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NZS Capital - Growth 2024 Q2 Investor Letter | Buyside Digest

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Primary Source Intelligence • Q2 2024 Letter Analysis

NZS Capital - Growth Quarterly Analysis

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Fund Returns

Annualized+16.68%

Positioning StanceNEUTRAL

Digest Analysis

Quick Take

"NZS Capital trimmed AI-beneficiary positions including Nvidia and TSMC despite strong performance, citing valuation concerns and uncertainty around $200 billion annual AI spending sustainability. Exited Workday amid enterprise software slowdown."

Executive Summary

NZS Capital's Growth Strategy gained 1.72% net in Q2 2024, underperforming benchmarks due to market narrowness favoring AI-related stocks. The portfolio benefited from semiconductor exposure through TSMC and Lam Research, while Communication Services contributed via Netflix and Alphabet. However, software weakness from Procore and Workday, plus financial sector detractors Adyen and Fiserv, weighed on performance. The manager trimmed high-performing positions including Nvidia, Chipotle, Intuitive Surgical, Trane Technologies, and Amphenol due to valuation concerns and AI enthusiasm driving multiple expansion. They exited longtime holding Workday as enterprise software faces slower growth from stringent corporate budgets. The strategy emphasizes Non-Zero Sumness investing, seeking companies that create more value than they capture. With IT comprising 41% of the portfolio, positioning remains balanced across sectors. Key risks include AI spending sustainability and market narrowness, while the shift toward stock selection over macro themes presents opportunities. The manager positions for various outcomes including potential AI spending reduction.

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Signal Matrix

Market Conviction

68%

CautiousHigh

Moderate (68%)

Manager demonstrates moderate-high conviction through specific position sizing decisions, named holdings with detailed rationales, and clear investment philosophy around Non-Zero Sumness. They provide specific examples like TSMC's strategic pricing and detailed sector allocation percentages. However, the diversified portfolio approach and hedged language around multiple scenarios prevents higher scoring.

Growth Outlook

38%

BearishBullish

Neutral (38%)

Manager expresses caution about market narrowness as a near-term concern, uncertainty about AI spending sustainability, and the need to prepare for various negative outcomes including unexpected rate decisions and economic uncertainty. However, they also see long-term opportunities in stock selection and next-wave companies, creating a mildly negative but not bearish outlook.

Risk Appetite

30%

DefensiveAggressive

Defensive (30%)

Portfolio actions demonstrate clear risk reduction through trimming strong performers across multiple sectors due to valuation concerns. Manager explicitly reduced exposure to AI-beneficiary positions and exited Workday, indicating a defensive tilt and reduced risk appetite despite maintaining sector balance.

Capital Deployment

28%

De-riskingDeploying

De-risking (28%)

Clear evidence of capital reduction through trimming multiple strong performers including Nvidia, TSMC, Chipotle, Intuitive Surgical, Trane, and Amphenol, plus complete exit of Workday. While one promotion to Resilient position occurred with Heico, the overall activity demonstrates moderate de-risking and capital harvesting.

Forward Guidance

38%

CautiousExpansionary

Neutral (38%)

Manager emphasizes preparation for various outcomes including negative scenarios like AI spending reduction and economic uncertainty. While they express confidence in their investment philosophy and ability to find next-wave opportunities, the focus on positioning for downside scenarios indicates cautious deployment bias.

Language Signal

43%

BearishBullish

Balanced (43%)

Language contains more risk-oriented terms including uncertainty, concerns, narrowness, sustainability questions, and preparation for negative outcomes. However, this is balanced by opportunity language around stock selection, next-wave companies, and long-term compounding, resulting in slightly negative directional language.

Perceived Risk

65%

Low RiskElevated

Elevated Risk (65%)

Manager identifies multiple specific risks including market narrowness, AI spending sustainability uncertainty, enterprise software slowdown, and potential for unexpected rate decisions and economic uncertainty. These risks are discussed with meaningful detail and drive portfolio positioning decisions, indicating moderate-high perceived risk in the environment.

Opportunity Density

45%

ScarceAbundant

Selective (45%)

Manager indicates they continue to find incremental ideas outside IT sector and see opportunities in stock selection over macro themes. However, the emphasis on selectivity, valuation concerns across multiple positions, and the challenging environment for enterprise software suggests a moderately constrained opportunity set requiring careful selection.

Time Horizon

75%

Short-TermLong-Term

Decade+ (75%)

Manager demonstrates long-term orientation through discussion of TSMC's 30-year compounding history, focus on companies that are power-lawing markets over time, and willingness to hold through short-term volatility. The Non-Zero Sumness philosophy inherently requires multi-year thesis development, though some catalyst dependency around AI spending timeline prevents higher scoring.