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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2026 Q1 | Apr 15, 2026 | Riverwater Micro Opportunities Strategy | - | - | AVD, CCB, LXU, NPKI, PLOW, RDVT, RNGR, TALK | AI, energy, Fertilizers, Geopolitical, healthcare, materials, Microcap, private credit | LXU TALK RNGR CCB RDVT PLOW NPKI |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 16, 2025 | Riverwater Micro Opportunities Strategy | - | - | ABEO, ALLT, ARIS, AVBC, AVD, BDC, CCB, DCTH, IRMD, MAMA, MEC, NPKI, TILE, UROY, UTL | AI, Banking, healthcare, Microcap, nuclear, Quality, uranium, value | Nuclear power gained momentum as a clean energy solution for AI data centers, with uranium prices strengthening into the high $70s low $80s per pound range. The manager maintains long-standing conviction that nuclear energy will play a critical role in meeting exponential growth in power demands from artificial intelligence infrastructure. | AVD ALLT AVBC DCTH UROY |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 14, 2026 | Riverwater Micro Opportunities Strategy | 0.0% | 0.0% | AVD, AVID, CLMB, FSBC, IRMD, LEU, LMNR, MAMA, MEC, NCMI, NGS, PLOW, PWP, UROY | AI, Biotechnology, fundamentals, Microcap, nuclear, Quality, rates, value | The manager emphasizes investment discipline centered on higher-quality businesses that are profitable or approaching profitability with attractive returns on invested capital. They believe quality businesses should regain leadership as fundamentals reassert themselves as the primary driver of returns. While remaining long-term believers in AI and acknowledging that large platforms are positioned to benefit, the manager views many smaller AI-tied companies as facing greater operational and financial risk than current valuations suggest. They avoided AI-adjacent themes that drove speculative performance in 2025. The Materials sector was the top performer for the year driven by investments in the nuclear energy space. Centrus Energy Corp was a big winner before being sold in Q4 as valuation reflected much of the good news, while Uranium Royalty Corp is held to play rising uranium prices expected this year. The manager struggled with biotech exposure as the sector rallied 31% in Q4, but finds it difficult to allocate as many companies are large risk, large reward binary investments outside their area of expertise. They continue to avoid direct biotech exposure while favoring micro-cap MedTech companies that benefit from improving biotech funding. A key tailwind entering 2026 is easing monetary policy with the Federal Reserve's shift toward rate cuts being especially supportive for micro-cap companies. Lower interest rates and a steeper yield curve can meaningfully reduce capital costs, improve liquidity, and support incremental investment for micro-caps. | PLOW NGS LMNR AVD IRMD |
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| 2023 Q4 | Aug 1, 2024 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | AVD, CJREF, CNX, DLHC, HNGR, LFCR, LTRPA, OUT, SSP, VSAT, VTS | Agriculture, concentrated, energy, Media, small cap, Travel, value | Manager holds three energy-related stocks including Hallador Energy, CNX Resources, and Vitesse Energy. Believes demand for carbon energy is stickier than many expect and sufficient alternatives are harder to produce than anticipated, creating higher and steadier profit fundamentals for domestic energy sources. | View | |
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | AAP, AVD, CLMB, CLVT, CMP, ECVT, IAC, KBR, LFCR, LGF.B, NEU, RDVT, RSSS, SIX, SSP, SXI, VSAT | Auto Parts, Concentration, Data Services, small cap, turnaround, value | Manager emphasizes tremendous specific opportunities in undervalued small cap stocks where the spring is very tightly coiled between intrinsic value estimates and current prices. Portfolio concentrated in best ideas with stocks trading at significant discounts to estimated intrinsic value. | RDVT CLVT AAP KBR VSAT CMP SSP |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Jan 16, 2026 | Fund Letters | Adam Peck | American Vanguard Corporation | Materials | Agricultural Chemicals | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | agriculture, EBITDA, Inventory, Margins, turnaround | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Adam Peck | American Vanguard Corp. | Materials | Agricultural Chemicals | Bull | NYSE | — | View Pitch |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Quipus Capital | American Vanguard Corp. | Materials | Agricultural Inputs | Bull | NYSE | — | 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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