The Jensen Quality Growth Investment Team Sells Position in Amphenol (APH)
October 2025
Company Overview
Amphenol is a producer of electronic and fiber optic connectors, cables, and interconnect systems. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut. With 125,000 employees worldwide, Amphenol is a technology leader serving a broad range of industries, including aerospace, industrial, automotive, technology hardware, and mobile device markets.
Investment Thesis and What Led Us to Sell
Our thesis for Amphenol was based on their business fundamentals’ alignment with the key tenets of the Jensen Quality Growth Strategy’s investment selection process:
- Competitive Advantages: Across all its businesses, Amphenol is an industry leader and benefits from scale advantages relative to all but a handful of competitors.
- Earnings Stability: The company maintains a strong balance sheet and continued dividend distribution to shareholders.
- Valuation: We began reducing the Strategy’s stake in Amphenol shares in mid-2025 when the stock price became elevated relative to multiple valuation metrics. Due to the elevated valuation, we believe there is limited near-term upside potential.
Outlook
Although we believe Amphenol is a quality business and possesses many competitive advantages, our near-term outlook is constrained due to their elevated share price. Longer term, we intend to closely monitor Amphenol and may consider re-adding it to the Strategy should we see improvement in the combination of business fundamentals and stock price valuation.
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