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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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| Nov 12, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Durable Advantage Fund | Aerospace & DefenseAerospace & Defense | Long TDG (TransDigm Group Incorporated) TransDigm Group Incorporated designs, manufactures, and supplies highly engineered aerospace components, systems, and subsystems used on nearly all commercial and military aircraft worldwide. Shares declined 18.7%... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 12, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Durable Advantage Fund | Semiconductors & Semiconductor EquipmentSemiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | Long TSM (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited is the world's largest contract chipmaker and the leading manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors used in modern AI accelerators. Shares corrected 4.3%... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 12, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Durable Advantage Fund | Meta Platforms, Inc. $META• NASDAQ | Interactive Media & ServicesInteractive Media & Services | Long META (Meta Platforms, Inc.) Shares of Meta Platforms, Inc., the owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, contributed during the quarter, rising 28.8%. Second quarter results... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 12, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Durable Advantage Fund | Microsoft Corporation $MSFT• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long MSFT (Microsoft Corporation) Software leader Microsoft Corporation contributed to performance with shares up 37.8%, recovering from their decline to start the year (shares are now up 7.4% year-to-date) driven by the broader recovery in software stocks during the quarter and buoyed by its strong quarterly results and the outlook management has provided. The company reported... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Easterly Global Real Estate Fund | NETSTREIT Corp. $NTST• NASDAQ | Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) | Long NTST (NETSTREIT Corp.) • NETSREIT is a net lease REIT focused on high-quality, necessity-based retail tenants with long-duration cash flows. • Shares underperformed... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | LLOYD Capital - Growth Equity Strategy | Meta Platforms, Inc. $META• NASDAQ | Interactive Media & ServicesInteractive Media & Services | Long META (Meta Platforms, Inc.) The launch of Meta's Muse AI agent marks an important step in the company's ambition in bringing to market AI-driven products beyond its core advertising business. In our view,... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Thomas Küpfer (CIO), Moritz Solèr (CEO)LLOYD Capital - Focused Equity Strategy | Microsoft Corporation $MSFT• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long MSFT (Microsoft Corporation) Microsoft (1.9 pp) and ServiceNow (1.4 pp) were among the main contributors to performance as their shares rose 37.8% and 35.0% respectively. Earlier this year,... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Thomas Küpfer (CIO), Moritz Solèr (CEO)LLOYD Capital - Focused Equity Strategy | Life Sciences Tools & ServicesLife Sciences Tools & Services | Long TMO (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.) Thermo Fisher Scientific was the largest contributor (+2.0 percentage points), with the stock up 34.7%. After several years... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Avram FisherLong Cast Advisers | Matrix Service Company $MTRX• NASDAQ | Construction & EngineeringConstruction & Engineering | Long MTRX (Matrix Service Company) MTRX remains a top five holding despite the stock declining 30% in the quarter. I had expected... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | RF Capital Management LLCRF Capital Management | Musashi Co. $7521.T• TYO | -- | Short 7521.T (Musashi Co.) Musashi is a Japanese supplier of printing, financial, and election equipment. We originally purchased... | BEAR | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Amit WadhwaneyMoerus Capital Management LLC | -- | Long NTCO3.SA (Natura Cosméticos SA) On the negative side, the main detractors from performance in Q3 came from two general groups. The first is... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Amit WadhwaneyMoerus Capital Management LLC | -- | Long BTRW.L (Barratt Redrow PLC) Other leading contributors in Q3 included United Kingdom-based Barratt Redrow, a new position added to the Fund in 2026. Barratt Redrow, the... