POLEN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC
"13F equity value" = market value of this filer's US-listed long equity positions only. It excludes cash, bonds, non-US and short positions, so it understates a fund's true assets under management — often by a lot.
13F holdings are disclosed ~45 days after quarter-end, and they never reveal when within the quarter a fund actually bought. So any 13F-based summary is structurally late and blurred — this applies to every fund, including this one.
We backtested copying it anyway. Buying this fund's new positions the day each filing went public, over 32 quarters, returned +3.1% per quarter — versus +2.7% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 56.2% of quarters (excess t = -0.85, not statistically significant). Its filings tell you what it bought — not what you should buy.
Quarterly compounding, invested quarters only · entry 47 days after quarter-end (when 13F data becomes public)
Top 20 holdings of 221 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSFT | $1.1B | | TRIM |
| GOOG | $845M | | TRIM |
| LLY | $841M | | TRIM |
| AVGO | $835M | | TRIM |
| AMZN | $812M | | TRIM |
| MA | $770M | | TRIM |
| NOW | $760M | | ADD |
| SHOP | $748M | | TRIM |
| V | $739M | | TRIM |
| ORCL | $739M | | TRIM |
| NVDA | $716M | | TRIM |
| CSGP | $507M | | ADD |
| MSCI | $501M | | TRIM |
| ZTS | $499M | | TRIM |
| SBUX | $453M | | TRIM |
| AON | $437M | | TRIM |
| IDXX | $391M | | TRIM |
| ABNB | $287M | | TRIM |
| ISRG | $280M | | TRIM |
| META | $273M | | NEW |
QoQ vs previous quarter's share count · NEW = new position · ADD/TRIM = ±2% shares · HOLD = unchanged.
New positions in 2026 Q1
Method & Limitations
Method: a "new position" = held this quarter, absent last quarter (options excluded; stocks with <50 prior holders excluded to filter spin-off artifacts). Entry 47 days after quarter-end — the first day the public could act on the filing. Benchmark = equal-weighted universe of all 13F-held stocks. Limitations: quarterly snapshots can't see intra-quarter trades; survivorship bias — funds that shut down are absent, which flatters the sample. Statistics, not advice.