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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 22, 2025 | Madison Investors Fund | 3.1% | 2.3% | ABNB, ACGL, ADI, BRK/A, CDW, FERG, FI | Compounding, Discipline, downside risk, fundamentals, Quality | The letter emphasizes long-term fundamental investing with a focus on business quality and downside risk management. Management highlights disciplined security selection over macro forecasting. Steady compounding is expected as fundamentals drive returns over time. | CDW ABNB ACGL FI ADI FERG |
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| 2022 Q2 | Jul 21, 2022 | Kovitz Core Equity Strategy | -18.5% | -22.5% | ADI, ANET, C, CHTR, CVET, DLTR, ICE, KMX, PCAR, PWR | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q2 | Jul 15, 2025 | Kovitz Core Equity Strategy | 7.9% | 5.4% | ADI, BDX, FI, FND, HAS, META, MSFT, MSI, ORCL, TMO | Balance Sheets, Capital discipline, Competitive Advantage, Concentration, Quality | The letter focuses on owning a concentrated portfolio of high-quality businesses with strong balance sheets and durable competitive advantages. Management prioritizes downside protection, conservative capital structures, and long holding periods. Patience and business fundamentals are emphasized over market timing. | View | |
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | FAM Value Fund (No separate Fenimore Value Strategy hedge fund exists) | -4.7% | - | ADI, APH, CDW, FBIN, IEX, KEYS | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | Carillon Eagle Growth & Income Fund | - | - | ADI, AVGO, AZN, HD, MDT, ORCL, PLD, PPG, TGT, TXN | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q1 | May 2, 2024 | Madison Investors Fund | 7.8% | 17.0% | ADI, CAN, FI, LBRDA, PCAR | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Apr 21, 2025 | Kovitz Core Equity Strategy | -2.3% | -2.3% | ADBE, ADI, AMZN, ANET, ASHTY, BRK/A, DGE LN, GOOG, ICE, JPM, MSFT, PM | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Aristotle Core Equity Fund | -6.1% | -6.1% | ADI, AVGO, GH, ICE, NOW | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | ACATIS Investment | -5.5% | -5.5% | 2413 JP, 3458 JP, 4088 JP, 4755 JP, 6920 JP, 8113 JP, ADI, BIDU, BN, BNTX, ELIS FP, HNR1 GR, INTU, LEMN SW, MC FP, META, NDA GR, NVO, SPGI, SWKS, SY1 GR, UBER | Artificial Intelligence, Data centers, Energy Infrastructure, Pricing Power, semiconductors | The report discusses the continued global race to scale artificial intelligence capabilities, emphasizing capital intensity in semiconductors, data centers, and energy infrastructure as structural drivers of corporate investment. Management highlights the migration of value from hardware build-out toward software monetization, while warning that elevated equity valuations and geopolitical fragmentation increase dispersion across regions and sectors. Portfolio positioning favors globally competitive companies with durable pricing power and exposure to long-term innovation cycles rather than cyclical beta. | UBER SPGI BN BIDU 8113 JP 4755 JP 6920 JP SWKS ELIS FP HNR1 GR |
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| 2023 Q1 | Mar 31, 2023 | FAM Value Fund (No separate Fenimore Value Strategy hedge fund exists) | 2.7% | 2.7% | ADI, FIS, ICE, MTB, ROST, ZBRA | - | View | ||
| Q4 2025 | Feb 10, 2026 | FPA Source Capital | 4.3% | 18.4% | ADI, CRM, GOOGL, IFF, META, MSFT, MTN, NOW, NTDOY, ORCL, SAF.PA, SAP, SNOW, TEL, WDAY | Balanced, credit, private credit, Quality, small caps, value | The fund emphasizes being 'value aware' and focuses on finding rare cases where both quality and value intersect. They regularly search the 52-week low list for potential opportunities rather than momentum plays. The managers believe the investment community is casting its gaze away from various market constituents that offer asymmetric risk-reward for those willing to look forward three to five years. The fund is actively investing in global securities with lower market capitalizations, believing these offer attractive opportunities that are being overlooked. They note there may be a shrinking pool of active investors with the interest and resources to conduct in-depth research on lower market-cap names. Source has 25.9% committed to private credit including called and uncalled capital as of quarter-end. The managers continue to look for opportunities to increase that exposure, viewing private credit as an attractive asset class for the fund's balanced strategy. The fund is responding to historically low credit spreads by reducing exposure to high yield and other lower-rated debt. They believe current spreads offer insufficient compensation for credit risk and increase the risk of permanent impairment of capital. The managers are downside-focused and do not share the market's optimism needed to justify such low spreads. | MSFT MTN IFF SAF FP TEL |
