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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2023 Q2 | Aug 1, 2023 | Tall Oak Capital Advisors | - | - | CAT, FERG | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Diamond Hill Large Cap Strategy | 7.9% | 14.7% | AIG, ALL, BWA, CAT, GM, HCA, HUM, KEYR, LH, SBAC, SYY | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 8, 2026 | Auxier Asset Management | 2.0% | 15.2% | BK, BRK-A, BTI, C, CAT, CVX, FI, GE, GLW, GOOGL, HD, LOW, MSFT, MU, NOW, PH, QCOM, RTX, UNH, VLO | AI, Banking, Buybacks, defense, energy, healthcare, technology, value | Technology hyperscalers spent close to $400 billion in 2025 on AI infrastructure with potential to reach $527 billion in 2026. However, an MIT study found 95% of generative AI pilots failing to deliver measurable returns, raising concerns about overinvestment similar to the dot-com era. Supply demand dynamics favored US stocks with $1.1 trillion in total stock buybacks versus only $46 billion in IPOs. Energy leaders like Chevron rewarded shareholders with aggressive stock buybacks alongside strong production and growing dividends. Over 100 countries dramatically increased defense spending in 2025, providing a boost for the aerospace and defense sector. Jet engine production and maintenance soared, benefiting firms like Parker Hannifin, GE, RTX and Berkshire's Precision Castparts. In the fourth quarter, investors shifted toward undervalued, high-quality companies with strong free cash flow yields. Healthcare led with an 11.25% catch-up return as its valuation metrics remain at a significant discount to the broader market. Larger banks enjoyed steepening yield curves and robust capital markets activity, with Bank of New York and Citigroup showing strong fundamentals at cheap valuations. JPMorgan predicts a breakout year for IPOs in 2026 with names like SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic potentially entering the market. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 5, 2026 | Avenue Investment Management | - | - | CAT, TIH.TO | AI, Canada, Defense Spending, energy, infrastructure, National Capitalism, tariffs, technology | Canada announced significant defense spending increases to reach 2% NATO target in 2026 and 5% of GDP by 2035, representing a potential sea change in investment levels. This shift from past decade of neglecting NATO spending requirements creates substantial infrastructure investment opportunities. Canada is prioritizing key infrastructure investments including energy sector regulatory reform and defense-related infrastructure. The government is working with Alberta on energy infrastructure including pipelines, rail, power generation, and transmission grid to unlock natural resource production. Global shift towards National Capitalism where governments actively prioritize national economic interests over global integration, using tools like tariffs, subsidies, and industrial policy to support domestic production. This represents movement away from market-based economies toward greater state intervention. US tariffs announced in early 2025 pushed average tariff rates to levels not seen in over 100 years. Tariffs are expected to remain elevated and permanent reality for global economy, creating distorting impacts on global trade and financial markets. Technology sector capital spending has increased from $100 billion in 2020 to over $400 billion expected in 2026 due to AI data center investments. This massive capital cycle will drive returns on capital lower in technology sector as infrastructure investments depreciate over 5-8 years. Canadian energy sector positioned to benefit from regulatory reform and government cooperation with Alberta. US military action in Venezuela aimed at accessing oil sector, with administration asking US energy companies to invest $100 billion in Venezuelan infrastructure. | TIH CN |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 23, 2026 | Barometer Capital Management Inc. | 0.0% | 0.0% | AEM.TO, BBD-B.TO, BVN, CAT, CLS.TO, CPX.TO, FTT.TO, GOOGL, HWM, K.TO, LRCX, MS, NA.TO, POW.TO, RTX, RY.TO, SAN, SE, TTWO, TVE.TO | AI, Canada, Copper, defense, energy, financials, Precious Metals, semiconductors | AI infrastructure remained a pillar of market leadership despite some consolidation in December. The market continued to distinguish between AI-enablers where demand remained strong and more cyclical parts of the chip complex, reinforcing the durability of the infrastructure buildout theme. Semiconductors exposed to AI maintained strength as semiconductor capital spending remained supported by AI-driven demand for advanced chips. Defense spending stayed elevated amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, supporting backlog strength and long-cycle earnings durability for aerospace and defense companies. RTX and Howmet extended gains as commercial aerospace demand remained strong and defense spending supported long-cycle revenue visibility through backlogs. Precious metals experienced renewed volatility during the quarter, with gold and silver weakening sharply into the end of October after an extended run higher. The pullback created opportunity as the manager re-engaged at lower levels when the market stabilized and the broader macro backdrop remained supportive for hard assets. Gold miners delivered strong returns throughout the year despite some weakness in final days of December. Copper prices surged into year-end amid rising demand tied to electrification, infrastructure, and data-center buildouts, alongside persistent supply constraints. This supported miners levered to the copper theme, with