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Explore thousands of hedge fund pitches, high-conviction equity research memos, and portfolio manager commentary extracted from quarterly letters.
Explore thousands of hedge fund pitches, high-conviction equity research memos, and portfolio manager commentary extracted from quarterly letters.
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| Pitch Type | Author | Industry | Pitch Thesis & Key Summary | Bull/Bear | Action | ||
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| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | John FoxFenimore Value Strategy | InsuranceInsurance | Fenimore Value Strategy - RYAN We continued to build our position in Ryan Specialty Holdings (RYAN). The insurance industry... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | John FoxFenimore Small Cap Strategy | InsuranceInsurance | Fenimore Small Cap Strategy - RYAN We initiated a position in Ryan Specialty Holdings (RYAN), which we had previously owned after its initial public offering. The insurance industry... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Haruki Toyama, Andy Romanowich, Rich EisingerMadison Mid Cap Fund | Arista Networks, Inc. $ANET• NASDAQ | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Madison Mid Cap Fund - ANET The AI data center build out is also driving high revenue and backlog growth for Arista Networks' (ANET) advanced networking gear. We sold shares... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Matt Burdett, Christian Hoffmann, Brian McMahonThornburg Equity Income Builder Fund | -- | Thornburg Equity Income Builder Fund - ORAN Multinational telecommunications network operator, home market is France Telecom. +13.0% in 1H... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Matthew SweeneyLaughing Water Capital | AnaptysBio Inc $ANAB• NASDAQ | BiotechnologyBiotechnology | Laughing Water Capital - ANAB AnaptysBio is a special situation that I expect will resolve itself very quickly. In brief, following... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Vulcan Value Partners, LLCVulcan Value Partners - Focus | InsuranceInsurance | Vulcan Value Partners Focus - RYAN Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc., reported 11.8% organic revenue growth during the first quarter. However, the company... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Vulcan Value Partners LLCVulcan Value Partners Focus Plus | InsuranceInsurance | Vulcan Value Partners Focus Plus - RYAN Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc., reported 11.8% organic revenue growth during the first quarter. However, the company... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Tucker BrownSGA - U.S. Large Cap Growth | Arista Networks, Inc. $ANET• NASDAQ | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | SGA - U.S. Large Cap Growth - ANET We initiated a new position in Arista Networks, a high-performance networking company focused on software-driven cloud architectures for hyperscalers, cloud providers, and other high-performance computing environments. The company's core... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Brent JacksonOrbis Global Equity Fund | InsuranceInsurance | Orbis Global Equity - RYAN Take insurance brokerage. Brown & Brown... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Hrishikesh GuptaSGA - Global Growth | Arista Networks, Inc. $ANET• NASDAQ | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | SGA Global Growth - ANET We initiated a new position in Arista Networks, a high-performance networking company focused on software-driven cloud architectures for hyperscalers, cloud providers, and other high-performance computing environments. The company's core... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Timothy F. HarrisBBH Select Series - Mid Cap Fund | Arista Networks, Inc. $ANET• NASDAQ | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | BBH Select Series Mid Cap Fund - ANET Arista returned 38.4% during the quarter, ending with a weight of 5.1%. Arista is the... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Hrishikesh GuptaSGA - Emerging Markets Growth | Consumer FinanceConsumer Finance | SGA Emerging Markets Growth - BAJFINANCE.NS Bajaj Finance, the largest non-banking finance company in India, was a top contributor to performance during the quarter. The company reported... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Michael Clarke, Thomas TrentmanSands Capital Technology Innovators Fund | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Sands Capital Technology Innovators Fund - PANW Palo Alto Networks was a contributor during the quarter, supported by strong results and continued investor confidence in cybersecurity demand. Fiscal third-quarter results... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Dave Harrison SmithBailard Technology Strategy | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Bailard Technology Strategy - PANW Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is held at 4.7% of the Composite. Palo Alto Networks... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | David M. PoppeGiverny Capital Asset Management | Arista Networks, Inc. $ANET• NASDAQ | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Giverny Capital Asset Management - ANET Arista is the leading provider of networking equipment for hyperscale data centers. As AI traffic... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Sergey Dluzhevskiy, CFAThe Gabelli Global Content & Connectivity Fund | Manchester United plc $MANU• NASDAQ | Movies & EntertainmentEntertainment | The Gabelli Global Content & Connectivity Fund - MANU Manchester United plc (1.8% of net assets as of June 30, 2026) (MANU – $22.93 – NYSE) is among the world's most prominent sports and entertainment brands, with a global reach that extends far beyond soccer. Since its founding,... