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, just an inch below both 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 in their Q4 Investor Letter said that Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) was one of the top detractors for the fund during the fourth quarter of 2020. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is a cloud-based human capital management solutions provider company that currently has a $72.9 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, ADP delivered a 4.82% return and settled at $170.56 per share at the closing of February 4th.
Here is what Polen Focus Growth has to say about Automatic Data Processing, Inc. in their investor letter:
“For ADP, we detail our decision to sell our position in the third quarter letter. The very high levels of unemployment in the U.S. and extremely low interest rates have negatively impacted the business in the short term. At the same time, increasing competitive intensity in the human capital management industry is creating headwinds.”
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Last December 2020, we published an article telling that Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) was in 42 hedge fund portfolios. Its all time high statistics is 56. ADP delivered a -5.38% return in the past 12 months.
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