Institutional ticker directory tracking stock mentions, long/short ideas, and high-conviction pitches extracted from quarterly hedge fund letters.
| Ticker | Company | Sector | Industry | Pitches | Stance |
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| Fund / Manager | Thesis Excerpt | Stance | Period / Date | Action |
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Heartland Value Fund The Heartland Investment Team | “A good illustration that true value can be realized with patience is Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX). When we originally initiated a position in this Hawaii-based real estate investment trust in the summer of 2024, we were significantly underweight in our Real Estate exposure, relative to our benchmark. From a risk/reward standpoint, ALEX looked favorable to most other REITs at the time. We liked how ALEX divested a non-core construction business, making this a pure-play REIT with assets strictly in Hawaii. And we were drawn to historically low industrial vacancies in the State as well as the company's strong absorption rate relative to its peers. Over the past six months, however, Alexander & Baldwin shares sold off materially over concerns of slowing tourism in Hawaii. This is despite the fact that little of ALEX's properties are on resorts or directly exposed to travel. Actual real estate fundamentals in the Aloha State remain strong with industrial vacancies hovering at just around 2%. The company also enjoyed a robust pipeline of pre-leased developments to drive earnings growth and a strong balance sheet with below-average leverage, at 3.5x net debt to EBITDA. Nevertheless, the stock was down more than 14% through the first two months of the quarter — until Dec. 8, when a group of investors agreed to take the company private at a 40% premium, which was close to our evaluation of fair value. While ALEX wasn't a huge winner, the takeout boosted the holding's performance to close out the year and demonstrated that other investors are starting to pay attention to the companies we focus on. BSD Analysis: A&B is essentially a Hawaii real estate bet—scarcity is the moat and regulation is the tax. Land and redevelopment in Hawaii can be valuable, but the pathway is slow, political, and unpredictable. Cash flows can look stable, yet value realization depends on entitlements and timing. The failure mode is capital trapped in long-duration projects while rates stay high. Concentration risk is massive: one geography, one regulatory ecosystem. The bull case is steady monetization of scarce assets with patient capital. The bear case is chronic friction that caps returns and keeps the multiple low. A&B is scarcity with bureaucracy attached. Great assets don't guarantee great equity outcomes.” | BULL | Q4 2025 Dec 31, 2025 | View Pitch |
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