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| 2023 Q4 | Dec 31, 2023 | Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund | 5.5% | 0.0% | ADI, AMT, APD, FTV, MKL, MSFT, TDG, VLTO | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q2 | Dec 7, 2023 | Madison Investors Fund | 7.8% | 17.0% | ADI, ALC, CPRT, DHR, ELV, PH | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q3 | Oct 31, 2023 | Ensemble Capital | 0.0% | 8.0% | ADI, BKNG, BR, GOOG, ILMN, MA, MASI, NFLX | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q3 | Oct 17, 2024 | Kovitz Core Equity Strategy | 6.9% | 28.7% | AAPL, ADI, AMAT, AXP, BRK/A, DLTR, FI, GM, HAS, J, JPM, KEYS, MSI, PCAR, SCHW, SPOT, UNH | - | View | ||
| 2022 Q3 | Oct 17, 2022 | Kovitz Core Equity Strategy | -5.4% | -26.7% | ADI, BKNG, J, JPM, KMX, NTRS, PWR | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q3 | Oct 15, 2023 | Madison Sustainable Equity Fund | 6.1% | 20.1% | ADI, DIS, GOOG, HD, J, LLY, NEE, PEP, TXN, UNH | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Artisan Focus Fund | -0.5% | 19.9% | AAPL, ADI, AXON, CAT, COF, ENR.DE, GE, GS, HWM, ISRG, JPM, LLY, NDAQ, NVDA, ROK, RR.L, SHOP.TO, TSM, WELL, WFC | aerospace, AI, energy, financials, growth, industrials, semiconductors, technology | AI impacts on productivity should create abundant inflection points across nearly all S&P sectors in profitability and ROIC. When amortizing AI capex over the system that will use it, the returns appear massive and under-reported. S&P margins look structurally too low in most forecasts as labor efficiency gains may likely create an upward drift in margin ceilings. Aerospace is cyclically inflecting ahead of a long duration upcycle supported by secular growth of the global middle class. The Aerospace Normalization theme was the largest positive contributor in 2025 with General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Howmet all making meaningful contributions driven by fundamental strength. Power demand creates new secular growth opportunities, with data centers reaching deep into industrial portfolios. Caterpillar's co-located power capability at data centers represents significant revenue upside potential to the Energy & Transportation segment. Analog Devices represents the premium analog compounder as the cycle turns, with best-in-class economics including 70%+ gross margins and 45-50% EBIT targets. The team believes 2Q25 marked the restart of the semiconductor cycle with pricing and margin inflection underway. De-globalization theme involves redirection of capital on post pandemic priorities for security of energy and reliability of supply chains. Companies like Siemens Energy, GE Vernova, Constellation Energy and Vistra are positioned to benefit from this structural shift. Industrial automation represents a key secular trend with companies like Rockwell Automation positioned to benefit from digitization and AI-enabled transformation of enterprise operations. This includes factory automation and process optimization across manufacturing. | GE |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Ironvine Capital Partners, LLC | 0.0% | 0.0% | ADI, AMAT, AMZN, AON, APH, ASML, BRK-A, HEI, MA, MCO, MSFT, SPGI, TSM, V | aerospace, AI, Capital markets, infrastructure, payments, Quality, semiconductors, technology | Amazon's e-commerce marketplace connects massive customer base with millions of third-party sellers, providing unmatched breadth and depth at competitive prices. Its increasingly dense fulfillment network enables faster delivery speeds at lower cost, with 10% reduction in average travel distance for packages and 10% fewer touches compared to 2024. Amazon Web Services powers much of the digital world with approximately 30% market share and structurally lower unit costs than competitors. AWS offers more than 200 fully featured services and has consistently reinvested scale advantages into developer tools and proprietary chips, making customer workloads 20-40% more cost-effective. Semiconductors are the most fundamental technology in modern economies, with consumption expected to approach $1 trillion annually by end of decade. The industry has consolidated into dominant players at each key step in the value chain, resulting in deep customer relationships and prolific free cash flow generation. AI demand is driving explosive growth in datacenter interconnect requirements where companies like Amphenol are winning outsized market share. Microsoft's strategic partnership with OpenAI has created valuable new customer sources, while continued AI investments are driving demand for advanced chips across the semiconductor supply chain. HEICO benefits from aerospace industry supply chain problems as manufacturers struggle to ramp production of new aircraft. Rising air travel demand served through greater utilization of existing fleet has created higher maintenance demand, parts shortages, and price inflation - a perfect environment for HEICO to gain market share. Global payment networks Visa and Mastercard are uniquely durable businesses deeply embedded in global commerce plumbing. The digitization of payments continues as a multi-decade growth tailwind, particularly in underpenetrated geographies in Asia and Latin America, with value-added services providing additional monetization opportunities. Moody's and S&P Global operate near monopolies in credit ratings assignment, with regulatory requirements making their ratings industry standard. Both companies are on pace to set new highs in revenue and profitability driven by credit market conditions fueling widespread growth in debt issuance across the economy. | BRK.B AON MSFT V MCO HEI AMZN |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Weitz Large Cap Equity Fund | 0.6% | -0.2% | ADI, CHTR, CSGP, DHR, EFX, GOOGL, IDXX, IEX, IT, KMX, META, ORCL, TMO | AI, Biotechnology, Concentration, healthcare, large cap, Process Enhancement, stock selection, value | The artificial intelligence infrastructure trade took a breather after a red-hot summer. Google's Gemini AI surpassed expectations with performance moving to the front of the pack according to respected industry benchmarks, helping Alphabet solidify its spot as an AI leader. