Miller Value Partners, an investment management firm, published its ‘Opportunity Equity’ fourth-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be seen here. A net return of 35.4% was recorded by the fund for the Q4 of 2020, outperforming its S&P 500 benchmark that delivered a 12.15% return. You can view the fund’s top 5 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Miller Value Partners, in their Q4 2020 Investor Letter, said that ADT Inc. (NYSE: ADT) was one of the detractors for their portfolio in the fourth quarter of 2020. ADT Inc. is a security services company that currently has a $7.7 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, ADT delivered a 23.74% return and settled at $9.33 per share at the closing of February 12th.
Here is what Miller Value Partners has to say about ADT Inc. in their Q4 2020 investor letter:
“ADT Inc. (ADT) declined 3.5% during the quarter. The company reported strong 3Q results, which showed continued net subscriber growth with record customer retention (attrition of 12.9% versus 13.5% last year). The company reported revenue of $1.30B versus consensus of $1.25B with EBITDA of $564M versus $524M expected. The company updated full year guidance to revenue of $5.20-5.35B versus consensus of $5.24B and EBITDA of $2.15-2.225B versus $2.144B expected and free cash flow (FCF) guidance of $650-725M (raising the lower end by $25m from previous guidance). The company has set 2H21 as the time frame to launch their professionally installed and co-branded offering with Google (ahead of mid-2022 guide) and they announced that they are developing an ADT-owned, next-gen, residential technology platform allowing them to use their own proprietary software.”
Last December, we published an article telling that ADT Inc. (NYSE: ADT) was in 30 hedge fund portfolios, its all time high statistics. ADT delivered a 32.53% return in the past 12 months.
Our calculations show that ADT Inc. (NYSE: ADT) ranks 4th in our list of the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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