Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited
Fairfax Financial is a global property and casualty insurance and investment holding company run by Prem Watsa. The company's book value per share increased during the first half…
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Fairfax Financial is a global property and casualty insurance and investment holding company run by Prem Watsa. The company's book value per share increased during the first half…
Knight Therapeutics is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, licensing and distributing drugs across Canada and Latin America. Its portfolio focuses on areas…
Maxim Power is an independent power producer whose primary asset is a 300 MW combined-cycle natural gas plant in Alberta. The company is also developing the permitted 400 MW…
Fairfax India is an Indian investment holding company controlled by Fairfax Financial, with its dominant asset being a 74% interest in Bangalore International Airport held partly…
Canfor is one of the world's largest lumber producers, with operations across British Columbia, Alberta, the US South and Sweden as well as a pulp business. The company is…
Aimia is an owner-managed holding company controlled by Rhys Summerton that owns Cortland, a producer of high-performance synthetic ropes, and a minority interest in Chinese…
PrairieSky owns fee-simple mineral rights across a large portion of Western Canada and receives royalties when third parties develop resources on its land. The model requires no…
Hayden believes MercadoLibre's heavy investment in faster shipping and free delivery on low-ticket products is creating attractive long-term economics despite depressing…
Hayden believes Shopee's current reinvestment program is generating increasingly attractive returns and strengthening the business rather than merely defending it against…
Voss believes De'Longhi is being valued like a conventional European appliance manufacturer despite transforming into a higher-quality coffee-equipment company. Coffee now…
Rackspace is a highly leveraged turnaround where a roughly $900 million equity value sits on top of a much larger enterprise value, creating substantial equity upside if…
Versigent was discarded following its spin-off from Aptiv despite being an entrenched global oligopolist in complex automotive wiring harnesses, and Voss believes its roughly…
Voss views Hill & Smith as a predominantly American infrastructure compounder that is mispriced because it remains listed in the UK, with approximately 84% of first-half…
The operational thesis improved materially in 1H26 as Ensham recovered from its prior geological problems, South African production remained resilient and Transnet rail…
GreenWood's Swatch thesis combines improving watch-industry fundamentals with the potential for significant governance reform. Bearer shareholders gave GreenWood approximately…
GreenWood believes CTT's low-cost and ultra-dense mail network has been successfully developed into an e-commerce flywheel that has rebuilt earnings beyond historical highs. The…
GreenWood identifies Rentokil's US customer-service overhaul as a key transformation within the portfolio. The fund believes the market is under-weighting both the timing and…
GreenWood views NexGen Energy's uranium mine as an industry-changing project and highlights that it is now federally approved and under construction. The position forms part of a…
GreenWood identifies Genus's PRP gene-edit program as a potentially game-changing catalyst for the company. The fund believes the market is under-weighting the timing and…
GreenWood materially increased its Jack in the Box position during first-half weakness and sees an operational turnaround replacing more than a decade of financial engineering as…
Shift4 is a vertically integrated payments business with powerful positions across restaurants, hospitality, stadiums, entertainment venues and luxury retail. Emeth believes…
Micron is Ashva Capital's largest position because the fund believes the economics of the historically cyclical memory industry may be becoming structurally more attractive. AI…
Hinde Group materially increased its Amazon position after shares sold off on concerns about the scale and prospective returns of Amazon's AI infrastructure investments. The fund…
The Lululemon thesis was based on a high-quality business trading below what its historical fundamentals appeared to justify, including a debt-free balance sheet, strong gross…
Flowers Foods was purchased as a conservative and defensive business trading at a distressed valuation. Bread is viewed as a resilient, non-discretionary consumer category, while…
The original PayPal thesis was that the market was pricing a durable and highly cash-generative payments franchise as though it faced permanent structural decline. The manager…
Alibaba is redirecting substantial capital toward AI infrastructure, which is depressing near-term free cash flow and profitability but is beginning to produce measurable growth…
SaltLight recently invested in Constellation Software because it views the company as a portfolio of roughly one thousand specialized vertical-software businesses rather than a…
Bilbel still considers CareCloud undervalued, although it sold most of the position because it found even more undervalued opportunities elsewhere. The core TEBS business showed…
Water Oasis is one of Hong Kong's leading beauty-services groups and has compounded services profit at roughly 14.9% annually since 2002. Its brand reduces customers' perceived…
Shopify's operating momentum remained strong, with revenue up 34%, GMV up 35%, B2B revenue up 80% and Shop Pay revenue up 59% in the reported quarter. Rowan Street believes AI…
Topicus combines steady organic growth with a capital-allocation model focused on acquiring vertical-market software businesses. The fund highlights the roughly 25% stake in…
Rowan Street's Tesla thesis is centered on the integrated system the company is building rather than on any single product. Record Q2 deliveries, a large order backlog…
Meta continues to grow at an exceptional rate despite its enormous scale, with trailing twelve-month revenue above $228 billion and growth near 30%. Rowan Street sees measurable…
Rowan Street initiated Constellation Software in the first quarter of 2026 after years of experience owning Topicus. The fund is attracted to a record of approximately 28% annual…
Third Point believes Block is shifting from a user-acquisition story to a deeper monetization and earnings-compounding story. Nationwide approval for Cash App Borrow allows Block…
Third Point established a new position in Flex after the company announced plans to separate its Cloud & Power Infrastructure business into an independent public company. The…
Third Point views CRH as having transformed from a cyclical European cement producer into a leading North American infrastructure and construction-materials platform. Its local…
NMB Bank represented about 6.6% of the portfolio and is one of the fund's first-tier African holdings. The bank announced a 10-for-1 stock split intended to improve affordability…
NovaGold is presented as one of the clearer value opportunities in the portfolio. The manager estimates that the company trades at only about 3% of the appraised value of its…
The fund views SpaceX as one of the closest examples of enduring monopolistic positioning in the modern market. At month-end, the shares traded at 23.1x consensus 2028 earnings…
EchoStar provides the fund with additional indirect exposure to SpaceX. After a 25% decline during the year, the manager's sum-of-the-parts work indicated that EchoStar's market…
ImmunityBio's valuation is being assessed against the commercial capacity of its Anktiva franchise. The manager highlights manufacturing facilities capable of producing one…
Filtronic is viewed as a monopolistic supplier to SpaceX whose shares had fallen roughly 50% from their May high. Its new factory is designed to support more than £200 million of…
FPA bought GE HealthCare during the quarter as part of a broader shift toward reasonably valued businesses outside the most crowded AI infrastructure trades. The fund…
FPA bought Danaher during the quarter as part of its effort to deploy capital into businesses that are less dependent on the most crowded AI themes. The manager describes its…
Nintendo remained a long position despite detracting from portfolio performance during the period. The fund points to the successful launch and adoption of the Nintendo Switch 2…
FPA bought SAP during the quarter as part of a portfolio increasingly built around companies that can generate attractive absolute returns without depending on extreme…
FPA bought Intuit during the quarter while seeking opportunities in businesses with more supportable long-term valuation math than the most expensive market leaders. The fund…
Minotaur believes the memory cycle is being structurally extended by AI demand that is outrunning available supply, with meaningful new capacity unlikely before 2027. Customer…
Minotaur began buying Nvidia again in the second half of July as part of its re-entry into AI infrastructure after the June de-concentration. The fund argues that the sharp July…
Minotaur sees Micron as a beneficiary of the same AI-driven memory shortage that supports its broader memory thesis. A key difference from prior cycles is the contractual…
Sandhill initiated Badger Meter after tracking the company for years and waiting for fundamentals and valuation to align. The company is a pure-play water technology provider…
Sandhill initiated Forgent Power Solutions after its public listing, viewing it as a less widely followed company with strong long-term growth prospects. Forgent manufactures…
FPA bought Intuit during the quarter while seeking opportunities in businesses with more supportable long-term valuation math than the most expensive market leaders. The fund…
FPA bought SAP during the quarter as part of a portfolio increasingly built around companies that can generate attractive absolute returns without depending on extreme…
FPA bought Danaher during the quarter as part of its effort to deploy capital into businesses that are less dependent on the most crowded AI themes. The manager describes its…
Nintendo remained a long position despite detracting from portfolio performance during the period. The fund points to the successful launch and adoption of the Nintendo Switch 2…
FPA bought GE HealthCare during the quarter as part of a broader shift toward reasonably valued businesses outside the most crowded AI infrastructure trades. The fund…
Prosus owns a portfolio of global technology and e-commerce businesses and remains one of Tencent's largest shareholders. The company reported accelerating profitability across…
Analog Devices is a leading analog and mixed-signal semiconductor supplier that benefited from strong demand across AI infrastructure, industrial automation and communications…
Nintendo remained a holding despite modestly detracting from performance during the period. Operationally, the company benefited from the successful launch and adoption of the…
Samsung C&T gives the fund exposure to the broader Samsung ecosystem at a time when demand for AI-related semiconductors and memory products is surging. Investors increasingly…
Sandhill initiated Forgent Power Solutions after its public listing while the company remained relatively underfollowed. Forgent manufactures electrical distribution equipment…
Sandhill initiated Badger Meter after a sharp pullback caused by project timing rather than a deterioration in long-term demand. The company is a pure-play water-technology…
Minotaur believes the July selloff in SK hynix represents a repricing of memory stocks rather than a breakdown in the AI demand thesis. The fund argues that AI memory demand is…
Minotaur believes Micron benefits from the same structural memory shortage underpinning its broader thesis: AI demand is rising faster than supply and new capacity is constrained…
Minotaur began buying Nvidia again in the second half of July after having reduced the broader AI-infrastructure cluster in June for concentration reasons. The fund argues that…
Sandhill initiated a position in newly public Forgent Power Solutions, a manufacturer of electrical distribution equipment including transformers, switchgear, and prefabricated…
Sandhill initiated a position in Badger Meter after following the company on its watchlist for years. Badger is a pure-play water-technology company with a leading position in…
Minotaur's memory thesis is that AI systems require rapidly growing amounts of memory while demand is outrunning available supply. Meaningful new industry capacity is not…
Micron is part of Minotaur's core memory thesis that AI demand is outrunning supply and that the cycle should persist longer than the market expects. The fund highlights roughly…
Minotaur began adding Nvidia in the second half of July after having reduced the broader AI-infrastructure cluster in June for concentration reasons. The fund interpreted the…
Bretton believes fears that AI will broadly displace enterprise software have created an attractive entry point in SAP. SAP's software is deeply embedded in complex…
Constellation Software acquires small vertical-market software businesses at low prices and uses their cash flows to fund additional acquisitions. Bretton believes these niche…
UnitedHealth suffered a severe drawdown after unexpectedly high healthcare usage and a push into unprofitable business damaged results. Management has responded by raising rates…
Aegis bought Harley-Davidson at multi-year low levels well below book value. The fund views the century-old brand as a turnaround rather than a growth-at-any-price story. New…
Aegis continued to build its position in RLJ Lodging Trust as part of a broader hotel-REIT value thesis. The fund believes hotel REITs were trading at steep discounts to…
Aegis views Cenovus as a high-quality Canadian oil-sands producer with long reserve life, low decline rates and integrated refining assets. The Middle East disruption improved…
Aegis initiated Park Hotels & Resorts as part of its hotel-REIT value basket. The fund believes the shares were trading at a steep discount to replacement cost while the 2026…
Chatham Lodging Trust is part of the hotel-REIT exposure Aegis built around discounted real estate values and favorable lodging fundamentals. The position had been established…
Aegis bought Jet2 because it sees a strong operating business trading at a modest valuation. Jet2 is the U.K.'s largest package holiday operator, has a loyal customer base and…
Aegis continues to hold Equinox Gold despite a sharp pullback in precious metals and concerns around its all-stock merger with Orla Mining. The combined company would create a…
Radian was Aegis's largest purchase in the first half of 2026. The fund bought the shares at roughly book value and about 7-8 times earnings despite a record mortgage-insurance…
Gator believes the market still values Navient as a runoff portfolio of legacy student loans even though the company is becoming a growth lender again. The end of the federal…
Radian was Aegis's largest purchase in the first half, acquired at roughly book value and about 7-8 times earnings. The fund sees that valuation as unusually low given Radian's…
Cenovus benefited from stronger oil prices, higher refinery crack margins and the successful integration of MEG Energy. The acquisition added the neighboring Christina Lake…
Equinox shares weakened as gold corrected and investors reacted negatively to the all-stock merger with Orla Mining. Aegis believes the combination has strategic merit by adding…
Aegis continued building its RLJ Lodging Trust position during the first half. The hotel REITs in the portfolio were trading at steep discounts to replacement cost while the fund…
Aegis initiated Park Hotels & Resorts as part of a broader hotel REIT opportunity. The fund believes hotel REITs were trading at steep discounts to replacement cost ahead of a…
Aegis purchased Harley-Davidson at multi-year lows and at a price well below book value. The fund believes the company has a valuable century-old American brand but needs…
Chatham Lodging Trust complements Aegis's other hotel REIT holdings and was established late in the prior year. Aegis views hotel REITs as discounted relative to replacement cost…
Aegis bought Jet2 at a modest valuation relative to tangible book value and earnings. The company is the UK's largest package-holiday operator, has a loyal customer base and was…
Navient trades at roughly 40% of tangible book value because investors continue to view it as a runoff portfolio of legacy student loans, while Gator believes the company is…
WestEnd views WaterBridge's produced-water infrastructure network in the Delaware Basin as a difficult-to-replicate competitive asset that provides essential services to energy…
WestEnd believes RH's distinctive luxury-home brand and relatively affluent customer base provide a durable competitive position. Elevated mortgage rates and historically low…
WestEnd views Target's national store base, brand, loyal customers and integration of stores with digital and same-day fulfillment as important competitive advantages. The…
WestEnd sees Janus Living as a direct way to participate in attractive long-term senior-housing fundamentals. Because the company generates operating income directly from…
WestEnd believes Robinhood is evolving from an online brokerage into a broader financial-services ecosystem spanning retirement, cash management, securities lending, advisory…
LVS bought Vistance Networks after a 2025 asset sale to Amphenol created a path to eliminate debt, pay a $10 per share special dividend, and leave behind operating businesses…
LVS bought Vistance Networks after a 2025 asset sale to Amphenol created a path to eliminate debt, pay a $10 per share special dividend, and leave behind operating businesses…
Alpine increased Microsoft to an overweight position following weakness in the hyperscaler group. The manager believes a distinct application layer is likely to develop between…
Alpine initiated Oracle positions in certain portfolios during Q2 after the stock's pullback. The manager acknowledges that the market is discounting negative free cash flow and…
Gallagher increased his investment in Remitly as its cross-border remittance volumes continued to grow above 30% while operating leverage became increasingly visible. Incremental…
Pagaya became the portfolio's largest position after Gallagher redeployed much of the proceeds from trimming Planet Labs. He views Pagaya as a data network positioned to benefit…
Planet Labs remains a meaningful portfolio position, but Gallagher materially reduced the stake after it had been the portfolio's largest holding for much of the prior four…
Gallagher initiated a position in MNTN after the recently listed shares fell almost 70% from their IPO level despite continued improvement in the underlying business. MNTN brings…
Cardinal Infrastructure delivered strong first-quarter results, including 64% organic growth, and announced its first data-center win. The company also completed a well-priced…
FirstService experienced a difficult second quarter because its roofing and residential closet businesses remained soft. The fund expects organic growth to improve during the…
Semtech provides high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors whose connectivity products are becoming increasingly important in AI data centers. The company is seeing…
SiTime is the leading pure-play precision-timing semiconductor company. Adoption is increasing in AI data centers as well as applications such as Apple's iPhone, while its most…
Life Time operates high-end health clubs and has consistently beaten and raised estimates during the fund's roughly year-and-a-half ownership period. The fund believed a…
Hinge Health provides virtual physical therapy and produced exceptional recent financial results. Second-quarter billings increased 52% year over year due to both new members and…
Butterfield owns attractive deposit and wealth-management franchises in the Caribbean financial centers of Bermuda and Cayman. The bank generates a strong return on equity while…
Unitil is a diversified regulated utility serving Maine, New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. The fund considers these attractive regulatory jurisdictions and believes…
UGI combines a regulated gas utility in Pennsylvania and West Virginia with pipelines and propane-distribution operations in the U.S. and Europe. Problems at AmeriGas previously…
Sprouts has strong operating margins, attractive returns on capital and favorable economics on newly opened stores. The fund trimmed aggressively when the valuation became…
RLI is a specialty property-and-casualty insurer with a highly selective underwriting culture and exposure to numerous niche insurance markets. Its incentive structure and…
