| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Aug 2, 2025 | Meridian Growth Fund | 4.1% | - | ALGN, CARG, CHDN, COO, CW, DKNG, DOCS, EEFT, FSS, GFS, HALO, RBA, SPT, TRMB, ZD | growth, healthcare, industrials, Quality, risk management, small cap, technology | The fund's investment approach is grounded in investing in high-quality businesses with recurring revenue and sustainable competitive advantages. This emphasis on quality businesses with stable revenues and attractive valuations remains the core strategy going forward. | DKNG FSS CW COO HALO ZD COO HALO ZD |
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| 2025 Q2 | Aug 2, 2025 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 6.9% | - | ALIT, AXGN, CARG, CCSI, FSS, KEX, MIR, NTIC, PACK, RELY, SPT, TPB, VNOM | energy, growth, healthcare, nuclear, Quality, Resilience, small caps | The fund focuses exclusively on small-cap growth companies, with the Russell 2000 Growth Index as its benchmark. Small caps returned 8.5% in the quarter, recovering 24.0% from April lows, with growth stocks outperforming value stocks significantly. | NPKI TPB MIR VNOM AXGN RANP VNOM AXGN PACK |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Meridian Growth Fund | 6.8% | 0.0% | ACVA, ALIT, CARG, EEFT, IRDM, MATX, QDEL, RBA, SHC, ST, STE, TRMB, ZD | growth, Quality, Recurring Revenue, risk management, small caps, technology | QuidelOrtho Corporation is a global leader in the diagnostics industry following the merger of Quidel and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics. The company faced challenges from a dramatic slowdown in Covid-19 testing volumes but maintains steady performance in its core clinical diagnostic division with EBITDA margins north of 20%. | RBA ACVA TRMB SHC IRDM QDEL |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 6.2% | 0.0% | ACVA, ALIT, BYRN, CARG, CNCL, FORR, LZ, MATX, MIR, MMSI, NRGN, QDEL, RBA, SG, STNE, TPB | Automation, Diagnostics, growth, healthcare, small cap, technology | The fund holds multiple healthcare positions including QuidelOrtho Corporation in diagnostics, Consensus Cloud Solutions serving healthcare data security, and Neurogene in gene therapy. Healthcare IT staffing issues are creating macro pressure on enterprise-level adoptions. | SG NRGN BYRN FORR QDEL CNCL |
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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Meridian Growth Fund | -8.0% | -8.0% | ALIT, CARG, CHDN, COO, EEFT, HALO, OKTA, RBA, STE, TNDM, TRMB, WAY, ZD | Biotechnology, cybersecurity, growth, healthcare, Quality, Resilience, small caps, tariffs | The fund focuses on small-cap growth investing through the Russell 2500 Growth Index benchmark, with emphasis on high-quality businesses with recurring revenue and sustainable competitive advantages. The strategy demonstrated resilience during the quarter's market decline, outperforming on six of seven days when the index declined 2% or more. | CARG TNDM ZD RBA HALO OKTA |
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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | -12.2% | -12.2% | ALIT, CARG, CSOD, IMXI, LZ, MMSI, RBA, TNDM, TPB, VCYT, VNOM, WAY | Diagnostics, growth, healthcare, Medical Devices, small caps, tariffs, Trade Policy, volatility | The fund focuses exclusively on small-cap growth stocks, with the Russell 2000 Growth Index as its benchmark. Small-cap stocks fell more sharply than large-caps during the quarter, declining 9.5% versus 4.5% for large-caps. The strategy's emphasis on smaller cap stocks within the index was a headwind during the quarter as larger-cap stocks outperformed. | MMSI RBA LZ VCYT IMXI TNDM |
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| 2024 Q4 | Feb 10, 2025 | Meridian Growth Fund | -0.8% | 6.3% | ALIT, CARG, CHDN, DOCS, EEFT, GNRC, OKTA, RBA, RELY, ST, STE, TMDX, TRMB, ZD | growth, healthcare, industrials, Quality, small caps, technology | The portfolio's largest allocation with historically attractive valuations below long-term averages. Utilization has recovered above pre-pandemic levels and investor interest in biotechnology is showing signs of revival. | CARG RELY DOCS STE ST TMDX |
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| 2024 Q4 | Feb 10, 2025 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 2.8% | 11.7% | AGS, ALIT, ANGI, BYRN, CARG, CCSI, MIR, RBA, SMAR, STNE, TMDX, TPB, WAY | growth, healthcare, nuclear, Quality, risk management, small caps, technology | Mirion Technologies operates in industries with strong secular trends tied to rising demand for nuclear power, including AI-related data center energy needs. The company provides critical technologies for the nuclear power sector with recurring revenues. | ANGI SRI TMDX BYRN TPB MRAD |
