| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | Fenimore Dividend Focus Strategy | -2.6% | - | APH, ENTG, HEI, HLI, MCHP | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Mar 1, 2026 | Baron Growth Fund | -2.8% | -14.4% | ACGL, CHH, CNS, CSGP, FDS, FIGS, GLPI, GWRE, HLI, IDXX, IT, KNSL, MC, MORN, MSCI, MTD, MTN, NEOG, PRI, RRR, TECH | AI, financials, growth, Quality, small caps, underperformance, valuation | The fund experienced significant underperformance due to market concerns about AI disruption affecting portfolio companies like Gartner, CoStar, Clearwater Analytics, FactSet, MSCI, and Guidewire. These AI-impacted stocks declined 15% despite 10% revenue growth and 15% EPS growth, representing 42% of the portfolio. The manager believes the market's assessment of AI risk differs from their own and expects valuations to recover as AI concerns moderate. The fund focuses exclusively on high-quality businesses with superior characteristics including competitive advantages, sustainable growth, and strong financial metrics. This quality-focused strategy was out of favor in 2025 as investors sold higher-quality investments to buy riskier stocks. The Earnings Quality factor performance was in the 100th percentile, demonstrating the fund's quality bias during a period when quality was penalized. The fund invests in a portfolio of competitively advantaged small and medium-sized businesses, which remained out of favor for most of the quarter. The strategy of owning leading small-cap businesses has been the foundation since inception, delivering 354 basis points of annual outperformance over the benchmark since inception despite recent headwinds. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 5, 2026 | Baron Small Cap Fund | -1.6% | -0.7% | CGNX, CWA, FROG, GWRE, HLI, ICLR, IT, JBT, KNSL, KTOS, MTD, NEPT, NOVT, ODD, PLNT, RBC, RRR, SITE, TDG, VRT | AI, Data centers, defense, growth, Quality, small caps, technology | AI infrastructure buildout drove strong performance in holdings like Vertiv and Legence. JFrog benefited as customers leveraged generative AI to improve developer productivity, driving increased binary creation and platform usage. The manager expects corporations to show continued productivity gains as AI is adopted to reduce costs and open new revenue opportunities. Data center activity was a key driver for several holdings. Vertiv Holdings benefited from robust data center infrastructure demand with 29% organic revenue growth. Legence Corp, an engineering and maintenance services company, was a strong contributor due to robust data center activity. Aerospace and defense players were among the best performers in 2025, including Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Karman Holdings, and RBC Bearings. The manager notes heightened aerospace and defense spending and improving margins in this sector. The manager expects small-cap companies to grow faster than large caps going forward, which is not typical of recent years. Better growth ahead for small caps could lead to market broadening and leadership change. Small caps have historically grown more slowly than large caps, contributing to extended underperformance. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 18, 2026 | Baron FinTech Fund | -2.2% | 0.9% | APO, COF, CWAN, FI, FICO, GWRE, HLI, HOOD, IBKR, INTU, JKHY, KKR, LPLA, MA, MELI, MS, NU, SCHW, SHOP, SPGI, V | AI, Banking, Capital markets, crypto, financials, Fintech, growth, technology | Capital markets are wide open with elevated levels of debt issuance, equity offerings, and M&A volumes. Falling interest rates, rising equity prices, and improving corporate confidence are driving an optimistic outlook for deals, which should benefit advisory firms, rating agencies, and alternative asset managers. The fund continues its growth approach to investing in financial and financial-related companies, including payment businesses, financial exchanges, and data providers that enable financial transactions. The common denominator across all holdings is the use of technology and data to better serve customers and grow at above-average rates. The broader software industry came under pressure due to fears of AI disintermediation. However, vertical market software vendors serving highly regulated industries are most insulated from AI risk given their deep workflow integrations and high switching costs. Morgan Stanley expects continued margin expansion from operating leverage and efficiencies from the broader usage of AI. Bitcoin fell 23.5% in the quarter, significantly underperforming nearly every major asset class. Robinhood experienced softening in customer engagement, especially in cryptocurrency trading alongside a pullback in crypto prices. The Senate is drafting legislation to create a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency that could potentially boost digital asset adoption. Falling interest rates and federal support for housing should drive a continued rebound in mortgage origination volumes, which should benefit mortgage originators and credit bureaus. FICO launched its new Direct Licensing Program for mortgage lending, which provides greater flexibility to monetize its intellectual property. | NEPT MS GWRE MELI HOOD FICO JKHY SPGI |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | Fenimore Dividend Focus Strategy | -4.4% | 1.9% | AJG, APH, AVY, BR, CDW, CTAS, HEI, HLI, IEX, JKHY, MCHP, MLM, PAYX, ROST, RSG, STE, SYK, TT, VRSK, WSO | AI, dividends, healthcare, mid cap, Quality, technology, value | Fenimore maintains focus on high-quality companies with strong balance sheets, consistent profitability, and prudent capital allocation. Quality as a factor remained out of favor despite many businesses showing strong long-term fundamental prospects. The firm believes solid business fundamentals should reassert themselves as the primary driver of stock prices in the long run. AI excitement and related infrastructure builds continued to drive the market, drawing capital away from nearly every other area. Investor enthusiasm was driven toward businesses with AI-related exposures. Amphenol benefited from data center buildouts supporting AI, with its IT Datacom segment growing 128% organically. Dividend-paying companies lagged non-dividend-paying companies by more than 50%. On average, portfolio holdings raised their dividends 9% over 2025, in line with their earnings growth. The top three dividend raisers were Amphenol (55%), Cintas (15%), and Verisk Analytics (15%). Valuations for portfolio companies are becoming more attractive while other indices become more overvalued. The fund sees compelling valuations within the portfolio, which management believes sets the fund up for solid future performance. Many quality franchises are trading at relative multi-year lows. | TT APH JKHY ROST |
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