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Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund

Symbol BFTIXCUSIP: 068278878
Symbol BFTIXCUSIP: 068278878
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$51.61

Daily Change -$0.36 (-0.69%)
As of 06/28/2024

Net Assets

$612.20 M

As of 03/31/2024

Morningstar Medalist Rating™

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BRONZE

Inception date

05/29/2009

Prices & Performance

PricesAs of 06/28/2024

NAVDaily Change ($)Daily Change (%)MTDQTDYTD
$51.61-$0.36-0.69%9.55%5.71%19.05%
NAV$51.61
Daily Change ($)-$0.36
Daily Change (%)-0.69%
MTD9.55%
QTD5.71%
YTD19.05%

PerformanceAs of 03/31/2024

YTD11 Year3 Years5 Years10 yearsSince Inception
05/29/2009
BFTIX - Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund - I12.62%48.30%-0.24%10.76%12.32%9.72%
Russell 1000 Growth Index11.41%39.00%12.50%18.52%15.98%11.97%
S&P 500 Index10.56%29.88%11.49%15.05%12.96%10.29%

Performance InformationAs of 03/31/2024

3 Years5 Years10 Years
Standard Deviation (%)29.1425.9521.14
Sharpe Ratio-0.100.330.52
Alpha (%)-13.26-8.07-4.65
Beta1.291.141.14
R-Squared (%)87.1083.0383.80
Tracking Error (%)12.1311.108.84
Information Ratio-1.05-0.70-0.41
Upside Capture (%)101.9496.01101.06
Downside Capture (%)148.20123.21121.20
Except for Standard Deviation and Sharpe Ratio, the performance based-characteristics above were calculated relative to the Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund's(BFTIX) benchmark (Russell 1000 Growth Index). Performance statistics for additional periods will be provided on request. Source FactSet: SPAR.

