ClearBridge Investments, an investment management company, released its “ClearBridge Value Strategy” first quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In the first quarter, the strategy underperformed its Russell 1000 Value benchmark, driven by detractors in the energy and financials, overcame contributions from overweight to energy and underweight to IT. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2025.

In its first quarter 2025 investor letter, ClearBridge Value Strategy 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 -17.49%, and its shares gained 2.26% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On April 8, 2025, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) stock closed at $124.50 per share with a market capitalization of $349.127 billion.

ClearBridge Value Strategy stated the following regarding Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in its Q1 2025 investor letter:

"We also exited enterprise software and cloud services company Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) as its strong performance in 2024 had rerated its stock higher and narrowed the gap between our assessment of share price and intrinsic business value. This, combined with the company’s relatively high correlation to other AI holdings that we have high conviction in led us to seize the opportunity to capture gains in the stock reinvest in other areas we feel have superior risk/return profiles."

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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 innovative stocks to buy according to analysts. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q1 2025 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.

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