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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Voss Value Fund Travis Cocke | “On the back of a successful investment in SharkNinja, we are recycling some capital and into another underappreciated consumer growth story, DLG. Based out of Milan, De'Longhi is the #1 espresso machine producer in the world that the market is valuing like a mid-quality European appliance maker despite a significant mix shift toward the higher-quality, higher-margin professional and prosumer coffee business. The company has a roughly €5.9bn market cap, ~€687mm of net cash, and trades around ~8x EBITDA versus a historical median of ~9x, despite consistently high ROCE around ~30%, robust FCF generation, and strategically aligned De'Longhi family ownership of ~54%. Between organic growth and some savvy strategic acquisitions, coffee (across home and commercial end markets) now represents ~70% of DLG's revenue, up from 56% in 2022 and near zero 25 years ago. Within coffee, De'Longhi has built leading positions across the home and commercial espresso machine markets with the De'Longhi brand (home), La Marzocco (semi-automatic prosumer and commercial), and Eversys (fully automatic commercial). The Professional Coffee segment, which includes La Marzocco and Eversys, is only 18% of revenue but contributes 34% of EBITDA (as of 1H 2026) as it carries ~30% EBITDA margins, and is growing materially faster than the company overall, posting its 5th consecutive quarter of 30%+ y/y revenue growth with Q2 2026 growth of 33%, an acceleration to 86% growth on a two-year basis. Two U.S. customers alone — Dutch Bros (~1,000 planned new stores through 2029) and Blackstone-backed 7 Brew (2,500+ locations under development agreements) — equip every location with two to three La Marzocco machines. That's 3,000+ new stores over the next few years across just two accounts. At 8x 2026 EBITDA, De'Longhi trades at a ~50% valuation discount to premium consumer appliance peers such as SharkNinja and Australian company, Breville, at 17.5x and 15.5x NTM EBITDA, respectively. The controlling De'Longhi family owns ~53.5% of the overall company, but crucially, they hold a direct 26.5% stake in the Professional Coffee Hub via a separate holding entity, thus directly aligning the family's interest with DLG shareholders in unlocking the value of the Pro Coffee business.” | BULL | Q2 2026 Aug 26, 2026 | View Pitch |
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