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | AnaptysBio Inc $ANAB• NASDAQ | BiotechnologyBiotechnology | Greenhaven Road Capital - ANAB AnaptysBio is a drug royalty company. In 2014, Tesaro... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Caesar M. P. Bryan, Gustavo Pifano, Ashish SinhaThe Gabelli International Small Cap Fund | Manchester United plc $MANU• NASDAQ | Movies & EntertainmentEntertainment | The Gabelli International Small Cap Fund - MANU Manchester United plc (1.5%) (MANU – $22.93 – NYSE) is among the world's most prominent sports and entertainment brands, with a global reach that extends far beyond soccer. Based in Manchester,... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Donny, Erwin, Nick, and the Lakehouse TeamLakehouse Small Companies Fund | Health Care SuppliesHealth Care Equipment & Supplies | Long NAN.AX (Nanosonics Limited) Nanosonics obtained FDA clearance for its CORIS system, which automates and improves flexible endoscope cleaning. CORIS faces lower... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Mark L. YockeyArtisan International Fund | ServiceTitan, Inc. $TTAN• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long TTAN (ServiceTitan, Inc.) ServiceTitan is a leading vertical software provider serving trade businesses, with key end markets in plumbing, HVAC and electrical contracting. | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Steve JohnsonForager Australian Shares Fund | Health Care SuppliesHealth Care Equipment & Supplies | Long NAN.AX (Nanosonics Limited) Nanosonics is a high-margin infection prevention equipment maker benefiting from a highly profitable razor-and-blade model. With robust double-digit... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Christopher E. HillaryProsper Stars & Stripes | Application SoftwareSoftware | Short ASAN (Asana) Asana (ASAN) was the second-largest contributor in our short book in the quarter. | BEAR | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Cooper Investors Pty LimitedCooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) | InsuranceInsurance | Long RYAN (Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc.) Ryan Specialty reported strong double-digit revenue and EBITDA growth, showing resilience despite a normalizing insurance pricing environment. The company's focus... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLCConestoga Mid Cap Composite | Clearwater Analytics Inc. $CWAN• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long CWAN (Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.) Clearwater Analytics faced stock weakness due to lower-than-expected second-quarter revenue guidance. However, recent strategic... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Ariel Investments, LLCAriel International Fund | -- | Long ORAN (Orange SA) This European telecom operator is poised to benefit from rational pricing and positive subscriber trends in core markets like France and Spain, alongside growth in MEA. The wrapping up... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Greg DeanLangdon Canadian Smaller Companies | -- | Long AND.TO (Andlauer Healthcare Group) Andlauer Healthcare Group operates as a highly defensible logistics provider transporting the vast majority of pharmaceutical products in Canada. Prior to its... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Brian McMahonThornburg Global Opportunities Fund | -- | Thornburg Global Opportunities Fund - ORAN Orange SA is the sixth largest holding. Multi-national telecommunications network... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | David M. PoppeGiverny Capital Asset Management | Arista Networks, Inc. $ANET• NASDAQ | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Long ANET (Arista Networks, Inc.) Arista Networks declined 6.3% in the first quarter, acting as a minor drag on overall performance. The manager views... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Shreekkanth "Shree" ViswanathanSVN Capital Fund | Consumer FinanceConsumer Finance | SVN Capital Fund - BAJFINANCE.NS Bajaj Finance is India's largest non-bank lender, serving over 119 million customers. It is a... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Mordechai YavnehFocus Capital Management | WANdisco plc $WAN.L• LSE | -- | Short WAN.L (WANdisco plc) The manager avoided investing in WANdisco after observing repeated failure to deliver on revenue guidance and contract announcements. This red flag... | BEAR | View Pitch → |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Jayme WigginsPalm Valley Capital Management | Industrial Machinery & Supplies & ComponentsMachinery | Long DAN.MI (Danieli) Danieli & C Savers (+14.9%, +50 bps), the Italian steel plant maker and steel producer, introduced in our third quarter 2020 letter. | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Mohnish PabraiPabrai Wagons Fund | AutoNation $AN• NYSE | Other Specialty RetailSpecialty Retail | Long AN (AutoNation) AutoNation is part of the fund's auto dealership basket, selected for its highly defensive parts and service recurring cash flows. The manager believes... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Cooper Investors Pty LimitedCooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) | InsuranceInsurance | Long RYAN (Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc.) the investment case for Ryan Specialty (RYAN), the other significant detractor for the period, has been tested by something more traditional - a turning insurance cycle. | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Derek Izuel, CFAShelton International Select Equity Fund | BanksBanks | Long HDFCBANK.NS (HDFC Bank) HDFC Bank was the largest detractor. The stock declined... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Cooper Investors Pty LimitedCooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) | InsuranceInsurance | BEAR | View Pitch → | ||
