Here’s Polen Focus Growth Strategy’s Insights on Shopify (SHOP)

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Soumya Eswaran

Wed, April 29, 2026 astatine 7:22 AM CDT 4 min read

Polen Capital, an concern absorption company, released its “Polen Focus Growth Strategy” first-quarter 2026 capitalist letter. A transcript of the missive tin beryllium downloaded here. The archetypal 4th of 2026 was highly volatile for US equities, driven by AI disruption concerns and the US-Israel struggle successful Iran and the Middle East. In this backdrop, the Polen Focus Growth Strategy declined 17.16% successful the quarter, compared to a -9.78% instrumentality for the Russell 1000 Growth and -4.33% instrumentality for the S&P 500. The Strategy focuses connected mission-critical businesses with recurring gross and competitory advantages and capitalizes connected the volatility to summation investments successful bundle and semiconductor companies. The Strategy remains assured successful the semipermanent imaginable of the Portfolio, emphasizing businesses with beardown economical moats, robust equilibrium sheets, and multi-year net growth. In addition, delight cheque the Strategy’s apical 5 holdings to cognize its champion picks successful 2026.

In its first-quarter 2026 capitalist letter, Polen Focus Growth Strategy highlighted stocks similar Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP). Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP) is simply a Canada-based e-commerce exertion institution that provides a cloud-based level for individuals and companies to make and negociate their operations. On April 28, 2026, Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP) closed astatine $122.05 per share. One-month instrumentality of Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP) was 2.98%, and its shares gained 28.47% implicit the past 52 weeks. Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP) has a marketplace capitalization of $158.79 billion.

Polen Focus Growth Strategy stated the pursuing regarding Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP) successful its Q1 2026 capitalist letter:

"As agents request entree to a company’s ngo captious software, the bundle companies whitethorn beryllium capable to monetize agentic users conscionable arsenic they bash quality ones. Companies similar Microsoft, ServiceNow, Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP), Oracle, CoStar and Synopsys each person aggregate moats and, successful each case, we spot generative AI arsenic a tailwind for their businesses, not a headwind. We judge the selloff successful these businesses successful the 4th presented america with charismatic buying opportunities successful galore of the high-quality businesses we own. We besides sold Adobe, Intuit and Paycom to redeploy the superior to our highest condemnation bundle names similar ServiceNow , Shopify and CoStar Group . The antecedently discussed terms dislocations wrong the bundle abstraction person presented opportunities for agelong word diligent investors and we judge it prudent to consolidate immoderate of the portfolio astir businesses wherever we judge the AI disruption concerns are excessive and are improbable to materially impact their moat. ServiceNow, Shopify and CoStar Group are those types of businesses, successful our opinion.

These companies are heavy intertwined into their customers’ workflow (and frankincense hard to replace), process/house important information and connection their ain enhanced AI solutions. In the lawsuit of ServiceNow and Shopify, we judge their respective customers are apt to usage their proprietary AI tools alternatively than effort to re-create their ain oregon outsource to an unproven third-party. Both ServiceNow and Shopify are already increasing rapidly and we judge person wide unfastened maturation imaginable successful tremendous markets and AI should beryllium a tailwind for them. We expect these 3 companies to beryllium among the fastest net growers successful the Portfolio implicit the adjacent 5 years."

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