Polen Capital Management, a value-driven, concentrated, long-term investment management firm, published its ‘Polen Focus Growth’ fourth-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of 10.15% was recorded by the fund for the Q4 of 2020, below its S&P 500 benchmark that delivered a 12.15% return, and Russell 1000 index that returned 11.39%. You can view the fund’s top 5 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Polen Focus Growth said in their Q4 2020 Investor Letter said that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) was one of the top contributors for the fund during the fourth quarter of 2020. Microsoft Corporation is a company that develops, manufactures, and sells computer software and related services. It has a $1.8 trillion market cap. For the past 3 months, MSFT delivered an 8.18% return and settled at $242.01 per share at the closing of February 4th.
Here is what Polen Focus Growth has to say about Microsoft Corporation in their investor letter:
“For the full year 2020, one of the top performers was Microsoft, which we have owned for many years, continues to benefit from being the gold standards of software in its respective areas, and the current environment has only served to accelerate customer demand and need for their products and services.”
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Last November 2020, we published an article telling that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) was in 234 hedge fund portfolios. Its all time high statistics is 235. MSFT delivered a 31.61% return in the past 12 months.
Our calculations show that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) ranks top 2 in our list of the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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