materials exposure contributing positively through companies like Hudbay Minerals and Rio Tinto benefiting from strength in copper and base metals. The portfolio benefited from exposure to global power demand themes, with Caterpillar continuing to benefit from robust demand in its energy & transportation business increasingly tied to expanding global power needs, particularly the build-out of AI data centers requiring reliable on-site generation capacity. Nuclear energy remained supported by structural tailwinds including rising global demand for reliable baseload power. Financials added to returns with banks demonstrating strong earnings power and shareholder return capacity. Morgan Stanley benefited from a supportive backdrop for capital markets activity and wealth management momentum, while Canadian banks continued to demonstrate resilient profitability and capital strength supporting shareholder return expectations. | TVE CN LRCX CAT |
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| 2022 Q4 | Dec 31, 2022 | Diamond Hill Large Cap Strategy | 12.1% | -13.1% | ABT, AIG, AMZN, CAT, COP, FCX, GOOG, HD, MSFT, TFC, UNP | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 24, 2025 | Diamond Hill Large Cap Strategy | -0.1% | 4.2% | AIG, CAT, EQH, FDX, KMX, LHX, MLM, TMO, ZTS | AI, consumer, defense, Large Caps, value | The portfolio lags its benchmark due to weakness in IT and consumer discretionary holdings but emphasizes long-term value discipline. Managers added exposure to high-quality names like FedEx and Thermo Fisher, while cautioning against AI-driven overvaluation in mega-caps. They see opportunities in defense, logistics, and healthcare leaders trading below intrinsic value. | ZTS FDX |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Artisan Focus Fund | -0.5% | 19.9% | AAPL, ADI, AXON, CAT, COF, ENR.DE, GE, GS, HWM, ISRG, JPM, LLY, NDAQ, NVDA, ROK, RR.L, SHOP.TO, TSM, WELL, WFC | aerospace, AI, energy, financials, growth, industrials, semiconductors, technology | AI impacts on productivity should create abundant inflection points across nearly all S&P sectors in profitability and ROIC. When amortizing AI capex over the system that will use it, the returns appear massive and under-reported. S&P margins look structurally too low in most forecasts as labor efficiency gains may likely create an upward drift in margin ceilings. Aerospace is cyclically inflecting ahead of a long duration upcycle supported by secular growth of the global middle class. The Aerospace Normalization theme was the largest positive contributor in 2025 with General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Howmet all making meaningful contributions driven by fundamental strength. Power demand creates new secular growth opportunities, with data centers reaching deep into industrial portfolios. Caterpillar's co-located power capability at data centers represents significant revenue upside potential to the Energy & Transportation segment. Analog Devices represents the premium analog compounder as the cycle turns, with best-in-class economics including 70%+ gross margins and 45-50% EBIT targets. The team believes 2Q25 marked the restart of the semiconductor cycle with pricing and margin inflection underway. De-globalization theme involves redirection of capital on post pandemic priorities for security of energy and reliability of supply chains. Companies like Siemens Energy, GE Vernova, Constellation Energy and Vistra are positioned to benefit from this structural shift. Industrial automation represents a key secular trend with companies like Rockwell Automation positioned to benefit from digitization and AI-enabled transformation of enterprise operations. This includes factory automation and process optimization across manufacturing. | GE |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 27, 2026 | WestEnd Capital | 0.0% | 0.0% | BA, CAT, CCJ, CENX, FCX, GE, KGS, LLY, PLTR | AI, Aluminum, defense, energy, healthcare, industrials, Natural Gas, technology | WestEnd committed to the AI trade early and captured outsized gains by actively investing in key players driving AI innovation and infrastructure buildout. The AI boom continues with debt financing becoming more important for funding buildout as capital intensity rises. AI data centers require massive amounts of metals including aluminum and copper. Portfolio includes exposure to aerospace/defense supply chains and companies positioned for defense spending. Century Aluminum's high-purity primary aluminum is essential for military aircraft, armor plate, drones, and advanced weapons systems, tying into national security needs. Eli Lilly stands out as a dominant franchise in the GLP-1 obesity and diabetes market, actively reducing friction through direct-to-consumer and direct-to-employer pricing strategies. The company is diversifying into next-generation oral GLP-1s with orforglipron expected to generate $13 billion in annual sales by 2031. The Trump administration has signaled intent to dial-up fiscal stimulus in various forms, with policies encouraging capital formation and business investment. This includes benefits from the OBBBA providing meaningful financial/tax benefits for businesses and households. Kodiak Gas Services provides mission-critical large-horsepower compression infrastructure upstream of LNG exports and downstream power demand from AI-driven data centers. The company benefits from robust demand in the Permian and other basins through long-term, take-or-pay style contracts. Century Aluminum sits at the intersection of AI data-center buildout and defense/energy security needs. The boom in data centers, EVs, and