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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fund / Manager | Thesis Excerpt | Stance | Period / Date | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bell Global Equities Fund Ned Bell | “Autodesk is an industry-standard software vendor providing computer-aided design (CAD), engineering, and architecture software tools to global construction and manufacturing industries. The manager expresses a bullish view, arguing that recent market declines triggered by fears of artificial intelligence disruption provide an attractive valuation entry point for a premier software compounder. The company's economic moat relies on exceptionally high switching costs, deep network effects, and mission-critical embeddedness across multi-year architectural and engineering workflows. Autodesk converts this moat into highly predictable, recurring subscription revenue streams that yield robust operating margins and minimal capital intensity. The manager emphasizes that generative AI will augment Autodesk's proprietary data advantages and platform value rather than displace it. Primary catalysts include enterprise software monetization of newly integrated AI design tools and steady expansion in non-residential construction digitization. The key risk involves macroeconomic softness in construction and manufacturing that could prolong cautious enterprise IT spending.” | BULL | Q3 2026 Oct 13, 2026 | View Pitch |
Bell Global Emerging Companies Fund Ned Bell, Joel Connell, Matt Saddington | “Autodesk ($ADSK) provides mission-critical 3D design, engineering, and architecture software, including industry standards such as AutoCAD and Revit. The manager views recent market declines triggered by artificial intelligence disruption fears as an overreaction, arguing that generative design capabilities will augment rather than displace Autodesk's enterprise platform. The company's business model is protected by deep workflow integration, proprietary file formats, and prohibitive retraining costs across millions of licensed architects and engineers. Autodesk's high percentage of recurring software-as-a-service subscription revenue yields steady free cash flow margins and exceptional pricing power. Rather than eroding unit economics, embedded artificial intelligence tools offer monetization avenues through premium tiers and consumption-based features, supporting high incremental returns on invested capital. Near-term catalysts include enterprise contract renewals, expansion of cloud collaboration platforms like Autodesk Construction Cloud, and potential valuation multiple re-rating as artificial intelligence disintermediation fears dissipate. Primary risks to track include macroeconomic cyclicality in commercial real estate and infrastructure construction, softer near-term corporate IT spending, and transition frictions in direct billing models.” | BULL | Q3 2026 Oct 13, 2026 | View Pitch |
Aristotle Value Equity Fund Howard Gleicher | “Headquartered in Northern California and founded in 1982, Autodesk produces software that allows companies to design and model their products and/or projects. The company is the global industry standard for computer-aided design in the architecture, engineering and construction industry (AEC). Autodesk's millions of subscribers rely on its software to design and model buildings, manufactured products, animated films, and video games. The company's four segments are AEC (~48% of net sales), its iconic software AutoCAD (~27%), Manufacturing (~20%), and Media and Entertainment (M&E) (~5%). Autodesk primarily sells its software on a subscription basis, having discontinued perpetual license sales of most standalone products in 2016. As part of the move to subscription licensing, Autodesk replaced its product suite with three streamlined Industry Collections focused on AEC, Manufacturing and M&E. In recent years, the AEC industry has increasingly sought to resolve the inefficiencies that arise when many parties are needed to complete a building project. Autodesk has been at the cutting edge of enabling improvement through innovation and promoting the use of open standards, or open building information modeling (BIM), which allows for all relevant building data to be processed virtually in a 3D model and shared across stakeholders. Importantly, Autodesk's leadership in ensuring the interoperability of its software with that of competitors increases collaboration and productivity among architects, engineers and contractors—an attractive value proposition for its customers. We believe shares of Autodesk are attractively valued given our estimates of normalized earnings. In our view, the market underappreciates Autodesk's ability to sustain double-digit revenue growth while maintaining high levels of profitability, with operating margins of approximately 40%. Supported by pricing initiatives, strong customer retention and a highly recurring revenue model, we believe the shares do not fully reflect the company's long-term earnings power and ability to generate FREE cash flow.” | NEUTRAL | Q2 2026 Aug 10, 2026 | View Pitch |
Brown Advisors Global Leaders Strategy Mike Poggi | “Our investments across software and cloud-service providers were weak, including Microsoft, Autodesk and Workday. We exited Autodesk and Workday during the quarter. Autodesk's share price has been impacted by market concerns about increased competition from AI challengers, including the potential impact of world models replacing large parts of the 3D creation stack. Since our first-quarter drawdown review, we have continued our research and discussions around substitution risk for Autodesk, with a particular focus on the potential impact of world models replacing large parts of the 3D creation stack. The competitive environment for Autodesk is intensifying. As we see substitution risk increasing and the range of outcomes for software companies widening, we have decided to allocate capital elsewhere, funding our initiations in Nvidia and Progressive Corporation.” | NEUTRAL | Q2 2026 Jul 22, 2026 | View Pitch |
Nightview Capital Arne Alsin | “Autodesk is the kind of business that gets less credit than it deserves because it is not flashy. It makes software for architects, engineers, and construction professionals. It has been in the busine” | BULL | Q1 2026 Apr 20, 2026 | View Pitch |
Each excerpt above is the manager's commentary on this ticker specifically. The full letter has the rest of their portfolio thinking, risk discussion, and broader institutional context.