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 PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) is one of them. PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) engages in the development of technology platform for digital payments. Year-to-date, PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) stock gained 88.5% and on October 22nd it had a closing price of $203.93. Here is what Polen Capital said:
“We continue to have high conviction in MasterCard and Visa, which we trimmed last quarter, and chose to rebalance our weights as we added to our position in PayPal. PayPal’s value proposition to merchants and consumers continues to expand in the current environment, and we believe this will have a lasting positive impact on the business. At the end of the quarter, our collective position in Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal was more than 13%, an increase in our aggregate weight from the start of the year.”
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Earlier this week, we published an article revealing that Wedgewood Partners is bullish on PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) stock.
In Q2 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) stock increased by about 22% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers believe in PayPal’s growth potential. Our calculations showed that PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) is ranked #9 among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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