Portfolio Holdings & Characteristics

HoldingsAs of 05/31/2024

HoldingSector% of Net Assets
NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) sells semiconductors, systems, and software for accelerated computing, gaming, and artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI).
Demand for computer power has doubled every one to two years, driven by recent developments in GenAI, yet supply growth has decelerated dramatically due to the slowdown in Moore's law. NVIDIA’s accelerated architecture enables continued growth in processing power through parallelization. We are at the tipping point of a new era in computing with NVIDIA at its epicenter as GenAI adoption grows. Given its leading market share in gaming, data centers, and autonomous machines, we believe NVIDIA can grow rapidly for years to come.
Information Technology15.5%
Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) is an e-commerce pioneer, innovator, and market share leader with a relentless focus on providing value and convenience to its customers. Amazon also operates the industry-leading cloud infrastructure business Amazon Web Services.
Amazon's market share of U.S. online retail sales is around 40%, while its share of global online retail sales is less than 5%. Amazon has many avenues for new revenue growth opportunities, including consumer staples, apparel, international expansion, digital media offerings, private label, pharmacy services, advertising, and providing a better shopping experience powered by generative AI. With Amazon Web Services as an increasingly important part of the business, we also believe Amazon represents a unique opportunity to invest in the secular growth of cloud computing. 
Consumer Discretionary8.8%
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) owns Facebook, the world's largest social network, with over 3.0 billion monthly and over 2.1 billion daily active users. Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Oculus are also part of the Meta Platforms network, with over 3.9 billion total monthly unique users across Meta products.
Meta owns unique social platforms with users that continue to demonstrate stickiness and high engagement. Advertisers want to be where users are, and Meta's ability to analyze, target, and show clear, demonstrable, and rising returns on investment makes the platform particularly attractive to them. We believe the company is still in the middle innings of monetizing its vast customer base, especially internationally. In addition, we see significant positive optionality from monetization opportunities in short-form video, WhatsApp, and generative AI features.
Communication Services7.3%
ServiceNow, Inc.
ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW) provides cloud-based solutions for workflow management. Its core products support IT Service Management and IT Operations Management. It is expanding its reach to include business management, performance analytics, customer service management, and security.
ServiceNow's unified flexible platform enables customers to integrate and digitize workflows from different sources, improving the user experience, collaboration, and operational efficiencies. The growing operational complexity driven by digital transformation should allow ServiceNow to benefit from its large customer base. Management is balancing growth and margin expansion successfully, which can support acquisitions and shareholder-friendly activities. Its Pro, Pro Plus, AI, and generative AI product lines should offer significant deal expansion opportunities over time. 
Information Technology6.2%
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG) manufactures and markets the da Vinci Surgical System, a robotic surgical system used for minimally invasive surgical procedures.
We believe a large number of medical procedures that are currently performed using open surgery will eventually be performed using Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci System. Robotic surgery is less invasive than open surgery, and patients experience less blood loss, less nerve damage, reduced pain, and faster recovery. Intuitive generates a large and expanding portion of its revenue from recurring procedures. We expect revenue and earnings to grow at attractive rates as procedure volumes increase.
Health Care5.2%
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD) is a cloud-architected SaaS cybersecurity vendor offering endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services.
We like CrowdStrike for its impressive technological differentiation, high growth, and strong management team. The company’s moat derives from a lightweight software agent and a cloud-based threat graph database that allow it to access, sort, and protect customer data it can then use to launch new products and improve and automate its services. CrowdStrike is disrupting the end point protection market and extending its reach into cloud workloads. We believe the company can grow rapidly given its visionary management team and large total addressable market.
Information Technology4.8%
Shopify Inc.
Shopify Inc. (SHOP) is a cloud-based software provider offering an operating system for multi-channel commerce. The company serves over two million merchants that processed $235 billion of gross merchandise volume in 2023, making Shopify the second largest e-commerce player in the U.S.
Shopify has developed a scalable platform that offers an end-to-end commerce solution to merchants of all sizes, including merchants that sell offline, international merchants, and B2B merchants. Shopify’s aggregate scale, innovation, and ecosystem of partners enable merchants to take payments, receive loans, and easily sell internationally. With less than 2% share of $20 trillion in global commerce, it has a long runway for growth.
Information Technology4.2%
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is a software company traditionally known for its Windows and Office products. Over the last five years, it has built a $120 billion-plus annual cloud business, including Office 365, CRM product Dynamics 365, and infrastructure-as-a-service product Azure.
Microsoft is led by Satya Nadella, who has refocused the company on cloud computing and AI. He has been quite successful thus far, with Microsoft's commercial cloud business now representing over 56% of revenue and growing around 25% year-on-year. Microsoft's moat is based on the wide reach of its sales channel, its diverse platform of software offerings, hybrid cloud capabilities, and the high costs of switching away from its solutions, which tend to be critical for its customers. We believe Microsoft will benefit from the growing adoption of cloud for years to come.
Information Technology4.1%
MercadoLibre, Inc.
MercadoLibre, Inc. (MELI) is the largest e-commerce company in Latin America. The company operates the MercadoLibre e-commerce marketplace, the Mercado Pago fintech platform, and the Mercado Envios suite of shipping solutions for sellers on its platform.
MercadoLibre benefits from the emergence of two secular trends: e-commerce and digital payments. The company has a significant first-mover advantage and is investing aggressively in logistics to widen its competitive moat. Latin America is a predominantly cash-based economy with e-commerce penetration under 20%, and MercadoLibre has an attractive, asset-light marketplace business model. We believe its logistics network will become a key competitive advantage at scale, and we see a significant opportunity in Mercado Pago off-platform.
Consumer Discretionary4.1%
The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk (TTD) is a software company that enables advertising agencies to purchase advertising more efficiently and effectively. It provides the leading self-serve, demand-side platform to enable data-driven digital advertising.
The Trade Desk benefits from a visionary founder and CEO, Jeff Green, who has built a unique culture of excellence and customer focus, in our view. As advertising becomes increasingly more digital and automated, we expect The Trade Desk to remain the key vendor to ad agencies engaged in such efforts, notably in the rapidly growing Connected TV segment. We remain positive on The Trade Desk given its technology, scale, and estimated 10% share in the $100 billion programmatic advertising market, a small and growing subset of the $700 billion global advertising market.
Communication Services4.0%
Total
Total
64.2%
Top Ten Fund Holdings based on net assets. Portfolio holdings may change over time.
Portfolio holdings are subject to change. Current and future portfolio holdings are subject to risk.

