Is Kindred Biosciences Inc (KIN) Going to Burn These Hedge Funds?

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Many investors, including Carl Icahn or Stan Druckenmiller, have been saying for a while now that the current market is overvalued due to a low interest rate environment that leads to companies swapping their equity for debt and focusing mostly on short-term performance such as beating the quarterly earnings estimates. In the third quarter, many investors lost money due to unpredictable events such as the concerns over Valeant’s drug pricing policy that led to an overall drop among pharma stocks. Nevertheless, many of the stocks that tanked in the third quarter still sport strong fundamentals and their decline was more related to the general market sentiment rather than their individual performance and hedge funds kept their bullish stance. In this article we will find out how hedge fund sentiment to Kindred Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:KIN) changed recently.

Is Kindred Biosciences Inc undervalued? Money managers are in a bearish mood. The number of bullish hedge fund positions was trimmed by 2 recently. KIN was in 12 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 14 hedge funds in our database with KIN positions at the end of the previous quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare KIN to other stocks, including Turtle Beach Corp (NASDAQ:HEAR), AxoGen, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXGN), and Intevac, Inc. (NASDAQ:IVAC) to get a better sense of its popularity.

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Keeping this in mind, we’re going to go over the new action surrounding Kindred Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:KIN).

How are hedge funds trading Kindred Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:KIN)?

At the end of the third quarter, a total of 12 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -14% from the second quarter. With hedgies’ capital changing hands, there exists an “upper tier” of key hedge fund managers who were boosting their holdings significantly (or already accumulated large positions).

According to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, Baupost Group, managed by Seth Klarman, holds the number one position in Kindred Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:KIN). Baupost Group has a $15.7 million position in the stock, comprising 0.3% of its 13F portfolio. The second most bullish fund manager is EcoR1 Capital, managed by Oleg Nodelman, which holds a $6.9 million position; 3.1% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Some other members of the smart money with similar optimism include Alex Denner’s Sarissa Capital Management, Howard Guberman’ Gruss Asset Management and Bihua Chen’s Cormorant Asset Management.

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