Artisan Partners, an investment management company, released its “Artisan Global Opportunities Fund” fourth quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. US equities experienced significant gains in Q4, showcasing a strong year. The portfolio showed slight weakness in Q4 but posted a strong absolute return in 2024. In the fourth quarter, the fund’s Investor Class ARTRX returned -1.67%, Advisor Class APDRX posted a return of -1.65% and Institutional Class APHRX returned -1.62%, compared to a -0.99% return for the MSCI All Country World Index. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2024.

In its fourth quarter 2024 investor letter, Artisan Global Opportunities Fund emphasized stocks such as Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL). Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) offers products and services that address enterprise information technology environments. The one-month return of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) was -3.37%, and its shares gained 17.45% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On April 2, 2025, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) stock closed at $145.86 per share with a market capitalization of $409.025 billion.

Artisan Global Opportunities Fund stated the following regarding Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in its Q4 2024 investor letter:

"Notable adds in the quarter included GE Vernova and Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL). We believe Oracle is entering an interesting profit cycle as its faster growing business units become a larger percentage of the revenue mix. Most notably, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has undergone a significant product upgrade cycle that will enable it to be the primary incremental top-line growth driver. The company is winning new accounts due to its attractive pricing, flexibility and expanding geographic availability. Also, within its SaaS segment, we believe the companywill benefit from the secular trend toward cloud computing. Oracle experiences a significant profit boost as it moves its lower margin on-premise database business to the cloud (through any cloud provider), which operates at higher margins. The company recently surprised investors by announcing a 2029 revenue target of $104 billion, which implies an acceleration in annual revenue growth to ~16%fromthecurrent ~9%–10%levels. Shares pulled back in the quarter, and we used it as a buying opportunity."

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Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 105 hedge fund portfolios held Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) at the end of the fourth quarter compared to 91 in the third quarter. While we acknowledge the potential of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is as promising as NVIDIA but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

We covered Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in another article, where we shared the list of best data storage stocks to invest in according to analysts. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q4 2024 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.

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