Contributors / DetractorsQuarterly as of 03/31/2024

Top ContributorsAverage WeightContribution
NVIDIA Corporation13.02%8.15%
Meta Platforms, Inc.6.93%2.29%
Amazon.com, Inc.8.24%1.48%
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.4.60%1.14%
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.4.85%0.91%
Source: FactSet PA.

GICS Sector BreakdownAs of 05/31/2024

Portfolio Characteristics

Information Technology

49.5%

Consumer Discretionary

20.4%

Communication Services

13.8%

Health Care

9.3%

Financials

5.5%

Industrials

1.0%

Cash & Cash Equivalents

0.5%

Sub-Industry
05/31/2024
Systems Software17.60%
Broadline Retail 15.50%
Semiconductors15.50%
Interactive Media & Services9.80%
Application Software8.00%
Transaction & Payment Processing Services 5.50%
Health Care Equipment5.20%
Internet Services & Infrastructure4.20%
Advertising4.00%
Automobile Manufacturers3.80%
Semiconductor Materials & Equipment 3.20%
Biotechnology2.10%
Health Care Technology1.20%
Automotive Parts & Equipment 1.10%
Aerospace & Defense0.90%
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Systems Software17.60%
Broadline Retail 15.50%
Semiconductors15.50%
Interactive Media & Services9.80%
Application Software8.00%
Transaction & Payment Processing Services 5.50%
Health Care Equipment5.20%
Internet Services & Infrastructure4.20%
Advertising4.00%
Automobile Manufacturers3.80%
Semiconductor Materials & Equipment 3.20%
Biotechnology2.10%
Health Care Technology1.20%
Automotive Parts & Equipment 1.10%
Aerospace & Defense0.90%
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Portfolio CharacteristicsAs of 03/31/2024

Baron Fifth Avenue Growth FundRussell 1000 Growth Index
Inception DateApril 30, 2004
Net Assets$612.20 million
# of Issuers / % of Net Assets30 / 99.7%
Turnover (3 Year Average)21.46%
Active Share70.7%
Median Market Cap$53.24 billion$19.22 billion
Weighted Average Market Cap$804.20 billion$1.22 trillion
Gross Expense Ratio0.78%
Net Expense Ratio0.76%
EPS Growth (3-5 year forecast)24.9%17.2%
Price/Earnings Ratio (trailing 12-month)63.834.8
Price/Book Ratio8.710.1
Price/Sales Ratio7.44.4
The Net Assets include all share classes combined.
Price/Book Ratio and Price/Sales Ratio are calculated using the Weighted Harmonic Average. Source: FactSet PA. Internal valuation metrics may differ.

Distributions

Record DateEx DatePayable DateIncomeReturn of CapitalShort-Term Capital GainLong-Term Capital GainTotalRe-Invest NAVCalendar-Year Return
11/22/202111/23/202111/24/2021$0.0000$0.0000$0.0000$1.7220$1.7220$57.8411.22%
11/23/202011/24/202011/25/2020$0.0000$0.0000$0.0000$0.1804$0.1804$48.5750.81%
07/29/202007/30/202007/31/2020$0.0363$0.0000$0.0000$0.0000$0.0363$45.8750.81%
11/25/201911/26/201911/27/2019$0.0000$0.0000$0.0000$0.9879$0.9879$33.96
12/01/201412/02/201412/03/2014$0.0231$0.0000$0.0000$0.0000$0.0231$17.718.34%
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