Is it a Good Time to Sell Your Netflix (NFLX) Shares?

Harding Loevner, an investment management firm, published its “Global Equity Fund” first-quarter 2022 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. The Global Equity Composite fell 12.4% gross of fees, well beyond the 5.3% decline of the MSCI All Country World Index. The portfolio’s concentration in expensive stocks, a hazard of its commitment to investing in the stocks of high-quality rapidly growing businesses, hurt relative performance in a quarter during which investors fled from richly priced companies. Try to spend some time taking a look at the fund’s top 5 holdings to be informed about their best picks for 2022.

In its Q1 2022 investor letter, Harding Loevner Global Equity Fund mentioned  Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) and explained its insights for the company. Founded in 1997, Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is a Los Gatos, California-based subscription streaming service and production company with a $75.9 billion market capitalization. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) delivered a -71.63% return since the beginning of the year, while its 12-month returns are down by -65.61%. The stock closed at $170.91 per share on June 21, 2022.

Here is what Harding Loevner Global Equity Fund has to say about Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) in its Q1 2022 investor letter:

“Other detractors within Communication Services included Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), which is finding it hard to sustain the extremely rapid growth they enjoyed over the past two years of pandemic lockdown and social distancing.”

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Our calculations show that Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) ranks 13th on our list of the 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) was in 109 hedge fund portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2022, compared to 113 funds in the previous quarter. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) delivered a -54.37% return in the past 3 months.

In June 2022, we also shared another hedge fund’s views on Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) in another article. You can find other investor letters from hedge funds and prominent investors on our hedge fund investor letters 2022 Q1 page.

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