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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q4 | Mar 13, 2026 | Baumann Capital | - | - | AHT.L, AI.PA, LIN, SOL.MI, WIT.MI | AI, Europe, healthcare, Home Health, Industrial Gases, infrastructure, Quality | SOL Group operates one of Europe's leading industrial gas franchises serving 50k customers across 32 countries, with a network of 39 air-separation units and 50+ filling plants that took almost a century to assemble. The business creates regional oligopolies due to expensive logistics of moving gases, with high switching costs from buried pipelines and bulk tanks installed at customer sites. Vivisol has grown from 140k patients in 2010 to 750k by 2024, representing 13% compound annual growth driven by Europe's aging population and healthcare systems moving chronic care from hospitals to patients' homes. The business provides home respiratory therapy, ventilation support, and infusion treatments with 80% recurring revenues and renewal rates above 95%. The fund focuses on super-durable, quality businesses with sustainable competitive advantages, excellent management with aligned interests, and reasonable entry valuations. The manager emphasizes businesses designed to last like Roman aqueducts, with high barriers to entry and exceptionally resilient business models that can compound for decades. The manager acknowledges AI as a main risk requiring early spotting to avoid losing money, particularly challenging for software investments. The strategy tilts towards businesses unlikely to see their daily unit economics negatively affected by AI over the next decades, favoring infrastructure and business services players over software. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Sequoia Fund | 0.4% | 22.1% | ACN, AHT.L, ALGN, COF, CSU.TO, ELV, ERF.PA, GOOGL, ICE, JEC, META, MSA, RR.L, SCHW, TSM, UMG.AS, UNH | AI, Concentration, defense, healthcare, long-term, Quality, technology, value | Alphabet released Gemini 3 model that soared to top of AI leaderboards, demonstrating the company's full-stack AI capabilities. Google is successfully integrating AI into Search with AI Overviews and AI Mode, showing increased user satisfaction. Accenture faces questions about whether generative AI might upend the IT services industry, though the company's moats remain intact. UnitedHealth and Elevance faced multi-year fundamental pain from rising healthcare utilization and volatile medical costs. The managed care industry is under-earning across most business lines due to repricing challenges and regulatory constraints. Policy risk has increased with renewed scrutiny of industry business practices including prior authorizations and pharmacy benefit management. Rolls-Royce's Defense segment is benefiting from the new threat environment in Europe and resulting surge in defense spending. The company is the sole producer of nuclear power plants for new Dreadnought-class submarines and is developing systems for the Global Combat Air Programme next-generation stealth fighter. Universal Music Group's paid streaming revenue grew at high-single-digit rates driven entirely by subscriber growth. The company signed new agreements with streaming platforms that include wholesale price step-ups, providing incentive for retail price increases. UMG continues acquiring catalogs in developing markets to secure future growth drivers. MSA Safety benefits from growing focus on safety as regulation and employer behavior trend toward higher standards. The company is transitioning to technology-enabled safety equipment with connected portable gas detectors moving to subscription models. MSA is developing connected SCBA solutions for firefighters that should drive significant revenue growth over 5-10 years. | ELV UNH GOOG RR LN ALGN ACN MSA |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 14, 2026 | Emerald Wealth Partners – Focused Equity Strategy | 2.1% | 13.2% | 1179.HK, 8035.T, AHT.L, AMAT, AMZN, ASML, AVGO, BLK, CB, CSU.TO, DE, DEO, GOOGL, LMT, LSEG.L, MSFT, NOW, ORCL, SHEL, TMO | AI, China, Quality, semiconductors, technology, Trade Policy, value | AI dominated 2025 with massive data center investment announcements including OpenAI's $300 billion commitment and Meta's five-gigawatt Hyperion data center. The manager sees AI driving demand for semiconductor tools and custom chips, positioning companies like Applied Materials, ASML, and Broadcom to benefit from the infrastructure buildout. Semiconductor companies were top performers with Applied Materials up 59.6% and ASML up 55.8%. The manager emphasizes the bright prospects for chip design tools given silicon requirements for AI deployment, while also initiating Broadcom for its custom chip capabilities serving cloud hyperscalers. Trump announced the highest tariffs since the 1930s, with effective rates settling around 17% after negotiations. This triggered initial market corrections but companies adapted by flexing supply chains, with macroeconomic consequences remaining benign on inflation and GDP fronts. China had a strong year with the Hang Seng up 32% as investors warmed to signals that regulatory tightening was over. Chinese tech companies demonstrated ability to deploy AI efficiently at lower costs despite GPU restrictions, while valuations became attractive after years of consolidation. The manager focuses on high-quality compounders trading at discounts after being left out of the AI rally. They target companies generating strong free cash flow with high ROIC that can redeploy capital effectively, finding opportunities in unloved sectors and geographies like Swiss stocks at multi-year valuation lows. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Nov 6, 2025 | Substack | Wonderstcks | Ashtead Group Plc | Industrials | Rental & Leasing Services | Bull | capital-intensive, Competition, digital platform, economic cycles, Equipment Rental, financial management, infrastructure projects, supply chain constraints, Sustainability, US market expansion | View Pitch |
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