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| 2023 Q4 | Dec 31, 2023 | Meridian Growth Fund | 6.8% | 0.0% | ALIT, CARG, CHDN, EEFT, FOXF, GOOS, HSIC, MATX, RBA, ST, STE, TRMB, ZD | growth, industrials, Quality, small caps, technology | The Fund's investment approach focuses on high-quality companies with recurring revenue and sustainable competitive advantages. The strategy emphasizes building an enduring portfolio that can mitigate capital losses during turbulent bear market environments. | MATX EEFT CARG HSIC FOXF GOOS.TO |
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| 2023 Q4 | Dec 31, 2023 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 6.2% | 0.0% | ALIT, CARG, CCCC, CCSI, EVRI, HDSN, MATX, MIR, QDEL, RBA, SKIN, SONX, TPB | Biotechnology, gaming, growth, healthcare, small cap, technology, value | The fund holds C4 Therapeutics, a biotechnology firm specializing in protein degradation therapies for cancer treatment. The company has three treatments in early-stage clinical trials targeting multiple cancers and announced a formal agreement with Merck for co-development. Positive clinical readout on a leading compound provided encouraging signals for therapeutic efficacy. | CCCC CARG MRAD |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 30, 2025 | Spheria Global Opportunities Fund | -1.7% | - | CARG, FERG, HEM.ST, ITRK, LPLA, SPNS, UHR.SW, USLM, WMK | AI, fundamentals, global, Quality, risk management, small cap, Speculation, value | Markets remained captivated by the relentless momentum of all things AI, a theme increasingly shaping narratives around productivity, employment, and market structure, even as a growing chorus warned of speculative excess. | USLM LPLA |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 24, 2025 | Meridian Growth Fund | -1.8% | - | ALGN, ALIT, ALKT, CARG, CHDN, COO, DT, GFS, HALO, MDGL, RELY, SPT, STE, TRMB, ZD | AI, growth, healthcare, industrials, Quality, small caps, SMID, technology | The fund sees signs of exuberance and speculative behavior in AI infrastructure ecosystem, particularly in technology and industrial sectors. While AI remains transformative long-term, valuations have become disconnected from fundamentals with companies exceeding $10 billion market caps lacking profits or revenues. The fund remains disciplined and unlikely to pursue high-momentum AI names without meaningful revenues or profitability. | ZD HALO MDGL ALGN SPT ALIT |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 24, 2025 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 4.2% | - | ALIT, ALKT, AMPL, CARG, CCSI, CERT, KEX, RELY, SPT, TPB, VCYT, VNOM, ZENA | AI, growth, healthcare, industrials, Quality, small caps, technology, Valuations | The fund sees signs of exuberance and speculative behavior in AI infrastructure ecosystem, particularly in technology and industrial sectors. Many companies are trading at historically elevated valuations despite being potential one-time beneficiaries of the AI investment cycle. The fund remains disciplined and avoids high-momentum AI names lacking meaningful revenues or profitability. | CCSI ZENAS TPB KEX SPT ALIT ZD HALO MDGL ALGN SPT CCSI KEX SPT |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | abrdn U.S. Small Cap Equity Fund | 0.5% | 8.8% | ARCB, ARQT, ATEC, ATZ.TO, AZZ, CARG, CORT, ELF, HLIO, ITGR, LRN, LZB, OSW, PI, REVG, SUPN, TRNO, VIAV | healthcare, industrials, infrastructure, Quality, small caps, technology | The fund focuses on US small-cap equities, which rose over the quarter but lagged broader US equities. The manager emphasizes higher-quality small-cap businesses that offer resilience against macroeconomic headwinds while benefiting from secular trends. The manager sees compelling opportunities from increased infrastructure investment as a secular trend. New position AZZ is positioned to benefit from grid modernization and domestic manufacturing reshoring. Reshoring of supply chains presents compelling opportunities for smaller companies. AZZ is positioned to benefit from domestic manufacturing reshoring trends, while the broader strategy targets companies that can capitalize on this shift. The fund initiated a position in AZZ, which is positioned to benefit from accelerating data-center development. This reflects the manager's view on the growth potential in data center infrastructure. | CORT |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 14, 2026 | Spheria Global Opportunities Fund | -3.0% | 2.9% | ACLR.SW, CARG, EXPD, HEM.ST, ITRK.L, JKHY, PAYC, RMV.L, SPNS, YETI | financials, global, industrials, Quality, small caps, technology | The fund maintains a consistent, valuation-aware