By Summer Zhen
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Concentrated bets on popular Chinese e-commerce giant PDD Holdings may have led to losses in billions of dollars for hedge funds from a crash in its shares following downbeat comments from its executives.
U.S.-listed shares in PDD, the owner of low-priced retailer Temu, plummeted 33% this week, and 30% in the third quarter.
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Global hedge funds held 102.8 million shares of PDD at the end of June, up from 91.7 million shares the previous quarter, according to an estimate by WhaleWisdom, a website that tracks and analyses quarterly U.S. 13F filings.
It is unclear if hedge funds increased or reduced their investments since then, but Reuters’ calculations show the 30% fall in PDD shares between the end of June and Aug. 29 would have wiped out a combined value of roughly $4 billion from those positions.
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