Sands Capital Management, LLC‘s Technology Innovators Fund released its Q4 2025 investor letter for “Technology Innovators Fund”. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The Fund delivered mixed performance during the fourth quarter of 2025, as market returns were increasingly driven by a narrow group of large-cap growth stocks, with the portfolio’s top ten holdings accounting for roughly 59% of assets, while several high-valuation innovation names faced pressure from slowing momentum and investor risk aversion. The fund’s results reflected stock-specific challenges rather than broad macroeconomic shocks, with weaker performance in certain emerging technology holdings offset by strength in select platform and infrastructure businesses. During the quarter, the portfolio declined 6.3% on a quarter-to-date basis, and the fund generated a 14.7% return over the one year, reflecting stock-specific challenges rather than broad macroeconomic shocks, with weaker performance in certain emerging technology holdings offset by strength in select platform and infrastructure businesses. Management emphasized its long-term investment horizon, noting an average annual portfolio turnover of 21%, and stated that many portfolio companies continued to generate solid full-year earnings growth in 2025, supported by durable revenue models tied to artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and digital transformation, even as enthusiasm for speculative growth faded late in the quarter. In addition, please check the Fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2025.
In its fourth-quarter 2025 investor letter, Sands Capital Technology Innovators Fund highlighted stocks like Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO). Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) is a semiconductor and infrastructure software company supplying critical chips and enterprise solutions used in data centers and networking. The one-month return of Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) was -5.84% while its shares traded between $138.10 and $414.61 over the last 52 weeks. On February 13, 2026, Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) stock closed at approximately $331.17 per share, with a market capitalization of about $1.57 trillion.
Sands Capital Technology Innovators Fund stated the following regarding Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) in its Q4 2025 investor letter:
“Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) is a key enabler of systems scalability and compute growth through ethernet networking and custom accelerators. We believe Broadcom will benefit from advancements in AI models in conjunction with increases in computing power, also known as scaling laws. Broadcom supports advances in computing power by providing high bandwidth, low-latency networking solutions. Its solutions help relieve bottlenecks in scaling computing power as an increasing number of semiconductor chips work in parallel for AI training and inference. We expect Broadcom’s ethernet switches used for networking to be the primary driver of incremental growth as it benefits from both share increases and demand for larger server clusters that will require better networking solutions. Complementing its networking business, Broadcom is the largest provider of custom chip design services by revenue. These services enable businesses to take greater control of their technology stack, reduce reliance on third-party suppliers, and optimize costs and energy efficiency.”
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Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) is in 12th position on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 183 hedge fund portfolios held Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) at the end of the third quarter, which was 156 in the previous quarter. While we acknowledge the risk and potential of Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) and that has 10,000% upside potential, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.
In another article, we covered Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) and shared the list of trending AI stocks according to analysts. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q4 2025 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
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