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Hedge Funds are Buying These Stocks for the Rest of 2021
10. Five9, Inc. (NASDAQ:FIVN)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders in Q3: 76
Number of Hedge Fund Holders in Q2: 45
Five9, Inc. (NASDAQ:FIVN) provides cloud software for contact centers. The company recently beat market estimates on earnings per share and revenue for the third quarter by $0.05 and $7 million respectively. The shares surged 14% after the earnings report was released.
On November 9, investment advisory UBS upgraded Five9, Inc. (NASDAQ:FIVN) stock to Buy from Neutral and raised the price target to $195 from $175, noting the revenue growth of the company against peers.
At the end of the third quarter of 2021, 76 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $3.5 billion in Five9, Inc. (NASDAQ:FIVN), up from 45 in the preceding quarter worth $2.1 billion.
Among the hedge funds being tracked by Insider Monkey, New York-based investment firm
Alkeon Capital Management is a leading shareholder in Five9, Inc. (NASDAQ:FIVN) with 3 million shares worth more than $480 million.
Alongside Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), Five9, Inc. (NASDAQ:FIVN) is one of the stocks that hedge funds are buying.
In its Q1 2021 investor letter,
ClearBridge Investments, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Five9, Inc. (NASDAQ:
FIVN) was one of them.
Here is what the fund said:
“Five9 is a cloud-based contact center as a service software provider that is replacing aging on-premise legacy solutions that dominate the installed base. Companies are being forced to modernize and cloud penetration is still low; Five9 is positioned to benefit and should see further growth driven by its cross-selling add-on modules and an AI product that generates high revenue.”