Vontier was a new Q2 purchase and manufactures tanks, pumps and payment systems used primarily by gas stations and convenience stores. Since its 2021 separation from Fortive, the…
Fabrinet is a leading contract manufacturer of complex optical-networking equipment and modules and dominates a specialized manufacturing niche. High-bandwidth products are…
Arrow is the world's largest semiconductor distributor and benefits from scale, broad product availability and relatively stable competitive dynamics. Its products are…
Littelfuse manufactures niche electrical components including fuses, sensors, passive components and semiconductors across a broad collection of end markets. The business…
Vishay manufactures passive components and discrete semiconductors used across numerous industrial and electronic applications. New management began investing aggressively in…
Upbound serves subprime consumers through Rent-A-Center, Acima and the recently acquired Brigit platform. Its customers are under financial pressure, but the company's operating…
Concentrix is one of the world's largest customer-experience outsourcing providers and has evolved beyond call centers into technology-enabled business-process outsourcing. The…
TD SYNNEX is the world's largest IT distributor and has expanded beyond traditional hardware into software, security, cloud licenses and services. The fund values the company's…
Graphic Packaging is a vertically integrated paper-packaging manufacturer with operations in the U.S. and Europe. Weak industry conditions, major cost overruns at its Waco…
Alluvium believes the market overreacted to the risk that artificial intelligence could displace tax-preparation services. Management is instead using AI to improve its products…
Alluvium believes the market has extrapolated Charter's current subscriber and pricing pressures too far into the future. Although internet customers are declining and ARPU is…
Alluvium views Universal Music as a structural franchise built around a difficult-to-replicate catalogue of high-quality music rights. The company monetizes that catalogue…
Liberty Broadband is held as a tracking exposure to Charter Communications and therefore shares the same underlying cable investment case. Alluvium believes the market is pricing…
Alluvium increased its Liberty Capital position after the stock fell to roughly half of the fund's valuation estimate. The fund views the acquisition of Quintillion as…
Alluvium remains constructive on Alibaba despite a sharp quarterly share-price decline. The company reported that its AI investments are contributing to the business and…
Alluvium added to HCA Healthcare after the shares fell despite management reaffirming 2026 guidance. The fund believes investors overreacted to weaker respiratory volumes caused…
Alluvium added to McKesson after results came in line with its expectations and management issued strong forward guidance. Management reiterated long-term earnings growth…
Alluvium initiated a position in Copart after a decline of more than 50% from its May 2025 peak created what it viewed as an unusual entry point into a high-quality business…
Amazon is one of the fund's large hyperscaler positions and remained in favor during the second quarter. The investment case rests partly on its competitive positioning as a…
Salesforce has been pressured by concerns that AI could disrupt established software business models. The fund reduced the holding materially during the quarter as part of its…
Accenture has been penalized as investors assess the potential impact of AI on software and information-services business models. The fund materially reduced its position during…
Meta is a major hyperscaler and AI service-provider holding in the portfolio. The shares lagged in the second quarter as investors became more discerning about the buyers of AI…
The fund repurchased Martin Marietta Materials opportunistically at what it considered a favorable price. The company is a leading aggregates producer with high-quality assets…
CoStar Group has been caught in the market's broad reassessment of software and information-services businesses exposed to potential AI disruption. The fund materially trimmed…
Oracle is held as one of the portfolio's major hyperscaler cloud and AI service providers. Its shares lagged during the second quarter while investors focused more closely on the…
Microsoft is one of the fund's large hyperscaler cloud and AI service-provider positions. Its shares lagged during the quarter as investors became more selective about companies…
Alphabet is one of the fund's large positions among hyperscale cloud and AI service providers. Its shares remained in favor during the second quarter as investors differentiated…
The fund initiated a new position in Veralto at what it considered a favorable price. Veralto has leading market positions and attractive economics across water quality…
Capital One has evolved beyond its core credit-card business into a broad consumer banking franchise. Its acquisition of Discover adds the economic benefits of integrating its…
The fund remains constructive on Liberty Broadband despite weakness in Charter Communications, its principal asset. Charter's growing wireless business is viewed as an important…
The fund initiated Netflix despite near-term perception headwinds surrounding its unsuccessful Warner Bros. bid and competition for audience attention from the 2026 FIFA World…
Brookfield is viewed as a long-term compounder built around a growing asset-management franchise and a collection of operating subsidiaries. The letter highlights approximately…
People Incorporated, formerly InterActiveCorp, is viewed primarily as a capital-allocation vehicle under Barry Diller. The fund believes the stock-price decline has overlooked…
Interactive Brokers is viewed as one of the largest and most efficient brokerage businesses in the United States, with a highly automated platform and unusually high…
Phoenix Financial was added to the portfolio in 2025 as another insurance compounder. The manager was impressed by the company's capabilities both in insurance operations and in…
Texas Pacific Land remains a highly profitable long-term holding supported by royalties from oil and water resources on its Texas acreage. The fund also sees a meaningful…
Markel is held as a long-term insurance and holding-company compounder. The letter describes the company as a Berkshire-like vehicle and highlights the role of renowned investor…
EXOR is treated as a long-term compounder because it is family owned, has demonstrated strong capital allocation and has a history of successful acquisitions. The letter argues…
Kinsale is a specialty insurer focused on excess and surplus policies in areas that traditional insurers often avoid, particularly for small businesses. The fund highlights the…
Fairfax is favored as an insurance compounder because a well-managed insurer can generate value through both underwriting profits and investment of its float. Fairfax has…
Constellation Software is a serial acquirer of vertical-market software companies and has historically compounded earnings at approximately 20% annually since its IPO. Its shares…
KKR is viewed as a long-term compounder within the highly profitable alternative asset-management industry. The company manages approximately $640 billion and has grown assets…
Assured Guaranty is one of the insurance compounders the fund continues to favor. The investment case rests on the dual economics of insurance underwriting and the investment of…
Assured Guaranty is one of the insurance compounders the fund continues to favor. The investment case rests on the dual economics of insurance underwriting and the investment of…
Constellation Software is a serial acquirer of vertical-market software companies and has historically compounded earnings at approximately 20% annually since its IPO. Its shares…
Markel is held as a long-term insurance and holding-company compounder. The letter describes the company as a Berkshire-like vehicle and highlights the role of renowned investor…
Kinsale is a specialty insurer focused on excess and surplus policies in areas that traditional insurers often avoid, particularly for small businesses. The fund highlights the…
EXOR is treated as a long-term compounder because it is family owned, has demonstrated strong capital allocation and has a history of successful acquisitions. The letter argues…
Phoenix Financial was added to the portfolio in 2025 as another insurance compounder. The manager was impressed by the company's capabilities both in insurance operations and in…
Texas Pacific Land remains a highly profitable long-term holding supported by royalties from oil and water resources on its Texas acreage. The fund also sees a meaningful…
Brookfield is viewed as a long-term compounder built around a growing asset-management franchise and a collection of operating subsidiaries. The letter highlights approximately…
Interactive Brokers is viewed as one of the largest and most efficient brokerage businesses in the United States, with a highly automated platform and unusually high…
People Incorporated, formerly InterActiveCorp, is viewed primarily as a capital-allocation vehicle under Barry Diller. The fund believes the stock-price decline has overlooked…
Fairfax is favored as an insurance compounder because a well-managed insurer can generate value through both underwriting profits and investment of its float. Fairfax has…
KKR is viewed as a long-term compounder within the highly profitable alternative asset-management industry. The company manages approximately $640 billion and has grown assets…
Oak Ridge highlights the leading weight-loss drugmaker as one of the strongest healthcare contributors across its growth strategies. The investment case extends beyond obesity…
Divi's is a leading global manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates with strong process chemistry and manufacturing capabilities. Baron sees it as a…
Rasan is the leading digital insurance and financial-services marketplace in Saudi Arabia. Baron believes deep integrations, a data-rich ecosystem and scale advantages create a…
TSMC sits at the center of the AI supply chain as the world's largest contract chipmaker and leading advanced logic manufacturer. AI demand is consuming leading-edge capacity and…
Acutaas is an Indian manufacturer of advanced pharmaceutical intermediates and specialty chemicals with high market share in several critical products. Its R&D pipeline…
SK hynix is the current leader in high-bandwidth memory used alongside AI processors. Customers have pre-booked more than three years of HBM supply, exceeding current production…
OTP is Hungary's leading banking franchise with strong retail and commercial positions, a conservative balance sheet and disciplined capital allocation. Baron believes Hungary's…
Samsung has improved its strategic position in high-bandwidth memory. The company became the first to ship next-generation HBM4 at volume for an upcoming leading AI accelerator…
Alibaba is absorbing a near-term earnings reset as it increases AI infrastructure investment and builds its Qwen ecosystem. Baron believes accelerating cloud growth and…
ISC is the dominant global supplier of elastomer semiconductor test sockets, which are gaining share as semiconductor complexity increases. The stock weakened despite earnings…
BYD is navigating intense domestic EV competition and weak Chinese consumer demand while its international business expands rapidly. Overseas deliveries increased more than 80%…
AT&T weakened as investors focused on telecom competition, wireless churn and softer pricing. Ariel believes fears of satellite-based mobile disruption are overstated because…
Disney reported better-than-expected earnings but declined as investors questioned the sustainability of the earnings beat. Ariel continues to view the company as a unique…
Pharmaron is positioned to benefit from China's growing role in global biopharma innovation. Its integrated discovery, development and manufacturing platform lets it participate…
FedEx Freight became a standalone holding following its spin-off from FedEx. Ariel believes its scale, network density and competitive position can support better pricing…
Murata is positioned for a multi-year growth upcycle as AI data centers drive demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors. Its technological lead in high-value components supports…
Dynatrace is positioned to benefit from increasingly complex IT environments and growing AI adoption. Ariel cites healthy core monitoring demand, traction in log analytics…
Ariel bought Merck KGaA on the view that biopharma spending is recovering after inventory destocking and funding constraints. The inflection is most visible in Process Solutions…
Ariel bought Orsted after operational setbacks, project delays and policy uncertainty drove a large valuation reset. Several major projects are now advanced, while management has…
Faratronic is a global leader in film capacitors with strong positions in electric vehicles and renewable energy. Ariel expects electrification, new energy vehicles and data…
WuXi AppTec has an integrated pharmaceutical-services platform and deep relationships with multinational clients. Its inclusion on the U.S. Section 1260H list created a…
MediaTek is expanding its role as a supplier to Google's cloud and AI infrastructure. Stronger expectations for Tensor Processing Unit adoption support a steeper revenue ramp…
BT is nearing the end of a peak fiber investment cycle, which should allow lower capital expenditure and cost efficiencies to improve free cash flow. Ariel also sees a more…
Intel is benefiting from robust demand in data center and AI markets alongside improving profitability. Ariel sees an early recovery in server CPUs, rising AI exposure and…
Ariel reinitiated Capital One as credit trends improve following post-pandemic normalization. Earlier reserve builds, disciplined balance sheet management and stronger net…
PPL offers regulated utility exposure with an improving regulatory backdrop and visible earnings growth. Constructive rate-case outcomes in Kentucky and Pennsylvania have…
Inovance is a cyclical recovery and structural growth idea in Chinese industrial automation. Orders are improving after years of inventory correction and weak capital spending…
Ariel bought Merck KGaA on the view that biopharma spending is recovering after inventory destocking and funding constraints. The inflection is most visible in Process Solutions…
Diamond Hill initiated a position in Centene as a managed care recovery idea. The manager believes reimbursement rates have a realistic path to catch up with underlying cost…
Verisk Analytics is a leading provider of data and analytics to the insurance industry and operates with limited competition. Its services are deeply embedded in customer…
Fortune Brands announced a strategic review of its composite decking business and appointed a new CEO with deep industry experience. The shares outperformed following these…
Humana is the second-largest Medicare Advantage insurer in the U.S. The company delivered strong first-quarter results and benefited from better-than-expected Medicare rate…
Regal Rexnord benefited from strong data center demand and reported solid results. Merger synergies and operational improvements drove better-than-expected organic growth and…
Equifax owns proprietary mortgage, employment and other datasets that are costly and difficult to replicate. Its data is critical to customer workflows while representing only a…
Veralto is a water testing and treatment provider spun out of Danaher in late 2023. Diamond Hill initiated a position because it believes the market underappreciates the…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the world's largest dedicated chip foundry, with approximately 70% market share and advanced manufacturing capabilities. Demand for…
Samsung Electronics is a South Korean semiconductor manufacturer held by the strategy. Its shares benefited from strong AI-related memory demand during the quarter. Rising…
SK hynix is a South Korean semiconductor manufacturer held by the strategy. Its shares benefited from strong AI-related memory demand during the quarter. Rising semiconductor…
Canadian Natural Resources underperformed as energy prices weakened across the industry. Diamond Hill stated that the business continued to perform well fundamentally despite the…
Imperial Oil underperformed as energy prices weakened across the industry. Diamond Hill stated that the business continued to perform well fundamentally despite the share-price…
BBH owns Entegris as a critical supplier of filtration products, materials and delivery equipment used in high-precision semiconductor fabrication. The company reported strong…
BBH owns Darling as the global leader in rendering animal byproducts and used cooking oil into fats and proteins for feed, specialty health products and renewable diesel…
BBH continues to own Guidewire despite a quarterly share-price decline because it believes recent deal slippage reflects timing rather than weakening demand. The company remains…
BBH views Arista as the leading provider of data-center switches to cloud-network customers and a direct beneficiary of the AI infrastructure buildout. First-quarter revenue and…
SGA reinitiated Equinix as growth reaccelerated with AI inferencing and power demand while a prior leadership transition was resolved. Roughly 95% of revenue is recurring and…
SGA sees Alphabet as a broad beneficiary of AI through infrastructure, foundation models, developer tools and scaled consumer applications. Strong demand for AI compute supports…
SGA initiated Disco because it holds roughly 70-80% share in cutting, grinding and thinning equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing. Its equipment is increasingly critical…
SGA continues to own TSMC as the leading-edge foundry positioned to benefit from sustained demand for advanced logic and compute. AI accelerators and CPUs are driving additional…
SGA views Arm as a high-quality long-term compounder benefiting from increasing adoption of Arm-based CPUs across data centers and AI workloads. Licensing and royalty growth…
SGA initiated Arista as a high-performance networking leader whose EOS software architecture, reliability and product performance have created a strong position with hyperscalers…
SGA added to Netflix after share-price weakness despite continued double-digit revenue growth and solid operating-income expansion. The long-term thesis rests on a recurring…
SGA reinitiated Linde after the share price consolidated while fundamentals continued to improve. The investment case rests on a highly durable industrial-gas model with…
SGA initiated Galderma because its leadership across injectable aesthetics, dermatological skincare and therapeutics creates a diversified platform with strong physician…
SGA initiated Schneider Electric because its scale, installed base, product breadth and distribution relationships create switching costs and pricing power across energy…
SGA continues to own Salesforce despite weak sentiment and slower current remaining performance obligation growth. Weakness in Marketing, Commerce and Tableau is being offset by…
Edgewood believes Reddit remains materially undermonetized relative to larger social platforms, with room to increase ad load, monetize search and move further into performance…
Edgewood believes Tesla's manufacturing and end-to-end system design capabilities can extend beyond electric vehicles into embodied AI products. Robotaxi is viewed as the first…
Edgewood views Linde as a high-quality operator in an attractive industrial-gas oligopoly supported by long-term take-or-pay contracts, regional density advantages and pricing…
Edgewood sees AWS as Amazon's primary profit engine, with AI workloads reaccelerating growth and a higher-margin mix lifting company-wide profitability. Custom silicon such as…
Tokyo Electron is a leading supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment with strong positions across deposition, etch, cleaning, and coating and developing systems. Polen…
Matrix initiated a new partial position in McDonald’s after the shares traded near a 52-week low. The franchise model is central to the thesis because roughly 95% of restaurants…
Matrix initiated a new partial position in Abbott, a diversified healthcare company spanning medical devices, diagnostics, nutrition, and established pharmaceuticals. The firm…
Optimist believes Affirm has built a structurally superior buy-now-pay-later model by underwriting every transaction individually with known merchant, basket, and repayment…
Wayfair delivered high-single-digit revenue growth and material EBITDA expansion in the quarter. After visiting the new Columbus store, Optimist became more convinced that…
