Sculptor Capital’s Top 5 Stock Picks

1. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)

Sculptor Capital’s Stake Value: $461,988,000

Percentage of Sculptor Capital’s 13F Portfolio: 3.81%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 242

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) posted its Q3 results on October 28, with EPS for the quarter being $6.12, missing estimates by -$2.78. The $110.81 billion revenue also failed to meet analysts’ estimates by -$784.89 million. 

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is the largest holding in Sculptor Capital’s portfolio as of the third quarter, with the fund owning 140,634 Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares worth $461.98 million, representing 3.81% of his Q3 investments. 

JPMorgan analyst Doug Anmuth kept an Overweight rating on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) on November 24 with a $4,350 price target. He stated that U.S. online holiday sales will likely grow 14.5% year-over-year and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) should surpass Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT) as the largest U.S. retailer in 2022.

As of Q3 2021, 242 hedge funds in the database of 867 elite funds monitored by Insider Monkey were bullish on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), down from 271 in the preceding quarter. One of the leading Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) stakeholders is Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management, with a $6.3 billion position in the company. 

Here is what Polen Capital has to say about Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) in its Q3 2021 investor letter:

“Amazon has also lagged as its revenue growth is slowing on the very difficult comparisons from last year when this behemoth was growing revenue by over 40%. We still expect exceptional long-term growth and significant margin expansion as the fastest growing (and now large) segments of Amazon are also generating the highest margins.”

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