Coatue Management’s Latest Moves

Coatue Management is a New York City-based hedge fund that was launched back in 1999 by Philippe Laffont. The fund provides additional office in Menlo Park, California. At the end of 2016, it held around $10.25 billion in assets under management. Coatue Management looks for the stocks to invest in from the technology sector, utilizing long-short investment strategy. Prior to founding Coatue Management, Philippe Laffont honed his investment acumen at Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management. He graduated with MS in Computer Science from MIT in 1989.

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On March 31^st, Coatue Management’s portfolio was valued at $9.03 billion, and it counted 116 holdings. Out of 39 quarterly additions the most valuable ones were Mallinckrodt plc (NYSE:MNK), Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), and Fitbit, Inc. (NYSE:FIT). Whereas the top boosted stakes included ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOW), Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE), and Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA).

During the quarter, the fund lost faith in 33 stocks and sold its entire positions. Among those dumped holdings were Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT), QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), and Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR). Coatue Management also showed a drop in enthusiasm for some of its holdings, trimming its stakes in Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), and Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX).

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