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Amit WadhwaneyMoerus Capital Management LLC | Dundee Corp. $DC-A.TO• TSX | -- | Long DC-A.TO (Dundee Corp.) The Fund's five most significant positive contributors in Q3 were Dundee Corp., Greenfire Resources, Barratt Redrow, Aker ASA, and Grupo Cibest. By sector, the... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Cliff GreenbergBaron Small Cap Fund | JBT Marel Corporation $JBTM• NASDAQ | Industrial Machinery & Supplies & ComponentsMachinery | Long JBTM (JBT Marel Corporation) JBT Marel Corporation provides equipment and systems for the food processing industry, with particular exposure to poultry. Shares fell following... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Cliff GreenbergBaron Small Cap Fund | Vertiv Holdings Co $VRT• NYSE | Electrical EquipmentElectrical Equipment | Long VRT (Vertiv Holdings Co) Vertiv Holdings Co is a global leader in critical digital infrastructure and services for data centers, including electrical and thermal management equipment. Shares declined as... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Cliff GreenbergBaron Small Cap Fund | Intapp, Inc. $INTA• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long INTA (Intapp, Inc.) Intapp, Inc. is a vertical software platform serving professional and financial services firms. Shares rose on... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund | Semiconductors & Semiconductor EquipmentSemiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | Long TSM (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) is the world's largest contract chipmaker and the leading manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors used in modern AI accelerators. Shares corrected 4.3%... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long TSLA (Tesla Inc) Tesla, Inc. manufactures electric vehicles, solar products, and energy storage solutions and develops real-world AI technologies. Shares fell 15.6%... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund | Meta Platforms, Inc. $META• NASDAQ | Interactive Media & ServicesInteractive Media & Services | Long META (Meta Platforms, Inc.) Shares of Meta Platforms, Inc., the owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, contributed during the quarter, rising 28.8%. Second quarter results... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund | Cloudflare Inc. $NET• NYSE | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long NET (Cloudflare Inc.) Shares of Cloudflare, Inc., which operates one of the world's largest networks, delivering security, performance, and developer solutions, rose 41.5% during the quarter as investors increasingly view the company as foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet. In the second... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Global Opportunity Fund | Cloudflare Inc. $NET• NYSE | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long NET (Cloudflare Inc.) Shares of Cloudflare, Inc., which operates one of the world's largest networks, delivering security, performance, and developer services, rose 41.6% during the quarter as investors increasingly view the company as foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet. In the second... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Fund Letter | Jeff AuxierAuxier Asset Management | Meta Platforms, Inc. $META• NASDAQ | Interactive Media & ServicesInteractive Media & Services | Long META (Meta Platforms, Inc.) Meta highlighted this shift on September 8 when it launched Muse, its consumer-facing AI agent platform, which quickly became the most downloaded free app on the iOS App Store. Unlike standard chatbots,... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 9, 2026 | Fund Letter | Ronald Baron, David Baron, Michael BaronBaron First Principles ETF | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long TSLA (Tesla, Inc.) Tesla, Inc. manufactures electric vehicles, solar products, and energy storage solutions and develops real-world AI technologies. Shares fell as... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 9, 2026 | Fund Letter | Murray StahlHorizon Kinetics | Oil, Gas & Consumable FuelsOil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | Long TPL (Texas Pacific Land Corporation) Horizon Kinetics did not categorize TPL as an energy company when we first wrote about it in 1995. The analysis was... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 9, 2026 | Fund Letter | Harry Burn, III; John P. DeGulis; T. Gibbs Kane, Jr.The Sound Shore Fund | Life Sciences Tools & ServicesLife Sciences Tools & Services | Long TMO (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) A new addition to the portfolio and our top performer for the quarter was Thermo Fisher Scientific (Thermo), a leading life sciences tool and lab equipment supplier that we have owned successfully in the past. We purchased the... