Hedge Funds are Selling Microsoft and Buying These 5 Tech Stocks Instead

In this article, we discuss the 5 tech stocks hedge funds are buying instead of Microsoft. If you want to read our detailed analysis of these stocks, go directly to Hedge Funds are Selling Microsoft and Buying These 10 Tech Stocks Instead.

5. Salesforce.com,  Inc. (NYSE:CRM)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 108 

Number of Hedge Fund Holders in Q1: 91

Salesforce.com,  Inc. (NYSE:CRM) is ranked fifth on our list of 10 tech stocks hedge funds are buying instead of Microsoft. The firm develops and markets enterprise cloud computing solutions. It is headquartered in California. 

On September 24, investment advisory RBC Capital maintained an Outperform rating on Salesforce.com,  Inc. (NYSE:CRM) stock and raised the price target to $325 from $310, noting that the firm was a market leader in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market. 

Out of the hedge funds being tracked by Insider Monkey, Washington-based investment firm Fisher Asset Management is a leading shareholder in Salesforce.com,  Inc. (NYSE:CRM)  with 13.4 million shares worth more than $3.2 billion.

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

“We added to our software-as-a-service (SaaS) exposure with the initiation of SaaS leader salesforce.com, which develops software for customer relationship management (we added Workday, which enterprise resource planning applications, last quarter). Saleforce.com is well-positioned in the most attractive end markets in software and will benefit from secular drivers such as remote work and the digital transformation. Salesforce.com is a sustainability leader as well, with a commitment to carbon-neutral cloud, toward which it has set a goal of 100% renewable energy for global operations by fiscal year 2022. The company has a strong focus on equality, in terms of equal rights, pay, education and opportunity. As a data company it has been leading on workforce disclosures and seeks to have 50% of its U.S. workforce made up of underrepresented groups by 2024.”