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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 | Scott O'Gorman, Andy Colyer, Daniel WhiteIthaka US Growth Strategy | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $CRWD• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Ithaka US Growth Strategy - CRWD CrowdStrike is a global leader in cloud-native cybersecurity, delivering its comprehensive Falcon platform, which spans endpoint protection, cloud security, identity threat detection, and next-gen Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), to tens of thousands of enterprise organizations worldwide. The company generates... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Patrick Kelly, Dan Chung, Ankur CrawfordAlger Spectra Fund | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Alger Spectra Fund - WDC Western Digital is a hard disk drive (HDD) storage company benefiting from rising hyperscaler data-center investment and the continued proliferation of data. The HDD industry... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Emerald Wealth Partners Growth Equity Strategy | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $CRWD• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Emerald Wealth Partners Growth Equity Strategy - CRWD We met with Michael Sentonas, President CrowdStrike, early July. The discussion centered... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Amy ZhangAlger Mid Cap Focus Fund | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Alger Mid Cap Focus Fund - WDC Western Digital is a hard disk drive (HDD) storage company benefiting from rising hyperscaler data-center investment and the continued proliferation of data. The HDD industry... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Home FurnishingsHousehold Durables | Colebrooke Partners - HWDN.L Howdens manufactures and distributes fitted kitchens and joinery, and sells them exclusively to the building trade, the small local builders and fitters who install most of Britain's kitchens, through a network of 891 UK depots. The homeowner is... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | ||
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Mike PoggiBrown Advisors Global Leaders Strategy | Workday, Inc. $WDAY• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Brown Advisors Global Leaders Strategy - WDAY Our investments across software and cloud-service providers were weak, including Microsoft, Autodesk and Workday. We exited Autodesk... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Antipodes Partners LimitedAntipodes Global Fund | Oil & Gas Exploration & ProductionOil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | Antipodes Global Fund - WDS.AX We exited Woodside as the margin of safety compressed under weak pricing, contracting difficulties and elevated capex. FY2025 underlying profit... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Hotchkis & Wiley Large Cap Fundamental Value | Workday, Inc. $WDAY• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Hotchkis & Wiley Large Cap Fundamental Value - WDAY Workday Inc. (WDAY) is a leader in cloud software for back-office business functions, spanning human capital management (HCM), financial management, and adjacent ERP (enterprise resource planning) products, with 60% of the Fortune 500 as HCM customers. Shares declined over... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Brandon D. Bond, Bo Fifer, Brian M. McNamaraTCW Concentrated Large Cap Growth Fund | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $CRWD• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | TCW Concentrated Large Cap Growth Fund - CRWD Shares of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD; 3.28%) also positively contributed to relative performance after posting solid quarterly results which included NNARR (Net New Annual Recurring Revenue) of $256M (+32% YoY), non-GAAP operating margin of 24% (+6% YoY), and FCF of $469M (+67% YoY). Management also raised... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Gary H. MillerSycamore Mid Cap Value Equity | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Sycamore Mid Cap Value Equity Strategy - WDC Western Digital Corp. (WDC) was swept up in the FOMO trade. Consequently, the share... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Zach TurnerFidelity Dividend Growth Fund | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund - WDC A sizable overweight in Western Digital (+140%) topped the list of relative contributors. In late April,... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $CRWD• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund - CRWD The discussion evolved from 'is AI going to disrupt cybersecurity' to organizations and even the frontier AI labs relying on Falcon as their AI-powered defender for the post-Mythos era. Even more consequential... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Global Opportunity Fund | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $CRWD• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Baron Global Opportunity Fund - CRWD Leading cloud-native cybersecurity platform CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. contributed to performance during the quarter with the stock up 95.6% as the market increasingly recognized the company as one of the primary beneficiaries of enterprise AI adoption. As organizations increasingly... | NEUTRAL | View Pitch → |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Mr. FitzpatrickAristotle Core Equity Fund | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $CRWD• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long CRWD (CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.) The fund established a long position in CrowdStrike to capture secular growth in enterprise cloud migration and security spending. The company's unified... