Investment Pitches

Pitch Summary:
Elsewhere in industrials, Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp. reported good earnings and stable guidance, while diversifying with the addition of a pharma platform. The company also announced a significant share buyback program, signaling management’s confidence in Marubeni’s value and commitment to shareholder returns.

BSD Analysis:
Marubeni is a diversified Japanese trading house with exposure to commodities, infrastructure, energy, food, and consumer businesses. The conglomerate benefits from global capex cycles and a disciplined approach to portfolio optimization. Cash flow is strong, and capital returns have become increasingly shareholder-friendly. Marubeni is better managed than its old-school “sogo shosha” reputation implies. Commodity exposure provides upside torque. A well-diversified global operator riding Japan’s renewed corporate governance tailwinds.

Pitch Summary:
Judges Scientific is a serial acquirer of niche scientific instrument businesses in the UK. The company has delivered 22% returns on incremental capital for 20 years by our estimates and 25% p.a. shareholder returns. Cofounder David Cicurel remains CEO and is someone with high integrity, a clear customer focus, strong capital allocation skills and owns shares worth around 200x his base salary. While the stock trades at an optically high 23x EV/FCF we believe it can still deliver a 25% IRR going forwards. We first bought shares in Judges at £61/shr and it trades at £81/shr today.

BSD Analysis:
Judges Scientific is a serial acquirer of niche scientific-instrument companies, executing a quiet, flawless roll-up strategy. Each acquired company is small, specialized, and cash-generative, allowing Judges to improve margins and reinvest methodically. The group’s decentralised model preserves domain expertise while benefiting from corporate discipline. It’s one of the cleanest compounders in European small caps. Organic growth is moderate, but acquisition returns are exceptional. This is an under-the-radar capital-allocation machine. Think “mini-Danaher,” but quirkier and more efficient.

Pitch Summary:
The stock has declined 34% this year and is largely unchanged since our last letter. The company sells Rolex and other luxury watches in the US and UK. While profits are impacted by US tariffs on Swiss imports, we think investors have greatly overreacted. The stock trades on 10x FCF net of the tariff impact for a business that still has a long runway to grow organically at high single-digits and to deploy capital at 15-20% returns. We profile Watches of Switzerland in greater detail below.

BSD Analysis:
WOSG dominates luxury watch retail, benefiting from supply constraints and brand partnerships with Rolex, Patek, and others. Demand for high-end timepieces remains strong, supported by global wealth trends. The company is expanding internationally while improving showroom productivity. Risks include macro slowdowns and uneven allocations from watchmakers. Margins are strong due to mix and premium positioning. If luxury demand holds, WOSG continues compounding. A high-quality retailer with scarcity economics.

Pitch Summary:
Jet2, for example, has rebounded by 20% since we highlighted it in our last letter but still trades on 8x P/E for a business that has net cash, double-digit growth prospects, the best competitive position and management team in the industry, and a track record of gaining share during downturns. The company recently began a buyback equivalent to 7% of its current market cap.

BSD Analysis:
Jet2 is the best-run leisure airline in Europe, with a vertically integrated holiday business that gives it revenue stability and superior economics. Its focus on customer service and value makes churn negligible. The tour operator model locks in demand visibility far earlier than pure airlines. Jet2’s balance sheet discipline stands out in a volatile sector. Cost inflation is a risk, but Jet2 consistently executes better than peers. It’s a rare airline where fundamentals look genuinely attractive. A quiet excellence story in travel.

Pitch Summary:
While less known in Western markets, Xpeng has emerged as one of the most credible players in industrial humanoids. In late 2024, the company debuted “Iron,” a 5’8″, 60-joint humanoid robot already functioning on the assembly line of its EV plant. Xpeng is investing over $13.8 billion to build out its robotics division—declaring outright that the robotics opportunity will eventually surpass automotive. In our view, this sets up a multi-polar future in robotics, with China, the U.S., and Japan each taking different approaches to scale and commercialization. Across these three companies, we see a consistent throughline: robotics is no longer a slide in an investor presentation—it’s a real-world driver of efficiency, safety, and speed. Robotics could reconstruct the physical world in the 2020s and beyond.