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 9, 2026 | Fund Letter | Zach TurnerFidelity Dividend Growth Fund | Meta Platforms, Inc. $META• NASDAQ | Interactive Media & ServicesInteractive Media & Services | Long META (Meta Platforms Inc) An overweight in Meta Platforms also contributed. Early on, shares... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 5, 2026 | Fund Letter | Source Capital Portfolio ManagersFPA Source Capital | Telecommunication ServicesTelecommunication Services | Long CHTR (Charter Communications) Charter Communications and Liberty Broadband detracted from performance amid continued competitive pressure within the U.S. broadband market. Charter has faced... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 4, 2026 | Fund Letter | Derek PileckiGator Capital Management | Investment Banking & BrokerageCapital Markets | Long TPG (TPG Inc.) In the third quarter we initiated a position in TPG. We see several... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 3, 2026 | Fund Letter | Bob SharpeVela International Fund | Criteo S.A. $CRTO• NASDAQ | -- | Long CRTO (Criteo S.A.) The other lagging sector this quarter and the fiscal year was Communications, primarily due to disappointing financial results at Criteo and continued fears of AI disintermediation by the recent launch of AI agent products (i.e., “Muse” by META). Ad spending by... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 3, 2026 | Fund Letter | Bob SharpeVela International Fund | Health Care Equipment & SuppliesHealth Care Equipment & Supplies | Long TECN.SW (Tecan Group AG) The strongest contributing sector this quarter (and for the full fiscal year) was Health Care, led by Tecan Group and Ansell. Tecan is a... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 3, 2026 | Fund Letter | Bob SharpeVela International Fund | -- | Long 5889.T (Japan EyeWear Holdings Co., Ltd.) Positions Added: Japan EyeWear presented a discounted opportunity to gain exposure to a niche in the Asian luxury sector. Japan EyeWear's business... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 3, 2026 | Fund Letter | Adam Calamar, Kurt Havnaer, Tyra PrattJensen Investment | Ross Stores, Inc. $ROST• NASDAQ | Other Specialty RetailSpecialty Retail | Long ROST (Ross Stores, Inc.) Ross Stores, Inc. (ROST), a leading off-price retailer of apparel and home goods, was the Portfolio's third largest contributor to performance during the quarter. We believe the... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | William A. AckmanPershing Square Holdings | Meta Platforms, Inc. $META• NASDAQ | Interactive Media & ServicesInteractive Media & Services | Long META (Meta Platforms Inc.) Meta's share price increased 29% during the third quarter and 10% year-to-date. Its core advertising... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | William A. AckmanPershing Square Holdings | Microsoft Corporation $MSFT• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long MSFT (Microsoft Corp.) Microsoft's share price increased 38% during the third quarter and 27% year-to-date from our average cost. The company is... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Yaron Naymark1 Main Capital | -- | Long WILD.TO (WildBrain Ltd.) This year the Fund initiated a position in WILD, a kids' content company that recently completed the sale of its Peanuts (Snoopy) stake to Sony for C$630 million, which took the company from 5x net levered to net cash. Prior to the... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Yaron Naymark1 Main Capital | Hotels, Restaurants & LeisureHotels, Restaurants & Leisure | Long BFIT.AS (Basic-Fit N.V.) BFIT has continued to execute since we reinitiated the investment in 2024. In its most... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 1, 2026 | Fund Letter | Michael KassBaron Emerging Markets Fund | -- | Long DATAPATTNS.NS (Data Patterns (India) Limited) Data Patterns is a leading designer and manufacturer of mission-critical electronics for the defense and aerospace sectors in India. With over four... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Nov 1, 2026 | Fund Letter | Michael KassBaron Emerging Markets Fund | Semiconductors & Semiconductor EquipmentSemiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | Long 2454.TW (MediaTek Inc.) We increased exposure to our semiconductors/AI theme by initiating a position in MediaTek Inc., the world's largest supplier of consumer and mobile system-on-chips. The company is... