Carillon Tower Advisers, an investment management firm, published its “Carillon Eagle Small Cap Growth Fund” first quarter 2021 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. Small-cap stocks advanced once again in the first quarter of 2021. However, there was a rather considerable disparity among the two style indexes, as the Russell 2000® Growth Index (up 4.87%) significantly lagged its Russell 2000® Value Index counterpart (up 21.16%). You can view the fund’s top 5 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Carillon Eagle Small Cap Growth Fund, in their Q1 2021 investor letter, mentioned Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), and shared their insights on the company. Pegasystems Inc. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software company that currently has a $9.8 billion market capitalization. Since the beginning of the year, PEGA delivered a -8.98% return, while its 12-month gains are up by 40.07%. As of May 04, 2021, the stock closed at $121.29 per share.
Here is what Carillon Eagle Small Cap Growth Fund has to say about Pegasystems Inc. in their Q1 2021 investor letter:
“Pegasystems develops software for organizations to use in building, deploying, and changing enterprise systems. The stock suffered a bit in the quarter, as there was a notable shift in investor sentiment away from higher growing software companies that were major contributors of the robust market returns seen throughout 2020. We remain optimistic that Pegasystems’ artificial intelligence-driven recommendations for customer service agents and the need for automation will provide secular growth opportunities in the future.”
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