BSD Analysis:
Xpeng is a high-growth, high-risk Chinese EV challenger executing a surgical pivot to survive the brutal EV price war by focusing entirely on AI and autonomy. The core thesis is a massive organizational restructuring and a pivotal cooperation with Volkswagen, which validates Xpeng's software and intelligent driving value. The velocity is undeniable: Q3 2025 revenue increased 101.8% year-over-year, driven by a 149.3% boost in vehicle deliveries. Xpeng is a technological leader, being among the first in China to launch urban NGP (Navigation Guided Pilot) and mass-producing end-to-end large AI models. While the stock tanked 10% on a disappointing Q4 revenue forecast, this volatility masks the clear long-term plan: management is targeting over 50% of deliveries from overseas markets in the next decade, with high-margin service business gross margin approaching 60%. The stock is a leveraged bet on a technological winner in the world's largest EV market.

Pitch Summary:
Amazon’s robotics network—now numbering over 1 million autonomous robots across more than 300 fulfillment centers—is nothing short of an industrial revolution in progress. Since acquiring Kiva in 2012, Amazon has scaled up its in-house robotics stack with a clarity of vision and execution that we believe remains underappreciated by the market. Their latest innovation, Sequoia, shortens order processing time by 25% and improves inventory handling by 75%. Equally impressive is Amazon’s foundation model, DeepFleet, which has cut travel time across its robotic fleet by 10%. These aren’t marginal gains—they’re margin catalysts. Robotics is playing a pivotal role in Amazon’s push to double its operating margins in North America from ~5% to 10–11% over time. Amazon is building a greenhouse for innovation, compounding structural efficiency and financial oxygen.

BSD Analysis:
Amazon is the unassailable AI infrastructure and e-commerce oligopolist, whose stock is a conviction bet on the durability of its two core profit engines: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Digital Advertising. The core moat is AWS, which posted 20% revenue growth and accounts for 60% of the company's total operating income. Critically, Amazon is doubling down on AI with a $4 billion investment in Anthropic, locking in fundamental model development and positioning itself as a major player in generative AI. Concurrently, the Digital Advertising segment is a high-margin cash cow, leveraging the company's vast shopping data to offer targeted advertising. The e-commerce segment is structurally repairing its margins through logistics restructuring and lowering fulfillment costs. The stock is a compelling investment target with a 16% estimated upside, justified by its diversified, high-growth revenue streams.

Pitch Summary:
In July, Tesla flipped the switch. Its robotaxi network—powered by the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) platform—officially began commercial service in Austin, Texas. While the headlines haven’t yet caught up, we believe this marks a generational milestone in both transportation and artificial intelligence. This is no longer a simulation. No longer a slide deck. No longer a promise of what’s to come. What matters now is the ability to scale the project—first slowly and then with increasing acceleration. Tesla now operates the world’s first vision-based, end-to-end autonomous mobility network using consumer-owned vehicles. And because the software stack was built entirely in-house—from silicon to inference engine—Tesla controls the unit economics in a way no other player can. With FSD deployed at scale, Tesla’s cost to serve a mile approaches zero. Every incremental robotaxi mile becomes a margin story. Robotaxi gross margins could exceed 70%. The global personal transport market is estimated at $10 trillion. Capturing even a slice yields enormous upside. Austin is just the start.

BSD Analysis:
Tesla is a high-stakes, visionary technology play whose valuation is a grotesque disconnect from traditional auto industry metrics, justified only by its dominance in AI and autonomy. The core thesis is that Tesla is not an automaker; it is an AI powerhouse whose competitive moat is its Full Self-Driving (FSD) program and its massive, proprietary data fleet. The stock maintains an uptrend despite persistent bearish scrutiny over slowing revenue growth and severe margin compression from price wars in China. Investors are paying for the future, unproven success of its AI initiatives, its "Cybercab" launch, and AI chip manufacturing—not its current vehicle sales. The bull case relies on the belief that its technological leadership will soon translate into meaningful, structural earnings growth that no rival can match.

Pitch Summary:
We’ve been closely following Alibaba for over 15 years—through its IPO, meteoric rise, regulatory turbulence, and now its strategic reset. Over that time, we’ve come to understand the company not just as China’s Amazon, but as a foundational piece of the country’s digital economy. Its reach spans e-commerce, logistics, cloud computing, and fintech, with a scale and infrastructure footprint that is nearly impossible to replicate. After years of growth and volatility, what we now see is a business that’s leaner, more focused, and trading at a valuation that no longer reflects its long-term earnings power. What makes this moment particularly compelling is the convergence of a depressed multiple and a maturing opportunity set. While sentiment around China and its tech sector remains cautious, Alibaba continues to generate strong free cash flow and dominate key verticals in one of the largest consumer markets in the world. As the regulatory environment stabilizes and the company leans into shareholder returns, we believe the risk-reward dynamic has meaningfully shifted. It’s rare to find a business of this caliber, with this level of optionality, trading at such a compressed valuation. We’re re-engaging not just because of where Alibaba has been—but because of where it still has the potential to go.