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Antipodes Partners LimitedAntipodes Global Fund | -- | Short WDS (Woodside Energy Group) The position in Woodside Energy was completely exited as upcoming global LNG oversupply and slowing demand compressed the stock's margin of safety. Furthermore, the company's... | BEAR | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $CRWD• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Long CRWD (CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.) The manager initiated a 3% position in CrowdStrike, citing its cloud-native architecture and high module adoption as key competitive moats. As enterprises consolidate... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fund Letter | Stephen E. GrantValue Line Small Cap Opportunities Fund | Walker & Dunlop, Inc. $WD• NYSE | Commercial & Residential Mortgage FinanceFinancial Services | Short WD (Walker & Dunlop, Inc.) The fund's entire holding in Walker & Dunlop was sold during the quarter. This action was... | BEAR | View Pitch → |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Fund Letter | PavelSigil Core Fund | Forward Industries $FWDI• NASDAQ | Textiles, Apparel & Luxury GoodsTextiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods | Sigil Core Fund 2025 Q4 (FWDI) Within the DAT sector, Sigil Core is invested in Forward Industries (FWDI). It currently trades... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 24, 2026 | Fund Letter | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLCColumbia Seligman Global Technology Fund | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Columbia Seligman Global Technology Fund 2025 Q4 (WDC) The fund maintained an overweight position in technology hardware, storage & peripherals company Western Digital. Early in 2025,... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Jan 23, 2026 | Fund Letter | Joe Maginot, Haruki Toyama, Rich EisingerMadison Large Cap Fund | Workday, Inc. $WDAY• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Madison Large Cap Fund 2025 Q4 (WDAY) Workday is a market-leading human resources and financial management software company. Over the last... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Fund Letter | Krishna Chintalapalli, Mark ZagataParnassus Value Equity Fund | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Parnassus Value Equity Fund 2025 Q4 (WDC) Western Digital was a top contributor during the quarter as the broadening AI megatrend continued to fuel demand for high-capacity, cost-effective data storage. The company reported... | BULL | View Pitch → | |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Fund Letter | Jason GilbertRGA Investment Advisors LLC | Workday, Inc. $WDAY• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | RGA Investment Advisors 2025 Q2 (WDAY) Workday offers mission-critical HR software for Fortune 500 companies and is steadily expanding into finance workflows. Revenue continues compounding... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Fund Letter | Sonu Chawla | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $CRWD• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | TimesSquare Capital Management U.S. FOCUS Growth Equity strategy 2025 Q2 (CRWD) Among our holdings, we trimmed CrowdStrike Holdings as it gained 44%. A cloud-based endpoint... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Jan 7, 2026 | Fund Letter | Alex UmanskyBaron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $CRWD• NASDAQ | Application SoftwareSoftware | Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund 2025 Q3 (CRWD) Lastly, we added to our position in the leading cybersecurity platform, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. A year post the famous outage that grounded planes and impacted a broad array of the company's customers, we can conclude that management has done an excellent job in the aftermath of the outage. CrowdStrike is now... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Dec 4, 2025 | Fund Letter | Eric Mintz, Christopher Sassouni, David CavanaughCarillon Eagle Small Cap Growth Fund | Woodward Inc $WWD• NASDAQ | Aerospace & DefenseAerospace & Defense | Carillon Eagle Small Cap Growth Fund 2025 Q2 (WWD) Woodward develops and produces control systems and energy conversion solutions and components for the aerospace and industrial end markets. The stock performed... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letter | Aaron SallenMerion Road Capital | American Woodmark Corp $AMWD• NASDAQ | -- | Merion Road Capital 2025 Q3 (AMWD) I bought shares in American Woodmark (“AMWD”) following their announced merger with Masterbrand (“MBC”). AMWD & MBC... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Fund Letter | Gabriel RadzyminskiSandon Capital | Fleetwood Ltd. $ASX-FWD• NASDAQ | -- | Sandon Capital 2025 Q3 (FWD) Fleetwood rose 2.4% during the quarter as modular housing demand strengthened and execution improved. Sandon continues to... | BULL | View Pitch → |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Fund Letter | Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLCColumbia Seligman Global Technology Fund | Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsTechnology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | Columbia Seligman Global Technology Fund 2025 Q3 (WDC) The fund's overweight position in Western Digital added value. The company benefits... | BULL | View Pitch → |
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