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | VVP Q2 Letter 06.30.26 | InsuranceInsurance | Long RYAN (Ryan Specialty Holdings Inc.) Ryan Specialty recently revised its organic growth outlook downwards as property rate declines squeezed premium pricing, despite experiencing massive volume increases in E&S policy submissions. The manager views... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Cooper Investors Pty LimitedCooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) | InsuranceInsurance | Long RYAN (Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc.) Ryan Specialty is a leading wholesale broker positioned in the rapidly expanding Excess & Surplus insurance market. Driven by increasingly... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 1, 2026 | Fund Letter | Cooper Investors Pty LimitedCooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) | InsuranceInsurance | Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) – RYAN K. (4478) and wholesale... | BEAR | View Pitch → | |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Substack | Triples Investing | AnaptysBio Inc $ANAB• NASDAQ | BiotechnologyBiotechnology | AnaptysBio (ANAB) Operating with extremely low overhead of less than $10 million annually and under ten contract staff, the company features high-margin operations and active share repurchases. Jemperli's sales continue... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Fund Letter | Cooper Investors Pty LimitedCooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) | InsuranceInsurance | Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) 2025 Q4 (RYAN) Ryan Specialty Group (RYAN) is currently navigating a soft underlying insurance pricing environment predominantly in the property portion of the business. Even in this... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Feb 3, 2026 | Fund Letter | Amit WadhwaneyMoerus Capital Management LLC | BanksBanks | Long STAN.L (Standard Chartered PLC) Standard Chartered was the largest contributor to the Fund's performance in 2025. It contributed 8.5%... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Fund Letter | Jason WhiteArtisan Global Discovery | ServiceTitan, Inc. $TTAN• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Artisan Global Discovery 2025 Q4 (TTAN) ServiceTitan is a leading provider of vertical software solutions for the trades, including plumbing, HVAC and electrical. Its platform supports... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Fund Letter | David M. PoppeGiverny Capital Asset Management | Arista Networks, Inc. $ANET• NASDAQ | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Giverny Capital Asset Management 2025 Q4 (ANET) Arista Networks has been our best performing stock since inception, and 2025 was more of the same. It makes high-quality... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Fund Letter | Randy GwirtzmanBaron Discovery Fund | Clearwater Analytics Inc. $CWAN• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Baron Discovery Fund 2025 Q4 (CWAN) Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., a provider of portfolio accounting and reporting software, contributed to performance. The company reported... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Fund Letter | Neal KaufmanBaron Health Care Fund | Elanco Animal Health, Inc. $ELAN• NASDAQ | PharmaceuticalsPharmaceuticals | Baron Health Care Fund 2025 Q4 (ELAN) We bought shares of Elanco Animal Health Incorporated, which operates in an industry supported by pet ownership growth and food safety trends. Elanco is at... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 23, 2026 | Fund Letter | Haruki Toyama, Andy Romanowich, Rich EisingerMadison Mid Cap Fund | ServiceTitan, Inc. $TTAN• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Madison Mid Cap Fund 2025 Q4 (TTAN) ServiceTitan is the dominant provider of software to residential trade contractors. Its software helps... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 23, 2026 | Fund Letter | Matt Kamm, Jason White, Jim Hamel, Angela Wu, Jay WarnerArtisan Mid Cap Fund | ServiceTitan, Inc. $TTAN• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Artisan Mid Cap Fund 2025 Q4 (TTAN) We also added to ServiceTitan, MongoDB and Waters during the quarter. ServiceTitan is a... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 23, 2026 | Fund Letter | Mark L. YockeyArtisan International Fund | -- | Long AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES EXCHANGE-MNC (Monadelphous Group Ltd) In industrials, we increased our position in MNC Solutions, which provides mission-critical power and automation systems supporting defense-related infrastructure and security applications. While the shares... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Jan 23, 2026 | Fund Letter | Arne AlsinNightview Capital | TSMC $TAIWAN STOCK EXCHANGE-TSM• NASDAQ | -- | Nightview Capital 2025 Q4 (TSM) High-performance computing now represents roughly 60% of TSMC's revenue, up from about 30% in 2018, reflecting AI's transformation of semiconductor demand. Frontier logic tied... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Fund Letter | Derek JohnstonConestoga SMid Cap Composite | Clearwater Analytics Inc. $CWAN• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Conestoga SMid Cap Composite 2025 Q4 (CWAN) CWAN shares surged following the announcement that the company would be acquired, driving a re-rating toward the transaction value. The acquisition highlighted... | BULL | View Pitch → |
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