BSD Analysis:
Alibaba is a deep-value Chinese tech titan whose stock is trading at a massive discount, punished by geopolitical uncertainty and regulatory noise that masks its unassailable market dominance. The core thesis is a generational arbitrage play on the company's sheer scale: it occupies 50% of the $1.8 trillion Chinese e-commerce market and is the largest cloud computing provider in the APAC region. Despite the complexity of its VIE structure and regulatory headwinds, the underlying business continues to generate strong financial results, with total revenue increasing 35% to RMB509,711 million in fiscal year 2020. While its core commerce remains the dominant revenue driver (86% of total revenue in FY2020), its Cloud Computing segment is poised for explosive future growth. The stock represents a high-conviction bet on the long-term growth of the Chinese consumer and the inevitability of the cloud market, trading at an attractive price point due to market pessimism.

Pitch Summary:
Wynn Resorts (WYNN) and Las Vegas Sands (LVS) provide a calculated bridge to the Chinese economy—without the direct exposure and risk that typically come with mainland investments. These companies maintain significant assets in Macau, the world’s largest gaming hub, which functions as a unique access point to Chinese consumer demand. In the wake of COVID, there has been a great deal of uncertainty about a potential rebound. But we see an optimistic picture emerging: a rebound in tourism, a gradual reorientation of China’s domestic economy toward consumption, and an underappreciated opportunity to capture upside in Asian discretionary spending. What makes this position compelling is the structure—U.S.-based corporations benefiting from Chinese growth dynamics while operating under the legal and financial protections of American capital markets. As Chinese wealth creation resumes and regional travel flows normalize, we believe companies like WYNN and LVS are positioned to be long-term beneficiaries. LVS shares these advantages while benefiting from scale in Macau and Singapore.

BSD Analysis:
Las Vegas Sands is the undisputed, cash-generative global oligopolist in convention-based Integrated Resorts, now running a surgically clean, Asia-only pure-play. The core moat is its concentration on the high-margin mass market gaming segment in Macau and Singapore, which generates superior margins compared to VIP play. The company’s Marina Bay Sands in Singapore is a compounding machine, delivering Adjusted Property EBITDA in excess of US$2 billion for the first time in 2024. LVS converts this colossal cash flow into direct shareholder returns, having repurchased $500 million of common stock in Q3 2025 and increasing its annual dividend to $1.20 per share. With $3.65 billion in unrestricted cash, LVS is a conviction bet on the stability and growth of Asian middle-class tourism, secured by a fortress balance sheet and relentless capital return.

Pitch Summary:
Wynn Resorts (WYNN) and Las Vegas Sands (LVS) provide a calculated bridge to the Chinese economy—without the direct exposure and risk that typically come with mainland investments. These companies maintain significant assets in Macau, the world’s largest gaming hub, which functions as a unique access point to Chinese consumer demand. In the wake of COVID, there has been a great deal of uncertainty about a potential rebound. But we see an optimistic picture emerging: a rebound in tourism, a gradual reorientation of China’s domestic economy toward consumption, and an underappreciated opportunity to capture upside in Asian discretionary spending. What makes this position compelling is the structure—U.S.-based corporations benefiting from Chinese growth dynamics while operating under the legal and financial protections of American capital markets. As Chinese wealth creation resumes and regional travel flows normalize, we believe companies like WYNN and LVS are positioned to be long-term beneficiaries. These are plays on the next phase of China’s consumer story—but executed through entities governed by robust disclosure standards, shareholder protections, and capital allocation discipline.

BSD Analysis:
Wynn Resorts is an ultra-luxury arbitrage play on a massive, non-cyclical structural pivot to the UAE and post-COVID Macau recovery. The core thesis is driven by the imminent launch of Wynn Al Marjan Island in 2027, which grants the company a first-mover advantage and a near-monopoly in a potentially multi-billion-dollar new Middle Eastern market. This aggressive international expansion is already reflected in its 37.7% one-year total shareholder return. While the stock trades at a slight premium to the US Hospitality sector average, its 26.3x P/E ratio is attractive compared to the average peer at 61x. Analysts maintain a "Strong Buy" consensus and estimate an 18.4% upside from current prices, believing the market is significantly underpricing the transformative earnings growth and margin improvement from its international leverage.