Carvana’s retail units continued to grow at roughly 40% year over year, which Optimist views as unusually strong organic growth. A visit to the Cleveland reconditioning center…
First Advantage delivered 9% organic revenue growth, 14% EBITDA growth, and 52% adjusted earnings-per-share growth year over year, all above expectations. Management reiterated…
ThredUp’s active buyers, orders, and revenue all beat expectations, growing 25%, 19%, and 15% year over year, and management guided to acceleration across those trends. Optimist…
Southwest is implementing a set of commercial changes after a difficult five-year industry environment, including increased legroom, preferred seating, and charging for checked…
Qualcomm is a leading semiconductor supplier that is rapidly diversifying beyond its traditional markets. Sound Shore believes its developer tools are accelerating edge-AI…
Marvell benefits from data-center spending through its strong networking and optical businesses. Sound Shore sees an additional growth leg from the company’s expansion into…
Sound Shore identified Elevance after the stock sold off on concerns about regulatory risk and weak margins in Medicaid and Medicare. At roughly 13 times earnings with…
Sound Shore initiated Regeneron when the shares traded at roughly 13 times earnings with an 8% free-cash-flow yield. The company has a fortress balance sheet and a pipeline with…
Lam Research is a leading wafer fabrication equipment supplier with particular strength in etch and deposition, two critical steps in producing increasingly complex…
Polen views GE Aerospace as one of the highest-quality industrial businesses in the world after its separation from the former GE conglomerate. The company holds a dominant…
GE Vernova is one of the few global companies capable of supplying the power-generation equipment needed to meet rising electricity demand. Polen believes data-center growth, AI…
CoStar remains a holding where Polen says its conviction is intact despite investor concern about elevated Homes.com investment, the timing of margin recovery, and pressure on…
ATI produces specialty materials including nickel-based alloys used in high-temperature jet-engine components. Polen believes the aerospace supply chain is structurally…
TSMC is the dominant global pure-play semiconductor foundry and the default manufacturing partner for many leading chip designers. Polen believes decades of investment…
Howmet supplies highly engineered components for commercial aerospace engines and operates in parts of the supply chain with very few qualified scaled competitors. Polen believes…
Polen added to NVIDIA because earnings had grown much faster than the share price, causing valuation to compress without a deterioration in the business. NVIDIA remains the…
EMCOR is the largest U.S. mechanical, electrical, and plumbing specialty contractor and is increasingly exposed to data-center and semiconductor-fab construction. Polen sees…
Astera Labs is included in Artisan's Compute Infrastructure theme and was a meaningful Q2 contributor. The fund believes the scale of AI infrastructure spending has moved well…
Seagate is a named Compute Infrastructure holding and contributed meaningfully to Q2 performance. Artisan believes the AI capital cycle is driving a broad expansion in physical…
Taiwan Semiconductor is a named Compute Infrastructure holding and contributed meaningfully during Q2. Artisan's thesis is that the AI capital cycle has expanded the opportunity…
Analog Devices is a named holding within the Compute Infrastructure theme and contributed meaningfully during Q2. Artisan sees AI infrastructure as a broad physical capital cycle…
Applied Materials is part of Artisan's Compute Infrastructure theme and was a meaningful contributor in Q2. The fund believes the current AI investment cycle is much larger than…
NVIDIA is one of the portfolio's named Compute Infrastructure holdings and was a meaningful Q2 contributor. Artisan believes AI has evolved into a multi-trillion-dollar capital…
Caterpillar is positioned within Artisan's US Output theme and participated in the expansion of domestic industrial investment during Q2. The fund believes the apparent…
Goldman Sachs is part of Artisan's new Evolving Financials theme and generated strong returns in Q2. The fund sees a combination of recovering capital-markets activity, improving…
Bank of New York Mellon is another holding in Artisan's Evolving Financials theme and contributed strongly in Q2. The thesis is that financials are entering an inflection where…
Rolls-Royce is a core aerospace exposure that continued to benefit from favorable industry fundamentals in Q2. Artisan argues that the damage to aerospace production…
GE Aerospace is a named aerospace holding that benefited from favorable fundamentals during Q2. Artisan believes years of underinvestment and damage to aerospace production…
PM Capital had increased its Capstone position after the shares fell sharply amid weaker copper prices and labour disruption at the Mantoverde mine. During Q2, copper rebounded…
The fund initiated a small position in CSL while the company is undergoing a broad operational and leadership reset. PM Capital believes growth plans and the cost base need to be…
Challenger is viewed as the undisputed leader in the Australian annuity market and well positioned to benefit from APRA's revised capital framework. The fund expects the…
Matrix initiated a partial position in McDonald's near its 52-week low after concerns about traffic, inflation and price competition pressured the shares. The fund views the…
Matrix initiated a partial position in Abbott after a sharp pullback from its 52-week high. The fund likes Abbott's diversified healthcare businesses, recurring revenues, strong…
Ariel sees MediaTek expanding its role as a supplier to Google's cloud and AI infrastructure. Faster adoption of Tensor Processing Units and the company's profitable cloud ASIC…
Ariel believes BT is approaching the end of a peak investment cycle, with fiber capital expenditure set to decline and cost efficiencies expected to lift free cash flow…
Ariel bought Merck KGaA because it believes a recovery in biopharma spending is underway after a prolonged period of destocking and funding constraints. The most important…
Ariel views Orange as becoming a more predictable and cash-generative telecom business with improving earnings visibility. The thesis is supported by strength in France, growth…
Ariel repurchased TSMC after viewing the foundry downturn as an attractive entry point into a structurally advantaged business. The fund believes rapid AI adoption will drive the…
Ariel added Ørsted after a long period of cost overruns, project delays and policy uncertainty had damaged confidence and valuation. The fund sees improving fundamentals as major…
Ariel sees Murata entering a multi-year growth upcycle as AI data centers drive demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors. The mix is shifting toward higher-value…
Ariel added Sunny Optical because it sees growth opportunities across consumer electronics, AI and intelligent sensing. The company's optical engineering capabilities and…
Ariel initiated Inovance as evidence of a cyclical recovery in factory automation strengthened after several years of inventory correction and weak capital spending. The company…
Ariel believes Infineon is positioned at the intersection of AI infrastructure, automotive electrification and industrial automation. Its leadership in power semiconductors and…
Ariel expects Pharmaron to benefit from China's growing role in global biopharma innovation and the increasing externalization of drug discovery and development by large…
Applied Materials is held within Artisan's Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund sees AI infrastructure as a large and still-expanding capital formation cycle that is broadening…
TSMC is part of Artisan's Compute Infrastructure theme, which targets the physical infrastructure required for the next generation of computing. The fund believes AI has become a…
GE Aerospace is another holding benefiting from the fund's aerospace theme. Artisan sees a structurally constrained production ecosystem in which rebuilding capacity is difficult…
Caterpillar is positioned to benefit from Artisan's US Output theme, which reframes deglobalization as a sustained rebuilding of domestic productive capacity. The fund points to…
Goldman Sachs is a key expression of Artisan's new Evolving Financials theme. The fund expects recovering capital-markets activity to combine with a potentially friendlier…
Rolls-Royce is positioned within Artisan's aerospace opportunity and benefited from favorable aerospace fundamentals in Q2. The fund believes years of underinvestment and damage…
NVIDIA is a major holding within Artisan's Compute Infrastructure theme. Artisan believes hyperscaler capital expenditures are on a path from roughly $146 billion in 2021 toward…
Analog Devices is another holding tied to Artisan's Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund believes the current AI investment cycle is much larger than the prior…
Astera Labs is included in Artisan's Compute Infrastructure holdings. The fund argues that the AI buildout has expanded the opportunity beyond basic networking into the broader…
Seagate is part of Artisan's Compute Infrastructure theme and contributed meaningfully during the quarter. Artisan views the AI infrastructure cycle as a broad physical-computing…
BNY is another holding through which Artisan expresses its Evolving Financials theme. The thesis is that years of heavy regulation, muted capital-markets activity and pressure on…
abrdn initiated Universal Technical Institute, a provider of technical training for automotive and healthcare careers. The fund believes the company's operating model has…
abrdn initiated Cohu as a semiconductor testing and inspection equipment supplier positioned for a recovery in its core end markets. The company is also increasing its exposure…
abrdn initiated Travere Therapeutics, which focuses on rare kidney and metabolic disorders. A foundational drug recently received approval for an additional kidney disease…
abrdn initiated Blue Bird, a leading designer and manufacturer of school buses. The fund expects elevated replacement demand to support the business and believes Blue Bird's…
Weitz initiated Netflix despite near-term concerns that its attempted Warner Bros. acquisition signaled stagnation in the streaming business. The fund believes the ad-supported…
Weitz initiated Capital One after its acquisition of Discover, viewing the transaction as the next step in the evolution of a business that has grown from credit cards into a…
Liberty Broadband's principal asset is its interest in Charter Communications, whose core broadband business has been pressured by competitive concerns. Weitz remains…
Polaris added Adobe after its share price had fallen well below its 2021 peak. The manager sees substantial value in Adobe's deeply embedded professional user base, which makes…
Polaris added Booking Holdings after Middle East conflict headlines and an AI-related selloff pressured the shares. The manager viewed the decline as an overreaction rather than…
Polaris added Adobe after its share price had fallen well below its 2021 peak. The manager sees substantial value in Adobe's deeply embedded professional user base, which makes…
Polaris added Cytokinetics after FDA approval of Myqorzo for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The manager views Myqorzo as superior to Bristol Myers Squibb's Camzyos because it…
Polaris identified Fujifilm as a value opportunity because the market was not fully recognizing several higher-value businesses inside the company. In particular, the manager…
Polaris purchased UniCredit because it considers the bank a strong Italian franchise with opportunities to expand its position across Europe. The company had already acquired a…
Davenport initiated Abbott Laboratories during the quarter, viewing it as a diversified healthcare franchise with a long record of dividend growth. The acquisition of Exact…
Davenport purchased International Flavors & Fragrances while the company was simplifying its portfolio through divestitures of non-core operations. The announced sale of the Food…
Third Avenue initiated Maximus after pessimism around government-efficiency efforts, funding lapses and AI disintermediation depressed the share price despite continued federal…
Third Avenue purchased Taylor Morrison because its valuation appeared disconnected from the value of the underlying business. The company had a strategically located land bank…
Third Avenue initiated CRA International after AI-related concerns materially pressured the valuation of the consulting firm. The team believes CRA's credibility and expertise in…
Meridian owns Hinge Health for its leading position in technology-enabled musculoskeletal care and its high win rates in a large, underpenetrated market. The fund also highlights…
Meridian owns Veracyte for durable, volume-driven genomic-testing revenue, an expanding diagnostic menu, and a competitive moat built on more than a decade of proprietary…
Meridian owns Definium Therapeutics for what it sees as a potentially best-in-class rapid-acting, single-dose therapy profile in large underserved mental-health markets. Positive…
Meridian owns Tandem Diabetes Care for its differentiated insulin-pump technology, expanding installed base, and recurring supply revenue that grows with the user base. Shares…
Hotchkis & Wiley believes F5 is misunderstood because the market often classifies it as a legacy IT hardware vendor. The company sells application networking and security…
Hotchkis & Wiley views Humana as one of the largest Medicare Advantage insurers in the United States and believes its earnings are near a cyclical bottom. The stock rose during…
Hotchkis & Wiley owns APA for its leverage to what it views as a structurally undersupplied global energy market. The stock fell as oil prices retreated on optimism that the Iran…
Hotchkis & Wiley believes the market is overestimating the threat that AI poses to mission-critical systems of record such as Workday. The latest quarter showed subscription…
Hotchkis & Wiley remains constructive on Alphabet despite the position detracting from relative performance because the fund was underweight the stock versus the benchmark. The…
Hotchkis & Wiley sees Elevance Health as a large, high-quality health insurer whose profitability is beginning to recover. Despite the share-price rebound, the stock still trades…
Pzena sees Cognizant as more exposed than Accenture to AI-driven automation because more of its revenue comes from delivery and operations work, but it believes the market is…
Pzena initiated Workday after the broader software sell-off caused by fears of AI disruption. The firm views Workday's cloud ERP products as mission-critical because they are…
Pzena increased its CDW position after near-term margin pressure and a hardware-heavy sales mix weighed on the shares despite solid revenue growth. The broader thesis is that CDW…
Pzena views Accenture as a likely beneficiary rather than a casualty of the enterprise AI transition. Its consulting-led model combines business expertise with engineering and…
SharkNinja is one of Spheria's largest holdings and is built around a high-velocity innovation model across dozens of home-appliance categories. The company has consistently…
Spheria views Santos as a low-cost, long-life oil and gas producer with strategically valuable LNG and upstream assets across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Barossa LNG…
Alphabet was the fund's strongest contributor as investor concerns shifted from AI cannibalisation of Search toward recognition of the company's AI advantages. Search growth…
Lakehouse believes fears that AI and vibe coding will destroy deeply embedded enterprise software platforms are too broad. ServiceNow's value lies not simply in its user…
Lakehouse sees Visa evolving from a traditional card network into a broader financial-technology platform. Revenue growth accelerated to its strongest rate since 2022, with…
Lakehouse established its Veeva position during the software selloff, attracted by the company's dominant and mission-critical position within life sciences. Veeva is embedded…
Adyen's shares weakened after revenue growth slipped below the long-expected 20% level and management continued reinvesting heavily. Lakehouse believes the market is overlooking…
MercadoLibre remains Lakehouse's largest holding despite being the biggest performance detractor during the year. Revenue accelerated to 49% year-on-year and gross merchandise…
Lakehouse believes AI-disruption fears around Workiva are misplaced because financial reporting demands accuracy, traceability and auditability that probabilistic models alone…
Palo Alto Networks delivered strong quarterly results with accelerating organic growth, better-than-planned CyberArk integration and guidance above consensus expectations. TCW…
Intuitive Surgical reported revenue and Da Vinci procedure growth above consensus while also raising 2026 guidance. TCW believes the company remains early in the Da Vinci 5…
Boston Scientific shares weakened after quarterly results and CHAMPION-AF data failed to provide the positive catalyst investors had hoped for. U.S. Electrophysiology and…
CrowdStrike produced strong quarterly results including 32% year-on-year growth in net new ARR, improving operating margins and 67% growth in free cash flow. Management raised…
TCW purchased KLA because increasing semiconductor complexity is driving greater demand for advanced inspection, review and metrology systems across chip fabrication. The fund is…
TCW purchased Micron as a direct beneficiary of the AI infrastructure buildout, which is turning memory from a commodity component into a mission-critical strategic asset. The…
Cohu is a leading supplier of semiconductor testing and inspection equipment. The fund expects the company to benefit from a recovery in its traditional end markets while also…
Universal Technical Institute is a leading technical-training provider serving the automotive and healthcare industries. The fund believes its operating model has improved…
Travere Therapeutics specialises in treatments for rare kidney and metabolic disorders. Its foundational drug was recently approved for an additional kidney disease, expanding…
Blue Bird is a leading designer and manufacturer of school buses. The fund believes replacement demand remains elevated, creating an attractive demand backdrop. Strong execution…
Helios Towers provides exposure to structural growth in telecommunications infrastructure. Its opportunity is concentrated across Africa and the Middle East, where the fund sees…
Chenbro Micom continues to benefit from increased investment in AI-related infrastructure and equipment. The fund remains positive on the company's long-term prospects after…
The fund initiated a position in Koninklijke Heijmans to gain exposure to structural growth drivers in the Netherlands. Housing shortages provide a sustained need for…
Elite Material continues to benefit from increased investment in AI-related infrastructure and equipment. The fund remains positive on the company's long-term prospects despite…
The fund initiated Fagron because it views the company as a global leader in pharmaceutical compounding. Its business model is defensive and operates in a highly regulated market…
Tokyo Seimitsu is a leading supplier of semiconductor probers with differentiated precision-engineering capabilities and advanced temperature-control technologies. The fund…
Taiwan Union Technology gives the portfolio exposure to continued growth in AI-related servers and networking equipment. Its high-speed copper-clad laminate materials are…
Bachem specialises in peptide manufacturing. The fund believes the company is well positioned to participate in the rapid expansion of GLP-1 drugs and obesity treatments. This…
Chroma ATE is benefiting from increased investment in AI-related infrastructure and equipment. The fund remains positive about the company's long-term prospects following strong…
Polaris rotated into Astor after selling HD Hyundai Electric at what it considered a rich valuation. Astor is a Turkey-based transformer producer with a large order backlog. The…
Polaris added Booking Holdings after Middle East conflict headlines and an AI-related selloff pressured the stock. The fund viewed the decline as an overreaction and an…
Polaris purchased UniCredit because it views the bank as a strong Italian franchise with the potential to expand its pan-European position. The bank acquired a stake in…
Polaris added Cytokinetics following FDA approval of Myqorzo for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The fund believes Myqorzo compares favorably with Bristol Myers Squibb's Camzyos…
