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Umatiya Investment Group 2026 Q3 Investor Letter | Buyside Digest

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Primary Source Intelligence • Q3 2026 Letter Analysis

Umatiya Investment Group Quarterly Analysis

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Fund Returns

QTD+10.28%

YTD+20.9%

Positioning StanceCONSTRUCTIVE

Digest Analysis

Quick Take

"Disciplined capital allocation requires ruthlessly exiting fully valued compounders to redeploy into high-yielding asymmetric opportunities trading at deep discounts to normalized cash generation."

Executive Summary

Umatiya Investment Group delivered a net return of 10.28% for the third quarter of 2026, significantly outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark return of 2.37%. Year-to-date net returns reached 20.90% compared to 12.71% for the index, reflecting the General Partner's decision to waive management and performance fees across the entire 2026 fiscal year, without which year-to-date net returns would have been 16.42%. Portfolio cash levels experienced active tactical reallocation during the quarter, initially jumping to 15% following the complete liquidation of a major multi-bagger winner before settling down to 7% as capital was re-deployed into attractive equity opportunities. The investment team maintains a disciplined, business-owner perspective rooted in Benjamin Graham's classic framework, actively choosing to ignore headline-driven market gyrations, elevated interest rates, persistent inflation, and widespread geopolitical pessimism. Rather than reacting to daily price volatility or broader macroeconomic doom-loops, the partnership views market downturns and negative sentiment as opportunities to exploit price-to-value discrepancies created by manic-depressive market behavior, prioritizing the long-term underlying cash generation of portfolio companies over macro forecasts. Portfolio turnover was highlighted by the disciplined full exit of National Energy Services Reunited following a 6x return over an 18-month holding period, as valuation reached an 11% free cash flow yield and failed to clear internal opportunity-cost hurdles. Proceeds were actively deployed to re-initiate a high-conviction position in Shift4 Payments following a 35% price pullback to an attractive 23% normalized free cash flow yield. The fund also reviewed its position in Gogo amid competitive incursions from Starlink, while noting strong sustained momentum in core holdings like VEON.

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Signal Matrix

Market Conviction

82%

CautiousHigh

High Conviction (82%)

Concentration is high with a 12-holding soft cap and a stated long-term goal of shrinking the portfolio below 10 high-conviction ideas. The manager demonstrates decisive capital allocation by fully exiting a 6x winner when the risk/reward skewed against it, and personal net worth is entirely invested alongside limited partners.

Growth Outlook

55%

BearishBullish

Neutral (55%)

Macroeconomic headwinds including inflation, higher interest rates, and consumer strain are explicitly recognized, but the manager disregards short-term noise to capitalize on manic-depressive market pricing.

Risk Appetite

72%

DefensiveAggressive

Aggressive (72%)

Cash reserves sit at a modest 7% after actively rotating capital out of an energy services winner directly into a beaten-down payments processor, demonstrating a healthy appetite for concentrated idiosyncratic risk.

Capital Deployment

85%

De-riskingDeploying

Deploying (85%)

Cash dropped from 15% to 7% during the quarter as proceeds from the complete liquidation of NESR were actively deployed into Shift4 Payments.

Forward Guidance

75%

CautiousExpansionary

Expansionary (75%)

The manager expresses an explicit bias toward finding superior risk/reward opportunities, selectively consolidating the portfolio into fewer than 10 exceptional businesses as compelling valuations appear.

Language Signal

65%

BearishBullish

Bullish (65%)

Language centers on asymmetric risk/reward, conservative underwritings, and significant cash flow yields, comfortably outweighing discussions of operational setbacks and consumer volatility.

Perceived Risk

60%

Low RiskElevated

Moderate Risk (60%)

The manager discusses elevated geopolitical conflict, persistent inflation, high interest rates, and specific technological competition from Starlink, though these factors are viewed as manageable risks rather than systemic threats.

Opportunity Density

65%

ScarceAbundant

Abundant (65%)

Compelling ideas offering 20% to 30% free cash flow yields are actively identified, enabling confident redeployment of capital from fully valued winners.

Time Horizon

80%

Short-TermLong-Term

Decade+ (80%)

Underwriting emphasizes a multi-year ownership mindset of 3 to 5 years or longer, deliberately ignoring day-to-day market volatility and treating public equities as private businesses.