| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | Orbis Global Equity | - | - | AAPL, AMZN, CXT, GOOGL, KO, META, MSFT, NVDA, TSLA, WFC | Advertising, AI, Buybacks, large cap, technology, value | Google has successfully embedded AI into its search generative experience, with search engagement up, profit margins up, and cost to serve AI queries down 80%. The company has strong AI engineering talent, access to cutting-edge chips, and vast data sets for training models. | GOOGL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 25, 2026 | SouthernSun Small Cap | 2.6% | 5.4% | AEIS, BOOT, CSW, CXT, DAR, DORM, DY, EXTR, KAI, LPX, TKR, USPH | AI, energy, fundamentals, risk, small caps, valuation, value | Manager draws extensive parallels between today's AI-driven market environment and the 2014-15 oil collapse, warning that AI has become a macroeconomic assumption embedded in capital expenditure plans and valuation models. AI infrastructure faces energy constraints with data centers becoming massive electricity consumers, while rising power costs and grid limitations challenge assumptions of frictionless scalability. Markets may be conflating transformational potential with near-term certainty, creating valuation risk similar to past cycles. Energy plays a central role in the manager's analysis, both as a historical lesson from 2014-15 oil collapse and as a current constraint on AI infrastructure. Data centers have become massive electricity consumers with economics highly sensitive to power pricing and grid reliability. Rising electricity prices in data-center-heavy regions and utility challenges in expanding capacity create physical constraints that complicate AI scalability assumptions. The portfolio focuses on small-cap businesses that are performing well fundamentally with strong balance sheets, resilient cash flows, and improved competitive positions. The manager emphasizes owning businesses that can compound value over time rather than speculation, though acknowledges markets don't always reward fundamentals on a linear schedule. Portfolio positioning reflects discipline in finding mispriced companies relative to long-term intrinsic value. | TKR DY DORM KAI CSW DAR AEIS |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 25, 2026 | SouthernSun SMID Cap | -3.9% | 4.5% | APG, BOOT, CXT, DAR, DY, EXTR, FND, GNRC, LOB, MUSA, OSK, TKR, TREX, WSO | AI, energy, infrastructure, Late-cycle, SMID Cap, valuation, value | Artificial intelligence occupies a central role in shaping market expectations and has become a macroeconomic assumption embedded in capital expenditure plans and valuation models. The manager draws parallels between today's AI environment and the 2014-15 oil collapse, noting that AI infrastructure is profoundly energy-intensive and faces physical constraints including rising electricity prices and grid capacity challenges. Energy plays a critical role in AI infrastructure economics, with data centers becoming major electricity consumers. Rising power costs compress margins while grid constraints and regulatory scrutiny influence deployment timelines. The manager emphasizes that unlike software-driven growth, AI compute cannot be scaled independently of physical energy reality. Many AI-exposed companies trade at multiples assuming near-flawless execution, creating valuation risk despite current profitability. The manager notes that when confidence is high, markets forgive delays and cost overruns, but when confidence wanes, these factors can catalyze abrupt repricing. Late-cycle environments show conviction persisting even as marginal buyers grow cautious. | TREX TKR DY EXTR LOB OSK GNRC CXT APG DAR |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 30, 2025 | SouthernSun Small Cap | - | 8.3% | AEIS, BCO, CXT, DAR, DORM, EPAC, MOD, MSA, MUSA, NGVT, SCL | active management, industrials, materials, Quality, small caps, value | SouthernSun focuses exclusively on small-cap securities defined as equity securities with market capitalizations within the range of the Russell 2000 Index. The manager emphasizes that divergence in small and mid-sized market segments creates opportunities for active discovery when new entrants come to the public stage. | CXT SCL DAR MOD BCO CXT SCL DAR MOD BCO |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 30, 2025 | SouthernSun SMID Cap | - | 8.7% | BCO, CXT, DAR, FND, GNRC, MOD, MUSA, NGVT, SEIC, VMI, WSO | active management, fundamentals, Quality, SMID Cap, Stewardship, value | SouthernSun emphasizes the enduring value of active management in an increasingly passive world, arguing that active investing restores balance by engaging directly with management, questioning assumptions, and allocating capital purposefully rather than automatically. They view active management as essential stewardship that combines analytical rigor with human judgment. | CXT WSO DAR BCO MOD CXT WSO DAR BCO MOD |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Feb 27, 2026 | Fund Letters | Michael Cook | Crane NXT Co. | Industrials | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | acquisition, Authentication, Free Cash Flow, Margin Resilience, Payment Innovation, Traceability | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Michael Cook | Crane NXT Co. | Industrials | Security & Authentication Technologies | Bull | NYSE | Authentication, Digital security, M&A, Payments, recurring revenue, spin-off | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Michael Cook | Crane NXT Co. | Industrials | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Bull | NYSE | Authentication, Brand protection, cash flow, Ip, M&A, Margins, Payment systems, Security | View Pitch |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Fund Letters | Michael Cook | Crane NXT Co. | Industrials | Security & Authentication Technologies | Bull | NYSE | Authentication, Digital security, M&A, Payments, recurring revenue, spin-off | View Pitch |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Fund Letters | Michael Cook | Crane NXT Co. | Industrials | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Bull | NYSE | Authentication, Brand protection, cash flow, Ip, M&A, Margins, Payment systems, Security | View Pitch |
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