Should You Buy Beigene Ltd (ADR) (BGNE)?

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Beigene Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ:BGNE) investors should pay attention to an increase in activity from the world’s largest hedge funds lately. BGNE was in 15 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2016. There were 14 hedge funds in our database with BGNE positions at the end of the previous quarter. The level and the change in hedge fund popularity aren’t the only variables you need to analyze to decipher hedge funds’ perspectives. A stock may witness a boost in popularity but it may still be less popular than similarly priced stocks. That’s why at the end of this article we will examine companies such as Chimerix Inc (NASDAQ:CMRX), Capitol Acquisition Corp III (NASDAQ:CLACU), and B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) to gather more data points.

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Hedge fund activity in Beigene Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ:BGNE)

At Q3’s end, a total of 15 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a 7% rise from one quarter earlier. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in BGNE over the last 5 quarters (the company went public in early-2016). With hedgies’ capital changing hands, there exists an “upper tier” of noteworthy hedge fund managers who were upping their holdings considerably (or already accumulated large positions).

Of the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, Julian Baker and Felix Baker’s Baker Bros. Advisors has the largest position in Beigene Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ:BGNE), worth close to $58.9 million. Coming in second is Hillhouse Capital Management, led by Lei Zhang, which holds a $21.6 million position. Some other hedge funds and institutional investors that hold long positions consist of Kris Jenner, Gordon Bussard, and Graham McPhail’s Rock Springs Capital Management, Daniel Gold’s QVT Financial, and Peter Kolchinsky’s RA Capital Management. We should note that none of these hedge funds are among our list of the 100 best performing hedge funds which is based on the performance of their 13F long positions in non-microcap stocks.