Baron Funds, an investment management company, released its “Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund” fourth quarter 2022 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. In the fourth quarter, the fund declined 7.1% (Institutional Shares) compared to a 2.2% gain for the Russell 1000 Growth Index and a 7.6% gain for the S&P 500 Index. For the year 2022, the fund declined 50.5% compared to 29.1% and 18.1% respectively for the benchmarks. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2022.
Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund highlighted stocks like Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) in the Q4 2022 investor letter. Headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel, Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) develops and deploys advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving technologies and solutions. On March 3, 2023, Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) stock closed at $41.78 per share. One-month return of Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) was 0.77%, and year-to-date its shares gained 19.17% of their value. Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) has a market capitalization of $33.504 billion.
Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund made the following comment about Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) in its Q4 2022 investor letter:
“During the fourth quarter, we participated in Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY)’s IPO. Mobileye is a leading ADAS and autonomous driving technologies and solutions provider with over 125 million vehicles across 800 models that have incorporated its products to date across 50-plus vehicle manufacturers (OEMs) including 13 of the top 15 global OEMs. The company was founded in 1999 and effectively pioneered the ADAS market introducing its first EyeQ system-on-chip (SoC) in 2007, enabling the vehicle to gain ADAS capabilities (such as real-time detection of vehicles, pedestrians, and lane markings) for a price of around $50. While the company remains a leader in ADAS today (with an approximate 70% market share), we believe the bigger opportunity is in leading the autonomous driving revolution. This would, in our view, significantly improve safety; meaningfully increase the vehicle utilization rate, which today is only around 4%; and dramatically grow the company’s content per vehicle. Mobileye’s SuperVision, a fully operational point-to-point assisted driving navigation solution, is the next step in the company’s progress towards autonomous driving, and it has a price tag of over 20 times that of its basic ADAS SoC. At the last Consumer Electronics Conference, the company announced a $3.5 billion backlog for its SuperVision solution across six OEMs and nine vehicle models. In addition, the company announced a $1.5 billion design win for its consumer AV program and a $3.5 billion backlog for its Mobility-as-a-Service or robotaxi solution. CEO and Founder, Amnon Shashua discussed his long-term vision in the company’s shareholder letter:
“More than two decades ago, I founded Mobileye on the belief that computer vision technology could help prevent automobile crashes and save lives. From that simple idea, a global industry was born… By 2030, we expect Mobileye driver-assistance systems to be deployed in another 270 million vehicles globally… We believe that we will be positioned to deliver an autonomous driving solution that can enable the mass adoption of AVs [Autonomous Vehicles] including both Mobileye-powered robotaxis and consumer-owned autonomous driving vehicles. And Mobileye will be well on the way to delivering the future I first envisioned more than two decades ago.””
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Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 29 hedge fund portfolios held Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) at the end of the fourth quarter which was 0 in the previous quarter.
We discussed Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) in another article and shared JPMorgan’s top performing stock picks for 2023. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q4 2022 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
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