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Recovery in Bitcoin Price Pushed by MicroStrategy Incorporated (MSTR)
Artisan Partnersan investment management company, has released its Q1 2024 “Artisan Small Cap Fund” investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Equity markets rose in early 2024 in anticipation of the US economy entering a “Goldilocks” scenario – a soft landing combined with falling inflation, potentially leading to an interest rate cut by the Fed. In the first quarter , its investor class fund ARTSX returned 9.43%, the Advisor Class fund APDSX recorded a return of 9.42% and the institutional class fund APHSX returned 9.48%, compared to a return of 7.58% for the Russell 2000 Growth Index. Plus, check out the fund’s top five holdings for your top picks in 2024.
Artisan Small Cap Fund highlighted stocks like MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR), in Q1 2024 investor letter. MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR) provides artificial intelligence-based business analytics software and services. MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR)’s one-month return was 62.93%, and its shares have gained 455.43% of their value over the past 52 weeks. On May 28, 2024, MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR) stock closed at $1,675.35 per share, with a market capitalization of $29.716 billion.
Artisan Small Cap Fund stated the following regarding MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR) in its Q1 2024 investor letter:
“Extremely strong returns from two industry constituents, Super Micro Computer and Embedded MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), contributed 393 basis points (52%) to the index’s return and gave them the highest combined weighting in the index’s history. Regarding MicroStrategy, the company started the year with an index weight of 0.6% and a market cap of $10.6 billion and ended the quarter at 1.9% and $28.7 billion . Our decision to avoid this company comes down to a lack of conviction in the features of their franchise. The action worked this year due to the recovery in the price of bitcoin. Since 2020, MicroStrategy has focused on converting its cash and cash equivalents, as well as issuing debt, to finance the purchase of bitcoin, which now totals approximately $15 billion.”
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MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR), the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin in the world, currently holding 214,400 Bitcoins. At the first room, the company’s Bitcoin holdings increased in value by $5.4 billion as the price rose from $42,500 to $71,000. MicroStrategy’s total revenues were $115.2 million for the quarter, down about 5% year over year.
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MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. According to our database, 22 hedge fund portfolios held MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR) at the end of the first quarter, up from 16 in the previous quarter.
In another article, we discuss MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR) and share the list of unstoppable growth stocks to buy. MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR) was the lead contributor to the Miller Value Income Strategy in first quarter of 2024. ClearBridge Small Cap Growth Strategy also commented on MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR) in its first room 2024 Investor Letter. Also, check out our Hedge Fund Investor Letters Q1 2024 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other prominent investors.
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Disclosure: None. This article was originally published in Inner Monkey.