clean-energy infrastructure is tightening the U.S. aluminum market, pushing up the Midwest premium and incentivizing domestic smelting capacity to restart. | CENX CAT LLY KGS |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 27, 2026 | Diamond Hill Large Cap Strategy | 1.4% | 5.7% | AIG, AON, BRK-B, CAT, CB, CL, COF, COO, DOV, EQT, GM, GOOGL, HCA, HIG, LH, MU, NDAQ, SOLV, SYY, WIX, ZTS | AI, Defensive, financials, healthcare, large cap, Quality, technology, value | The fund remains cautious of AI-driven market exuberance where investor sentiment often appears to outpace business fundamentals. AI optimism drove strong performance in information technology and communication services sectors, with hundreds of billions in AI-related capital spending supporting stocks like Micron and Sandisk. The fund continues to find attractive opportunities among high-quality, cash-generative businesses with defensive characteristics including Colgate, Aon and Berkshire Hathaway. These fundamentally stable businesses underperformed in 2025 but continue to perform in-line with expectations. The portfolio focuses on fundamentally stable, higher quality businesses trading at discounts to intrinsic value estimates. New positions like Dover Corp were initiated when stocks traded at significant discounts to estimated intrinsic value. | EQT SOLV WIX DOV COO SYY LH ZTS COF AIG GM |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 27, 2026 | Antero Peak Group | -0.5% | 19.9% | ADI, CAT | Artificial Intelligence, Cyclical Recovery, Earnings Inflection, Productivity Growth, Return on Invested Capital | The letter argues that 2025 marked a powerful inflection in earnings revisions driven by improving fundamentals, AI-enabled productivity, and cyclical normalization across capital goods, aerospace, and semiconductors. The portfolio is positioned for expanding ROIC and margin upside as AI investment, data monetization, and de-globalization drive multi-year demand tailwinds beyond narrow mega-cap leadership. Looking into 2026, the managers see one of the richest opportunity sets in years, with broad-based earnings acceleration and valuation support underpinning continued value creation. | ADI CAT |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Titan Wealth | - | - | ADBE, AEM, AMD, AU, BKR, CAT, COIN, DIS, GLEN.L, GOOGL, IBKR, LLY, LMT, MELI, MOS, MU, NFLX, ORCL, PHG, RELX, SE | AI, commodities, defense, emerging markets, Geopolitical, global, infrastructure, technology | AI is described as not just a sector theme but a foundation for broad economic transformation that will reshape how businesses operate, products are developed, and services are delivered. The technological momentum is reflected in market behavior with strong equity gains driven by optimism about ongoing earnings growth and innovation-driven expansion. Semiconductor companies benefited from AI spending throughout 2025, with specific mentions of AMD benefiting from OpenAI's compute and chip commitments, and Micron Technology providing exposure to high-bandwidth memory as a bottleneck in chip development. Defense positioning includes exposure to missiles, air defense and space through companies like Lockheed Martin, supported by large order backlogs providing strong long-term visibility amid heightened geopolitical tensions. Gold exposure through miners like AngloGold Ashanti and Agnico Eagle Mines contributed meaningfully to returns as stronger precious metal prices translated into higher cash generation for miners, with positioning for sustained tensions around currency debasement. Energy transition themes are reflected through infrastructure investments and companies positioned for the global push toward renewable energy, including exposure to energy services and LNG infrastructure where long-term dynamics look positive. Cryptocurrency exposure through Coinbase reflects positioning for financial deregulation and disintermediation, with stablecoins expected to become a preferred transfer mechanism following regulatory developments like the GENIUS Act passage. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 12, 2026 | QV Investors Inc. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 005930.KS, 0700.HK, BABA, CAT, CNI, DG, FTT.TO, GOOGL, MU, NVDA, TPZ.TO, UNP | AI, commodities, Dollar, financials, gold, international, Market Concentration, value | AI narrative shifted from Magnificent 7 to hardware providers building data centers. Memory chip providers like Micron and Samsung surged 240% and 120% respectively. Industrial businesses like Caterpillar and Finning benefited from AI-related capital spending for power generation equipment. Gold prices rose 64% as global central banks bolstered reserves and investors sought store of value amid geopolitical concerns and US deficit levels. Precious metals had their best year since 1979, contributing significantly to Canadian market returns. European financials rose 65.7% in 2025 as positive interest rates re-ignited profitability. Canadian bank stocks rose 43.4% as falling rates caused yield curve steepening. Over five years, European financials returned 111.5% versus S&P 500's 82.3%. Manager emphasizes opportunities in defensive areas like healthcare and consumer staples trading at historically low multiples. European cyclicals and smaller cap companies globally trade at low earnings multiples with depressed margins, offering reasonable returns with conservative assumptions. Industrial metals moved to new highs following precious metals surge. Manager sees opportunity in companies that manufacture raw materials into value-added products and pass through cost increases. Commodities rising