Polaris added Adobe after the shares fell well below their 2021 peak. The fund highlights the stickiness of Adobe's professional user base and the positive reception of Firefly…
Polaris sees FUJIFILM as a value opportunity because the market is underpricing its contract drug-manufacturing and semiconductor-materials operations. Those businesses sit…
Hotchkis & Wiley continues to own Alphabet despite being underweight the stock relative to its benchmark. The fund believes Alphabet's valuation remains attractive in light of…
Hotchkis & Wiley owns Humana as a major Medicare Advantage insurer whose earnings appear to be approaching a cyclical bottom. Investors have increasingly begun to price in a…
Hotchkis & Wiley sees increasing evidence that Elevance's profitability is recovering. Despite the share-price improvement, the company remains valued at a discount to the…
Hotchkis & Wiley believes F5 is misunderstood because investors incorrectly classify it primarily as a legacy IT hardware vendor. The business sells application networking and…
Hotchkis & Wiley believes APA offers exposure to what it views as a structurally undersupplied global energy market. The company also generates strong free cash flow across a…
Hotchkis & Wiley believes AI-disruption fears around Workday materially underestimate the durability of mission-critical enterprise systems and the cost and risk of replacing…
LSEG shares have been pressured by concerns that AI could disrupt the company's data and analytics business. Cambiar argues that recent results instead show AI acting as a demand…
Cambiar added Canadian National Railway as part of an increase in its Industrials allocation. The company's rail network provides what the fund describes as a natural monopoly…
Cambiar purchased MTU Aero Engines as another addition to its Industrials exposure. MTU has a duopolistic market-share position in the narrow-body aerospace engine market and a…
Pzena purchased OCBC because the Singaporean lender operates within a structurally attractive banking oligopoly. The fund also sees expanding fee income and a growing…
Pzena believes fears that AI will structurally impair Accenture are excessive because the company is concentrated in consulting-led transformation work that combines engineering…
Pzena initiated FUJIFILM because cash flow is temporarily depressed by investment in expanded Bio CDMO facilities. The firm expects free cash flow to improve materially as…
Pzena bought SAP because the migration of its large legacy on-premise customer base to the cloud should produce significant revenue uplift per customer. The company is deeply…
Miller/Howard initiated a position in SunocoCorp based on its research into the company's exposure to the current oil-price environment. The firm believes SunocoCorp can be a…
Miller/Howard initiated a position in HCA Healthcare after recent share-price weakness created what it considers an attractive entry point. The firm expects HCA to benefit from…
Miller/Howard increased its position in Sunoco because it believes the company is well positioned on income, growth of income, and financial strength. Sunoco increased its…
The fund initiated a position in QXO during Q2 while modestly increasing overall equity exposure after raising its target risk budget from 25% to 35%. The commentary does not…
The fund initiated a position in Cencora during Q2 while modestly increasing its overall equity exposure. The letter does not provide a company-specific catalyst, target price or…
The fund initiated a position in SAP during Q2 as it modestly increased equity exposure. No company-specific valuation or catalyst is provided in the commentary, so the…
The fund initiated a position in Blackstone during Q2 while modestly increasing its equity allocation. The commentary does not provide a Blackstone-specific valuation framework…
Tweedy established a new position in Capgemini during the quarter. At purchase, the manager believed the company was trading below a conservative estimate of intrinsic value…
Tweedy established a new position in bioMérieux during the quarter. The French family-controlled biotechnology company produces in vitro diagnostics, including software…
Diamond Hill initiated Verisk because it is the leading provider of data and analytics to the insurance industry and operates with limited competition. Its services are deeply…
Diamond Hill initiated Centene because it believes managed-care margins have a realistic path to recovery. The core mechanism is reimbursement rates catching up with underlying…
Diamond Hill initiated Equifax because its proprietary mortgage, employment and other datasets are costly and difficult to replicate. The data is critical to customer workflows…
Diamond Hill initiated Veralto after concluding that the market was underappreciating the resilience of its water-testing and treatment business. The company combines a resilient…
Diamond Hill views Illumina as the leading producer of next-generation sequencing systems used in DNA research and increasingly in cancer diagnosis and treatment. The investment…
Diamond Hill initiated Humana during the second quarter. Humana is the second-largest Medicare Advantage insurer in the U.S., giving it meaningful scale in managed care. The…
Diamond Hill believes Regal Rexnord is benefiting from strong demand tied to data-center buildouts. The company also delivered better-than-expected organic growth and margin…
SGA reinitiated Equinix as growth reaccelerated with AI inferencing and strong power demand, while a prior leadership transition was resolved. Roughly 95% of revenue is recurring…
SGA maintained Netflix despite near-term share-price pressure because the core business continued to deliver solid revenue and operating income growth. With the Warner Bros…
SGA remains constructive on Nvidia after strong results and disclosures showing demand from the largest cloud customers consistent with its long-term outlook. Management…
SGA maintained Salesforce despite weak investor sentiment and uneven product performance. Strength in Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Slack and Data Cloud is offsetting weakness in…
Arm remains a long-term holding because SGA sees sustained growth in licensing and royalties as Arm-based CPUs gain adoption across data centers and AI workloads. Management's…
SGA views Alphabet as a broad beneficiary of the AI investment cycle because its exposure spans infrastructure, foundational models, developer tools and scaled consumer…
SGA initiated Arista Networks because it sees durable long-term growth in high-performance data-center networking. Arista's EOS software platform runs across its switches and…
Applied Materials contributed to performance as investor enthusiasm for semiconductor demand increased alongside AI infrastructure development. The company also benefited from…
MediaTek contributed during the quarter as investors became more optimistic about AI infrastructure spending. BlackRock specifically highlights custom application-specific…
Shell detracted during the quarter as oil prices moderated when geopolitical concerns eased. BlackRock nevertheless describes the company's fundamentals as intact and remained…
SK Hynix benefited from strong demand for AI memory and favorable supply-demand conditions. Continued confidence in AI data-center investment supports the demand outlook for the…
BAE Systems detracted as tensions in the Middle East de-escalated and reduced near-term support for defense stocks. BlackRock nevertheless remained constructive on the holding…
BYD is navigating intense domestic EV competition and weak Chinese consumer demand while its international business expands rapidly. Overseas deliveries increased more than 80%…
Divi's is a leading global manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates with strong process chemistry and manufacturing capabilities. Baron sees it as a…
BYD is navigating intense domestic EV competition and weak Chinese consumer demand while its international business expands rapidly. Overseas deliveries increased more than 80%…
Alibaba is absorbing a near-term earnings reset as it increases AI infrastructure investment and builds its Qwen ecosystem. Baron believes accelerating cloud growth and…
TSMC sits at the center of the AI supply chain as the world's largest contract chipmaker and leading advanced logic manufacturer. AI demand is consuming leading-edge capacity and…
SK hynix is the current leader in high-bandwidth memory used alongside AI processors. Customers have pre-booked more than three years of HBM supply, exceeding current production…
Samsung has improved its strategic position in high-bandwidth memory. The company became the first to ship next-generation HBM4 at volume for an upcoming leading AI accelerator…
ISC is the dominant global supplier of elastomer semiconductor test sockets, which are gaining share as semiconductor complexity increases. The stock weakened despite earnings…
OTP is Hungary's leading banking franchise with strong retail and commercial positions, a conservative balance sheet and disciplined capital allocation. Baron believes Hungary's…
Acutaas is an Indian manufacturer of advanced pharmaceutical intermediates and specialty chemicals with high market share in several critical products. Its R&D pipeline…
Intel is benefiting from robust demand in data center and AI markets alongside improving profitability. Ariel sees an early recovery in server CPUs, rising AI exposure and…
MediaTek is expanding its role as a supplier to Google's cloud and AI infrastructure. Stronger expectations for Tensor Processing Unit adoption support a steeper revenue ramp…
Murata is positioned for a multi-year growth upcycle as AI data centers drive demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors. Its technological lead in high-value components supports…
AT&T weakened as investors focused on telecom competition, wireless churn and softer pricing. Ariel believes fears of satellite-based mobile disruption are overstated because…
BT is nearing the end of a peak fiber investment cycle, which should allow lower capital expenditure and cost efficiencies to improve free cash flow. Ariel also sees a more…
Disney reported better-than-expected earnings but declined as investors questioned the sustainability of the earnings beat. Ariel continues to view the company as a unique…
Faratronic is a global leader in film capacitors with strong positions in electric vehicles and renewable energy. Ariel expects electrification, new energy vehicles and data…
WuXi AppTec has an integrated pharmaceutical-services platform and deep relationships with multinational clients. Its inclusion on the U.S. Section 1260H list created a…
Sunny Optical has growth exposure to consumer electronics, AI and intelligent sensing. Its optical engineering capabilities support share gains in premium smartphone cameras and…
Inovance is a cyclical recovery and structural growth idea in Chinese industrial automation. Orders are improving after years of inventory correction and weak capital spending…
Ariel reinitiated Capital One as credit trends improve following post-pandemic normalization. Earlier reserve builds, disciplined balance sheet management and stronger net…
Dynatrace is positioned to benefit from increasingly complex IT environments and growing AI adoption. Ariel cites healthy core monitoring demand, traction in log analytics…
FedEx Freight became a standalone holding following its spin-off from FedEx. Ariel believes its scale, network density and competitive position can support better pricing…
Ariel bought Merck KGaA on the view that biopharma spending is recovering after inventory destocking and funding constraints. The inflection is most visible in Process Solutions…
Ariel bought Orsted after operational setbacks, project delays and policy uncertainty drove a large valuation reset. Several major projects are now advanced, while management has…
PPL offers regulated utility exposure with an improving regulatory backdrop and visible earnings growth. Constructive rate-case outcomes in Kentucky and Pennsylvania have…
Pharmaron is positioned to benefit from China's growing role in global biopharma innovation. Its integrated discovery, development and manufacturing platform lets it participate…
Equifax owns proprietary mortgage, employment and other datasets that are costly and difficult to replicate. Its data is critical to customer workflows while representing only a…
Verisk Analytics is a leading provider of data and analytics to the insurance industry and operates with limited competition. Its services are deeply embedded in customer…
Diamond Hill initiated a position in Centene as a managed care recovery idea. The manager believes reimbursement rates have a realistic path to catch up with underlying cost…
Humana is the second-largest Medicare Advantage insurer in the U.S. The company delivered strong first-quarter results and benefited from better-than-expected Medicare rate…
Regal Rexnord benefited from strong data center demand and reported solid results. Merger synergies and operational improvements drove better-than-expected organic growth and…
Fortune Brands announced a strategic review of its composite decking business and appointed a new CEO with deep industry experience. The shares outperformed following these…
Veralto is a water testing and treatment provider spun out of Danaher in late 2023. Diamond Hill initiated a position because it believes the market underappreciates the…
Canadian Natural Resources underperformed as energy prices weakened across the industry. Diamond Hill stated that the business continued to perform well fundamentally despite the…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the world's largest dedicated chip foundry, with approximately 70% market share and advanced manufacturing capabilities. Demand for…
Samsung Electronics is a South Korean semiconductor manufacturer held by the strategy. Its shares benefited from strong AI-related memory demand during the quarter. Rising…
SK hynix is a South Korean semiconductor manufacturer held by the strategy. Its shares benefited from strong AI-related memory demand during the quarter. Rising semiconductor…
Imperial Oil underperformed as energy prices weakened across the industry. Diamond Hill stated that the business continued to perform well fundamentally despite the share-price…
BBH owns Darling as the global leader in rendering animal byproducts and used cooking oil into fats and proteins for feed, specialty health products and renewable diesel…
BBH owns Entegris as a critical supplier of filtration products, materials and delivery equipment used in high-precision semiconductor fabrication. The company reported strong…
BBH continues to own Guidewire despite a quarterly share-price decline because it believes recent deal slippage reflects timing rather than weakening demand. The company remains…
BBH views Arista as the leading provider of data-center switches to cloud-network customers and a direct beneficiary of the AI infrastructure buildout. First-quarter revenue and…
SGA added to Netflix after share-price weakness despite continued double-digit revenue growth and solid operating-income expansion. The long-term thesis rests on a recurring…
SGA views Arm as a high-quality long-term compounder benefiting from increasing adoption of Arm-based CPUs across data centers and AI workloads. Licensing and royalty growth…
SGA continues to own TSMC as the leading-edge foundry positioned to benefit from sustained demand for advanced logic and compute. AI accelerators and CPUs are driving additional…
SGA sees Alphabet as a broad beneficiary of AI through infrastructure, foundation models, developer tools and scaled consumer applications. Strong demand for AI compute supports…
SGA initiated Disco because it holds roughly 70-80% share in cutting, grinding and thinning equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing. Its equipment is increasingly critical…
SGA initiated Galderma because its leadership across injectable aesthetics, dermatological skincare and therapeutics creates a diversified platform with strong physician…
SGA initiated Arista as a high-performance networking leader whose EOS software architecture, reliability and product performance have created a strong position with hyperscalers…
SGA initiated Schneider Electric because its scale, installed base, product breadth and distribution relationships create switching costs and pricing power across energy…
SGA reinitiated Equinix as growth reaccelerated with AI inferencing and power demand while a prior leadership transition was resolved. Roughly 95% of revenue is recurring and…
SGA reinitiated Linde after the share price consolidated while fundamentals continued to improve. The investment case rests on a highly durable industrial-gas model with…
SGA continues to own Salesforce despite weak sentiment and slower current remaining performance obligation growth. Weakness in Marketing, Commerce and Tableau is being offset by…
Edgewood views Linde as a high-quality operator in an attractive industrial-gas oligopoly supported by long-term take-or-pay contracts, regional density advantages and pricing…
Edgewood believes Reddit remains materially undermonetized relative to larger social platforms, with room to increase ad load, monetize search and move further into performance…
Edgewood believes Tesla's manufacturing and end-to-end system design capabilities can extend beyond electric vehicles into embodied AI products. Robotaxi is viewed as the first…
Edgewood sees AWS as Amazon's primary profit engine, with AI workloads reaccelerating growth and a higher-margin mix lifting company-wide profitability. Custom silicon such as…
Tokyo Electron is a leading supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment with strong positions across deposition, etch, cleaning, and coating and developing systems. Polen…
Matrix initiated a new partial position in McDonald’s after the shares traded near a 52-week low. The franchise model is central to the thesis because roughly 95% of restaurants…
Matrix initiated a new partial position in Abbott, a diversified healthcare company spanning medical devices, diagnostics, nutrition, and established pharmaceuticals. The firm…
Carvana’s retail units continued to grow at roughly 40% year over year, which Optimist views as unusually strong organic growth. A visit to the Cleveland reconditioning center…
Wayfair delivered high-single-digit revenue growth and material EBITDA expansion in the quarter. After visiting the new Columbus store, Optimist became more convinced that…
Optimist believes Affirm has built a structurally superior buy-now-pay-later model by underwriting every transaction individually with known merchant, basket, and repayment…
First Advantage delivered 9% organic revenue growth, 14% EBITDA growth, and 52% adjusted earnings-per-share growth year over year, all above expectations. Management reiterated…
ThredUp’s active buyers, orders, and revenue all beat expectations, growing 25%, 19%, and 15% year over year, and management guided to acceleration across those trends. Optimist…
Sound Shore initiated Regeneron when the shares traded at roughly 13 times earnings with an 8% free-cash-flow yield. The company has a fortress balance sheet and a pipeline with…
Southwest is implementing a set of commercial changes after a difficult five-year industry environment, including increased legroom, preferred seating, and charging for checked…
Marvell benefits from data-center spending through its strong networking and optical businesses. Sound Shore sees an additional growth leg from the company’s expansion into…
Qualcomm is a leading semiconductor supplier that is rapidly diversifying beyond its traditional markets. Sound Shore believes its developer tools are accelerating edge-AI…
Sound Shore identified Elevance after the stock sold off on concerns about regulatory risk and weak margins in Medicaid and Medicare. At roughly 13 times earnings with…
EMCOR is the largest U.S. mechanical, electrical, and plumbing specialty contractor and is increasingly exposed to data-center and semiconductor-fab construction. Polen sees…
GE Vernova is one of the few global companies capable of supplying the power-generation equipment needed to meet rising electricity demand. Polen believes data-center growth, AI…
Howmet supplies highly engineered components for commercial aerospace engines and operates in parts of the supply chain with very few qualified scaled competitors. Polen believes…
TSMC is the dominant global pure-play semiconductor foundry and the default manufacturing partner for many leading chip designers. Polen believes decades of investment…
Polen added to NVIDIA because earnings had grown much faster than the share price, causing valuation to compress without a deterioration in the business. NVIDIA remains the…
