Polen Capital Management recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. During the third quarter of 2020, the Polen Global Growth Composite Portfolio returned 9.09% gross of fees, while the MSCI All Country World Index was up 8.14%. You should check out Polen Capital’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of this year.
In the said letter, Polen Capital highlighted a few stocks and Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) is one of them. Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) is a software company. Year-to-date, Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) stock gained 38.1% and on October 21st it had a closing price of $254.01. Here is what Polen Capital said:
“Autodesk had a solid quarter and we believe it remains on a strong trajectory. The company’s shares took a pause this quarter after rising more than 50% since we initially added Autodesk to the Portfolio in March.”
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Last month, we published an article revealing that Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) stock has outperformed the S&P 500 Index in the trailing one year period.
In Q2 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) stock increased by about 3% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers believe in Autodesk’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 185% since the end of 2014 and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 109 percentage points. We know it sounds unbelievable. You have been dismissing our articles about top hedge fund stocks mostly because you were fed biased information by other media outlets about hedge funds’ poor performance. You could have doubled the size of your nest egg by investing in the top hedge fund stocks instead of dumb S&P 500 ETFs. Below you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.
Video: Top 5 Stocks Among Hedge Funds
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