alongside capital expenditure and fiscal stimulus. | TPZ CN FTT CN DG 005930 KS |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 11, 2026 | FMI All Cap Equity | - | - | ACN, CAT, HAYW, JPM, MSFT, NVDA, SMIN.L, UNP | AI, Bubble, Capex, Quality, small caps, technology, value | AI has driven massive market concentration with 42 AI-related stocks representing 45% of S&P 500 market cap and accounting for 78% of returns since ChatGPT launched. The top five hyperscalers are expected to spend over $500 billion on capex this year alone, with capex-to-revenue reaching 29% in aggregate by 2026. FMI questions whether the enormous capital spending will generate attractive returns and warns of potential bubble conditions similar to the 2000 tech crash. FMI emphasizes their focus on quality businesses with sustainable competitive advantages, strong balance sheets, and ROIC above cost of capital. Quality has underperformed low-quality sharply in 2025, particularly in small caps where money-losing companies have dominated. Despite recent headwinds, Quality Value's long-term relative outperformance is unmistakable and offers superior downside protection during market downturns. The firm maintains a value orientation, tracking Quality Value versus other gradients including cheap stocks and junky value. They believe buying advantaged businesses at discount valuations is a winning formula, though value has faced headwinds in the current junk rally environment where low-quality stocks have outperformed significantly. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 11, 2026 | FMI Large Cap Equity | 0.0% | 0.0% | ACN, CAT, HAYW, JPM, MSFT, NVDA, SMIN.L, UNP | AI, Bubble, capital intensity, Quality, small caps, technology, value | AI-related companies continued to dominate markets in 2025, with 42 AI stocks representing 45% of S&P 500 market cap and accounting for 78% of returns. The top five hyperscalers are expected to spend over $500 billion on capex this year, with capital intensity reaching 29% of revenue by 2026. FMI questions whether the enormous capital spending will generate attractive returns and warns of potential downside risks similar to the 2000 tech bubble. High-quality businesses have underperformed low-quality sharply in 2025, despite outperforming over the long run. FMI maintains their focus on quality businesses with sustainable competitive advantages, strong balance sheets, and ROIC above cost of capital. They believe quality value investing offers superior downside protection during market downturns and creates a powerful compounding effect over time. Small cap active managers have struggled to keep pace during the junk rally, with companies that lose money, have low ROE, or are high beta dominating since April 2025. The Russell 2000 gained 12.81% in 2025, but quality has been a meaningful laggard as investors extended out along the risk curve and were rewarded for taking on more speculative positions. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 11, 2026 | FMI Small Cap Equity | 0.0% | 0.0% | ACN, CAT, HAYW, JPM, MSFT, NVDA, SMIN.L, UNP | AI, Bubble, capital intensity, Quality, small caps, technology, value | AI has driven massive market concentration with 42 AI-related stocks representing 45% of S&P 500 market cap and accounting for 78% of returns since ChatGPT launched. The capital intensity of hyperscalers is reaching 29% capex-to-revenue by 2026, raising questions about return generation. FMI sees long-term potential but questions whether enormous capital spending will generate attractive returns. Quality businesses have underperformed significantly in 2025 as investors favored low-quality junk rally stocks. FMI maintains focus on businesses with sustainable competitive advantages, strong balance sheets, and ROIC above cost of capital. Quality Value has demonstrated superior long-term performance despite recent headwinds. Small cap markets have been dominated by companies that lose money, have low ROE, or lack sales since April 2025. Active small cap managers have struggled to keep pace during this junk rally environment. FMI continues finding attractive opportunities despite challenging backdrop. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Feb 26, 2026 | Fund Letters | David Burrows | Caterpillar Inc. | Industrials | Construction Machinery & Heavy Transportation Equipment | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | backlog, Cyclicals, data centers, Industrials, infrastructure, Power | View Pitch |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Fund Letters | Christopher Smith | Caterpillar Inc. | Industrials | Construction Machinery & Heavy Transportation Equipment | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Cycle, data centers, Deglobalization, infrastructure, machinery | View Pitch |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Fund Letters | George Bolton | Caterpillar Inc. | Industrials | Construction Machinery | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | aftermarket, AI, Digitization, Industrials, services | View Pitch |
| Jan 25, 2026 | Substack | Rijnberk Invest Insights | Caterpillar Inc. | Industrials | Heavy Machinery | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Automation, Caterpillar, Competitive Advantage, Electrification, global dealer network, heavy machinery, Industrial, infrastructure spending, mining capex, services revenue | View Pitch |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | MacroGirl | Caterpillar Inc. | Industrials | Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery | Neutral | NYSE | — | View Pitch |
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