Miller Value Partners recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Opportunity Equity Fund posted a return of 13.01% for the quarter (net of fees), outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 8.93% in the same quarter. You should check out Miller Value Partners’ top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of this year.
In the said letter, Miller Value Partners highlighted a few stocks and Flexion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:FLXN) is one of them. Flexion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:FLXN) is a biopharmaceutical company. Year-to-date, Flexion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:FLXN) stock lost 42.1% and on October 30th it had a closing price of $11.99. Here is what Miller Value Partners said:
“Flexion Therapeutics (FLXN) saw a 20.8% decline during the period. The company announced 2Q results that were in-line with their preannounced numbers. 2Q20 net sales of $15.4M was above consensus of $10M. The company plans to recommence manufacturing of Zilretta in 4Q20. The company now expects total operating expenses for 2020 will be between $172-182M up slightly from $167-177M. The company announced the dosing of its first patient in a second dose cohort of a Phase I trial for FX201, their proprietary anti-IL_1Ra-based gene therapy candidate for the treatment of osteoarthritis.”
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In June, we published an article revealing Miller Value Partners bullish investment thesis on Flexion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:FLXN) stock in its Q1 2020 investor letter. This suggests that the investment firm has been bullish for a long time on Flexion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:FLXN).
In Q1 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Flexion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:FLXN) stock decreased by about 7% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers don’t believe in Flexion Therapeutics’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Flexion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:FLXN) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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