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"Underperforming due to technology and industrials exposure amid policy uncertainty from the new administration. The firm actively repositioned the portfolio, adding five new positions while eliminating 14 underperformers."
Next Century Growth Investors' small cap growth strategy underperformed in Q1 2025, declining 12.99% net versus the Russell 2000 Growth Index's 11.11% decline. The underperformance was primarily driven by holdings in technology and industrials sectors, while consumer discretionary, basic materials, and healthcare provided relative outperformance. Market volatility stemmed from uncertainty around the new Trump administration's policy initiatives including spending cuts, immigration policy, and tariff implementation, causing investors to worry about slowing growth and rising recession probabilities. NCG added five new positions across healthcare, technology, and consumer sectors while eliminating 14 positions with deteriorating fundamentals. The firm sees potential catalysts including possible Fed rate cuts if economic weakness emerges, accelerating infrastructure spending benefiting small companies, and attractive valuations with small cap growth stocks at relative levels not seen for years. Despite near-term challenges, NCG maintains conviction in their philosophy of investing in high-quality growth companies through direct research, believing this approach will generate long-term outperformance as economic uncertainty eventually clears.
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