Mason Hawkins' Strategic Move: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. Takes Center Stage

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Thu, May 15, 2025, 4:09 PM 4 min read

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Mason Hawkins (Trades, Portfolio) precocious submitted the 13F filing for the archetypal 4th of 2025, providing insights into his concern moves during this period. Mason Hawkins (Trades, Portfolio) has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Southeastern Asset Management since 1975, and helium and his partners negociate the Longleaf Partners Funds. Mr. Hawkins attended the University of Florida wherever helium earned a B.A. successful Finance, and the University of Georgia wherever helium earned an M.B.A. successful Finance. Mason Hawkins (Trades, Portfolio) and his partners are worth investors. When evaluating imaginable investments, they look for 3 things, "good business, bully people, and a bully price." Like galore palmy gurus, helium and his partners question to execute superior semipermanent show by acquiring equity securities successful understandable businesses with beardown equilibrium sheets, tally by susceptible management, and trading astatine little than intrinsic value. Typically, they lone put successful companies trading astatine 60% oregon little of intrinsic worth appraised by looking astatine the existent worth of a company's assets and liabilities and besides by looking astatine the contiguous worth of aboriginal currency flows (DCF). They merchantability stocks erstwhile the stocks scope their intrinsic worth. Mason Hawkins (Trades, Portfolio) believes it is important to person a portfolio concentrated successful lone the champion concern ideas, and the steadfast mostly holds less than 25 stocks successful each portfolio.

Mason Hawkins (Trades, Portfolio) added a full of 3 stocks, among them:

• The astir important summation was Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:REGN), with 114,880 shares, accounting for 3.88% of the portfolio and a full worth of $72,860,340 million.

• The 2nd largest summation to the portfolio was Tripadvisor Inc (NASDAQ:TRIP), consisting of 1,728,253 shares, representing astir 1.31% of the portfolio, with a full worth of $24,489,340.

• The 3rd largest summation was Shenandoah Telecommunications Co (NASDAQ:SHEN), with 909,818 shares, accounting for 0.61% of the portfolio and a full worth of $11,436,410.

Mason Hawkins (Trades, Portfolio) besides accrued stakes successful a full of 4 stocks, among them:

• The astir notable summation was CNX Resources Corp (NYSE:CNX), with an further 299,034 shares, bringing the full to 4,786,178 shares. This accommodation represents a important 6.66% summation successful stock count, a 0.5% interaction connected the existent portfolio, with a full worth of $150,668,880.

• The 2nd largest summation was SharkNinja Inc (NYSE:SN), with an further 107,011 shares, bringing the full to 545,403. This accommodation represents a important 24.41% summation successful stock count, with a full worth of $45,492,070.