Pitch Summary:
Canal+ – French media company Canal+ was a top performer in the quarter. Canal+ is one of the entities Vivendi spun off last year. It had a difficult start as a standalone listing, as can happen sometimes with spin-offs. The company has since been finding its footing as the year has gone on, and it continues to be one of our most compelling ideas, which we detailed further in our May Research Perspectives note.

BSD Analysis:
Canal+ is a European premium media and streaming operator with strong local content, sports rights, and international expansion ambitions. While global streamers fight for scale, Canal+ thrives by focusing on regional depth and curated premium experiences. Its pay-TV base remains sticky, especially in France, and African growth adds a meaningful long-term vector. ARPU is high thanks to sports and exclusive content. The shift toward multi-platform distribution improves resilience. Canal+ isn’t trying to be Netflix — it’s trying to own premium niches. A steady media operator with real pricing power.

Pitch Summary:
Around 18 months ago now we discovered Nu Holdings. Its low unit-costs, customer obsession and disruptor mindset in the lazy world of consumer banking immediately sparked our interest. Simply put Nu Holdings has the best unit costs in global full service banking (75% below peers and still falling). It uses these low costs not to boost profits but instead to offer customers better interest rates (e.g. Nu's 12% Mexican deposit rate vs c.5% offered by peers). Because of this and its high customer service focus, Nu is rightly loved by consumers. This can be seen in the speed with which 118m customers have flocked to it but also in its great Net Promoter Scores (NPS). The global banking industry consumer offering has not really changed much in 50 years. We think that might be about to change. We think Nu has the right building blocks and culture in place to challenge not just banks in Latin America, but globally. Nu has real dedication to low-units costs combined with a desire to innovate and share such cost efficiencies with its customers. It is also obsessed with delighting the customer. These traits when combined create a powerful flywheel model that has been super successful in other industries and geographies. No one (except Wise) is trying to take this model into financial services, until now. All this is symptomatic of the disruptor business models we seek out and what we look for in a business model with a long runway of growth. Indeed, when we wrote about 'Supernatural Compounders' in our Nirvana piece, Nu was at the forefront of our mind. Two further points interest us about Nu. The first is the giant scope of growth in front of it as arguably the whole global banking industry is ripe for this type of disruption. The second is how much the company's current earnings are depressed, suggesting the shares are not as expensive as they look. To compete with Nu, incumbent banks will need future cost bases that are c.75% lower than today's and more importantly a management mentality that passes much of that new efficiency on to customers. This would mean a re-basing of profits to much lower levels. From today's starting point of incumbent bank culture and customer/shareholder relations this will be almost impossible to achieve. With super low and stable unit-costs each dollar increase in ARPU is highly profitable to the company. Particularly so, when such growth is just driven by existing customers maturing in their relationship with the company. At a c.60% incremental profit rate were the company's ARPU to be $15 not $11.2 its annual profits today would be $4.8bn not $2.2bn. Adjusting for this reduces the Dec24 PE from 28x to 13x. Remember this is a historic multiple for a company growing 25-40% pa. Also, one with a runway to keep growing at similar rates for many years into the future.

BSD Analysis:
Nu Holdings is a high-growth, disruptive digital banking titan whose stock is a conviction bet on the structural, multi-year digital transformation of financial services across Latin America. The core thesis is driven by its massive customer base of 105 million in Brazil (representing 60% of the adult population). This scale creates significant cross-selling opportunities across its expanding product portfolio. The company's low-cost, digital-only model and advanced AI capabilities for credit risk assessment drive superior profitability: Return on Equity (ROE) is projected to remain robust at 29% through 2030. Nu is a high-quality compounder, leveraging its technological edge to capture the multi-trillion-dollar Latin American banking market.

