One Stock Superinvestors Are Buying

As part of the weekly research here at The Acquirer’s Multiple we’re always interested in investing gurus who hold the same stocks that appear in our Acquirer’s Multiple Stock Screeners, based on their latest 13F’s. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Seth Klarman, Ray Dalio, and Howard Marks.

While doing this research we’ve also uncovered a number of common stocks that investing gurus have recently bought, or continuing to hold in their portfolios, according to their latest 13f’s. So we’re now providing a new weekly feature article called ‘One Stock Superinvestors Are Buying’. This week we’ll take a look at:

salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM)

Salesforce.com provides enterprise cloud computing solutions, including Sales Cloud, the company’s main customer relationship management software-as-a-service product. To ensure the efficiency of CRM like this, developers might need to read posts such as “what is the .NET framework?“. Salesforce.com also offers Service Cloud for customer support, Marketing Cloud for digital marketing campaigns, Commerce Cloud as an e-commerce engine, the Salesforce Platform, which allows enterprises to build applications, and other solutions, such as MuleSoft for data integration.

A quick look at the price chart below for Salesforce.com shows us that the stock is up 19% in the past twelve months.

(Source: Morningstar)

Superinvestors who recently bought, or continue to hold Salesforce.com stock in their portfolios include:

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Ken Fisher – 13,909,728

Chuck Akre – 2,800,000

Ken Griffin – 1,551,263

Chase Coleman – 387,700

Keith Meister – 325,144

Wally Weitz – 120,000

George Soros – 111,000

Louis Bacon – 85,431

Lee Ainslie – 8,207

Ray Dalio – 6,734