Baron Health Care Fund recently published its fourth-quarter commentary – a copy of which can be downloaded here. During the fourth quarter of 2020, the Baron Health Care Fund returned 17.1% (institutional shares). In comparison, the benchmark S&P 500 Index was up 12.15%, while the Russell 3000 Health Care Index was up 10.08%. You should check out Baron’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 Health Care Fund highlighted a few stocks and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX) is one of them. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX) is a biopharmaceutical company. In the last three months, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX) stock gained 0.5% and on February 17th it had a closing price of $214.85. Here is what Baron Health Care Fund said:
“Vertex Pharmaceutical Incorporated is a pharmaceutical company best known for its commercial products targeting cystic fibrosis. Share weakness in the quarter was due to the negative initial readout of a pipeline asset targeting alpha one antitrypsin disease, an inherited disorder that increases the chance of lung and liver disease. Given Vertex’s best-in-class growth profile and cash flow and upcoming catalyst flow, we retain long-term conviction in the name.”
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Earlier this month, we published an article revealing that Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX) was one of the top 10 large-cap healthcare stocks to buy now.
In Q3 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX) stock increased by about 2% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers believe in Vertex’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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