Baron Discovery Fund recently published its fourth-quarter commentary – a copy of which can be downloaded here. During the fourth quarter of 2020, the Baron Discovery Fund returned 25.54% (institutional shares). This was 4.07% lower than the Russell 2000 Growth Index, the Fund’s primary benchmark index. You should check out Baron Discovery Fund’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of 2021.
In the Q4 2020 Investor Letter, Baron Discovery Fund highlighted a few stocks and Silk Road Medical Inc (NASDAQ:SILK) is one of them. Silk Road Medical Inc (NASDAQ:SILK) produces and distributes surgical equipment. In the last three months, Silk Road Medical Inc (NASDAQ:SILK) stock lost 18% and on February 2nd it had a closing price of $56.27. Here is what Baron Discovery Fund said:
“Silk Road Medical, Inc. designs and manufactures medical devices used to clear plaque from the carotid arteries of patients at high risk of stroke. The device is minimally invasive, and we believe that over 80% of the current procedure market, which is about $1 billion ($650 million in currently approved applications), could shift to Silk Road’s device over the next few years. This has been the pattern when other forms of minimally invasive arterial surgery have entered the market. Shares performed well in the third quarter as surgical procedures have started to return to more normalized volumes following the virtual shutdown of elective procedures during the depth of the COVID-19 pandemic in the second quarter. However, shares dropped in the fourth quarter with the re-acceleration of COVID cases in the winter. We continue to believe in our strategy of investing in medical technology companies that were hurt during the pandemic, with the expectation that the environment will ultimately turn around for the better.”
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Baron Discovery Fund has been a long time Silk Road Medical Inc (NASDAQ:SILK) bull. In December 2020, we shared Baron Discovery Fund’s bullish SILK’s thesis in this article.
In Q3 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Silk Road Medical Inc (NASDAQ:SILK) stock remained unchanged from the previous quarter (see the chart here). Our calculations showed that Silk Road Medical Inc (NASDAQ:SILK) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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