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Turtle Creek sees extreme valuation dislocations creating their best-ever opportunity set despite recent underperformance. The manager has tripled positions in quality names like Colliers trading at historical-low multiples due to overblown AI disruption fears. Portfolio companies are aggressively buying back stock at depressed prices. With founder-led businesses growing earnings while trading at decade lows, the manager expects substantial returns as multiples normalize.
Turtle Creek operates as private equity investors in public markets, focusing on founder-led, high-quality businesses with long-term cash flow growth trading at extreme valuation dislocations.
The manager expresses high confidence that fundamentals will prevail and that patient investors will be rewarded. They describe the current portfolio as the best combination of quality and valuation attractiveness in their history. The manager expects multiple expansion and continued earnings growth to drive returns, with aggressive buyback activity accelerating value creation. They acknowledge frustration with recent underperformance but maintain conviction based on their long-term track record of navigating similar periods successfully.
As of Jun 30, 2026
Founded in 1998 by Andrew Brenton, Jeffrey Cole, and Jeffrey Hebel, who have worked together continuously for over 25 years and previously established the private equity subsidiary of The Bank of Nova Scotia. The three founders have invested substantially all of their liquid net worth in Turtle Creek funds, creating strong alignment with client interests. The firm has grown from 5 to 11 investment professionals over six years and now comprises 12 investment team members with 16 additional employees across Investments, Relationship Management, Compliance and Investor Relations, and Finance and Operations teams. The founders bring cumulative experience of over 50 years in investment management and have developed a repeatable, teachable investment approach.
Quality Value / Growth
Lead Portfolio Manager & CIO
High Conviction Bullish
Market Conviction
The manager operates a concentrated portfolio of 25-30 positions and has tripled their stake in Colliers to make it a top-five holding, demonstrating strong position-sizing conviction. They name specific holdings with detailed fundamental analysis and explicit valuation metrics. Premium Brands is described as one of their largest holdings after 20+ years of ownership. The manager uses declarative language about being severely undervalued and expresses confidence in multi-year earnings growth. However, the portfolio is not extremely concentrated (5-10 names), preventing a score above 0.85. The combination of concentration, named positions with sizing, and willingness to add aggressively during weakness supports a high conviction score.
Growth Outlook
The manager describes a very strange stock market with extreme price-to-value dislocations and indiscriminate AI-driven selloffs affecting quality companies. While they acknowledge disappointing performance and perplexing market behavior, they frame current conditions as creating opportunity rather than expressing systemic bearishness. The cautious tone around market irrationality is balanced by confidence in eventual fundamental recognition, resulting in a mildly negative but not deeply pessimistic market view.
Risk Appetite
The manager is aggressively deploying capital into depressed holdings, tripling their position in Colliers to make it a top-five holding and maintaining Premium Brands as one of their largest positions despite significant declines. They describe the portfolio as having 25-30 concentrated positions in high-quality companies. The active addition to positions during weakness and maintenance of concentrated exposure demonstrates strong risk-on positioning, though not maximum leverage or all-in deployment.
Capital Deployment
The manager has tripled their position in Colliers after its 50% decline, moving it from below-average weight to a top-five holding. They maintain Premium Brands as one of their largest holdings despite its decline. This represents significant capital deployment into existing positions. However, they also exited Encore Capital and substantially reduced TFI International and Magna to 1% weights, indicating some harvesting activity. The net effect is meaningful deployment as they are adding aggressively to depressed core holdings, but the rotation activity prevents a score above 0.75. No explicit cash level changes are stated.
Forward Guidance
The manager states explicit confidence that fundamentals will prevail and describes the current portfolio as the best combination of quality and valuation in their history. They are actively adding to positions like Colliers and maintaining large positions in companies experiencing multiple compression. The forward stance is clearly bullish with active deployment bias, though tempered by acknowledgment of recent frustration and the inherent patience required in their approach.
Language Signal
The letter contains substantial bullish language around opportunity, undervaluation, attractive prices, quality, and growth potential. However, it is balanced by significant discussion of disappointing performance, frustration, perplexing markets, and detractors. Terms like severely undervalued, compelling value creation, and best portfolio in history are offset by acknowledgment of weak share prices and discouraging results. The net balance leans moderately positive but is far from overwhelmingly bullish.
Perceived Risk
The manager acknowledges disappointing performance, extreme price-to-value dislocations, and a very strange stock market. They discuss AI disruption concerns affecting multiple industries and note periods of inevitable underperformance. However, risk discussion is moderate and contextualized as temporary market irrationality rather than fundamental threats. The manager frames risks as creating opportunity and expresses confidence in navigating similar periods successfully. Risk language is present but not dominant, with no systemic warnings or tail risk scenarios discussed in detail.
Opportunity Density
The manager explicitly states the current portfolio represents the best combination of quality and valuation attractiveness in their history. They describe extreme price-to-value dislocations across their holdings and characterize multiple companies as severely undervalued at historical-low multiples. The manager is finding sufficient opportunities to triple positions and maintain concentrated exposure. The language around best-ever opportunity set and compelling value creation across the portfolio indicates a very rich opportunity environment from their perspective.
Time Horizon
The manager describes themselves as private equity investors in public markets focusing on long-term cash flows. They have owned Premium Brands for over 20 years and Colliers for five years. The letter emphasizes multi-year earnings growth expectations and states they think about potential acquisitions, organic growth, and long-term competitive positioning. The manager explicitly notes their approach will outperform over the long term and discusses confidence that fundamentals will prevail, indicating patience through volatility. While not permanent capital structure, the multi-decade holding periods and explicit long-term orientation support a high time horizon score.
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