Roubaix Capital LLC, an investment management firm, published its ‘Roubaix Fund Composite’ fourth-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A net return of 26.63% was recorded by the fund for the Q4 of 2020, outperforming its HFRI Equity Hedge benchmark that delivered a 14.50% return but below its Russell 2000 index that had a 31.37% return. You can view the fund’s top 5 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Roubaix Capital, in their Q4 2020 Investor Letter, said that Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) was the top contributor for their portfolio in the fourth quarter of 2020. Codexis, Inc. is a premier protein engineering company that currently has a $1.6 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, CDXS delivered a decent 68.44% return and settled at $26.31 per share at the closing of February 12th.
Here is what Roubaix Capital has to say about Codexis, Inc. in their Q4 2020 investor letter:
“The largest contributor to fourth quarter long performance was Codexis (CDXS), a truly unique investment story. The company engineers enzymes that enhance productivity of the manufacturing processes of major industries including pharmaceutical, food and other companies. The high-performance enzymes identified by Codexis enable higher levels of production, which in turn drives profits for customers. The story does not stop here. Codexis’ proprietary platform, Code Evolver, has also demonstrated early success in identifying proteins to develop novel protein and gene therapies. This adds another layer of upside optionality to the company and has validation from partnerships with Nestle and Takeda. In these instances, the company earns milestone driven incentives and royalty payments. We see Codexis’ API business generating increasing scale at the same time the pipeline around licenses and royalties has never been larger, and as a result we maintain our position.”
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Last December, we published an article telling that hedge fund interest in Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) shares was flat at the end of last quarter. CDXS delivered an impressive 87.53% return in the past 12 months.
Our calculations show that Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) does not belong in our list of the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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