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Ennismore Global Smaller Companies 2026 Q2 Investor Letter | Buyside Digest

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Primary Source Intelligence • Q2 2026 Letter Analysis

Ennismore Global Smaller Companies Quarterly Analysis

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Fund Returns

QTD+0.1%

YTD-0.7%

Annualized+5.4%

Positioning StanceNEUTRAL

Market CapSmallCap

GeographyGlobal

Digest Analysis

Quick Take

"But the manager sees opportunity in the market's extreme attention concentration. The portfolio holds quality, cash-generative businesses buying back stock at depressed valuations, including Wise."

Executive Summary

Ennismore's Global Smaller Companies Fund returned 0.1% in Q2 2026, bringing year-to-date performance to -0.7% and extending a disappointing twelve-month stretch. The proximate cause is the fund's lack of participation in the AI boom, as the portfolio is skewed toward buyers rather than sellers of AI tokens. The manager acknowledges this has been costly but maintains that their stock selection within chosen exposures remains modestly positive, with the underperformance driven by factor exposures to quality, digital-skewed smaller companies currently out of favor. Market attention is as concentrated as the manager can remember, trained overwhelmingly on AI, causing price mechanisms to degrade elsewhere. The fund is positioned in cash-generative businesses arbitraging their own neglect through buybacks, including Wise, which has grown a third larger while its share price fell. The biggest new position is BBB Foods, a Mexican hard-discount grocer with superior unit economics attacking Walmex's 24% gross margins. The manager views current neglect as deferring value rather than destroying it, with operational progress building that will eventually be priced when attention returns.

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Signal Matrix

Market Conviction

72%

CautiousHigh

High Conviction (72%)

The fund holds concentrated positions with the top five longs representing 22.1% of NAV, led by Wise at 5.4%. The manager provides detailed, specific analysis of individual holdings including unit economics for BBB Foods (Ps. 5.5m cost, Ps. 30m target sales, 10% four-wall margin, 26-month payback). They name specific positions, discuss sizing decisions ('We've also added alongside them' for Wise), and provide falsifiable catalysts. The letter includes an extended 2,500+ word case study on BBB Foods with specific financial projections. However, the portfolio holds 106.4% long exposure across multiple positions (not extreme concentration), and the manager acknowledges being wrong on AI participation. The conviction is high but not extreme, with clear thesis articulation balanced by acknowledgment of recent underperformance.

Growth Outlook

40%

BearishBullish

Neutral (40%)

The manager describes a market with attention 'as concentrated as we can remember' focused on AI, creating a 'physical-versus-digital bifurcation' that has accelerated. They note that 'bottleneck-hunting has become the market's favourite sport' and describe parts of the market as 'neglected' with degraded price mechanisms. However, they frame this as cyclical rather than structurally bearish, noting that 'attention, like capital, is a scarce resource that moves in cycles.' The outlook is cautious about current market dynamics but not apocalyptic.

Risk Appetite

15%

DefensiveAggressive

Defensive (15%)

The fund maintains net exposure of 64.4% (up from 60.4% prior month) with gross exposure of 148.4%. The manager is selectively adding to positions like Wise and has initiated a significant new position in BBB Foods (2.3% of NAV). However, they acknowledge being positioned away from the market's current focus (AI infrastructure) and toward 'neglected' areas. The positioning is constructive but deliberately contrarian, not aggressively risk-on. The increase in net exposure and new position sizing suggests mild positive risk appetite.

Capital Deployment

15%

De-riskingDeploying

De-risking (15%)

Net exposure increased from 60.4% to 64.4% (a 4 percentage point increase), and long exposure increased from 103.4% to 106.4% (a 3 percentage point increase). The manager added to Wise ('We've also added alongside them') and initiated 'the biggest new position' in DIA, plus a 2.3% position in BBB Foods. However, no specific cash level changes are disclosed, and the increases are modest rather than aggressive. The activity represents selective deployment into specific opportunities rather than broad-based risk-on positioning. This scores as moderate deployment.

Forward Guidance

33%

CautiousExpansionary

Cautious (33%)

The manager explicitly states they are 'late to the foundations' of AI and have 'not participated in the AI boom.' They describe the last year as 'not enjoyable' and acknowledge 'we will not pretend the last year has been enjoyable.' The forward guidance emphasizes patience and waiting: 'when attention returns – usually when the crowded theme stops paying – it finds a backlog of operational progress that was never properly priced.' This is explicitly a waiting posture, not active deployment into the current market leadership. The tone is one of enduring current conditions rather than capitalizing on them.

Language Signal

10%

BearishBullish

Bearish (10%)

The letter contains balanced directional language. Bearish/cautious terms include: 'disappointing stretch,' 'not participated,' 'cost us,' 'painful,' 'degraded,' 'neglected,' and 'expensive.' Bullish/opportunity terms include: 'operational progress,' 'opportunities,' 'deferring value with interest,' 'spectacular performance,' 'arbitrage their own neglect,' 'compelling arithmetic,' and 'backlog of operational progress that was never properly priced.' The manager frames current underperformance as cyclical positioning rather than structural failure, with opportunities building. The language is slightly more opportunity-focused than risk-focused when discussing the portfolio, but the acknowledgment of underperformance and missed themes balances this.

Perceived Risk

55%

Low RiskElevated

Moderate Risk (55%)

The manager identifies specific, named risks with meaningful discussion: the physical-versus-digital bifurcation, concentrated market attention degrading price mechanisms, and factor exposures being expensive. They acknowledge 'a disappointing stretch' and that their positioning 'has cost us over the past year.' For BBB Foods specifically, they discuss risks including assortment creep, speed of expansion, competitive response from Walmex, and the challenge of maintaining discipline as a public company. The discussion is substantive but not alarmist – risks are framed as manageable or cyclical rather than existential. The manager views current conditions as painful but temporary, not as systemic threats.

Opportunity Density

65%

ScarceAbundant

Abundant (65%)

The manager sees selective but meaningful opportunities in neglected areas. They describe 'a backlog of operational progress that was never properly priced' and note that 'cheap companies that generate cash can arbitrage their own neglect' through buybacks. They have identified specific opportunities including BBB Foods with 'decades of runway' and 'white space for at least 14,000 stores in Mexico.' Wise is described as offering 'a third more business at an all-time-low valuation.' However, they also acknowledge being positioned away from where the market is currently rewarding investors (AI infrastructure), suggesting opportunities are selective rather than broad-based. The tone is one of finding good ideas in specific areas rather than seeing opportunities everywhere.

Time Horizon

75%

Short-TermLong-Term

Decade+ (75%)

The manager demonstrates a multi-year perspective throughout. For BBB Foods, they discuss a 'runway measured in tens of thousands of stores' and note the company has been building for 'twenty years' with the founder's team working together 'for over twenty years since inception.' They reference 'decades' of AI investment phases ahead and describe grocery disruption as a 'well-armed snail: lethal, unhurried, and visible from a long way off.' The discussion of Wise emphasizes that 'the falling price is not destroying value but deferring it, with interest,' implying patience to wait for realization. However, they also monitor quarterly results and discuss near-term performance, suggesting a 2-4 year rather than decade-plus horizon. The fund structure (daily dealing UCITS) also implies less permanence than a closed-end or permanent capital vehicle.