ATI produces specialty materials including nickel-based alloys used in high-temperature jet-engine components. Polen believes the aerospace supply chain is structurally…
CoStar remains a holding where Polen says its conviction is intact despite investor concern about elevated Homes.com investment, the timing of margin recovery, and pressure on…
Lam Research is a leading wafer fabrication equipment supplier with particular strength in etch and deposition, two critical steps in producing increasingly complex…
Polen views GE Aerospace as one of the highest-quality industrial businesses in the world after its separation from the former GE conglomerate. The company holds a dominant…
The fund initiated a position in Cencora during Q2 while modestly increasing its overall equity exposure. The letter does not provide a company-specific catalyst, target price or…
The fund initiated a position in QXO during Q2 while modestly increasing overall equity exposure after raising its target risk budget from 25% to 35%. The commentary does not…
The fund initiated a position in SAP during Q2 as it modestly increased equity exposure. No company-specific valuation or catalyst is provided in the commentary, so the…
The fund initiated a position in Blackstone during Q2 while modestly increasing its equity allocation. The commentary does not provide a Blackstone-specific valuation framework…
Tweedy established a new position in bioMérieux during the quarter. The French family-controlled biotechnology company produces in vitro diagnostics, including software…
Tweedy established a new position in Capgemini during the quarter. At purchase, the manager believed the company was trading below a conservative estimate of intrinsic value…
Bloom Energy supplies fuel-cell systems that can provide onsite power to AI data centers facing grid and turbine constraints. Oracle's New Mexico site is expected to deploy about…
SK hynix is benefiting as AI inference and agentic workloads increase demand across high-bandwidth memory, conventional DRAM, and NAND. Physical constraints are limiting supply…
Intercontinental Exchange provides exchange, clearing, fixed-income data, and mortgage infrastructure. Investor concern about AI disruption and mortgage sensitivity has…
Intuitive Surgical is the leading robotic-surgery platform and delivered first-quarter results above consensus across revenue, earnings, margins, procedures, and robot…
Spotify's shares declined after management guided to lower near-term margins because of increased operating expenses. Sands interprets the spending as investment in future…
Shopify delivered 34 percent revenue growth, 35 percent gross-merchandise-volume growth, and 66 percent payments penetration in the first quarter. Investors focused instead on…
TSMC is positioned at a critical bottleneck in advanced AI-chip manufacturing. First-quarter gross margin exceeded expectations, and Sands believes the improvement reflects…
NVIDIA's first-quarter revenue grew 85 percent and earnings per share grew 131 percent, reinforcing the durability of AI infrastructure spending. Sands expects demand to broaden…
Arm was purchased because Sands expects agentic AI to create a material inflection in CPU demand. CPUs are better suited than GPUs to scheduling, memory management, tool…
SpaceX was purchased as Global Growth's first investment in the nascent space economy. Reusable launch technology has reduced costs and increased launch frequency, while the…
Lenskart is India's largest eyewear retailer by market share and operates a vertically integrated, technology-driven model with more than 2,000 stores across over 400 cities…
ASML supplies the lithography systems required for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Sands believes lithography capacity could become one of the hardest constraints on AI…
Netflix has faced weak sentiment as short-form video and user-generated content continue taking viewing time from premium streaming. Sands nevertheless sees evidence of pricing…
VAT Group is the leading supplier of high-precision vacuum valves for semiconductor equipment, with roughly 70 percent share in its core application. Order intake rose 47 percent…
TSMC is viewed as the world's largest scaled manufacturer of leading-edge chips and a central beneficiary of AI demand. First-quarter gross margin exceeded expectations, which…
Samsung Electronics was purchased because Sands believes the company is nearing an earnings inflection across memory, foundry, and mobile. AI demand supports the memory…
ASML supplies lithography systems that are essential to advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Sands believes lithography capacity could become one of the hardest constraints to…
SK hynix is a leading memory producer benefiting from tighter DRAM, NAND, and high-bandwidth memory markets. First-quarter revenue rose 198 percent year over year and operating…
Keyence is a leading designer of high-end factory automation sensors and systems and is benefiting from a broadening recovery in automation demand. Fiscal fourth-quarter revenue…
EssilorLuxottica delivered 11 percent constant-currency revenue growth despite weak consumer conditions and pressure across luxury and medtech. Sands believes investor concern…
Shopify grew first-quarter revenue 34 percent year over year, gross merchandise volume 35 percent, and payments penetration to 66 percent of volume. Investors focused on guidance…
Spotify's shares fell after management guided to lower margins because of a near-term increase in operating expenses. Sands views the spending as investment in a new product…
Nu Holdings serves more than 100 million customers through its digital banking platform in Latin America. Higher provisions created concerns about household debt and credit…
Arm was purchased because Sands expects agentic AI to drive an inflection in CPU demand. CPUs are suited to scheduling, memory management, tool execution, and orchestration…
Siemens Energy was purchased for exposure to gas turbines and grid equipment as power becomes a bottleneck for AI infrastructure. Sands expects U.S. power capacity to remain…
Stevanato is an existing Reversionary investment that Cooper believes is approaching a cash-flow inflection. The pharmaceutical-glass manufacturer is nearing completion of a…
Corteva was initiated as a company-specific Reversionary opportunity around a corporate separation. The business is spinning off its Seeds operation from Crop Protection after…
Liberty Media is a core exposure to Formula One and the recently acquired MotoGP asset within Cooper's Compounding capital pool. The company trades at about 22 times free cash…
Daikin was initiated as a Reversionary investment where Cooper can observe a pathway for under-earning cash flows to improve. The Japanese HVAC manufacturer trades at a discount…
TKO gives Cooper exposure to UFC and WWE within the portfolio's live-entertainment and sports-content cluster. The fund expects premium sports rights to benefit from competition…
PrairieSky Royalty is held in the Real Assets capital pool as a perpetual energy royalty owner over significant acreage in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Cooper expects…
Liberty Live gives the fund exposure to Live Nation as part of its anchor group of live-entertainment and sports-content investments. Cooper sees these businesses benefiting from…
CME remains a Real Assets holding, but Cooper reduced the position after the CFTC allowed Kalshi to launch perpetual futures. The development creates a new competitive threat to…
Altius Minerals is a diversified royalty owner with exposure to potash, copper, lithium, electricity, iron ore, and gold. Cooper holds it in the Real Assets pool to provide a…
Shenandoah Telecommunications is another existing Reversionary holding nearing the end of a multiyear capacity expansion. Cooper expects the completion of that investment cycle…
Seagate is benefiting from improving supply-demand conditions in mass-capacity storage. AI workloads require more data retention and retrieval, increasing storage demand while…
Palo Alto Networks is positioned to benefit as rapid AI adoption expands enterprise attack surfaces and increases the sophistication of cyber threats. Fiscal third-quarter…
Nu Holdings operates a digital financial-services platform serving more than 100 million customers in Latin America. Higher-than-expected provisions raised concerns about…
SK hynix is benefiting as the memory shortage broadens from high-bandwidth memory into conventional DRAM and NAND. AI inference and agentic workloads are increasing demand while…
Intel was initiated for exposure to server CPU demand and potential foundry optionality. Agentic AI increases the need for CPUs to coordinate and manage accelerated-compute…
SanDisk was initiated to benefit from rising memory and storage requirements created by agentic AI. More capable systems need to access, process, and retain larger amounts of…
Cerebras was added for exposure to the emerging market for low-latency AI inference. Its wafer-scale architecture integrates memory directly onto the compute fabric, reducing…
SpaceX was initiated as exposure to launch economics and satellite connectivity. Reusable rockets can reduce launch costs and increase frequency, while Starlink expands the…
TTM Technologies was added as an enabling infrastructure business at the intersection of AI data centers and defense modernization. Sands sees increasingly complex printed…
Samsara continues to grow revenue at roughly 30 percent while delivering meaningful margin leverage. Its connected hardware and software generate proprietary operational data…
Palantir reported accelerating revenue growth, a record guidance increase, and improving profitability, yet its shares declined because expectations were elevated. Sands believes…
Klaviyo delivered a headline beat and raise, but investors focused on a smaller revenue beat and slightly lower second-quarter margin guidance. Sands views the selloff as…
AMD was initiated to increase exposure to rising CPU demand from agentic AI. CPUs are increasingly important for scheduling, memory management, tool execution, and orchestration…
Arm was added to capture a potential inflection in CPU demand driven by agentic AI. Agentic workloads rely on CPUs for scheduling, memory management, tool execution, and…
Taiwan Semiconductor remains a bottleneck in leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing and a scaled production partner for advanced AI chips. First-quarter gross margin exceeded…
NVIDIA continues to benefit from robust accelerated-computing demand, with first-quarter revenue up 85 percent and earnings per share up 131 percent. AI adoption is broadening…
Shopify remains a leading commerce platform with strong merchant and enterprise growth opportunities. Investors focused on rising large language model costs tied to Sidekick and…
Seagate is a global leader in mass-capacity data storage and is benefiting from improving supply-demand conditions for hard disk drives. AI-related workloads are increasing the…
Sphere Entertainment was initiated as an exposure to immersive live entertainment. Sands sees the Las Vegas Sphere as evidence that the venue can achieve high utilization and…
Carpenter Technology supplies specialty nickel alloys to the aerospace industry and is benefiting from a multiyear production recovery. Fiscal third-quarter results showed…
Taiwan Semiconductor occupies a bottleneck position in leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing and is the scaled manufacturing partner for many advanced AI chips. Demand remains…
Lam Research is a critical supplier of semiconductor etch and deposition equipment. Revenue grew 24 percent and adjusted earnings per share grew 42 percent year over year in the…
NVIDIA continues to show robust demand for accelerated computing, with first-quarter revenue up 85 percent and earnings per share up 131 percent. The opportunity is broadening…
Intercontinental Exchange operates major exchanges, clearinghouses, and mortgage infrastructure, and Sands believes its fundamentals remain solid despite share-price weakness…
Spotify's shares weakened after management guided to lower near-term margins because of increased operating expenses. Sands interprets the spending as investment in future…
Samsara develops connected hardware and software for industrial operations and continues to execute despite valuation pressure across vertical software. Revenue growth remained…
AMD provides high-performance CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive computing and has emerged as a scaled alternative to incumbent providers. Demand for compute is rising as generative AI…
Bloom Energy gives the portfolio exposure to data-center power, which Sands sees as an increasingly important bottleneck in the AI buildout. Its solid oxide fuel cells provide…
Micron was added to increase exposure to memory, which Sands views as a critical bottleneck in AI infrastructure. Agentic AI requires greater context, faster retrieval, and more…
SanDisk was added as another way to participate in the memory and storage bottleneck created by AI. Agentic systems require larger amounts of context, faster retrieval, and…
Sands initiated SpaceX as an investment in the nascent space economy. Reusable launch technology has reduced launch costs and increased flight frequency, while Starlink adds a…
SK Square is a holding-company investment whose net asset value is overwhelmingly tied to its stake in SK hynix. Sands sees it as an attractive way to gain economic exposure to…
MediaTek is a leading fabless semiconductor designer with a growing custom-AI-chip opportunity tied to Google's tensor processing units. The company is helping develop Google's…
TSMC is the world's largest manufacturer of leading-edge chips by market share and is a central beneficiary of AI compute demand. Sands interprets recent gross-margin upside as…
Samsung Electronics is positioned to benefit from the widening shortage across DRAM, NAND and high-bandwidth memory. Pre-booked demand suggests the supply-demand gap could be…
AIA is the largest pan-Asian life insurer by market share and the fund believes recent multiple compression is excessive. Regulation affecting mainland Chinese visitors has hurt…
SK hynix is one of the fund's largest holdings and a major beneficiary of the memory shortage spreading from high-bandwidth memory into conventional DRAM and NAND. AI inference…
Hyosung Heavy Industries is a newly purchased Korean power-equipment company that Sands views as a beneficiary of a multiyear infrastructure cycle. Aging-grid replacement, rising…
Montage Technology is a newly purchased fabless semiconductor company focused on memory-interface chips and high-speed interconnect solutions. As AI training and inference scale…
Tencent's core gaming, advertising and fintech businesses remain strong and are anchored by the WeChat ecosystem. First-quarter results showed 20 percent advertising growth and…
Chroma ATE is a newly purchased electronic test and measurement leader serving semiconductor and AI-infrastructure markets. Its test systems can benefit from the shift to…
BYD is viewed as a technology-driven electric-vehicle and battery company rather than a traditional automaker competing mainly on price. Although the shares weakened, Sands sees…
Sands says its Alibaba thesis remains intact despite weakness in Chinese internet stocks and concerns about consumption and AI spending. Recent results were supported by strong…
SGA views Alphabet as a broad beneficiary of the AI investment cycle because it participates across infrastructure, foundational models, developer tools and scaled consumer…
Salesforce detracted as growth in current remaining performance obligations merely met guidance and several product areas remained weak. SGA nevertheless believes the company's…
SGA re-entered Linde after exiting in 2024 for valuation reasons, as the share price consolidated while fundamentals continued to improve. The company benefits from long-term…
SGA re-entered Equinix after growth reaccelerated and its leadership transition was completed. Roughly 95% of revenue is recurring under multi-year contracts, while low churn…
TSMC was a top contributor and SGA maintained an above-average weight during the quarter. Demand for advanced logic and compute remains strong across AI accelerators and CPUs…
SGA initiated DISCO because it controls roughly 70-80% of the market for critical cutting, grinding and thinning equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing. Its equipment…
SGA initiated Galderma because its dermatology platform spans injectable aesthetics, skincare and therapeutic dermatology with strong physician relationships and recurring…
SGA initiated Arista Networks for its high-performance, software-driven networking platform used by hyperscalers and cloud customers. Its EOS operating system and focused…
SGA initiated Schneider Electric because it is one of the few global companies capable of delivering end-to-end electrical solutions and services at scale. Its installed base…
Arm remains a core SGA holding because demand for Arm-based CPUs and royalties continues to expand across data-center and AI workloads. The company delivered 20% revenue growth…
Netflix detracted during the quarter despite solid first-quarter growth because second-quarter revenue and EBIT guidance came in below elevated expectations. SGA believes the…
Diamond Hill established Humana as a new holding during the quarter. Humana is the second-largest Medicare Advantage insurer in the US, and its shares benefited from strong…
Diamond Hill initiated a position in Centene because it believes managed-care margins now have a realistic path to recovery over the next few years. The recovery thesis depends…
Diamond Hill initiated a position in Verisk Analytics because it is the leading provider of data and analytics to the insurance industry and operates with limited competition…
Diamond Hill initiated a position in Veralto, a water testing and treatment business spun out of Danaher in late 2023. The manager believes the market has underappreciated…
Regal Rexnord benefited from strong demand tied to data centers during the quarter. Merger synergies and operational-improvement initiatives helped produce better-than-expected…
Diamond Hill initiated a position in Equifax because its proprietary mortgage, employment and other datasets are costly and difficult for competitors to replicate. The data is…
Illumina is the leading producer of next-generation sequencing systems used to sequence DNA for research and increasingly for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Shares strengthened…
Tokyo Electron was the portfolio's top-performing holding during the quarter as investors rewarded companies directly enabling the AI infrastructure buildout. The company is a…
Tweedy, Browne established a new position in Capgemini, a French business and information-technology consulting company. The purchase was made because the managers believed the…
Tweedy, Browne established a new position in bioMérieux, a French family-controlled biotechnology company. The company produces in vitro diagnostics, including software…
Guidewire is the leading core-systems software provider to the property and casualty insurance industry. The fund views recent deal slippage as timing rather than weakening…
Entegris is a critical supplier of filtration products, materials, and delivery equipment used in high-precision semiconductor fabrication. The fund sees improving semiconductor…
Darling is the global leader in rendering animal byproducts and used cooking oil into fats and proteins for feed, specialty health products, and renewable diesel. First-quarter…
Arista is the leading provider of data-center switches to cloud-network customers and is positioned as a direct beneficiary of AI data-center buildouts. First-quarter revenue and…
Ruffer increased its position in LVMH during June. The fund sees the global luxury group as a beneficiary of a wealth effect generated by AI-related export profits in Asia. The…
BBH continues to own Darling after trimming the position on strength early in the quarter. The company's core Feed and Food operations produced better-than-expected results…
BBH views Entegris as a critical supplier of filtration products, specialty materials, and delivery equipment used in high-precision semiconductor manufacturing. The…
BBH views Arista as a leading supplier of data-center switches positioned to benefit from ongoing cloud and AI infrastructure investment. First-quarter revenue and free cash flow…
BBH believes Guidewire's recent share-price weakness reflects timing issues rather than deterioration in underlying demand. The company remains the leading provider of core…
SGA initiated Arista to gain exposure to the structural expansion of high-performance data-center networking and AI workloads. Its EOS software platform, product performance, and…
