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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 12, 2024 | Parnassus Value Equity Fund | 7.3% | 13.7% | ALGN, AVGO, BAX, BEPC, CSCO, GOOG, GPN, INTC, MU, NICE IT, ORCL, TSM | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Apr 22, 2025 | Polen Capital – U.S. SMID Company Growth | -12.7% | -12.7% | ALGN, BAH, CRL, ELF, ETSY, FIX, FOXF, GLOB, GSHD, MANH, MODG, PGNY, ROAD, RVLV, SAIA, TECH, WING, YETI | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | -2.5% | 10.6% | A, ADYEY, ALGN, CSGP, DDOG, EFX, FTNT, GWRE, IDXX, KLAC, MELI, MTD, ODFL, PCOR, PGR, POOL, ROK, SHW, SQ, TEAM, TT, XYZ | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Parnassus Value Equity Fund | -1.5% | 12.0% | ABNB, ALGN, AMAT, AMZN, AVGO, AZN, BALL, BAX, BIIB, BK, DHI, DIS, FIS, GOOG, GPN, INTL, MU, NICE, NTR, NVO, ORCL, PGR, SCHW, TSM, V | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Sands Capital Global Growth Fund | 5.3% | 15.7% | 6861 JP, ALGN, APP, AXON, DXCM, EW, GRAB, LRCX, MELI, NFLX, NOW, OKTA, SPOT, SSFN, TTEK | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q4 | Dec 31, 2023 | Conestoga Mid Cap Composite | 8.4% | 9.4% | ALGN, ANSS, CGNX, CPRT, FTNT, IDXX, IT, MTN, ROL, VEEV, WST | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q4 | Dec 1, 2024 | Polen Capital – Global SMID Company Growth | 3.5% | 9.5% | ABT, ADP, ALGN, AMZN, AON, EL, NESN SW, NVO, SAP, WDAY | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 24, 2025 | Meridian Growth Fund | -1.8% | - | ALGN, ALIT, HALO, MDGL, SPT, ZD | capital goods, healthcare, semiconductors, SMID, valuation | A quality-oriented SMID strategy trailed as high-beta, high-valuation names outperformed amid AI-infrastructure exuberance. Underweights in industrial capital goods and speculative semis, plus a healthcare overweight, were headwinds; contributors included biopharma royalty and digital media. Managers caution on stretched multiples and stick to durable free-cash-flow compounders. | ZD HALO MDGL ALGN SPT ALIT |
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| 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 27, 2026 | Giverny Capital Asset Management | 0.0% | 12.6% | ALGN, ANET, CACC, CSU.TO, FERG, FI, GOOGL, HEI, HWKN, IBP, JPM, KGIC, KMX, MA, MEDP, META, SCHW, TSM, TWFG, WSO | AI, HVAC, insurance, Quality, small caps, technology, value | Manager discusses AI's transformative potential while noting uncertainty around returns on massive infrastructure investments. Believes AI won't displace portfolio companies like HVAC distributors and insurance companies, which may gain efficiency advantages. Compares current AI buildout to historical railroad and telecom infrastructure booms where users benefited more than builders. Portfolio is significantly overweight smaller companies with 45% in companies below $54 billion market cap versus 12.5% for the S&P 500. Manager believes these market leaders in niche areas will outperform over time despite recent underperformance relative to mega-cap tech stocks. Manager emphasizes owning high-performing businesses with strong earnings growth and capital returns. Notes the S&P Quality Index underperformed in 2025 but believes quality usually wins in the end. Recent portfolio upgrades focused on improving returns on capital, earnings growth and management quality. | FISV CACC KMX ALGN WSO KNSL SCHW ANET |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Brown Advisory Large-Cap Growth Strategy | -4.4% | 1.8% | AAPL, ADBE, ALGN, AMZN, AVGO, CTAS, DDOG, DHR, DKNG, FICO, GNRC, GOOG, HLT, INTU, IOT, ISRG, META, MRVL, MSFT, NFLX, NOW, NVDA, NXPI, TT, TTD, UBER, VEEV, WDAY, ZTS | AI, Cloud, growth, large cap, semiconductors, software, technology | AI integration is driving differentiation across portfolio companies, with ServiceNow and Intuit advancing meaningful AI initiatives that enhance customer value and deepen competitive advantages. The manager views AI investments in three concentric circles: semiconductor companies powering AI infrastructure, hyperscalers deploying AI at scale, and companies integrating AI to enhance products and services. Semiconductors doubled from April lows with NVIDIA and Broadcom among biggest contributors. The manager maintains meaningful exposure to hardware-oriented AI plays but avoids over-concentration despite strong momentum, viewing semiconductor companies as the first circle of AI infrastructure investments. Cloud businesses showed strong performance with Google Cloud growing nearly 34% year-over-year and AWS accelerating