Baron Capital, an investment Management Company, released its fourth quarter 2025 investor letter for its “Baron Opportunity Fund”. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The Fund returned 4.63% (Institutional Shares) in Q4 2025, outperforming the Russell 3000 Growth Index’s (the Benchmark) 1.14% gain and the S&P 500 Index’s 2.66% return. The Fund appreciated 19.73% for the full year, surpassing the benchmark’s 18.15% and the S&P’s 17.88% returns. A turbulent year ended with moderate improvements in the fourth quarter. Moderating tariff impacts, robust corporate earnings, and continued monetary easing supported fourth-quarter gains. The Fund management focuses on prioritizing significant secular growth trends, including AI, space exploration and technology, autonomous transportation, robotics, digital commerce, media, finance, advanced therapeutics, and minimally invasive surgery that disrupt businesses and create long-term profitable growth opportunities. This focus led to the Fund’s outperformance in the year. In addition, please check the Fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2025.
In its fourth-quarter 2025 investor letter, Baron Opportunity Fund highlighted Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) as one of its new adiition to the portfolio. Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) is a public-safety technology company focused on developing connected law enforcement products and services including taser, body camera, drone, and other hardware solutions. On March 17, 2026, Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) stock closed at $506.57 per share. One-month return of Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) was 17.77%, and its shares lost 10.83% over the past 52 weeks. Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) has a market capitalization of $40.73 billion.
Baron Opportunity Fund stated the following regarding Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) in its fourth quarter 2025 investor letter:
“We recently initiated a position in Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON), a leading public-safety technology company providing taser, body camera, drone, and other hardware solutions alongside robust cloud, digital evidence management, real-time operations, and AI-driven software offerings. Founded by current CEO Rick Smith in 1993, Axon started as a taser company and now has a near monopoly on the product across law enforcement officers nationally. Step by step, Rick and the team developed additional solutions and put them all together into different bundles, which through a best-in class sales operation created and driven by President Josh Isner, are now sold across the country and increasingly internationally. Despite scaling to over $2 billion of revenue in 2024, the company is only scratching the surface of its massive addressable market of $159 billion that continues to grow as more products are introduced. Axon competes with companies across specific verticals, but there is no singular competitor who can match the public-safety ecosystem the team has built, which it modeled off Apple’s unrivaled iOS ecosystem. For example, the team unveiled a game-changing AI product called Draft One, a software solution that leverages generative AI to draft high-quality police report narratives in seconds based on auto-transcribed body-worn camera audio. Taking all the data from Axon body cameras, Draft One is uniquely situated to help officers save about 40% of their time. The company is using its position as the dominant provider of law enforcement solutions to use data other players don’t have access to and drastically improve the efficiency of officers. Axon is a special company, led by a visionary founder and a strong management team, that is constantly pushing forward to drive the flywheel faster. We see durable 25%-plus revenue growth for the foreseeable future, with increasing margins as software grows into a larger percentage of the total revenue mix.”
Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) is not on our list of 40 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. According to our database, 68 hedge fund portfolios held Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) at the end of the fourth quarter, up from 61 in the previous quarter. In Q4 2025, Axon Enterprise, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AXON) revenue grew 39% year-over-year to $797 million. While we acknowledge the risk and potential of Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) 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 Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) and that has 10,000% upside potential, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.
In another article, we covered Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) and shared Carillon Eagle Mid Cap Growth Fund’s views on the company. 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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