approach focused on high-quality businesses with durable economics, proven cash generation and clear paths to value creation. This quality-oriented strategy faced challenges in 2025 as markets rewarded loss-making businesses and concept-driven stocks. Small caps are still yet to materially close the relative valuation gap that has opened up since shortly before the current interest rate cycle kicked off in early 2022. The fund targets global listed small cap and microcap companies. | PAYC JKHY |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Meridian Growth Fund | 6.8% | 0.0% | CARG, CHDN, COO, DOCS, EEFT, GFS, OKTA, RBA, SMAR, ST, STE, TRMB, ZD | growth, healthcare, semiconductors, small caps, software, technology | The fund is gaining confidence in healthcare outlook after years of underperformance. Healthcare stocks are trading slightly below historical valuations with stable to improving fundamentals. Recent company checks reinforce a sound basis for the portfolio's overweight position in this sector. | COO SMAR DOCS GFS ZD OKTA |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 6.2% | 0.0% | AGS, BYRN, CARG, EVRI, LZ, MIR, MMSI, RBA, SEAT, SMAR, SRI, TMDX, TPB | Automotive, consumer, gaming, growth, healthcare, small caps | The fund holds Everi Holdings, a gaming technology company with hardware manufacturing and financial technology segments. The stock rose after a private equity acquisition offer at a 56% premium, reinforcing confidence in the financial technology segment. | TPB EVRI BYRN VICI LZ STRI |
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| 2022 Q3 | Sep 30, 2022 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | AZZ, CARG, CMP, ECVT, GBLI, HCCI, LGF/A, VSAT, WSTG | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | Meridian Growth Fund | 6.8% | 0.0% | ACVA, AGIO, ALIT, CARG, CHDN, CHWY, EEFT, RBA, RELY, SMAR, ST, STE, TMDX, TRMB, ZD | consumer discretionary, growth, healthcare, industrials, Quality, small cap, technology | The fund holds Transmedics Group, a medical technology company with a differentiated capability to facilitate organ transplants through their Organ Care System (OCS). The company reported increased adoption and buildout of its OCS platform with strong top-line growth and profitability metrics ahead of plan. | RELY TRMB ALIT AGIO CHWY TMDX |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 6.2% | 0.0% | ACVA, AGS, ALIT, BYRN, CARG, LZ, MIR, MMSI, RBA, SILK, SMAR, STNE, TMDX, TPB | downside protection, growth, Medical Devices, Quality, small caps, technology | The fund holds multiple medical technology companies including TransMedics Group with their revolutionary organ transplant technology and Silk Road Medical with their minimally invasive carotid artery treatment. These companies are taking market share with innovative solutions that improve patient outcomes. | AGS SILK TMDX ALIT BYRN LZ |
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| 2023 Q2 | Jun 30, 2023 | Meridian Growth Fund | 6.8% | 0.0% | ACTA, CARG, CERT, ST, STE, ZD | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Apr 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | Meridian Growth Fund | CarGurus, Inc. | Communication Services | Interactive Media & Services | Bull | NASDAQ | CarOffer Acquisition, Dealer Services, digital advertising, inventory normalization, Lead Generation, Online Automotive Marketplace, Pricing power | View Pitch |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | CarGurus, Inc. | Communication Services | Interactive Media & Services | Bull | NASDAQ | automotive, digital platform, e-commerce, Equity, Lead Generation, online marketplace, Two-Sided Market | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Meridian Growth Fund | CarGurus, Inc. | Communication Services | Interactive Media & Services | Bull | NASDAQ | automotive, Dealer Services, digital platform, Free Cash Flow, online marketplace, restructuring, Wholesaling Business | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Meridian Growth Fund | CarGurus, Inc. | Communication Services | Interactive Media & Services | Bull | NASDAQ | Auction Business, automotive marketplace, Bull, Dealer Network, digital platform, e-commerce, Operational Leverage | View Pitch |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Substack | Scalpavelli | CarGurus, Inc. | Consumer Discretionary | Auto & Truck Dealerships | Bull | automotive marketplace, Competition, earnings yield, financial discipline, goodco/badco, innovation, market consolidation, market presence, primary business growth, user-friendly platform | 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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