Baron Funds, an investment management company, released its “Baron Opportunity Fund” third quarter 2023 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. In the third quarter, the fund fell 5.03% (Institutional Shares) underperforming the broader markets, compared to the Russell 3000 Growth Index’s 3.34% decline and the S&P 500 Index’s 3.27% decline. Over the year-to-date period, the Fund has shown a growth of 30.3%, outperforming both the indexes. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2023.
Baron Opportunity Fund highlighted stocks like NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) in the third quarter 2023 investor letter. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) provides computer graphics processors, chipsets, and related multimedia software. On October 27, 2023, NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock closed at $405.00 per share. One-month return of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) was -9.56%, and its shares gained 200.07% of their value over the last 52 weeks. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) has a market capitalization of $1 trillion.
Baron Opportunity Fund made the following comment about NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) in its Q3 2023 investor letter:
“NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is a leading semiconductor company that sells chips and software for accelerated computing and gaming. Shares have nearly tripled year-to-date, as the company continues reporting unprecedented growth because of the acceleration in demand for its data center chips. After reporting revenue of $7 billion in the first quarter and providing guidance of $11 billion for the second quarter, NVIDIA reported second quarter revenue of $13.5 billion and guided for another step up in the third quarter to $16 billion, with its CFO declaring “[d]emand for our Data Center platform for AI is tremendous and broad-based across industries and customers.” We are at the tipping point of a new era of computing with NVIDIA at its epicenter. This is how CEO and founder Jensen Huang put it (during the company’s August 23 earnings call):
“[T]he easiest way to think about the demand is the world is transitioning from general purpose computing to accelerated computing…[W]hat you’re seeing companies do now is recognizing this…tipping point…recognizing the beginning of this transition, and diverting their capital investment to accelerated computing and generative AI…This isn’t a singular application that is driving the demand, but this is a new computing platform…a new computing transitioning that’s happening…A new computing era has begun. The simultaneously going through two platform transitions, accelerated computing and generative AI.””
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NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is in 17th position on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 175 hedge fund portfolios held NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) at the end of second quarter which was 132 in the previous quarter.
We discussed NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) in another article and shared the list of best American stocks to buy heading into 2024. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q3 2023 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
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