Hedge Funds Are Getting Bullish On 10x Genomics, Inc. (TXG)

The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. We at Insider Monkey have plowed through 821 13F filings that hedge funds and well-known value investors are required to file by the SEC. The 13F filings show the funds’ and investors’ portfolio positions as of March 31st, a week after the market trough. In this article we look at what those investors think of 10x Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXG).

Is 10x Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXG) a cheap investment now? The best stock pickers are taking an optimistic view. The number of bullish hedge fund positions moved up by 8 lately. Our calculations also showed that TXG isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings and see the video for a quick look at the top 5 stocks). TXG was in 20 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of March. There were 12 hedge funds in our database with TXG positions at the end of the previous quarter.

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Steven Cohen of Point72 Asset Management

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What have hedge funds been doing with 10x Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXG)?

At Q1’s end, a total of 20 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 67% from the fourth quarter of 2019. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards TXG over the last 18 quarters. With hedge funds’ capital changing hands, there exists a select group of key hedge fund managers who were increasing their holdings substantially (or already accumulated large positions).

The largest stake in 10x Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXG) was held by JS Capital, which reported holding $88.1 million worth of stock at the end of September. It was followed by Point72 Asset Management with a $15.9 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Perceptive Advisors, Alyeska Investment Group, and OrbiMed Advisors. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position JS Capital allocated the biggest weight to 10x Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXG), around 11.08% of its 13F portfolio. Logos Capital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, designating 1.73 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to TXG.

As one would reasonably expect, specific money managers were leading the bulls’ herd. Point72 Asset Management, managed by Steve Cohen, created the largest position in 10x Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXG). Point72 Asset Management had $15.9 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Anand Parekh’s Alyeska Investment Group also made a $6.7 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new TXG investors: Samuel Isaly’s OrbiMed Advisors, Arsani William’s Logos Capital, and Paul Marshall and Ian Wace’s Marshall Wace LLP.

Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as 10x Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXG) but similarly valued. We will take a look at PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM), GCI Liberty, Inc. (NASDAQ:GLIBA), BanColombia S.A. (NYSE:CIB), and Formula One Group (NASDAQ:FWONA). This group of stocks’ market values are similar to TXG’s market value.

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 28.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $661 million. That figure was $167 million in TXG’s case. GCI Liberty, Inc. (NASDAQ:GLIBA) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand BanColombia S.A. (NYSE:CIB) is the least popular one with only 11 bullish hedge fund positions. 10x Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXG) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. Our calculations showed that top 10 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 41.4% in 2019 and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 10.1 percentage points. These stocks gained 12.2% in 2020 through June 17th and still beat the market by 14.8 percentage points. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on TXG as the stock returned 41.7% during the second quarter and outperformed the market by an even larger margin.

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