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 Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK) is one of them. Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK) is a software company. In the last three months, Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK) stock lost 18% and on March 17th it had a closing price of $137.81. Here is what the fund said:
“Splunk, Inc. leverages its scalable data analytics solutions to enable customers to manage operations more efficiently across a broad array of use cases, including IT operations, IT and application monitoring, and cybersecurity. The stock fell after Splunk reported a slowdown in bookings driven by delays in closing its largest pipeline deals. Management withdrew its long-term targets as it evaluates deal activity during the company’s fiscal fourth quarter. We have cautiously maintained conviction – post a series of management calls and interactions, as well as customer and industry-expert channel checks – as we expect Splunk’s differentiated data platform, newer cloud services, and more flexible pricing models to support growth, although we acknowledge it may take longer to achieve in the pandemic-impacted enterprise spending environment.”
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In February, we published an article revealing that Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK) was one of the 15 fastest-growing software companies.
In Q3 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK) stock decreased by about 10% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t believe in Splunk’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK) 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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