SGA maintains an above-average position in Alphabet and raised its position target during the quarter. The company provides broad exposure to AI through infrastructure…
SGA added to Netflix after share-price weakness and raised the position to an average weight. The long-term thesis centers on a recurring subscription model, low churn…
SGA continues to own Salesforce despite reducing the position to a below-average weight after subdued operating momentum. Weakness in Marketing, Commerce, and Tableau has been…
SGA views Arm as a long-term compounder benefiting from the proliferation of AI and power-efficient computing. Licensing growth, expanding royalties, increasing adoption of…
SGA continues to hold an above-average weight in TSMC and views it as a primary beneficiary of sustained demand for advanced logic and compute. Customers across AI accelerators…
SGA initiated DISCO because of its dominant position in semiconductor cutting, grinding, and thinning equipment, where it estimates market share of roughly 70% to 80%. A…
SGA initiated Galderma because of its leadership across injectable aesthetics, dermatological skincare, and therapeutic dermatology. Consumable products and repeat treatments…
SGA reinitiated Linde after previously exiting because of valuation, noting that the share price had consolidated while fundamentals continued to progress. The industrial gas…
SGA returned to Equinix after previously owning the company for a decade, believing that both its growth slowdown and leadership transition have reversed. Approximately 95% of…
SGA initiated Schneider Electric because it sees the company as one of the few global providers capable of delivering end-to-end electrical solutions at scale. Its installed…
Edgewood believes Tesla's core strengths in high-volume manufacturing and end-to-end system design can extend beyond electric vehicles into physical AI. Robotaxis are viewed as…
Edgewood sees AWS as Amazon's primary growth and profit engine, with AI workloads supporting a reacceleration toward high-20s percentage growth and margins above 35%. Custom…
Edgewood believes Reddit has a significant monetization runway because average revenue per user remains far below Meta and only modestly above several smaller social platforms…
Edgewood views Linde as a high-quality operator in an attractive industrial-gas oligopoly characterized by long-term take-or-pay contracts, regional density advantages, and…
SGA continues to own Salesforce despite cautious investor sentiment and growth that has recently only met guidance. Weakness in Marketing, Commerce, and Tableau has been…
SGA maintained its Netflix position despite near-term share-price weakness following guidance that fell below investor expectations. The company continued to produce double-digit…
SGA views Alphabet as a broad beneficiary of the AI investment cycle because its exposure spans infrastructure, foundational models, developer tools, and scaled consumer…
SGA remains constructive on Nvidia because demand from major cloud customers continues to align with the company's long-term outlook. Management continues to expect…
SGA continues to view Arm as a durable beneficiary of growing demand for power-efficient computing and AI workloads. The company delivered approximately 20% revenue growth and…
SGA initiated Arista Networks because it sees durable growth from the continued buildout of hyperscale, cloud, and AI networking infrastructure. Arista's Extensible Operating…
SGA initiated Equinix after growth reaccelerated alongside AI inferencing and elevated demand for data-center power. Approximately 95% of revenue is recurring and generally…
Techtronic Industries owns the Milwaukee and Ryobi power-tool franchises and benefits from product innovation and battery ecosystems that drive customer loyalty and repeat…
Samsung Electronics is increasingly benefiting from strong memory pricing and accelerating demand from AI and data-center infrastructure. Aristotle believes the company is…
Magnum Ice Cream is the world's largest dedicated ice-cream manufacturer and owns brands including Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto, Wall's, Breyers and Yasso. Aristotle sees…
Accenture remains, in Aristotle's view, a premier enterprise-transformation partner despite weaker bookings, discretionary IT pressure and concerns that generative AI could…
Pan Pacific is a Japanese discount retailer whose shares were pressured by acquisition concerns, new-format costs and questions around gross-margin sustainability. Aristotle…
Aristotle sees Exxon Mobil as a compelling investment built around balance-sheet strength, flexible capital allocation and advantaged growth assets. Low leverage should provide…
Guardant Health benefited from several company-specific catalysts during the quarter. These included FDA approval of an updated Guardant360 liquid-biopsy test, inclusion of…
Applied Materials is positioned at the center of semiconductor manufacturing investment tied to AI compute and infrastructure. Aristotle highlights the company's exposure to…
Aristotle initiated AMD because its product roadmap and rack-scale systems increasingly position the company as a credible second source in data-center CPUs and accelerated…
Aristotle initiated Micron because it believes the memory industry has entered a structurally longer and stronger upcycle than the traditional two- to three-year cycle…
Corteva's near-term outlook has been pressured by tariff concerns, oil-related input costs, farmer fuel expenses and competitive crop-protection pricing. Aristotle nevertheless…
Autodesk is the industry standard in computer-aided design for architecture, engineering and construction and benefits from a highly recurring subscription model. Aristotle sees…
Qualcomm is evolving from a handset-centric semiconductor company into a broader provider of connected-computing technologies. Aristotle views recent handset inventory and…
Edwards Lifesciences is a leader in structural-heart therapies and has established its Sapien platform as a leading transcatheter aortic valve replacement system. Aristotle…
Motorola Solutions provides mission-critical communications and security systems, anchored by a land-mobile-radio franchise deeply embedded in public-safety agencies. Aristotle…
Aristotle originally invested in Alphabet when investors feared generative AI would erode Google's search and advertising franchise. The fund believes subsequent execution has…
Mercury Systems supplies mission-critical computing, signal processing, software and secure electronics for aerospace and defense customers. Aristotle believes the company is…
Alamos Gold is a North American-focused gold producer whose shares were pressured by reduced 2026 production guidance and operational challenges at the Young-Davidson mine…
MACOM designs and manufactures high-performance semiconductor products serving data-center, industrial and defense, and telecom markets. Strong earnings and guidance reflected…
UMB Financial is a diversified regional bank with commercial banking, asset servicing, private wealth, healthcare payments and specialty financial-services businesses. Its…
IPG Photonics is a leader in high-power fiber laser technology used across industrial manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication, electric vehicles and medical applications…
Huron Consulting provides technology, data and analytics solutions to healthcare, education and corporate clients. Shares declined despite strong operating results because…
Tencent operates one of China's largest internet ecosystems across social networking, gaming, advertising, payments, cloud and other digital services. Loomis Sayles sees the…
Arm is the leading supplier of microprocessor intellectual property, earning licensing fees and long-lived royalty streams across mobile, cloud, automotive and IoT markets. Its…
Alphabet combines Google's dominant global search and advertising franchise with a rapidly growing cloud business and significant AI capabilities. The team believes AI investment…
Amazon possesses strong competitive advantages in both e-commerce and cloud computing through scale, technology, logistics, network effects and brand. AWS remains the largest…
Trip.com is one of the world's largest travel platforms and the leading online travel company in China, with additional global exposure through Trip.com and Skyscanner. Loomis…
Netflix has a global subscription video platform with more than 325 million paying subscribers and a large content library supported by substantial historical investment. Loomis…
Gartner detracted as increasing fears about AI disruption caused its valuation multiple to compress. Baron continues to own the company because of its large addressable market…
Arch underperformed as investors rotated away from resilient insurance stocks and property insurance pricing softened. Baron views this pricing cyclicality as normal rather than…
SpaceX became the Fund's dominant contributor after completing its public offering, and Baron remains extremely positive on its long-term prospects. The IPO raised more than $85…
Quanta provides infrastructure solutions across electric and gas utilities, renewable energy, communications, pipelines and other energy markets. Shares benefited from enthusiasm…
Amphenol's shares recovered after previously selling off on concerns that copper interconnect products could eventually be displaced by optical technologies. Baron believes…
Guidewire declined after several new sales moved from the fiscal third quarter into the fourth quarter, which Baron views as a timing issue because those deals subsequently…
Baron initiated Cerebras following its IPO because it believes the company has developed one of the most differentiated architectures for fast AI inference. Demand for tokens per…
Baron initiated Edwards Lifesciences because of its leadership in transcatheter aortic valve replacement and its emerging mitral and tricuspid valve therapies. The team believes…
CoStar's shares fell as fears about AI disruption caused significant multiple compression despite little evidence of a fundamental impact on the business. Baron continues to own…
BBB Foods operates the Tiendas 3B Mexican hard-discount chain and has grown its store count by roughly 20% annually for more than a decade. Orbis sees the heart of its moat in…
Orbis continues to hold Nebius after trimming the position into strength. Its conviction rests on the quality of management and a credible pathway to more than 4GW of data-centre…
City Different initiated Hamilton Lane as its only new purchase during the quarter. The company provides institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals with access to…
Walmart detracted after slightly lowering its second-quarter profit forecast and giving a more cautious outlook for the remainder of the year. Artemis nevertheless believes the…
Artemis initiated a position in UnitedHealth because its shares looked attractively valued. The team expects the company's profits to recover, making the current valuation…
Artemis added to Amazon after the shares lagged during a rotation away from large technology companies funding AI infrastructure. The team prefers Amazon within the hyperscalers…
Artemis recycled some profits from Advanced Micro Devices into MongoDB after the database software company's shares fell on fears that AI could disrupt its business. The team…
Hennessy initiated Dominion Energy in January because its predominantly regulated utility model provides stable earnings and predictable cash flow. Asset sales, debt reduction…
Entegris was the fund's largest relative equity contributor in the first half of 2026. Improving semiconductor-fab utilization and accelerating AI-driven demand are supporting…
Martin Marietta was a relative detractor because market expectations had become elevated rather than because the underlying business deteriorated. Infrastructure spending and…
MercadoLibre is the largest component of Eagle's consumer-platform allocation and is the leading e-commerce and fintech company in Latin America. E-commerce penetration in the…
Lennar's margins and earnings have fallen sharply as its geographic housing markets weakened and the company shifted toward a land-light model. Eagle believes that strategy…
Capital One combines a scaled credit-card franchise with what Eagle describes as the only full-suite scaled digital bank in the U.S. The Discover acquisition adds substantial…
Alcoa offers Eagle exposure to a structural change in global aluminum supply. China has imposed smelter caps and is no longer adding net capacity, meaning future demand growth…
EQT is the largest U.S. pure-play natural-gas producer and combines low-cost, long-lived assets with a management team Eagle views as strong capital allocators. Its Marcellus…
ConocoPhillips owns low-cost, long-lived upstream inventory that Eagle believes the market underappreciates relative to peers. Free cash flow should rise as the Willow project in…
Intuit's QuickBooks franchise dominates U.S. bookkeeping software for small and midsize businesses. Brand strength, scale and the accountant distribution network create…
SAP owns a mission-critical and highly sticky ERP franchise. Eagle expects the core business to grow rapidly as customers migrate to SAP's modern platform. Although peripheral…
Workday is a deeply entrenched HCM and financial-software platform that Eagle believes is mispriced because of broad AI disruption fears. Current mid-teen margins are well below…
Elevance is part of Eagle's 13% managed-care allocation. The industry combines significant scale advantages with structural growth above the broader economy, but recent cost and…
Humana is another expression of Eagle's view that managed-care profitability is entering a multi-year recovery. Industry margins have been pressured by Medicare Advantage and…
Eagle believes the managed-care cycle has bottomed after several years of cost and pricing pressure in Medicare Advantage and Medicaid. UnitedHealth has significant scale…
Meta is part of Eagle's consumer-platform allocation, where scale and aggregated consumer demand create advantages for advertisers and sellers. Eagle believes AI is already…
Alphabet gives Eagle exposure to both Google Cloud and large consumer platforms such as Search and YouTube. Google Cloud has become a much stronger hyperscaler competitor, while…
Microsoft combines Eagle's exposure to hyperscale cloud infrastructure with a deeply entrenched productivity-software franchise. Its scale and distribution should allow it to…
Amazon is Eagle's preferred hyperscaler because AWS combines scale, ecosystem advantages and internal silicon with a broader diversified business. The firm believes AWS can…
Eagle views Charter as a cheaply valued option on improvement in the cable industry's economics and future consolidation. The Cox acquisition will make Charter the largest U.S…
ASML is one of Eagle's favored semiconductor infrastructure businesses because it controls a critical manufacturing bottleneck. Its monopoly in extreme-ultraviolet lithography…
TSMC is one of Eagle's preferred ways to retain exposure to secular semiconductor growth while reducing dependence on more speculative AI-capex beneficiaries. Its leading-edge…
Arthur J. Gallagher is a high-quality holding operating in commercial insurance brokerage. Eagle sees the company gaining market share as its industry continues to consolidate…
Mastercard is one of Eagle's high-quality compounders and operates within a global payment-network duopoly. The payment rails benefit from scale and network effects that create…
S&P Global is included in Eagle's high-quality, low-volatility bucket because of its powerful financial-data and market-infrastructure franchises. Ratings, indexes, Platts and…
Danaher is part of Eagle's collection of high-quality businesses with stable margins, strong returns on capital and durable competitive advantages. Its life-sciences portfolio…
London Stock Exchange Group sits in Eagle's high-quality, low-volatility allocation. Its mix of clearing, indexes, trading infrastructure and financial data creates durable…
SK hynix is an out-of-benchmark semiconductor position benefiting directly from the AI memory cycle. Record revenue and strong first-quarter results reinforced Fidelity's view…
Fidelity holds Western Digital as a meaningful overweight and sees AI as a powerful driver of storage demand. The company reported better-than-expected quarterly results…
Seagate is one of the two dominant global hard-disk-drive manufacturers and is a large fund overweight. AI-capable data centers are creating very strong demand for HDD storage…
Fidelity views commercial aerospace as one of the few cyclical end markets where production remains below pre-pandemic levels despite a strong recovery in air travel. Boeing is a…
Allison Transmission is a meaningful overweight benefiting from accelerating industrial activity. Fidelity sees federal infrastructure spending and onshoring as supportive demand…
Taiwan Semiconductor is Fidelity's largest active position and a central expression of its AI investment theme. The fund believes breakthroughs in large-language, transformer and…
NVIDIA remains the dominant full-stack provider of accelerated-computing infrastructure, combining GPUs, networking, systems and software. AI-related demand remains exceptionally…
Broadcom is positioned at the center of the shift toward custom silicon for hyperscale AI infrastructure. Its long-term relationship with Alphabet through 2031 gives it an…
Welltower combines senior-housing real estate with a proprietary operating and data-analytics platform that the manager believes can structurally improve both margins and…
Cerebras has developed a differentiated wafer-scale architecture optimized for fast AI inference, an increasingly important workload as applications and agents chain together…
Alphabet combines one of the world's strongest digital distribution networks with hyperscale cloud infrastructure, proprietary AI models and custom silicon. The fund's conviction…
SpaceX has evolved from a launch-focused company into a vertically integrated technology and infrastructure platform spanning launch, satellite broadband, mobile connectivity and…
Micron is benefiting from a structural AI bottleneck because inference performance increasingly depends on memory bandwidth and capacity as well as compute. The manager expects…
Fervo is a pioneer and market leader in enhanced geothermal systems, using techniques developed in oil and gas drilling to expand geothermal energy beyond traditional volcanic…
Guidewire's InsuranceSuite is a mission-critical system of record for property and casualty insurers, handling policies, claims, premiums and payments. Because insurance…
GDS develops and leases data-center capacity to major technology companies across Asia and is positioned to benefit from cloud adoption, data growth and increasing AI demand. The…
Extreme Networks is an overweight holding providing enterprise networking solutions. Voya's machine-learning models favored the company's quality characteristics, including…
Tronox is an overweight holding and produces titanium dioxide pigment. The position was primarily held for portfolio risk-management reasons rather than because of a detailed…
Flowserve is a non-benchmark holding supplying industrial pumps and valves. Voya's machine-learning models favored its valuation on EBITDA measures and its short-interest…
Mueller Water Products is an overweight holding in water-infrastructure equipment. The machine-learning models favored its volatility and short-interest characteristics…
TTM Technologies is an overweight holding and manufactures advanced printed circuit boards. The position was primarily driven by portfolio risk-management considerations. Strong…
Bloom Energy is an overweight holding and provides fuel-cell power systems for data centers. The position also serves a portfolio risk-management role by helping balance factor…
Prologis owns high-quality global logistics assets with embedded net-operating-income growth from mark-to-market rent increases and a substantial development pipeline. Shares…
Goodman owns, develops and manages global industrial property and has a significant data-center development pipeline. A majority of its earnings come from the asset-management…
Welltower is positioned around improving senior-housing fundamentals, where demand is strong and new supply remains constrained. Rising occupancy and rent growth are supporting…
NEXTDC is an Australian data-center developer positioned to benefit from strong demand from cloud-service providers and AI tenants. During the quarter it announced a significant…
CRH agreed to acquire Arcosa for $150 per share in cash, turning the position into a merger-arbitrage opportunity. Gabelli viewed the remaining spread as an attractive…
