If you are looking for the best ideas for your portfolio you may want to consider some of Greenhaven Road Capital‘s top stock picks. Greenhaven Road Capital, an investment management firm, is bullish on Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) stock. In its Q4 2019 investor letter – you can download a copy here – the firm discussed its investment thesis on Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) stock. Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) is a software company. The stock is up 89.1% since the Greenhaven Road Capital’s pitch in February 2020, which suggests that the investment firm was right in its decision. On a year-to-date basis, Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) stock has risen by 80.9%.
On February 15, 2020, Greenhaven Road Capital had released its Q4 2019 Investor Letter. Greenhaven Road Capital said that Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) is poised to grow in 2020. This isn’t the first time Greenhaven Road Capital talked about Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) favorably either. The investment firm has been a long time Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) bull. A year ago we shared Greenhaven Road Capital’s bullish Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) thesis in this article.
Greenhaven Road Capital fund returned approximately 2% net in the fourth quarter and approximately 15.5% for 2019. The investment firm noted that its 2019 returns were below its benchmark the Russell 2000 Index.
Let’s take a look at comments made by Greenhaven Road Capital about Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) in the letter.
“Digital Turbine (APPS) – Digital Turbine serves as a neutral third party that works with wireless carriers to preinstall apps on new cell phones, then sells the slots to app-driven companies like Uber, Amazon, and Netflix. The company saw 30% revenue growth in the core U.S. market where they work with four major carriers including Verizon and AT&T. Their growth is even faster in international markets. This past quarter, APPS announced a Telefonica partnership that will launch in the next six months. Telefonica has more mobile customers than AT&T and Verizon combined. Digital Turbine is also expanding their Samsung agreement, and got almost 20% of their Q3 2019 revenue from new products outside of their core business. Cell phone screen space is incredibly valuable real estate because companies want to put their apps in front of consumers. Digital Turbine brokers this valuable real estate. It would not be surprising to continue to see increasing revenue per device.
One of my largest concerns with the Digital Turbine investment is that large companies will seek to circumvent Digital Turbine and go directly to the carriers. On this past quarter’s conference call, the CEO assuaged some of those fears when he said, “We are proud that Verizon trusts us to manage the distribution and management of their very high-profile applications such as Facebook, Netflix, Apple Music, and now Disney. In addition to Verizon, we are just beginning to work directly with Disney on the distribution of their applications to other partners around the globe.”
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In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) stock increased by about 10% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers seem to agree with Digital Turbine’s upside potential. Our calculations showed that Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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