Published on 18 Oct 2021 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance

Hedge Funds Are Cashing Out Of Repligen Corporation (RGEN)

Many prominent investors, including Warren Buffett, David Tepper and Stan Druckenmiller, have been cautious regarding the current bull market and missed out as the stock market reached another high in recent weeks. On the other hand, technology hedge funds weren't timid and registered double digit market beating gains. Financials, energy and industrial stocks initially suffered the most but many of these stocks delivered strong returns since November and hedge funds actually increased their positions in these stocks. In this article we will find out how hedge fund sentiment towards Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) changed recently.

Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) was in 35 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of the second quarter of 2021. The all time high for this statistic is 38. RGEN investors should pay attention to a decrease in activity from the world's largest hedge funds of late. There were 38 hedge funds in our database with RGEN positions at the end of the first quarter. Our calculations also showed that RGEN isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q2 rankings).

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