Alger Mid Cap Focus Fund recently released its Q4 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. Class Z shares of the Alger Mid Cap Focus Fund outperformed the Russell Midcap Growth Index during the fourth quarter of 2020. You should check out Alger Mid Cap Focus Fund’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of 2021.
In the Q4 2020 Investor Letter, Alger Mid Cap Focus Fund highlighted a few stocks and Stamps.com Inc (NASDAQ:STMP) is one of them. Stamps.com Inc (NASDAQ:STMP) provides Internet-based mailing and shipping services. In the last three months, Stamps.com Inc (NASDAQ:STMP) stock gained 6.2% and on January 29th it had a closing price of $228.31. Here is what Alger Mid Cap Focus Fund said:
“Stamps.com provides internet-based mailing and shipping solutions to individuals, small businesses, e-commerce shippers. enterprises and high-volume shippers. Through its portfolio of branded solutions and more than 500 unique integrations with marketplaces, shopping carts, e-commerce tools and shipping software platforms, Stamps.com software allows its nearly one million members to print mailing and shipping labels for multiple carriers around the world. Stamps.com has a unique and defensible competitive position in the market as one of only a few U.S. Postal Service-approved third-party PC-based postage vendors, and we believe the company is well-positioned to benefit from the secular shift toward e-commerce, which has been accelerated by Covid-19. Although Stamps.com’s stock price climbed 135% in 2020. its shares underperformed after the company released its earnings report for the third quarter in early November. Specifically, the company’s guidance included a significant slowdown in fourth quarter estimated revenue growth. More broadly, investors are also concerned about the company facing difficult year-over-year comparisons in 2021. More recently, e-commerce and shipping data points have largely remained strong through the holiday period, which led to a modest recovery in the company’s share price heading into year-end.”
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In Q3 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Stamps.com Inc (NASDAQ:STMP) stock increased by about 3% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers believe in STMP’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Stamps.com Inc (NASDAQ:STMP) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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