Is Zillow Group (Z) a Smart Long-term Buy?

Baron Partners Fund recently published its third-quarter commentary – a copy of which can be downloaded here. During the third quarter of 2020, the Baron Partners Fund returned 47.15% (institutional shares). In comparison, the benchmark S&P 500 Index was up 8.93%, while the Russell Midcap Growth Index was up 9.37%. You should check out Baron Partners Fund’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of 2021.

In the Q3 2020 Investor Letter, Baron Partners Fund highlighted a few stocks and Zillow Group Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) is one of them. Zillow Group Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) is an online real estate marketplace company. Year-to-date, Zillow Group Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) stock gained 132.9% and on December 4th it had a closing price of $106.97. Here is what Baron Partners Fund said:

“Zillow Group, Inc. operates leading U.S. real estate sites, a mortgage marketplace, and the Zillow Offers home-buying business. Shares were up on strong second quarter results driven by record top-of-funnel metrics and a favorable newly public comp for the Offers business. In our view, Zillow is well positioned to penetrate the large online real estate advertising opportunity with substantial upside from Offers, which could grow the company’s addressable market in both houses to be bought/sold and leads provided to Premier Agents, as well as from Zillow Home Loans.”

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In Q2 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Zillow Group Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) stock increased by about 59% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers believe in Zillow’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Zillow Group Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.

The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 216% since the end of 2014 and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 121 percentage points. We know it sounds unbelievable. You have been dismissing our articles about top hedge fund stocks mostly because you were fed biased information by other media outlets about hedge funds’ poor performance. You could have doubled the size of your nest egg by investing in the top hedge fund stocks instead of dumb S&P 500 ETFs. Below you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.

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