Bonsai Partners recently released its Q4 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The fund posted a return of 247% for the quarter (net of fees), outperforming their benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 18.4% in the same quarter. You should check out Bonsai Partners’ top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of this year.
In the Q4 2020 Investor Letter, Bonsai Partners highlighted a few stocks and Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) is one of them. Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) is a biotechnology company. In the last three months, Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) stock gained 65% and on February 12th it had a closing price of $504.76. Here is what Bonsai Partners said:
“Illumina is the leading provider of genomic sequencing instruments and reagents. Illumina’s shares appreciated 19.7%.
The fourth quarter was pretty quiet for the company. Illumina released third-quarter results that showed good catch-up momentum as laboratories started to reopen. I continue to monitor the position.”
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Bonsai Partners has been a long time Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) bull. In August 2020, we shared Bonsai Partners’s bullish ILMN’s thesis in this article.
In Q2 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) stock increased by about 21% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers believe in Illumina’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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