to 20% growth. The manager views hyperscalers as the second circle of AI investments, deploying AI at scale across their platforms. | ZTS MRVL VEEV NOW NFLX DHR AVGO MSFT UBER NVDA AMZN FICO HLT ISRG GOOG |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Cambiar SMID Fund | 1.6% | 0.0% | ACVA, ALGN, BOKF, COO, EEFT, FNF, GOOGL, JBHT, LAZ, MAS, NVDA, WFC, WSC | AI, Credit Stress, financials, healthcare, Quality, small caps, value | The market has priced in a near-flawless AI future for years, but sentiment is shifting as investors become more scrutinizing. Only two of the Mag7 outperformed in 2025, and the market is now more discerning about how AI investments will translate into financial returns. Increased debt financing for AI capex creates vulnerability to credit tightening. The fourth quarter saw a reversal in the growth versus value trade, with traditional value sectors like Healthcare and Financials performing well while Mag7 largely lagged. The fund's quality bias and valuation sensitivity were out of step with a market prioritizing higher-beta momentum stocks. Value stocks offer attractive return potential going forward. Small cap stocks trailed larger cap counterparts for the year despite posting respectable 12.8% gains. Companies with negative income outperformed by wide margins in 2025, creating challenges for quality-focused strategies. The market environment paralleled 2021's speculative period with little regard for valuation or earnings. Corporate bankruptcies spiked in 2025, highlighting growing financial pressure amid elevated borrowing costs. Middle and lower income consumers are increasingly stretched with high credit card balances and subprime auto loan delinquencies at highest levels since 2008. Rising unemployment likely to amplify these pressures. | COO |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 16, 2024 | Polen Capital – Focus Growth | 3.0% | 11.0% | AAPL, ABBY, ACN, ADSK, ALGN, AMZN, CRM, GOOG, HD, META, MSCI, MSFT, NFLX, NVDA, SPOT | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | Fidelity Growth Strategies Fund | 6.3% | 17.9% | ALGN, ALNY, MDB, MOH, VST | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q1 | Apr 19, 2023 | Polen Capital – Global SMID Company Growth | 3.5% | 9.5% | ABT, ALGN, MA, MSFT, TMO, V | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q1 | Apr 19, 2023 | Polen Capital – Global SMID Company Growth | 7.4% | -2.4% | ALGN, AZTA, GSHD | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q1 | Apr 19, 2023 | Polen Capital – U.S. SMID Company Growth | 8.8% | -1.3% | ALGN, MPWR, OLPX | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Apr 14, 2025 | Parnassus Value Equity Fund | -2.0% | -2.0% | A, ALGN, AMD, AMZN, AVGO, BIO, CI, DE, GILD, GOOG, JPM, PGR, ROST, VZ | - | View | ||
| 2022 Q4 | Mar 3, 2023 | Harding Loevner Global Equity | 5.2% | 15.6% | AAPL, ALGN, NKE, SIVB | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Jan 24, 2025 | Giverny Capital Asset Management | 0.8% | 21.1% | AHT LN, ALGN, FERG, FI, IBP, KNSL, MEDP, MTB | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 2026 | Fund Letters | Arman Gokgol-Kline | Align Technology, Inc. | Health Care | Medical Devices | Bull | NASDAQ | Branding, growth, Medical devices, Orthodontics, Penetration | View Pitch |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Fund Letters | David M. Poppe | Align Technology Inc. | Health Care | Medical Devices | Bull | NASDAQ | clear aligners, Consumer-health, Medical devices, Orthodontics, recovery | View Pitch |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Seeking Alpha | Seeking Alpha | Align Technology, Inc. | Healthcare | Medical Devices | Neutral | NASDAQ Stock Market | Align Technology, clear aligners, financial position, Margins, Market Expectations, pricing pressures, R&D investment, restructuring, sales growth, valuation | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Chad Meade | Align Technology, Inc. | Health Care | Health Care Supplies | Bear | NASDAQ | Asp, Competition, Demand, Dental, Mix, Pricing | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Chad Meade | Align Technology, Inc. | Health Care | Health Care Supplies | Bear | NASDAQ | Asp, Competition, Demand, Dental, Mix, Pricing | View Pitch |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Value Investors Club | baldy | Align Technology Inc | Health Care | Health Care Equipment | — | NASDAQ | Align, Invisalign, orthodontics, TAM, growth | 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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