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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Aug 7, 2025 | NCG Small Cap Growth Strategy | 12.7% | -1.9% | AAON, AGYS, ALHC, AVPT, CDNA, CELH, CRS, CWK, ELF, GDYN, GWRE, HXL, INOD, MTSI, RXST, SAIA, SPRY, STRL, TMDX, TTAN | growth, healthcare, infrastructure, rates, small cap, technology, Trade Policy | Small cap growth stocks participated in the recent market rally, but further opportunity exists. The rolling 10-year annualized return by small vs large stands at -7.3% and is the worst ever going back to 1926, and the valuation of the small cap sector relative to large caps is in the 5th percentile historically. | View | |
| 2025 Q2 | Jul 22, 2025 | Brandes Small Cap Value Fund | 12.1% | 4.9% | AOUT, ARLO, AVDL, ELAN, EPC, GIL.TO, GLOB, HBI, HURC, HXL, IEX, KMT, MOG.A, ORION, PAHC, PBH, PINC, PKE, SON, UNF | healthcare, industrials, positioning, small caps, underperformance, value | The fund focuses on small-cap value investing, seeking companies trading below intrinsic value estimates. The manager emphasizes the fund's lower valuations compared to the Russell 2000 Index while offering exposure to companies with strong balance sheets and compelling growth prospects. | GLOB PBH |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 15, 2025 | Madison Small Cap Fund | 4.3% | -5.0% | CIEN, CMN, CRL, CSL, EXP, GMS, HXL, SAIA, SHAK, SMPL, WSC | aerospace, AI, Construction, Quality, small caps, Speculation, value | AI continues to be the dominant theme driving Russell 2000 performance, with broad-based fear among investors that AI could pose an existential threat to software business models. The manager believes these fears are vastly overblown, noting that 60% of AI answers are incorrect and 95% of enterprise AI projects are failing. | CRL EXP HXL |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | TimesSquare Capital Management U.S. Mid Cap Growth Strategy | 4.8% | 0.0% | APTV, CRWD, CYBR, EHC, EME, ESTC, FIVE, HXL, IBKR, JNJ, LEGN, NICE, NVDA, NVS, ORLY, RNR, SMAR, SWAV, VRSK, WCN | AI, cybersecurity, energy, growth, healthcare, industrials, mid cap, technology | GenAI fever dominated technology markets with NVIDIA's 82% gain driving returns. Capital expenditures for GenAI infrastructure continued through 2024, with expected shift toward data preparation applications including warehousing, streaming, cybersecurity, and search. GenAI's energy demands drive interest in power production and transmission for data centers. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | TimesSquare Capital Management U.S. Mid Cap Growth Strategy | -3.5% | -3.5% | ALL, BC, BJ, COR, EME, FICO, FROG, HOOD, HXL, INSM, IT, ITCI, JNJ, ORLY, ROST, TER, TPG, VRSK, WCN | consumer, financials, growth, healthcare, industrials, mid cap, technology, Trade Policy | China's DeepSeek AI model announcement in January created concerns about reductions in massive AI infrastructure spending, weighing on semiconductors and related industries. Corporate IT buyers showed more moderate spending though with resilience expected for AI and cybersecurity. The wider creation or adoption of GenAI applications for businesses is expected to generate greater activity volumes for companies like JFrog. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Brandes Small Cap Value Fund | -6.5% | -6.5% | AOBC, ARLO, BZU, CFP, ELAN, ERJ, EWG, FSTR, GHM, HBI, HXL, IMKTA, KMT, MOG.A, ORION, PBH, PKE, PZZA, SR | consumer discretionary, healthcare, industrials, small caps, value | The fund focuses on small-cap value investing, seeking companies trading at undemanding valuations below intrinsic value estimates. The manager emphasizes the fund exhibits lower valuations than the Russell 2000 Index while offering exposure to companies with strong balance sheets and compelling growth prospects. | PZZA |
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| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Brandes Small Cap Value Fund | 5.8% | 24.8% | AOUT, ARLO, BSCAX, BSCMX, BSCRX, CAE, DII, ELAN, EPC, ERJ, EXE, FSTR, GHM, HBI, HXL, IMKTA, INVX, KMT, LNSR, MOG.A, MTX, NPK, NTGR, ORION, PAHC, PKE, RBBN, SMG, TKR, UTMD, WKC | aerospace, healthcare, industrials, Machinery, small caps, technology, value | The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through value investing in small-cap companies. The fund exhibits lower valuations than the Russell 2000 Index while offering exposure to companies with strong balance sheets and compelling growth prospects. The manager believes value stocks have attractive potential going forward. | TKR |
