Quality companies, in our view, are well capitalized, profitable, and generate better-than-average returns on capital. We think owning a Portfolio of such businesses allows us to ride out the occasional storm.
All-season durable growth companies, in our experience, are led by management teams that focus on long-term value creation—they operate with a business owner’s mindset.
We want to own businesses that self-fund and have the flexibility to make thoughtful long-term investments that could make the enterprise stronger.
We focus solely on profitable companies that we believe have durable competitive advantages, self-funding business models, positive cash flow, attractive balance sheets, and favorable liquidity positions.
We prefer to have an allocation to “safety” businesses that we believe will be significantly less impacted during periods of economic stress. These companies often provide ballast during market drawdowns.
Since inception, and for the more than 30 years that we have been executing our investment discipline, we have consistently captured less of the market’s downside during difficult times.
Our active approach to international markets employs Polen Capital’s time-tested guardrails, which steer us clear of investments in highly cyclical corners of the market, like banking and energy.
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