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 MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI). MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) is an online commerce platform that operates Mercado Libre Marketplace and Mercado Pago FinTech platforms. The one-month return of MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) was 13.56%, and its shares gained 48.08% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On May 23, 2025, MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) stock closed at $2,507.83 per share with a market capitalization of $127.14 billion.
Loomis Sayles Global Growth Fund stated the following regarding MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) in its Q1 2025 investor letter:
“MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) is the largest online commerce platform in Latin America. The company offers its users an ecosystem of six integrated e-commerce services that include its marketplace, payment and fintech solutions, shipping and logistics, advertising, classified listings, and merchant web services. In its most recent fiscal year, commerce and related services accounted for approximately 59% of net revenue, while payments and fintech solutions accounted for approximately 41%. The company operates in 18 countries representing the vast majority of Latin American GDP, and its 218 million active users, last disclosed in 2023, represented over 45% of the region’s estimated 480 million total internet users. We believe MercadoLibre benefits from strong and sustainable competitive advantages that include its network and ecosystem, brand, and understanding of local markets that collectively contribute to its leadership position in each market it serves. With continued growth in internet access, increasing availability of credit, and the company’s continuing investments to improve the ease and convenience of transacting online, we believe MercadoLibre remains well positioned for sustained growth over the next decade, driven by the secular growth of e-commerce across Latin America.
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