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Is Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) the Best Large-Cap Stock to Buy According to Billionaire Loeb?

We recently published a list of 7 Best Large-Cap Stocks to Buy in 2024 According to Billionaire Dan Loeb. Since GS is part of Loeb’s top large-cap stock picks, the stock deserves a detailed look. But first let’s see the latest performance of the billionaire.

Activist investor and billionaire Dan Loeb made a comeback in the final quarter of 2023 after losing money during most of the year in addition to suffering losses in 2022. Wall Street Journal earlier this year reported that Loeb’s Third Point, which he founded in 1995, gained between 7.8% to 8.6% in the December quarter. Third Point was also down 21% in 2022. Third Point was a star performer in the pandemic year as the fund closed 2020 up 19%, as Loeb foresaw the economy doing much better than many had expected.

Loeb is known for his activist bets in high-profile companies Intel, Disney and Shell. Some of his bets were highly unsuccessful, while others paid off. Latest data shows Loeb is continuing to retain the Q4’2023 momentum into 2024. In his Q1 letter to investors, Loeb revealed that Third Point returned 7.8% in the flagship Offshore Fund.

Loeb said in his Q1 letter that he’s in the “soft landing camp” as he believes we are no longer in an inflationary environment. He’s also highly bullish on AI, saying the technology favors the “incumbents” who are deploying massive cash “war chests” to win the “AI arms race,” a term the billionaire used twice in his letter. Loeb is betting on the whole AI spectrum — semiconductors, data centers, AI software and power.

For this article we scanned Third Point’s Q1 portfolio and picked the fund’s top large-cap stock holdings. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter’s strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 275% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 150 percentage points (see more details here).

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS)

Billionaire Dan Loeb Q1’2024 Stake Value: $104,422,500

Billionaire Dan Loeb had exited his position in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) in early 2017. However, he came back to the stock in the first quarter of this year, buying 250,000 shares of the financial services giant, worth over $104.4 million. Over the past one year Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) shares have jumped about 39%.

Last month, BofA published its updated list of US-1 stocks. These are the Buy-rate stocks which are the top picks of BofA. The firm recommends these stocks for “superior investment performance” over the long term. Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) was part of the list.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) is a strong dividend-paying stock, as the bank has increased its dividend every year since 2010.

Of the 919 hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey, 72 hedge funds reported owning stakes in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS). The biggest stake in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) is owned by Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management which owns a $2.4 billion stake in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS).

Ariel Focus Fund stated the following regarding The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) in its fourth quarter 2023 investor letter:

“Global investment bank, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), also increased in the period on solid earnings results. The top-line came in strong led by elevated financing activity and an improvement in advisory revenues, despite weak transaction volumes within the investment banking segment. Should conditions remain conducive, management remains cautiously optimistic the business will experience continued recovery in both capital markets and strategy activity. Meanwhile, GS continues to successfully execute on its strategic initiatives to improve the overall return of the company. It is right sizing headcount and narrowing its ambitions in consumer strategy through divestitures and an enhanced focus on driving profitability in Platform Solutions by 2025. With potential regulatory capital constraints from B3E, GS noted it will reign in buybacks over the short-term but maintain its dividend. Looking ahead, we continue to view the near and long-term outlook for Goldman as attractive at current levels, given favorable business trends, continued positive momentum on strategic initiatives and active expense/capital management programs.”

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) ranks 6th in Insider Monkey’s list of the 7 Best Large-Cap Stocks to Buy in 2024 According to Billionaire Dan Loeb.

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The $250 Trillion AI Hype is Real. A few years from now, you’ll probably wish you’d bought this stock.

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Dr. Ian Dogan

Co-Founder and Research Director at Insider Monkey

When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard.

Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences.

At the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, Elon Musk predicted that by 2040 there would be at least 10 billion humanoid robots, with each priced between $20,000 and $25,000.

Do the math. According to Musk, this technology could be worth $250 trillion by 2040.

Put another way, that’s roughly equal to:

  • 175 Teslas
  • 107 Amazons
  • 140 Metas
  • 84 Googles
  • 65 Microsofts
  • And 55 Nvidias

And here’s the wild part — this $250 trillion wave isn’t tied to one company, but to an entire ecosystem of AI innovators set to reshape the global economy.

It’s a leap so massive, it could reshape how businesses, governments, and consumers operate worldwide.

Even if that $250 trillion figure sounds ambitious, major firms like PwC and McKinsey still see AI unlocking multi-trillion-dollar potential.

How could anything be worth that much?

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And this breakthrough has already set off a frenzy among hedge funds and Wall Street’s top investors.

What most investors don’t realize is that one under-owned company holds the key to this $250 trillion revolution.

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Before I reveal the details, let’s talk about how some of the richest people on the planet are positioning themselves.

  • Bill Gates sees artificial intelligence as the “biggest technological advance in my lifetime,” more transformative than the internet or personal computer, capable of improving healthcare, education, and addressing climate change.
  • Larry Ellison — through Oracle, is spending billions on Nvidia chips and partnering with Cohere to embed generative AI across Oracle’s cloud and apps.
  • Warren Buffett — not known for tech hype — says this breakthrough could have a ‘hugely beneficial social impact.

When billionaires from Silicon Valley to Wall Street line up behind the same idea — you know it’s worth paying attention to.

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Dr. Ian Dogan

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