Alger Spectra Fund recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. Class A shares of the Alger Spectra Fund outperformed the Russell 3000 Growth Index during the third quarter of 2020. You should check out Alger Spectra Fund’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of 2021.
In the Q3 2020 Investor Letter, Alger Spectra Fund Fund highlighted a few stocks and BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc (NASDAQ:BMRN) is one of them. BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc (NASDAQ:BMRN) is a biotechnology company. Year-to-date, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc (NASDAQ:BMRN) stock gained 2.9% and on December 30th it had a closing price of $86.96. Here is what Alger Spectra Fund said:
“BioMarin develops and commercializes biotech therapies for people with serious and life-threatening rare diseases and medical conditions. During the quarter, we were optimistic that the company’s hemophilia drug Valrox would eventually be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Furthermore, with the Covid-19 pandemic restricting the development of competing therapies in hemophilia, we felt that Valrox could be entrenched as the standard of care in gene therapy for hemophilia, especially given the demonstrable significant cost saving associated with this long duration therapy. However, the FDA unexpectedly requested two years of data from the ongoing Phase 3 trial for Valrox, which will delay a potential approval of the drug and hurt the performance of BioMarin shares during the third quarter.”
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In Q3 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc (NASDAQ:BMRN) stock decreased by about 2% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t believe in BioMarin’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc (NASDAQ:BMRN) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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