 463K share position in ASPU that amounted to $5 million. However, our calculations showed that Aspen Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASPU) does not belong to the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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