ClearBridge Investments, an investment management company, released its “ClearBridge Large Cap Value Strategy” first quarter 2023 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. The strategy underperformed its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value Index, in the first quarter. On an absolute basis, the strategy gained from 5 of the 11 sectors in which it was invested for the quarter. The information technology (IT) and communication services sectors were the leading contributors while health care and financials sectors detracted. Overall stock selection detracted from the performance on a relative basis while sector allocation was positive. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2023.
ClearBridge Large Cap Value Strategy highlighted stocks like Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) in the first quarter 2023 investor letter. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is a multinational technology company. On July 3, 2023, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) stock closed at $120.56 per share. One-month return of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) was -4.79%, and its shares gained 10.52% of their value over the last 52 weeks. Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has a market capitalization of $1.526 trillion.
ClearBridge Large Cap Value Strategy made the following comment about Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) in its first quarter 2023 investor letter:
“While Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) was another positive contributor in the quarter, we trimmed the position given the launch of Microsoft’s new generative AI product (“Bing AI”) which is targeted directly at Alphabet’s core search business. While we believe Alphabet’s business model is likely to remain resilient given the breadth of its user data as well as its internal innovations around AI, we continue to monitor the area closely given the rapid adoption of ChatGPT and other generative AI products.”
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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is in 6th position on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 155 hedge fund portfolios held Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) at the end of first quarter 2023 which was 152 in the previous quarter.
We discussed Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) in another article and shared the list of stocks jumping on the generative AI wagon. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q1 2023 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
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