Loomis Sayles, an investment management company, released its “Global Growth Fund” first quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In the first quarter, the fund returned -3.35% compared to -1.32% for the MSCI ACWI Net Index. Stock selection in consumer staples, communication services, and healthcare sectors, and allocations to the information technology and healthcare sectors positively impacted the fund’s relative performance. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2025.
In its first-quarter 2025 investor letter, Loomis Sayles Global Growth Fund highlighted stocks such as Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) provides consumer products, advertising, and subscription services through online and physical stores that operate through North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. The one-month return of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) was 7.08%, and its shares gained 11.20% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On May 23, 2025, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock closed at $200.99 per share with a market capitalization of $2.134 trillion.
Loomis Sayles Global Growth Fund stated the following regarding Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) in its Q1 2025 investor letter:
“Online retailer Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) offers millions of products – sold by Amazon or by third parties – with the value proposition to consumers of selection, price, and convenience. Amazon’s enterprise IT business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a suite of secure, on-demand, cloud-computing services, with a value proposition to clients of speed, agility, and savings. In both of its core markets, Amazon possesses strong and sustainable competitive advantages that would be difficult for competitors to replicate. In e-commerce, these include its brand, scale, technology platform, network advantage, and logistics and distribution systems. AWS benefits from its brand, technology platform, and massive scale, which allows it to pass along cost savings while continuing to innovate. Growing well in excess of their underlying markets, both of Amazon’s businesses are gaining market share. Led by visionary founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos, Amazon invests aggressively to expand and leverage its customer base, brand, and infrastructure, targeting businesses with strong financial returns that are anticipated to offer large and enduring growth opportunities.
