4 Stocks Better than Apple According to Hedge Funds

2. Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) 

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 266   

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is ranked second on our list of 9 stocks better than Apple according to hedge funds. The company is headquartered in California and operates as a technology company that owns and manages social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. 

On September 22, investment advisory BMO Capital maintained an Outperform rating on Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) stock with a price target of $425. Daniel Salmon, an analyst at the advisory, issued the ratings update.

At the end of the second quarter of 2021, 266 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $42 billion in Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), up from 257 in the preceding quarter worth $40 billion. 

In its Q1 2021 investor letter, ClearBridge Investments, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“We continued to keep our learnings from 2020 in mind during the quarter as we sought to increase the up capture of the portfolio. We also made adjustments to the portfolio’s top 10 holdings to increase the participation of select stocks, including Facebook, while trimming our weighting to stable names, which now represent 47% of the portfolio. Our repositioning has been encouraging so far with the portfolio performing better on up days in the market while maintaining good down capture during more turbulent sessions.”