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Patrick BrennanBrennan Asset Management, LLC | Meta Platforms, Inc. $META• NASDAQ | Interactive Media & ServicesInteractive Media & Services | Short META (Meta Platforms Inc) As for Meta Platforms Inc.'s (META) new "Muse" product, which might help negotiate lower cable prices, it is unclear how large its impact will be. Skepticism seems warranted.... | BEAR | View Pitch → |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Patrick BrennanBrennan Asset Management, LLC | Telecommunication ServicesTelecommunication Services | Long CHTR (Charter Communications) Elon Musk's SpaceX purchase of U.S. spectrum scared investors into believing that not only will SpaceX instantly disrupt the U.S. market but also that this purchase implies SpaceX will buy up spectrum everywhere simultaneously…even in markets where none is for sale. A "bot-war" narrative... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Western & Southern Financial Group / Touchstone InvestmentsTouchstone Balanced Fund | Meta Platforms, Inc. $META• NASDAQ | Interactive Media & ServicesInteractive Media & Services | Long META (Meta Platforms Inc.) Selection within Information Technology contributed most, including overweight positions in Microsoft Corp. (Information Technology sector), Meta Platforms Inc. (Communication Services sector), Salesforce Inc. (Information Technology sector) and Workday Inc. (Information Technology sector). | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Western & Southern Financial Group / Touchstone InvestmentsTouchstone Balanced Fund | Microsoft Corporation $MSFT• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long MSFT (Microsoft Corp.) Selection within Information Technology contributed most, including overweight positions in Microsoft Corp. (Information Technology sector), Meta Platforms Inc. (Communication Services sector), Salesforce Inc. (Information Technology sector) and Workday Inc. (Information Technology sector). | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Geoffrey P. Dybas, CFAVirtus Duff & Phelps Global Real Estate Securities Fund | IT Consulting & Other ServicesIT Services | Long NXT.AX (NEXTDC Ltd.) The next largest detractor was a position in NEXTDC, a data center company. Shares of the... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Roy D. Behren, Michael T. Shannon, Steven V. TanVirtus Westchester Credit Event Fund | Getty Images Holdings, Inc. $GETY• NASDAQ | Interactive Media & ServicesInteractive Media & Services | Long GETY (Getty Images Holdings, Inc.) Getty Images detracted 0.63% after terminating its proposed acquisition of Shutterstock and retaining advisors to address its capital structure. Subsequent to quarter-end,... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Nancy Zevenbergen, Joseph Dennison, Anthony ZackeryZevenbergen Technology Fund | Microsoft Corporation $MSFT• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long MSFT (Microsoft Corp.) > Microsoft rallied after fiscal fourth quarter results topped expectations, recovering part of its year-to-date decline. Azure, its cloud... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Dominick D'AngeloO'Keefe Stevens Advisory, Inc | M&T Bank Corporation $MTB• NYSE | BanksBanks | Short MTB (M&T Bank Corporation) We sold M&T on July 29 at $248 as the risk-reward was no longer attractive. The stock traded... | BEAR | View Pitch → |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Dominick D'AngeloO'Keefe Stevens Advisory, Inc | Octave Intelligence $OCTV• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long OCTV (Octave Intelligence) We bought Octave Intelligence during Q3. Octave is the... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | John Whelan and Kevin BertoliPM Capital Australian Companies Fund | Metals & MiningMetals & Mining | Long NST.AX (Northern Star Resources Limited) Northern Star's re-rating reflected a governance reset and corporate interest in the company. After constructive discussions... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Paul MoorePM Capital Global Companies Fund | Teck Resources Limited $TECK• NASDAQ | Metals & MiningMetals & Mining | Short TECK (Teck Resources Limited) We reduced the Fund's positioning across the copper sector during the quarter, exiting Grupo Mexico and materially reducing our positions in Freeport McMoRan and Teck Resources. COMEX copper hit... | BEAR | View Pitch → |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Fund Letter | Paul MoorePM Capital Global Companies Fund | Metals & MiningMetals & Mining | Long NST.AX (Northern Star Resources Limited) Northern Star attracted activist Elliott and an unsolicited offer from Gold Fields. The board rejected... | BULL | View Pitch → |
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