HubSpot was pressured by the broader software selloff and by pricing changes associated with its push toward AI-enabled CRM products. Gabelli believes the company's small- and…
Gabelli initiated Genuine Parts as the company prepared to separate its industrial-distribution and automotive-aftermarket businesses. The manager believes the two operations are…
The fund initiated Microsoft near its 52-week lows after judging sentiment to have become excessively negative. Concerns centered on Microsoft's OpenAI exposure and the broader…
Gabelli estimates that roughly half of EchoStar's value is tied to its approximately 2% ownership interest in SpaceX, which the fund believes is heavily discounted in EchoStar's…
Microchip reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue, margins and forward guidance above expectations. Demand was broad, with Aerospace and Defense providing a relatively insulated…
MKS beat revenue and earnings expectations in the first quarter and raised guidance again. The company is benefiting from accelerating AI logic and memory capital spending, with…
Knight-Swift is benefiting from an improving freight cycle following one of the longest freight recessions on record. Truckload spot rates and contract pricing have tightened as…
Steel Dynamics benefited from higher steel prices and wider metal spreads during the quarter. Section 232 tariffs reduced import competition and allowed domestic producers to…
Devon's shares weakened as crude prices declined and investors became cautious following its acquisition of Coterra Energy. The market remained in a wait-and-see posture ahead of…
Expand Energy delivered first-quarter revenue and earnings above expectations and repurchased $150 million of stock. Shares nevertheless weakened after management's…
FTI Consulting produced resilient revenue but first-quarter EPS fell well below expectations because of higher SG&A expenses that management expects to persist through 2026. Its…
Trimble reported strong first-quarter revenue and margin improvement, although full-year guidance implied slower growth during the remainder of 2026. Management highlighted macro…
L3Harris weakened during a broader defense-sector derating as investors questioned whether the proposed defense budget and its reconciliation package would pass Congress. A…
Molina's strong first-quarter results shifted attention back toward the strength of its core government-sponsored health-plan business. After a difficult 2025, the results…
Hyatt benefited from accelerating revenue per available room and stronger franchisee interest in its brands during the quarter. These trends are translating into improving…
Morningstar's share price has been pressured by fears that generative AI will disrupt financial research and data services. Baron instead views Morningstar's trusted, structured…
Gartner's recent contract-value slowdown reflects temporary public-sector cost cutting and caution among companies exposed to tariffs and macroeconomic uncertainty. Baron rejects…
Guidewire's multi-year transition from on-premise software to the cloud is now substantially complete, removing a major historical overhang. A landmark ten-year agreement with…
Baron views Tesla increasingly as a vertically integrated physical-AI company rather than only an electric-vehicle manufacturer. Full Self-Driving penetration and subscriptions…
SpaceX is the fund's largest holding and Baron believes reusable launch technology can continue dramatically reducing the cost of accessing space. Lower launch costs support…
The market has discounted FactSet because of perceived AI disruption, but Baron believes the company is becoming critical infrastructure for AI-enabled financial workflows…
CoStar is the leading information and marketing platform serving commercial and residential real estate, but its valuation compressed sharply as investors generalized AI…
The fund initiated a small position in Lumentum, a leader in optical-networking hardware used to move data between AI chips, servers and data centers. The investment case is that…
Tower Semiconductors represented 3.0% of net assets and was among BSTZ's ten largest positions. BlackRock believes advanced semiconductors remain foundational to the expanding AI…
Elite Material represented 3.0% of net assets and was one of BSTZ's ten largest holdings at quarter-end. BlackRock is emphasizing hardware, infrastructure and enabling…
Nvidia represented 3.7% of net assets and remained one of BSTZ's ten largest holdings. BlackRock believes advanced semiconductors and compute remain foundational to the AI…
Lumentum represented 4.0% of net assets and was one of BSTZ's ten largest holdings. BlackRock sees AI infrastructure and AI model companies as core portfolio pillars as…
Micron Technology was a 4.5% position and one of BSTZ's ten largest holdings at quarter-end. BlackRock views AI infrastructure as a core portfolio pillar and is selectively…
LongRun considers ASML one of the best-positioned businesses within the AI ecosystem because its semiconductor manufacturing equipment is both mission-critical and unique…
LongRun purchased Amphenol because it combines mission-critical products with durable switching costs, pricing power and an entrepreneurial operating culture. Its connectors…
LongRun initiated a position in Nvidia during the quarter because it believes the company's fundamental profile has strengthened while its valuation has de-rated. Nvidia now…
LongRun believes Tencent is well positioned to benefit from AI because its businesses provide platforms through which AI can be implemented and monetised. The manager believes…
The Fund believes Gartner's stock-price weakness reflects excessive investor fear that AI will disrupt syndicated research and information services rather than evidence of…
The Fund believes FIGS can continue gaining share in the global health-care apparel market despite significant recent stock-price weakness. The company reported strong…
The Fund continues to own Primerica because it expects the company's earnings growth to persist. Rising equity markets are supporting investment product sales and asset-based…
The Fund believes Choice Hotels offers an attractive combination of improving fundamentals and a historically depressed valuation. Revenue per available room accelerated during…
The Fund believes Red Rock Resorts remains attractively valued relative to the long-term potential of its Las Vegas locals casino business. Construction-related disruption has…
The Fund believes weakness in Kinsale's valuation primarily reflects a temporary softening in the property and casualty insurance cycle. Even as pricing in certain insurance…
MSCI is among the portfolio holdings whose valuation has been pressured by concerns that AI could disrupt information-service businesses. The Fund believes the magnitude of the…
The Fund believes the current softening of the property and casualty insurance market is a temporary part of the normal insurance cycle rather than a structural problem for Arch…
Morningstar is included among the Fund's information-service holdings that have experienced severe valuation compression because of investor concerns about AI. The Fund believes…
FactSet is part of a group of portfolio companies whose valuations have compressed sharply because investors fear AI could disrupt established information and software…
The Fund views Guidewire's recent weakness as largely the result of deal timing rather than deterioration in its business. Several deals slipped from the fiscal third quarter…
Baird initiated a position in Agilysys while increasing exposure to software. The company provides mission-critical cloud software to hotels, resorts, casinos, cruise lines, and…
Baird initiated a position in Alkermes as part of its increased exposure to commercial-stage therapeutics. The company is one of only a few businesses with a leading product in…
Baird initiated a position in Axsome Therapeutics as one of three commercial-stage therapeutics companies added during the quarter. Axsome already has multiple marketed products…
Baird initiated a position in Ascendis Pharma as part of an increase in exposure to commercial-stage therapeutics companies with promising growth potential. The company's…
Baird purchased MDA Space because it believes the company is positioned to benefit from a structural expansion in the space economy. Dramatically lower launch costs enabled by…
Baird re-established a position in Ollie's Bargain Outlet during the quarter. The investment team expects new merchandising leadership to improve execution and operating…
Baird initiated a position in Crocs because it sees an attractive opportunity as the company's revenue growth outlook improves. The investment team expects improving revenue…
Baird initiated a position in Modine as another way to maintain exposure to AI-related industrial spending. The investment team believes investors are underestimating how long…
Baird purchased Centuri because it believes the market is underestimating the company's growth potential. Its record backlog suggests earnings growth could come in well above…
Baird initiated a position in AAON to maintain exposure to industrial companies benefiting from AI infrastructure spending. The investment team believes the market is…
Baird purchased Generac because it expects structural growth in demand for resilient power infrastructure. AI data centers and semiconductor fabs require increasingly reliable…
Baird initiated a position in Crocs because it sees an attractive opportunity as the company's growth outlook improves. The fund expects improving revenue growth prospects to…
Baird initiated Centuri because it believes the market is underestimating the company's growth potential. A record backlog points to earnings growth above current market…
Baird purchased AAON to maintain exposure to industrial companies benefiting from AI infrastructure investment. The fund believes investors are underestimating both the duration…
Baird purchased MDA Space because it believes the company can benefit from a structural expansion of the space economy. Lower launch costs driven by reusable rockets are opening…
Baird added Ascendis Pharma as part of an increase in exposure to commercial-stage therapeutics companies with promising growth potential. Ascendis has developed a proprietary…
Baird added Axsome Therapeutics as one of several commercial-stage therapeutic companies with promising growth potential. The company already has multiple marketed products…
Baird added Agilysys as it increased exposure to software despite continued weakness across the sector. The fund views Agilysys as a high-quality cloud software business with…
Baird purchased Generac as part of its effort to retain exposure to AI-related industrial growth. The fund expects a long-term increase in demand for resilient power…
Baron continues to own Visa because it sees a long runway for growth and significant competitive advantages. Revenue and earnings grew strongly during the quarter, payment…
Baird re-established a position in Ollie's Bargain Outlet during the quarter. The fund believes new merchandising leadership should improve execution and operating performance…
Baron believes Guidewire's recent weakness was caused primarily by deal timing rather than deterioration in its business. Several contracts slipped from the fiscal third quarter…
Baron believes recent weakness in LPL Financial reflects a temporary sentiment overhang rather than deterioration in the company's growth outlook. Investors have become concerned…
Baird added Alkermes as part of its increased exposure to commercial-stage therapeutics. The fund highlights Alkermes as one of a small number of companies with a leading product…
Baron initiated a position in AerCap, the world's largest aircraft leasing company, because it sees a combination of secular air travel growth, constrained aircraft supply…
Baron initiated a position in JPMorgan Chase during the quarter after a share-price pullback created what it viewed as an attractive valuation. The firm considers JPMorgan an…
Baron initiated American Express during the quarter following a pullback in its shares. The fund views the company as an industry leader gaining share in a large global market…
Baron views Interactive Brokers as a structural share gainer in the global brokerage market. Client accounts, customer equity, margin balances, and trading activity continue to…
Baron retains long-term conviction in Morgan Stanley following strong execution across Wealth Management and Institutional Securities. Record fee-based flows, strong trading and…
Baron believes the sell-off in CME Group is overdone and sees minimal risk to its dominant institutional derivatives franchise. Near-term trading activity weakened as market…
Baron continues to own Tradeweb despite weaker trading activity as market volatility moderated during the quarter. The fund believes Tradeweb has strong network effects and a…
Baird purchased Modine as an industrial company positioned to benefit from continued AI infrastructure spending. The fund believes the market is underestimating the persistence…
GE Aerospace is positioned to benefit from favorable aerospace industry fundamentals. The strategy believes damage to aerospace production infrastructure cannot be repaired…
Astera Labs is owned as part of the Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund believes the scale of the AI infrastructure opportunity has evolved far beyond its original…
NVIDIA is a major holding within the Compute Infrastructure theme. The strategy believes AI has become a multi-trillion-dollar capital cycle in which increasing token demand and…
Applied Materials is part of the strategy's Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund originally identified growing digital infrastructure demand but believes the opportunity has…
Taiwan Semiconductor is owned within the strategy's Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund believes AI has evolved into a multi-trillion-dollar capital formation cycle, with the…
Bank of New York Mellon is held within the strategy's new Evolving Financials theme. The fund believes many financial institutions enter the current period with well-capitalized…
Goldman Sachs is held within the new Evolving Financials theme. The fund believes financial companies spent the post-global-financial-crisis period improving efficiency, reducing…
Caterpillar participates in the strategy's US Output theme, which focuses on rebuilding American productive capacity. The fund estimates that declining domestic manufacturing…
Seagate is positioned within the strategy's Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund believes AI-driven capital formation extends well beyond processors and includes the broader…
Analog Devices is held within the Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund believes AI has materially increased the scale and breadth of digital infrastructure investment, with…
Rolls-Royce is held within the strategy's aerospace exposure and continued to benefit from favorable aerospace fundamentals during the quarter. The fund believes years of…
The Fund believes increasingly capable AI models will increase rather than reduce structural demand for cybersecurity. More capable AI makes malicious actors more dangerous while…
The Fund added to Eli Lilly because it views the company as a compelling large-scale opportunity in the still-underpenetrated GLP-1 market. It expects GLP-1 drugs to become…
The Fund continued building its Amphenol position because it believes the market underestimates the company's ability to innovate and adapt as data-center architectures evolve…
The Fund initiated Cerebras because it believes fast AI inference will become increasingly valuable as AI shifts toward reasoning and agentic workflows. Cerebras' wafer-scale…
The Fund believes Coupang remains a competitively advantaged e-commerce platform despite temporary margin pressure and lingering effects from its 2025 data breach. Capacity and…
The Fund views SpaceX as a unique company positioned at the intersection of AI and the emerging space economy, with competitive advantages it believes are exceptionally difficult…
The Fund views Broadcom as another core beneficiary of sustained AI infrastructure demand and believes its valuation understates the strength of that opportunity. Semiconductor…
The Fund believes investors are underestimating the durability of NVIDIA's growth as AI infrastructure spending expands. Despite repeated concerns about custom ASICs and…
The Fund views TSMC as the dominant manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors required for modern AI accelerators. AI demand is driving exceptionally strong results…
The Fund believes concerns that AI-driven applications will weaken Shopify's position in e-commerce are misplaced and instead sees the company as an AI beneficiary. Shopify…
The Fund believes the weakness in Intuitive Surgical shares reflects temporary concerns rather than deterioration in the company's long-term opportunity. Investors reacted…
The Fund believes Snowflake is benefiting simultaneously from strength in its core data platform and increasing demand for AI capabilities. Management raised its fiscal 2027…
The Fund believes Datadog is a structural beneficiary of AI adoption, cloud migration, faster application deployment, and increasingly complex technology infrastructure. Revenue…
Tactile Fund initiated a significant position in Grupo México, focusing on the conglomerate's mining and rail assets. Through Southern Copper and ASARCO, the company controls…
FFB Bank is a Fresno-based community bank and payment processor that River Oaks believes combines a strong relationship-banking franchise with an underappreciated payments…
Ascent Industries is a specialty chemical manufacturer undergoing a turnaround toward a higher-margin 'chemicals-as-a-service' model built around proprietary formulations and…
CORZ is a key beneficiary of the compute shortage, possessing valuable, shovel-ready data center co-location capacity that is in short supply. With a foundational $10 billion…
We are short Salesforce due to the accelerating competitive pressure from AI advancements, exemplified by Anthropic's recent product releases. We believe there is a widening gap…
We initiated an event-driven position in Zoom to capitalize on a re-rating driven by its stake in Anthropic, which has seen a significant increase in its valuation and recurring…
As a top holding and significant event-driven position, our investment in EchoStar is based on the large discount to its net asset value (NAV). We anticipate a value realization…
The fundamentals for Siemens Energy remain strong, as the company is a key beneficiary of the secular increase in energy demand from AI data centers. Furthermore, it stands to…
FIX is one of our preferred ways to invest in the labor side of the AI capital expenditure boom, targeting the mechanical, electrical, and HVAC contractors essential for building…
Finch won a significant patent infringement lawsuit, with a potential award of $25 to $80 per share. The company is now pursuing a Chapter 11 filing to eliminate a lease…
Liquidia is extremely cheap under any outcome of its patent infringement case. A win implies a share price of $140, while a loss with a royalty implies $123. Even in the highly…
Emerging markets are inexpensive and are poised to benefit from a weakening US Dollar. A weak dollar policy, which may be implemented by the Trump Administration, would be a boon…
Precious metals are expected to perform well in an inflationary environment marked by a loss of faith in central banks. The fund holds positions in two non-mining companies that…
JOE owns 165,000 acres in the Florida Panhandle and is set to benefit from a major population migration away from large cities. The company is expected to experience rapid…
The refining sector is positioned for high returns due to a tight market caused by underinvestment, refinery shutdowns, and reduced Chinese exports. If global economic growth or…
Marex is a structural beneficiary of elevated commodity volatility and trading volumes. The company is taking market share, growing revenues, and is expected to earn well in…
The recent acquisition of Wilson Sons Ultratug is highly accretive, adding over $100 million in EBITDA for a total outlay of about $500 million in cash and assumed debt. This…
As a uranium giant, Cameco is an example of the opportunities in companies that address global energy challenges. With the immediate priority shifting to energy logistics and…
The market is creating a 'paradox' by not rewarding MercadoLibre's stock, which has gone nowhere despite dramatic revenue and profit growth over the last five years. Current…
Nebius has successfully de-risked its business model over the last year, answering key questions around its viability. It has secured massive, long-term contracts with major…
