Here’s Why ClearBridge Investments Sold Fidelity National (FIS) Shares - InvestingChannel

Here’s Why ClearBridge Investments Sold Fidelity National (FIS) Shares

ClearBridge Investments, an investment management company, released its “ClearBridge Large Cap Growth Strategy” third quarter 2022 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. In the third quarter, the strategy underperformed its benchmark index. The overall stock selection impacted the performance of the strategy in the quarter. The strategy also posted losses in nine sectors among the 11 sectors it invested in. IT and healthcare sectors were the primary detractors of the strategy. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2022.

ClearBridge Investments highlighted stocks like Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) in the Q3 2022 investor letter. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) is a financial technology services provider. On November 4, 2022, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) stock closed at $60.17 per share. One-month return of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) was -20.55% and its shares lost 47.56% of their value over the last 52 weeks. Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) has a market capitalization of $36.582 billion.

ClearBridge Investments made the following comment about Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) in its Q3 2022 investor letter:

“We also sold out of payments and financial software maker Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS), choosing to concentrate our digital payments exposure in PayPal (PYPL), which we believe has a more attractive risk/reward at these levels and more internal levers to generate returns. We bought FIS in 2019 for its mix of offense and defense with banking software and services as a stable business and payments that could keep up with fintech. The shares outperformed the benchmark up to the sale, illustrating the resiliency of the core business; however, FIS has underperformed higher-growth payment names.”

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Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 67 hedge fund portfolios held Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) at the end of the second quarter which was 68 in the previous quarter.

We discussed Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) in another article and shared the best strong buy stocks to invest in. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q3 2022 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.

 

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