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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q4 | Mar 1, 2026 | River Oaks Capital | - | 1.8% | ACNT, BFCC, BILD.TO, BOC, CRMT, CZBS, DR.TO, FTLF, GFP, HAYPP, IVFH, OMCC, RRR.UN, RWAY, SRBK, TRUX | Banking, Buybacks, Consolidation, Flooring, small cap, Specialty Chemicals, undervalued, value | River Oaks Capital focuses exclusively on small, underfollowed public companies with market caps typically under $500M. The manager believes these companies are increasingly ignored and undervalued, creating opportunities to buy wonderful businesses at extremely discounted valuations. The fund employs a value investing approach, seeking companies trading at significant discounts to fair value - often 50 cents on the dollar or less. The manager emphasizes buying wonderful businesses with strong fundamentals at excessive discounts. Share buybacks are a central theme, with the manager actively encouraging portfolio companies to repurchase shares aggressively using free cash flow, balance sheet cash, and proceeds from asset sales. This strategy allows adequate compensation until companies become properly valued. Ascent Industries represents a significant position focused on specialty chemical manufacturing. The company is transforming into a 'Chemicals-as-a-Service' model, providing customized solutions for small to mid-size customers neglected by larger players. BuildDirect operates as a physical and online professional flooring company with a long-term plan to consolidate the professional flooring industry through acquiring 75+ professional flooring centers across the U.S. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 16, 2026 | Smoak Capital Management | 0.0% | 10.9% | 4441.T, DR.TO | cybersecurity, Defensive, growth, Japan, small caps, value | Manager emphasizes value-minded investing approach with preference for undervalued stocks with margin of safety. Discusses gravitating towards defensive names due to elevated market valuations and increasing efforts to find undervalued stocks with growth components. Significant focus on Japanese investments, particularly Tobila Systems which represents detailed analysis of Japanese market dynamics including customer harassment laws and regulatory changes driving business demand. Investment in Tobila Systems centers on fraud and spam call prevention technology with proprietary database providing competitive advantages in security solutions for both consumers and businesses. | DR CN 4441 JP |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 24, 2026 | Greystone Capital | 0.3% | 2.8% | APG, BEL, DR.TO, FC, FOUR, KITS.TO, LMB, LNF.TO, LSPD.TO, NRP, SQ, SYZ, TOST, VYX | Buybacks, Coal, concentrated, E-Commerce, payments, small caps, value | Natural Resource Partners continues to benefit from global coal consumption reaching record highs of 8.8 billion tons in 2025. The royalty business model provides exceptional durability through various pricing environments while avoiding ongoing capital expenditures and high operating costs. KITS Eyecare represents a vertically integrated direct-to-consumer eyecare model with strong unit economics. The company has achieved product/market fit with favorable CAC/LTV ratios and continues to take share from traditional optometry and less integrated online competitors. Shift4 Payments operates as an integrated end-to-end payments business with deep industry knowledge across hospitality, restaurant, and stadium verticals. The company owns the gateway layer and full payment stack, enabling higher margins and stronger customer retention than commodity payment processors. Medical Facilities Corp has repurchased over 20% of shares outstanding through tender offers and open market purchases, reducing total shares by nearly 40% over four years. Management demonstrates disciplined capital allocation focused on maximizing per-share value. | FOUR DR CN APG KITS CN NRP |
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