Pitch Summary:
Brookfield Corporation is a holding company that manages investment strategies in direct real estate, asset management, private equity, and insurance. The company's longstanding expertise comes from its heritage in real estate investing, where it continues to hold an extensive portfolio of high-profile and trophy properties in the office, retail, and hospitality sectors. Through the firm's ownership of Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), it provides institutional investment portfolios with a significant focus on real estate, including projects related to energy and infrastructure. BAM's key holdings in these business lines include: Brookfield Renewable Partners, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, and Brookfield Property Group. Brookfield Corp. is also in the process of growing its wealth solutions business through insurance-related offerings in annuities. The advantages of real estate in an environment of unstable currencies can be seen through two lenses. First, rental contracts with tenants generally have escalation clauses that compensate the lessor for rising inflation, thereby creating a built-in hedge for future cash flows. Second, because real estate is a hard asset, itself composed of various commodities, it has a readily discernible replacement value that can be calculated with some level of agreement in the marketplace. These two factors tend to protect real estate assets against depreciating currencies over longer periods of time. In addition to the core fundamental inflation hedges in its business, we are also drawn to Brookfield's focus on growth in the real estate sector through investment activities related to AI data centers and the increasing demand for electricity driven by the digital economy. Importantly, the company's global scale enables it to make these investments across various geographies and political jurisdictions, thereby diversifying its exposure to a single currency or economic policy. For instance, the company is investing in the buildout of AI data centers across Europe with key projects in Sweden and France, as well as in the United States. While we believe the two drivers we described above represent attractive fundamental qualities in this economic environment, and for that matter, future ones, we can also cite the scale at which Brookfield can deploy capital as a competitive advantage in this economy. The simple fact is that at the holding company level, it houses $155 billion in capital on its balance sheet, controls $110 billion in insurance float, and its asset management companies carry an AUM of approximately $1 trillion. We believe these levels of assets enable Brookfield and its subsidiaries to participate at their discretion in what is shaping up to be a significant global capex cycle in capital-intensive investments, as new technologies related to AI, electricity demand, and even country-specific stories such as India spur a widespread need for investment and the necessary financing. In other words, we believe the company is well-positioned to deploy capital at scale. Doing so, should sustain its profile as a growing company in a world that is embracing new technologies yet becoming increasingly fragmented and self-reliant. In conclusion, we believe Brookfield offers a unique combination of downside protection and scalable upside in a rapidly evolving global economy.

BSD Analysis:
Brookfield is a unique, best-in-class asset manager that functions as a publicly-traded, LBO-style holding company, offering investors leveraged, long-duration exposure to essential global assets. The core thesis is the relentless growth of its Asset Management (BAM) fee income, which is insulated by massive, long-term fund commitments (e.g., 15-year lock-ups) and drives predictable, high-margin cash flow. This entire model is designed to be a "world-class compounding machine with diversified, recurring, and inflation-protected cash flows". The stock is undervalued due to its perceived complexity, but its vast holdings in renewable energy, infrastructure, private equity, and real estate position it to benefit from every major structural megatrend.

Pitch Summary:
CDW’s shares fell in response to the proposed tariffs, which if implemented, could lead to higher IT hardware prices and have an impact on near-term demand trends. However, as a value-added reseller without direct manufacturing exposure, we expect CDW’s margins to be relatively insulated from the effects of higher costs. We also believe many of CDW’s customers have maintained some of their IT hardware assets beyond their useful lives, and expect that there will be a bump in replacement demand in the near future.

BSD Analysis:
CDW is a high-quality, high-growth IT solutions oligopolist whose stock is a conviction bet on its unassailable role as a full-stack technology integrator. The core moat is its dominance in serving a diversified client base (Corporate, Small Business, Public Sector), providing essential hardware, software, and services. The company is a key beneficiary of the corporate push for cloud and AI adoption. CDW is delivering superior execution, with Q3 2025 Non-GAAP EPS up 3.0% to $2.71. The stock is a core holding, leveraging its scale and service-led model to capture non-cyclical IT mathbfspend}.

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Airbnb is a leader in the alternative accommodation lodging market with approximately 8 million active listings on its platform. The company has a dominant market position due to the network effect between guests and hosts where more supply inherently attracts more demand. The uncertainty surrounding the tariff announcements and the potential for a deterioration in the macroeconomic environment caused the shares to meaningfully decline, which presented the opportunity to invest in Airbnb at an attractive price.

BSD Analysis:
Airbnb is the dominant, high-margin travel marketplace oligopolist whose stock is a conviction bet on the structural shift to unique, experiential travel. The core moat is its asset-light, two-sided marketplace model, which generates superior profitability and high Return on Invested Capital (31.02%) compared to asset-heavy peers. The company is driving superior financial velocity, with Q2 2025 revenue reaching $3.1 billion (up 13% YoY). Despite a premium P/E ratio of 30.91, this valuation is justified by its superior margins and high-growth optionality in adjacent travel verticals.

