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The Closing Bell: Tech Stocks Thumb Nose At Trump Trade War: S&P 500 Finishes Up
Tech and bio's would be high cotton for POAGX, but + 3.93% for the day is something I've not seen before for this fund. I suppose it helps that your largest holding was up almost 22% for the day.
As much as you can love a fund company, I just love Primecap.
Another fund that did well today was ARTTX. It did not go up as high as POAGX or OGIYX, but it did go up 1.85%. Not too shabby. As of January 31, 3 of its top 5 holdings are in the defense sector (Harris Corp, Northrop Grumman, and L3 Technologies) and the other 2 are Salesforce and CME Group. Unsure if this accounted for it's good return as according to Morningstar the turnover percent has been 170 %. The manager could have been opportunistic in other areas. I have been impressed with this young fund so far.
Thanks @Chinfist...though a new fund, ARTTX ranks #1 in M* Large Blend category (3month & YTD). I'll keep an eye on this one. At $32 M AUM...it has some room to grow.
POAGX has had to struggle with its largest holding, NKTR, which has tank recently on news of poor drug product test results. Share price of NKTR fell from $90 to $52. POAGX has about a 11% weighting in NKTR.
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As much as you can love a fund company, I just love Primecap.
Also, David featured ARTTX in July 2017 (scroll down a ways to read his article):
https://mutualfundobserver.com/2017/07/launch-alert-artisan-thematic-fund-arttx/
Artisan Thematic Website:
thematic-team/thematic-fund-
Any info on this stock would be appreciated.