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5 Best Fast Growth Stocks to Buy Now

In this article, we will take a look at the 5 best fast growth stocks to buy now. To read our analysis of the recent trends, and market activity, you can go to the 15 Best Fast Growth Stocks to Buy Now.

5. BILL Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BILL)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 54

BILL Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BILL) is a leading provider of cloud-based software that simplifies, digitizes, and automates complex back-office financial operations for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Its platform allows users to manage end-to-end financial workflows and to process payments.

On November 2, BILL Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BILL) released its financial results for Q3 2023. Its revenue increased by 33% y-o-y to $305 million while it generated a net loss of $28 million, compared to a net loss of $82 million.

BILL Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BILL) ranks 5th on our list of 15 best fast growth stocks to buy now. The shares of the company were owned by 54 hedge funds with a total value of $1.4 billion, as of Q3 2023. Stephen Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital was the largest shareholder among hedge funds, with ownership of 2.5 million shares valued at $276 million.

4. PDD Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PDD)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 66

Shanghai, China-based PDD Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PDD) is a multinational commerce group that owns and operates a portfolio of businesses. It has built a network of sourcing, logistics, and fulfillment capabilities, that support its underlying businesses. Its Pinduoduo is a mobile-only marketplace that connects millions of agricultural producers with consumers across China.

Following 94% year-over-year revenue growth in Q3 2023 to generate $9.4 billion in total revenue, Benchmark analyst Fawne Jiang raised the price target for PDD Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PDD) shares to $190 from $140 and maintained a ‘Buy’ rating for its shares.

As of Q3 2023, 66 of the 910 hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey owned shares of PDD Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PDD), valued at $4.3 billion. Lei Zhang’s Hillhouse Capital Management holds the most shares among hedge funds, with ownership of nearly 7.4 million shares valued at $721million.

3. CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 69

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is a global cybersecurity leader with an advanced cloud-native platform for protecting endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data. Its offerings include corporate endpoint security, security and IT operations, managed security services, observability, cloud security, identity protection, threat intelligence, data protection and cybersecurity generative AI.

On December 21, Needham analyst Alex Henderson raised the price target for CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) shares from $250 to $325 and maintained a ‘Buy’ rating for its shares. The target price raise follows a strong quarterly performance which included a 35% y-o-y increase in revenue to reach $786.0 million.

As of Q3 2023, 69 hedge funds owned shares of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD), valued at a whopping $1.3 billion. Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies owns 1.7 million shares of the company, valued at $279 million.

Baron Funds, an investment management company, made the following comments about CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) in its “Baron Technology Fund” Q3 2023 investor letter:

“CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a native-cloud cybersecurity vendor. Shares performed well on results that beat expectations, with annual recurring revenue (ARR), total revenue, and cash flow all coming in ahead of investor estimates. The company also increased its guidance for the year, calling for a strong second half of 2023. CrowdStrike disclosed ARR levels for its top set of new products focused on cloud security, identity protection, and next-generation security information event management. Together these three product areas comprise over $500 million in ARR, with revenue more than doubling year-over-year. We believe CrowdStrike is innovating at a rapid pace and enabling customers to expand and consolidate spending easily from other point-solution providers onto the CrowdStrike platform. In our view, CrowdStrike is on track to becoming one of the preeminent cloud security platforms.”

2. Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 71

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) is a leading cloud platform provider allowing customers to use its Data Cloud platform to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Customers use its platform to execute workloads including applications, collaboration, cybersecurity, data engineering, data lake, data science, data warehousing, and unistore.

On November 29, Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) released its financial results for the quarter ended October 31, 2023. Its revenue went up by 32% year-on-year to $734 million while its net loss went up by 6% year-on-year to $215 million.

Following the earnings release, Stifel analyst Brad Reback raised the price target for Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) shares to $235 from $200 and maintained a ‘Buy’ rating for its shares.

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) has been a consistent component of hedge fund portfolios since its IPO. As of Q3 2023, its shares were held by 71 of the 910 hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey, valued at $10.3 billion. Brad Gerstner’s Altimeter Capital Management was the largest shareholder on record with ownership of 15.4 million shares valued at $2.4 billion.

1. Mercadolibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 76

Founded in 1999, Buenos Aires, Argentina-based Mercadolibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) is Latin America’s leading e-commerce technology company operating through its primary platforms, MercadoLibre.com and MercadoPago.com. It provides solutions to individuals and companies buying, selling, advertising, and paying for goods online.

On November 2, Wedbush analyst Scott Devitt reiterated an ‘Outperform’ rating for Mercadolibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) shares and maintained a price target of $1500.

As of Q3 2023, Mercadolibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) shares were held by 76 prominent hedge funds, valued at nearly $3.4 billion, according to Insider Monkey data on 910 hedge funds. Generation Investment Management was the largest hedge fund shareholder with ownership of 0.5 million shares valued at $609 million.

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Co-Founder and Research Director at Insider Monkey

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