Madison Funds, an independent employee-owned investment firm, published its third-quarter Madison Small Cap Fund – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A positive return of 6.97% was recorded by the fund for the 3rd Quarter of 2020, ahead with its Russell 2000 benchmark that returned 4.93%. You can view the fund’s top 10 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Madison Investments in their Q3 2020 Investor Letter said that they grasped the value of Magnite Inc. (NASDAQ: MGNI) and was able to stocked shares of the company. Magnite Inc. is an advertising technology platform that currently has a $3.07 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, Magnite delivered a massive 217.38% return and settled at $27.80 per share at the closing of January 14th.
Here is what they have to say about Magnite Inc. in their Investor Letter:
“Although finding new ideas in technology was difficult given the high valuations we’ve already discussed, we initiated on a new investment position in advertising technology platform Magnite (MGNI). Magnite’s stock price had declined from a pre-pandemic high of around $13 in February, down to a low of $4 in March. Unlike ETSY, MGNI’s business is not simple. Their core offering is a platform for independent digital ad publishers. Independents are separate from Facebook or Google, which are walled gardens. They use Magnite to offer their inventory in a programmatic (meaning non-manual) fashion to digital advertisers. Magnite is therefore a supply side platform (SSP). Although MGNI is now the largest SSP, the space is highly fragmented. In addition, MGNI has the lowest cost, highest scale platform, with a strong, cash rich balance sheet. Advertisers want to work with a fewer number of SSP’s and the smaller scale SSPs do not have the scale nor the financial might to compete especially during this unusually difficult economic time for advertisers. This puts MGNI in the ideal position to consolidate the industry. Through our conversations with management and industry participants, we believe MGNI can at least double its size over time as it executes on this consolidation strategy.”
Last December 2020, we published an article telling that Magnite Inc (NASDAQ: MGNI) was in 24 hedge funds’ portfolios, almost making it to its all time high statistics of 25. Magnite proved its worth by delivering a 188.94% return for the past 12 months.
As of September 2020, the hedge fund Nine Ten Partners had a 4.9 million share position in MGNI that amounted to $34 million. This made Nine Ten Partners as the top hedge fund that holds most of Magnite’s stake, followed by Royce & Associates with $20.4 million worth of Magnite shares, and HMI Capital with $18.5 million. However, our calculations showed that Magnite Inc. (NASDAQ: MGNI) does not belong to the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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