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | FPA Crescent Fund | 3.1% | 17.7% | ADI, AMZN, AVTR, BDX, C, CHTR, CMCSA, CRM, GOOGL, HEIA.AS, IFF, JEF, KMX, META, MSFT, NOW, NTDOY, ORCL, SAF.PA, SAP, SNOW, TEL, WDAY | AI, global, healthcare, Quality, small caps, technology, value | The fund emphasizes being value aware, focusing on cases where both quality and value intersect. They avoid speculative areas where reward for taking risks is insufficient relative to potential returns. The strategy has generated equity-like returns while placing equal importance on capital preservation and appreciation over 30 years. The fund is actively investing in small to mid-cap global securities, believing the investment community is casting its gaze away from these market constituents that offer asymmetric risk-reward for those willing to look forward three to five years. Recent purchases demonstrate their commitment to this thesis. The fund discusses AI extensively through Microsoft's transformation and growth prospects. They analyze how AI/cloud developments transformed Microsoft's business model and examine the massive revenue growth required for current AI valuations to make sense, questioning whether Microsoft can add revenue equivalent to multiple major software companies combined. | MSFT |
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| Q4 2025 | Jan 27, 2026 | Antero Peak Group | -0.5% | 19.9% | AAPL, ADI, AXON, CAT, COF, GE, GS, HWM, ISRG, JPM, LLY, NDAQ, NVDA, ROK, RYCEY, SHOP, SMNEY, TSM, WELL, WFC | aerospace, AI, Capital markets, Data centers, energy, productivity, ROIC, semiconductors | AI impacts on productivity should create abundant inflection points across nearly all S&P sectors in profitability and ROIC. When amortizing AI capex over the system that will use it, the returns appear massive and under-reported. S&P margins look structurally too low in most forecasts as labor efficiency gains may likely create an upward drift in margin ceilings. Aerospace is cyclically inflecting ahead of a long duration upcycle supported by secular growth of the global middle class. The Aerospace Normalization theme was the largest positive contributor in 2025, with General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Howmet all making meaningful contributions driven by fundamental strength. Power demand creates new secular growth opportunities, with Caterpillar positioned for multi-year upcycle as power demand creates new secular growth at a cyclical trough. Data center reaches deep into Caterpillar's portfolio with co-located power capability. Analog Devices represents the premium analog compounder as the cycle turns, with best economics in analog including 70%+ gross margins and 45-50% EBIT target. The team believes 2Q25 marked the restart with pricing and margin inflection underway. Data monetization theme involves machine learning, AI, and cloud causing the economic value of data to structurally accelerate through new products and applications. Companies include financial services firms like Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Nasdaq. De-globalization theme involves redirection of capital on post pandemic priorities for security of energy and reliability of supply chains. Companies include Constellation Energy, GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, and Vistra Corp. | ADI CAT |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Madison Large Cap Fund | 3.4% | 3.4% | A, ACGL, ADI, AMZN, BN, CDW, CPRT, DHR, FERG, FI, GOOGL, HON, KEYS, LOW, NKE, PCAR, PGR, PH, TXN, WDAY | AI, Automation, financials, industrials, large cap, Quality, technology, value | The portfolio is populated with high-quality, durable businesses across a wide range of industries, selling for reasonable prices. The fund invests in the proven over the promise, the long-term over the short-term, and durability over momentum. This focus on quality businesses has been a strong foundation for attractive long-term investment performance. Alphabet released new AI models that gave investors further confidence that the company is well positioned for growth. Workday is investing in commercializing AI agents, which should be additive to revenue growth. The fund acknowledges heightened concerns of AI-related disruption affecting some businesses. Honeywell is undergoing a portfolio transformation with the anticipated separation of the aerospace and automation businesses in the second half of 2026. This separation will further enhance the return on invested capital and growth opportunities for each business. | WDAY FISV |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 