Brown Advisory recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Large-Cap Sustainable Growth Fund posted a return of 29.62% for the quarter, outperforming its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Growth Index which returned 27.84% in the same quarter. You should check out Brown Advisory’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash.
In the said letter, Brown Advisory highlighted a few stocks and West Pharmaceutical Services Inc (NYSE:WST) is one of them. West Pharmaceutical Services Inc (NYSE:WST) is a pharmaceutical company. Year-to-date, West Pharmaceutical Services Inc (NYSE:WST) stock gained 81.0% and on July 22nd it had a closing price of $255.37. Here is what Brown Advisory said:
“West Pharmaceuticals reported a strong first quarter and raised guidance. As a leader in drug containment, we believe its growth and margin improvement story is firmly intact and expect more information throughout the remainder of the year on projects the company is involved in related to COVID-19 treatments or vaccines.”
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Earlier this month, we published an article revealing that Baron Asset Fund is bullish on West Pharmaceutical Services Inc (NYSE:WST) stock. The investment firm believes that the stock has massive upside potential.
In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on West Pharmaceutical Services Inc (NYSE:WST) stock decreased by about 7% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t seem to agree with West Pharmaceutical Services growth potential. Our calculations showed that West Pharmaceutical Services Inc (NYSE:WST) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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