Pitch Summary:
Our insurance holdings, including Arch Capital Group, which performed strongly in the first quarter, underperformed the strong equity market in the second quarter. Both businesses continue to perform well overall, although their rates of growth are slowing as we enter the later innings of the insurance pricing cycle.

BSD Analysis:
Arch Capital is an unassailable, high-quality global specialty insurer and reinsurer whose stock is a conviction bet on its disciplined, cycle-aware underwriting and technological superiority. The core moat is its ability to allocate capital across specialty insurance and global reinsurance, allowing it to chase the highest returns in the hard market. This is a unique, high-margin, culture-driven business that emphasizes business ownership and agility. The company's ROEs today are better than its long-term average, signaling current superior profitability. The stock is a core defensive holding, leveraging its specialized expertise to deliver high returns on equity.

Pitch Summary:
Fiserv’s shares sold off sharply in the quarter due to a slowdown in volume growth at its Clover payment processing unit. Fiserv’s other businesses are performing well, and we believe the slowdown at Clover is due to transitory factors and that growth will pick back up in the latter part of 2025.

BSD Analysis:
Fiserv is a deep-value, high-quality fintech giant whose stock is an asymmetric recovery bet on the accelerating monetization of its core platforms. The core thesis is driven by its massive 70.2% stock price drop in 2025, creating an extreme valuation arbitrage. The company's fundamentals remain structurally sound: Return on Equity of 17.00% is well above its cost of equity, and its intrinsic value is estimated to be 54.1% undervalued. The stock is trading at a depressed P/E multiple of 9.17x, which is less than its conservative "Fair Ratio" of 18.04x. Fiserv is a high-conviction play on the eventual re-rating of a cash-flow-rich giant that is fundamentally mispriced by the market.

Pitch Summary:
The stocks of both Analog Devices and Texas Instruments performed well as sales and profits at both companies turned positive. It appears that the long-awaited analog semiconductor cycle has bottomed out and we expect performance at both companies to continue to improve.

BSD Analysis:
Analog Devices (ADI) is an unassailable, high-growth analog semiconductor oligopolist whose premium valuation is justified by its indispensable role in Industrial, Automotive, and 5G/AI communications. The core moat is its deep trust and long-term design partnerships, which provide superior visibility and high switching costs. The company is poised for a cyclical recovery, capping a robust year with FY 2025 revenue of $11.0 billion (up 17% YoY) and Adjusted EPS of $7.79. This financial velocity allows ADI to return capital aggressively, giving back 96% of free cash flow to shareholders.

Pitch Summary:
Ferguson, a distributor of plumbing and HVAC products, reported improvements in both sales and profits during the quarter. These results were helped by the easing of deflationary pricing in a handful of product lines that have negatively impacted the company’s growth over the last 18 months. As the pricing environment continues to improve and volumes remain steady, we believe Ferguson’s growth will return to its historical cadence.

BSD Analysis:
Ferguson is the unassailable, high-growth North American plumbing and HVAC distribution oligopolist. The core thesis is driven by its scale advantaged business model and its dominant market share in the non-cyclical repair, maintenance, and improvement (RMI) market. The company is converting this dominance into superior financial performance, with Q1 2025 non-residential revenue growing 12% and diluted EPS up 23.9%. Management is confidently guiding to 5% net sales growth and 9.4%-9.6% adjusted operating margin. Ferguson is a high-quality compounder leveraging disciplined capital return ($208 million in share repurchases) and strategic M&A to solidify its market leadership.

Pitch Summary:
PotlatchDeltic – Timberland and mill company PotlatchDeltic was a detractor for the quarter. Despite sentiment shifting from the company being a tariff winner in Q1 to now being the victim of a sluggish housing market, the underlying business continues to see growth. Consequently, our position evolved, and we became net buyers during the quarter after trimming in the first quarter. The company continues to stand out as an undervalued, reliable dividend payer with a disciplined management team, despite some considering it a boring company.

BSD Analysis:
PotlatchDeltic is a high-quality, high-yield timberland and real estate REIT whose stock is a conviction bet on the long-term, structural scarcity and value appreciation of timberland assets. The core moat is its massive and diversified timberland holdings (over 1.8 million acres), which provide a natural hedge against inflation and a predictable, renewable revenue stream. The key catalyst is the company's real estate development segment (particularly in high-growth U.S. markets), which provides a high-margin, optionality-driven revenue source. PCH is a defensive compounder, leveraging its essential, environmentally sound resource base to deliver high cash flow and a superior dividend yield.