19, 2026 | Carillon Eagle Growth & Income Fund | 0.0% | 0.0% | ADI, AVGO, AZN, DUK, ETN, GS, HD, JPM, KO, LRCX, MCD, MSFT, ORCL, PG, PNC, RTX, TMUS | AI, Capital markets, earnings, growth, large cap, semiconductors, technology | AI-related investment remains robust and has the potential to broaden its impact across industries. The AI super-cycle continues to provide powerful support, yet it carries risks. Investor willingness to underwrite aggressive AI spending has cooled somewhat, and the debate over whether we are in an AI bubble has increased. Lam Research benefitted from improving sentiment regarding the importance of its products within the semiconductor capital spending market. As a leading provider of equipment tied to memory requirements for AI, Lam Research could have a long and healthy path to growth. Analog Devices pushed toward new all-time highs after solid earnings gave investors confidence that the analog cycle is now beyond its bottom. Earnings growth was the clear engine of the market's advance in 2025. Forward S&P 500 earnings are projected to rise 16% in 2026 over 2025. Bloomberg projects S&P 500 EPS growth of 16% in 2026, up from 15% in 2025 with 7 of 11 sectors expected to deliver double-digit gains. Goldman Sachs Group's shares contributed to fourth-quarter performance due to positive financial results, coupled with increased optimism regarding capital markets activity heading into 2026. Goldman Sachs maintains one of the strongest global merger and acquisition advisory and trading, with increased activity in M&A, initial public offerings, and debt issuance activity directly boosting its financial performance. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | FAM Value Fund (No separate Fenimore Value Strategy hedge fund exists) | -1.2% | 4.9% | ADI, AJG, APH, AZO, BAM, BR, BRK-B, BRO, FAST, HEI, IEX, KEYS, MKL, MLM, PGR, ROST, SYK, TT, VMC, ZBRA | AI, fundamentals, mid cap, Quality, Speculation, value | Fenimore maintains focus on high-quality companies with strong balance sheets, consistent profitability, and prudent capital allocation despite continued underperformance versus speculative names. The firm believes solid business fundamentals should reassert themselves as the primary driver of stock prices in the long run, similar to the tech bubble period. AI-related infrastructure investments continue driving market enthusiasm, with companies like Amphenol benefiting from data center buildouts. However, the firm views AI excitement as creating speculation that draws capital away from other areas, leading to extended valuations for AI-related stocks. | FAST AZO BRO APH MKL |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 17, 2024 | Madison Investors Fund | 7.8% | 17.0% | ADI, ARCH, DE, DLTR, GOOG, LOW, PCAR, PH, TJX | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jul 16, 2022 | Ensemble Capital | 0.0% | 8.0% | ADI, CMG, CSCO, ILMN, NVDA, VEEV | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | TAMIM Fund Global Mobility Unit Class | 0.0% | -2.0% | ADI, ALB, TSLA | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | American Century Equity Income Fund | 9.6% | 0.0% | ADI, CB, INTC, KVUE, MCHP, MDT, NSC, RHO GR, TXN, ULVR | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q1 | Apr 27, 2023 | FPA Crescent Fund | 3.7% | 12.8% | ADI, HLB GR | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q1 | Apr 14, 2023 | Madison Investors Fund | 7.8% | 17.0% | ADI, BKI, GOOG, SCHW, USB | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q1 | Apr 14, 2023 | Madison Sustainable Equity Fund | 6.1% | 20.1% | ADI, DHR, GOOG, HD, LLY, NESR GR, ORCL, PEP, QCOM, TEL, TGT, USB | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Aristotle Atlantic Core Equity Strategy | -6.0% | -6.0% | ADI, AVGO, GH, ICE, NOW | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2026 | Fund Letters | Christopher Smith | Analog Devices Inc. | Information Technology | Semiconductors | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, Analog, Automation, Pricing power, semiconductors | View Pitch |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Fund Letters | Rich Eisinger | Analog Devices Inc. | Information Technology | Analog Semiconductors | Bull | NASDAQ | Analog, cashflow, Cycle, Industrial, semiconductors | View Pitch |
| Nov 27, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Seeking Alpha | Analog Devices, Inc. | Semiconductors | Bull | AI infrastructure, Automation, data centers, diversified business model, Growth Opportunities, high-performance analog, industrial applications, power solutions, profitability, semiconductors | View Pitch | ||
| Nov 25, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Seeking Alpha | Analog Devices, Inc. | Semiconductors | Bull | Analog Devices, dividends, Electric Vehicles, financial performance, geopolitical risks, low earth orbiting satellites, semiconductors, stock buybacks, subsystem solutions, technological advancements | View Pitch |
| Manager Name | Fund Name | Fund AUM | Invested Value | Portfolio Weight | Shares Owned | Shares Bought / Sold During Quarter | % Bought / Sold During Quarter | % of Shares Outstanding Owned |
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