Baron Discovery Fund recently published its fourth-quarter commentary – a copy of which can be downloaded here. During the fourth quarter of 2020, the Baron Discovery Fund returned 25.54% (institutional shares). This was 4.07% lower than the Russell 2000 Growth Index, the Fund’s primary benchmark index. You should check out Baron Discovery Fund’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of 2021.
In the Q4 2020 Investor Letter, Baron Discovery Fund highlighted a few stocks and Emergent Biosolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) is one of them. Emergent Biosolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) is a multinational specialty biopharmaceutical company. In the last three months, Emergent Biosolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) stock gained 17.9% and on February 2nd it had a closing price of $116.79. Here is what Baron Discovery Fund said:
“Emergent BioSolutions Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that provides vaccines and post-exposure treatments for extreme pathogens, including anthrax and smallpox, and emergency opioid overdose recovery drugs. In the third quarter of 2020, Emergent was awarded numerous contracts from drug companies (Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, Vaxart, and AstraZeneca) and the U.S. Government (BARDA for Operation Warp Speed candidates), to help develop, and then ultimately provide volume production of COVID-19 vaccines. In the fourth quarter two competitive vaccines were approved by the U.S. FDA under emergency use authorizations (“EUA”). We still believe that Emergent’s COVID-19 vaccine partners are on track for EUA approvals in the first half of 2021, and that the company will benefit for years from these and other development programs away from COVID.”
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Baron Discovery Fund has been a long time Emergent Biosolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) bull. In December 2020, we shared Baron Discovery Fund’s bullish EBS’s thesis in this article.
In Q3 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Emergent Biosolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) stock increased by about 5% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers believe in EBS’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Emergent Biosolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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