Carillon Tower Advisers, an investment management company, released its “Carillon Eagle Mid Cap Growth Fund” first quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Mid-cap stocks demonstrated strength carried over from the end of last year, delivering robust returns during the first quarter. Among the style indexes, the Russell Midcap® Growth Index outperformed the Russell Midcap® Value Index by a modest margin, with growth up 9.49% and value up 8.23%. All sectors in the Russell Midcap Growth Index delivered positive gains during the quarter. In addition, you can check the top 5 holdings of the fund to know its best picks in 2023.
Carillon Eagle Mid Cap Growth Fund highlighted stocks like Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT), in the first quarter 2024 investor letter. Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) designs, manufactures, and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments. The one-month return of Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) was 11.98%, and its shares gained 432.01% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On May 29, 2024, Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) stock closed at $103.21 per share with a market capitalization of $38.636 billion.
Carillon Eagle Mid Cap Growth Fund stated the following regarding Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) in its first quarter 2024 investor letter:
“Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) is a global leader in the design, manufacturing and servicing of critical infrastructure for data centers and communication networks. The company is well-positioned to benefit from the acceleration in data center spending, which is being driven by the rapid growth in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. This backdrop is resulting in both new and retrofitted data centers that require significantly more power and cooling content. Vertiv has leading positions in data center power and thermal management, as well as key relationships with both the largest semiconductor companies providing the next-generation chip technology and the hyperscaler companies that are at the forefront of deploying artificial intelligence.”
A close-up of a group of technicians working on complex data center systems.
Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) had a strong start in 2024 with an 8% increase in first quarter sales. Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 85 hedge fund portfolios held Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) at the end of the first quarter which was 75 in the previous quarter.
In another article, we discussed Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) and shared the list of unstoppable growth stocks to buy. Baron Small Cap Fund commented about Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) in its first quarter 2024 investor letter. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q1 2024 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
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