Baron Opportunity Fund recently published its fourth-quarter commentary – a copy of which can be downloaded here. During the fourth quarter of 2020, the Baron Opportunity Fund returned 23.02% (institutional shares). In comparison, the benchmark S&P 500 Index was up 12.15%, while the Russell 3000 Growth Index was up 12.41%. You should check out Baron’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, the fund highlighted a few stocks and Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) is one of them. Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) is a social media company. In the last three months, Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) stock gained 20.4% and on March 16th it had a closing price of $62.23. Here is what the fund said:
“Snap Inc. is the leading social network among teens and young adults in the U.S. Shares of Snap were up this quarter on excellent financial results, including revenue growth that benefited from a recovery in ad spending and evidence of impressive operating leverage. We continue to view Snap favorably as the company sustains its rapid pace of product innovation and expands its ecosystem through premium partnerships and increased developer accessibility, helped by its unique audience reach, powerful video business, improved ad products, and robust augmented and virtual reality technology.”
In February, we published an article revealing that Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) was one of the 15 biggest VC-backed companies in the world.
In Q3 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) stock increased by about 4% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers believe in Snap’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 231.2% between 2015 and 2020, and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 126 percentage points. We know it sounds unbelievable. You have been dismissing our articles about top hedge fund stocks mostly because you were fed biased information by other media outlets about hedge funds’ poor performance. You could have doubled the size of your nest egg by investing in the top hedge fund stocks instead of dumb S&P 500 ETFs. Here you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.
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