AST SpaceMobile is successfully transitioning from an R&D startup to an operational scale-up, with manufacturing progress, growing revenues, and a strong balance sheet. Key risks…
Merlin Labs, a recent de-SPAC, is an under-followed company that the market has not properly analyzed. Its 'tiny public float, locked-up insiders,' and entry through the SPAC…
The market is incorrectly focused on near-term memory pricing trends while ignoring the crumbling of the broader bear case. Key concerns around tariffs and sales momentum have…
FTAI is successfully transforming into a capital-light, high-margin MRO franchise for the CFM56 engine. By using proprietary parts and its vertically-integrated platform, it…
Despite a recent share price decline due to macro factors, Baby Bunting's turnaround strategy is progressing well, with expanding gross margins and successful store…
We have high conviction in Ingenia's long-term prospects due to its visible earnings growth, strong asset backing, and exposure to favorable demographic trends. The stock has…
Lendlease currently trades at a significant discount to its net tangible assets (NTA) because the market is overly focused on the exit from its non-core CRU segment. However, we…
Wise is one of the fund's largest positions and is viewed as a company with a hidden moat created by a stack of interlocking capabilities rather than one dominant competitive…
The Trump administration's commitment to privatization presents a clear path to unlock value in the GSEs. A quick re-listing on a major exchange, which can be executed without…
UMG is a high-quality, capital-light royalty on growing music consumption, currently trading at a record low valuation of 18x earnings. Growth is set to accelerate from…
Alphabet is successfully leveraging its core strengths to execute on its vast AI potential, which is having a transformative impact on Search and YouTube. AI Overviews in Search…
With the Trump administration committed to privatization, we believe a simple re-listing of the GSEs on the NYSE can happen quickly, driving a significant re-rating of the…
QSR is a high-quality business with significant long-term growth potential trading at a highly discounted valuation. Its largest businesses are outperforming peers, and it's…
Hertz is in the early stages of a turnaround with asymmetric upside. The company has completed its fleet refresh and achieved best-in-class vehicle utilization. We believe…
BN is a leading alternative asset manager with high-quality, growing cash flows, trading at a significant discount. Its earnings growth is poised to accelerate to ~25%+ due to…
UBER is a high-quality business positioned for rapid earnings growth, trading at a compelling valuation due to misplaced industry concerns. The medium-term outlook suggests…
We initiated a position in Amazon at a highly attractive valuation, believing it operates two world-class franchises. AI adoption is accelerating AWS’s growth, and we expect…
Meta's current share price underappreciates its long-term AI upside, representing a discounted valuation for a world-class business. The company is a dominant leader in the…
HHH is beginning its transformation into a leading diversified holding company, a pivotal shift that started in 2025. This transformation, supported by a $900 million investment…
Horos increased Expro after its share price came under pressure despite results that contained no major surprises. The acquisition of Enhanced Drilling adds pressure-management…
Horos initiated a position in Suzano after reallocating capital away from stainless steel. Suzano is the world's largest pulp producer, with capacity almost three times that of…
Horos initiated a position in Bolloré because it believes the holding company's complexity has prevented the market from recognizing the value of its assets. The group has been…
Horos also initiated a position in Compagnie de l'Odet, the central holding company through which the Bolloré family controls the wider group. The unusual cross-holding structure…
Horos trimmed TGS after the seismic-data company more than doubled from its 2025 lows, but it remains one of the larger positions in the international portfolio. The business…
Crypto Native Capital is shifting from defense to offense by beginning to dollar-cost average its cash into bitcoin from September 1 through year-end. The fund argues that…
Tweedy, Browne established a new position in bioMérieux during the quarter. The French family-controlled biotechnology company produces in vitro diagnostics, including software…
Tweedy, Browne established a new position in Capgemini during the quarter. The French company provides business and information-technology consulting services. At purchase, the…
Fairfax is presented as a core insurance compounder benefiting from both underwriting profits and the investment of insurance float. The letter highlights that Fairfax has…
Constellation Software is a serial acquirer of niche vertical-software businesses with a long record of strong earnings growth and capital allocation. The shares fell more than…
Interactive Brokers is viewed as one of the largest and most efficient global brokerage platforms, with a highly automated model and strong profitability. The fund emphasizes its…
Texas Pacific Land remains a highly profitable long-term holding that earns royalties from oil and water resources on its Texas land. The manager sees an additional source of…
Phoenix Financial was added in 2025 as an Israeli insurance compounder. The manager was impressed by both its insurance capabilities and its investment operation, matching the…
Kinsale was added to the insurance compounder bucket because it specializes in excess and surplus insurance for unusual risks that many traditional carriers decline to insure…
Protector is a longstanding insurance holding that the manager says continues to stand out in the European insurance industry. Since the fund began buying the shares in 2017, the…
Markel is described as a holding and insurance company that resembles a smaller Berkshire Hathaway and is led by renowned investor Thomas Gayner. The fund values the insurance…
Assured Guaranty is included among the fund's preferred insurance compounders. The business primarily insures municipal liabilities, fitting the manager's preference for insurers…
Exor is a longstanding family-controlled holding company that the fund views as a durable compounder with strong capital allocation and a history of successful acquisitions. Its…
Brookfield is viewed as a compounding asset-management platform whose scale and fee streams can grow with assets under management. The letter says Brookfield has increased AUM at…
People Inc., formerly InterActiveCorp, is controlled by Barry Diller and is viewed as a holding-company compounder with a long record of creating shareholder value. The manager…
KKR is a large alternative asset manager that the fund believes can compound through continued growth in assets under management and the economics of a highly profitable…
Matrix initiated a new partial position in Abbott Laboratories after a significant share-price pullback. The fund likes Abbott's diversified healthcare businesses, recurring…
Matrix initiated a new partial position in McDonald's as the shares traded near a 52-week low. The fund views the company's historical financial performance as resilient…
Optimist views Affirm's transaction-by-transaction underwriting model as structurally better aligned with consumers than revolving credit because repayment terms are fixed…
ThredUp's active buyers, orders and revenue all beat expectations, growing 25%, 19% and 15% year over year, while management guided to an acceleration across those trends. The Q1…
First Advantage delivered organic revenue growth of 9%, EBITDA growth of 14% and adjusted EPS growth of 52% year over year, with all three metrics beating expectations…
Carvana's retail units sold continued to grow at approximately 40% year over year. A visit to the Cleveland reconditioning center reinforced the fund's positive view of the…
Wayfair delivered another strong quarter with high-single-digit revenue growth and material EBITDA expansion. After visiting the company's new Columbus store, the fund became…
Williams is one of the fund's four North American midstream holdings. Guinness expects hydrocarbon demand in the US and Canada to grow over the next five years, with natural gas…
Kinder Morgan is one of the fund's four North American midstream holdings. Guinness expects hydrocarbon demand in the US and Canada to grow over the next five years, with natural…
Enbridge is one of the fund's four North American midstream holdings. Guinness expects hydrocarbon demand in the US and Canada to grow over the next five years, with natural gas…
TC Energy is one of the fund's four North American midstream holdings. Guinness expects hydrocarbon demand in the US and Canada to grow over the next five years, with natural gas…
Valero is the fund's independent refining exposure in the United States and is the largest US refiner. The company has a significant presence on the US Gulf Coast and is…
Crypto Native Capital believes bitcoin is approaching the historically favorable re-entry portion of its four-year cycle after nine months of a bear market. The fund had…
Corning is the fund's largest equity holding and has benefited from tightening supply and strong demand associated with AI infrastructure. Auxier highlights bottlenecks in…
Auxier views Alphabet as a durable compounder whose underlying economics are not dependent solely on the success of the current AI investment cycle. Google Search and YouTube…
Auxier sees Mastercard as a durable payment-network business positioned at the center of an increasingly digital economy. The company plays a critical role across a broad range…
Auxier views Philip Morris as an enduring business capable of adapting to changing consumer behavior. The company has successfully shifted a substantial portion of its business…
Kroger has been weak because inflation, high interest rates and elevated fuel costs have pressured consumer spending, but Auxier sees the depressed valuation as attractive. The…
Auxier believes UnitedHealth is using AI in a disciplined way to improve existing operations rather than making speculative infrastructure investments. Automation in…
Auxier describes Bank of New York Mellon as an important behind-the-scenes financial infrastructure business with high customer switching costs. The company is investing nearly…
Immersion sees Strata as an overlooked remainco created after the former Blade sold its passenger e-mobility operation and retained its organ-transplant logistics and…
Immersion argues that Red Violet's identity-verification business has been wrongly treated as vulnerable to AI disruption. Its CORE platform is itself AI-driven and continuously…
Immersion believes investors misinterpreted a temporary margin decline at Mama's Creations. The company incurred expenses in the first quarter to prepare for new Walmart product…
Frontdoor sells home service plans and coordinates repairs through a network of contractors. The company serves only about 2% of U.S. homes, leaving room for continued organic…
Advance Auto Parts is a major fund position undergoing a turnaround. Curreen notes that the business historically generated returns on tangible capital approaching 20%…
GetBusy provides online document exchange systems, primarily for accountants, and has continued growing since its 2017 spinoff from Reckon. The reported company is currently…
Siemens Energy owns major power-generation and electricity-transmission businesses alongside a wind-turbine operation undergoing a turnaround. The company was separated from…
Curreen purchased Optimum as a short-duration tender-offer special situation rather than as a conventional long-term investment. The company offered to repurchase roughly 40% of…
Curreen views VF Corporation as a turnaround backed by valuable consumer brands including The North Face, Timberland and Vans. The company has repaired its balance sheet…
Fortrea is a contract research business that helps biotechnology and pharmaceutical customers design and execute clinical trials. The company was spun out of Labcorp in 2023 and…
Curreen added to TriNet because it viewed the company as an excellent business emerging from a difficult operating period at an unusually cheap valuation. Rapid changes in…
Curreen bought Green Dot as a merger-spinoff opportunity tied to its combination with CommerceOne Financial. The transaction would separate Green Dot's fintech operation while…
The fund initiated a position because Fortune Brands ranked highly across several of its quantitative indicators. Free cash flow measures were particularly attractive, while the…
The fund added to Regeneron because the stock ranked highly on cash flow and forecast earnings measures, two of LSV's most important valuation factors. Management has been…
Applied Industrial Technologies is a value-added industrial distributor and technical-solutions provider whose core maintenance and repair markets benefit from highly durable…
discoverIE designs and manufactures customized electronic components for industrial customers, with exposure to structural growth markets including automation, security…
Lam Research provides Barometer with exposure to the memory-semiconductor upcycle through the equipment used to manufacture memory chips. Memory producers are increasing capacity…
National Bank of Canada is part of Barometer's increased allocation to financials as the sector emerged into market leadership. The bank benefits from strong capital-markets and…
SiTime is a new technology position and a leader in precision timing devices. Its silicon-based products are increasingly replacing legacy quartz components. Rising data rates in…
Hudbay gives Barometer direct exposure to copper and its structural demand drivers. The manager sees electrification, grid investment and data-center construction as compelling…
Howmet Aerospace gives Barometer exposure to the strong commercial aerospace cycle. High utilization of the global aircraft fleet is supporting a robust aftermarket for engine…
Citigroup anchors Barometer's newly established financials exposure and is viewed as a multi-year turnaround. Simplification of the franchise, exits from non-core consumer…
Barometer established a new CSX position as part of its industrial exposure. Freight rail is benefiting from steady shipment volumes and firm pricing. Ongoing…
Barometer increased its Caterpillar position as industrials assumed market leadership. The company is benefiting from construction and mining demand linked to the resource cycle…
GE Vernova is positioned at the center of a multi-year build-out in electricity generation and grid infrastructure. AI data centers, broader electrification and modernization of…
NVIDIA remains a core beneficiary of Barometer's renewed semiconductor exposure. The manager views NVIDIA as the dominant compute platform for artificial intelligence. Heavy…
Bombardier is benefiting from healthy demand for business jets. Its growing services operation carries higher margins and improves the quality of the earnings mix. Continued…
M-up is the dominant Japanese fan-club operator, combining fan clubs with e-ticketing and e-commerce in a two-sided marketplace serving artists and fans. Revenue has compounded…
InBody is a category creator and global leader in body-composition measurement devices, with the US and Europe becoming its largest markets after years of geographic expansion…
Azeus has been pressured by broad fears that AI will disrupt software and by an unexpected reduction in its large Hong Kong government CERKS contract. The manager argues that its…
Bronte considers Alphabet exceptionally well managed and credits the company with responding aggressively to the existential threat that AI poses to traditional Google Search…
Greystone views Pitney Bowes as a turnaround whose true economics remain obscured by its legacy reputation as a declining mail company and years of GAAP losses from restructuring…
Shift4 shares fell after strong 2025 results were accompanied by weaker-than-expected 2026 guidance, tax-free-shopping headwinds and lower free-cash-flow conversion. Greystone…
Natural Resource Partners owns coal and soda-ash royalty interests, and weak commodity conditions have left the shares flat to down despite Greystone's longer-term thesis. The…
Greystone believes KITS has built a meaningful price-and-convenience advantage by delivering prescription glasses for roughly one-third to one-quarter of traditional retail…
Kingsway is evolving from a neglected conglomerate into a public-market version of the search-fund model. Insider ownership is high, sell-side coverage is absent and Greenhaven…
Greenhaven continues to see a long growth runway for PAR and believes the business has crossed into EBITDA profitability. The fund's differentiated view is that analysts…
Burford is the dominant litigation-finance platform, with a large historical case dataset that Greenhaven believes improves case selection and underwriting. More than 285 funded…
Hagerty's collectible-car insurance franchise benefits from strong customer loyalty, proprietary data, scale and unusually efficient distribution partnerships. Revenue compounded…
The market increasingly treats Cellebrite as vulnerable to AI disruption, while Greenhaven believes AI can expand the company's opportunity. Cellebrite's Genesis product embeds…
Greenhaven's thesis centers on monetizing Lifecore's excess pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity. The company added seven customers in nine months, including at least two that…
Greenhaven continues to regard KKR as a high-quality alternative-asset manager despite concerns surrounding private credit. The fund expects the current private-credit scare to…
Compass Diversified became a special-situations investment after fraud at one subsidiary damaged confidence, complicated financial reporting and increased balance-sheet pressure…
Greenhaven initiated a roughly 1% position in AppLovin as part of a small basket of AI beneficiaries. The fund views AppLovin as one of the strongest examples of AI being…
AnaptysBio's value is heavily tied to royalties from GSK's Jemperli, which has grown into a strategically important oncology asset with more than $1 billion of sales. Greenhaven…
Analog Devices is held as part of the Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund believes AI has transformed digital infrastructure demand into a much larger capital cycle centered…
NVIDIA is a major portfolio holding within the Compute Infrastructure theme. The strategy believes the constraint in digital infrastructure has shifted from connectivity toward…
Astera Labs is owned within the Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund believes AI has produced a capital investment cycle substantially larger than the digital infrastructure…
Rolls-Royce is positioned to benefit from favorable aerospace fundamentals. The fund believes the aerospace production infrastructure suffered damage that cannot be rapidly…
Taiwan Semiconductor is held within the Compute Infrastructure theme. The fund believes AI has developed into a multi-trillion-dollar capital formation cycle in which the primary…
Applied Materials is part of the portfolio's Compute Infrastructure theme. The strategy believes AI infrastructure spending has expanded far beyond its original expectations and…
Bank of New York Mellon is included in the new Evolving Financials theme. The fund believes financial institutions enter the current recovery with well-capitalized balance…
GE Aerospace is benefiting from favorable aerospace industry fundamentals. The fund argues that capital alone cannot quickly repair the damage to aerospace production…
Caterpillar is positioned around the fund's US Output theme and the expansion of domestic industrial investment. The strategy estimates that years of underinvestment have left a…
Seagate is part of the fund's Compute Infrastructure exposure. The strategy believes AI is driving a large and sustained capital formation cycle as data-center capacity and…
Goldman Sachs is part of the fund's Evolving Financials theme. The strategy believes financial companies spent the post-financial-crisis period improving efficiency, reducing…
Negative sentiment around private credit exposure is overblown. While retail funds have seen redemptions, net flows are near zero and institutional demand remains strong. The…
Negative sentiment around private credit exposure is overblown. While retail funds have seen redemptions, net flows are near zero and institutional demand remains strong. The…
Fears that AI will replace all software are overblown; Microsoft's software suite will be enabled by AI, not replaced. The company is deeply entrenched with its customers, and…
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