Polen Capital, an investment management company, released its fourth quarter investor report “Polen International Growth Strategy”. A copy of the book can be downloaded here. In 2025, foreign equity markets achieved the highest return in more than a decade, while Polan International Growth had the lowest return. This was not caused by fundamental business volatility among its assets, but the market’s preference for cyclically sensitive businesses. The strategy seeks to invest in companies with sustainable competitive strength, high return on investment, and consistent profits. The strategy returned -2.21% (gross) and -2.52% (net) in Q4 compared to a 5.05% return for the MSCI ACWI (ex-USA). Through 2025, the Strategy returned 0.68% (gross) and -0.52% (net) compared to a 32.39% return for the Index. In addition, please check the top five Strategy items to know your best choice in 2025.
In its investor note for the fourth quarter of 2025, Polen International Growth Strategy highlighted stocks such as monday.com Ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY). monday.com ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY) develops software applications and work management tools. On March 17, 2026, monday.com Ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY) stock closed at $75.28 per share. One month returns for monday.com Ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY) was -2.23%, and its shares lost 71.34% in the last 52 weeks. monday.com ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY) has a market capitalization of $3.881 billion.
The Polen International Growth Strategy says the following about monday.com Ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY) in its fourth quarter 2025 investor letter:
“Portfolio’s top relatives and absolute rivals monday.com ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY), MercadoLibre, and SAP. Despite reporting strong results and beating expectations on both the top and bottom lines, Monday.com traded on concerns that 4Q guidance implies a slowdown in near-term growth. In retrospect, we continue to see revenue growth increase by more than 20% as Monday slowly expands the market from SMB to enterprise customers, expands its platform reach, and makes progress on large long-term market opportunities relative to its current size. We believe the platform can continue to scale and reach four times its current revenue level within the next decade.”
monday.com ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY) is not on our list of the 40 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds Entering 2026. According to our database, 51 hedge fund portfolios are held by monday.com Ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY) at the end of the fourth quarter, up from 55 in the previous quarter. While we acknowledge the power of monday.com Ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDY) as an investment, we believe that certain AI stocks offer greater potential and carry less downside risk. If you’re looking for an extremely overlooked AI stock that will benefit greatly from the Trump-era costs and sea trend, check out our free report best short term AI stock.