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| 2023 Q2 | Dec 7, 2023 | Madison Small Cap Fund | 6.3% | 17.2% | CIEN, CMN, CRL, CSL, EXP, GMS, HXL, SAIA, SHAK, SMPL, WSC | aerospace, AI, Construction, Quality, small caps, Speculation, underperformance, value | AI continues to be the dominant theme driving Russell 2000 performance, with Ciena benefiting from AI capital spending boom. However, manager views AI disruption fears in software as vastly overblown, noting 60% of AI answers are incorrect and 95% of enterprise AI projects are failing. | CRL EXP HXL |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 21, 2025 | Hardman Johnston Large Cap Equity | 6.0% | 9.6% | 7269.T, AAPL, ADBE, ADP, AEIS, ALB, AMZN, ASML, AZN, BDX, CMCSA, CTVA, CW, EL, EW, FMC, GOOGL, HWM, HXL, IBN, ILMN, IQV, MA, MDT, META, MMC, MRVL, MSFT, NVDA, OLED, PRY.MI, PYPL, SCHW, SLB, SN, SWK, TMUS, UBER, VRT, VRTX | aerospace, AI, healthcare, industrials, large cap, technology, value | The firm is debating how far artificial intelligence has to run and whether AI-related holdings are bargains, over-extended, or fairly valued. They believe they are at the beginning of a new productivity revolution and suspect current forecasts are too low for companies enabling this revolution. Both Vertiv and Advanced Energy sell power conditioning and management tools into the computing sector and are seeing a surge in business related to the AI buildout. | CTVA VRT PRY AEIS |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 21, 2025 | Brandes Small Cap Value Fund | 11.2% | 16.6% | AOUT, ARLO, AVDL, ELAN, EPC, GIL.TO, GLOB, HBI, HURC, HXL, IEX, KMT, MOG.A, ORION, PAHC, PBH, PINC, PKE, SON, UNF | healthcare, industrials, positioning, small caps, technology, underperformance, value | The fund focuses on small-cap value investing, seeking companies trading below intrinsic value estimates. The manager emphasizes the fund's lower valuations compared to the Russell 2000 Index while offering exposure to companies with strong balance sheets and compelling growth prospects. | PBH GLOB PBH GLOB |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 14, 2025 | Madison Small Cap Fund | -1.6% | -6.6% | AXS, BOX, CIEN, CMN, CRL, CSL, EHC, ENTG, EXP, FORM, GMS, HAYW, HQY, HXL, KN, SAIA, SHAK, SMG, SMPL, WSC | aerospace, AI, Construction, Quality, small caps, underperformance, value | AI continues to be the dominant theme driving much of the Russell 2000's performance, particularly in technology stocks. The manager expresses skepticism about AI disruption fears in software, noting that 60% of AI answers are incorrect and 95% of enterprise AI projects are failing. They view fears about AI replacing critical software applications as vastly overblown. | CRL EXP HXL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Brandes Small Cap Value Fund | 5.9% | 23.4% | ALKS, AOBC, ARLO, AVDL, CENT, DIIBF, ELAN, EPC, GHM, GIL, GRFS, HURC, HXL, IMKTA, INVX, KMT, MOG.A, NTGR, ORN, PKE, PZZA, RGP, SEE, UTMD | healthcare, industrials, Outperformance, positioning, small caps, value | The fund focuses on small-cap value investing, seeking companies with strong balance sheets, compelling growth prospects, and durable free cash flow generation. The fund exhibits lower valuations than the Russell 2000 Index while maintaining exposure to undervalued opportunities. Management expresses optimism about the potential of value stocks in general. The fund specifically targets small-cap companies, maintaining significant overweight positions in industrials while underweighting financials and real estate compared to benchmarks. The portfolio is positioned as an attractive complement to other small-cap offerings with differentiated exposure and risk characteristics. | CENT |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 21, 2026 | Artisan Partners Small Cap Fund | 3.4% | 8.6% | BRKR, CLBT, COCO, FLEX, GH, GWRE, HXL, INSM, IRTC, ITGR, LASR, LSCC, MOD, MTSI, PCOR, PEN, PSN, SN, STVN, VSEC | AI, Biotechnology, defense, growth, healthcare, profit cycles, small cap, technology | AI-related capital spending remains an area of active debate entering 2026. Investors continue to weigh strong industry momentum against concerns about circular financing dynamics and data center construction delays. The team finds compelling opportunities among companies positioned to benefit from AI investment strength and gain share of customers' AI spending based on superior technology. Aerospace and defense holdings appear well positioned for multiyear growth. The team believes commercial aerospace suppliers are positioned to benefit for many years from significant content gains in new aircraft and growth in recurring aftermarket sales. Defense-related investments include companies with strong franchises in non-kinetic laser weapons and critical technologies. Healthcare returned as a source of market strength during the quarter. The team maintains relatively high exposure to the sector despite several years of industry headwinds, grounded in conviction in profit cycle opportunities for biotechnology companies. Many biotechnology franchises are early in what the team believes are some of the most compelling product launch cycles of their careers. The team continues to find compelling opportunities among semiconductor companies positioned to benefit from AI investment strength and gain share of customers' AI spending based on superior technology that improves data center performance and efficiency. These investments are managed with valuation discipline consistent with the team's process. | GWRE PSN STVN COCO INSM MTSI |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2022 | Heartland Value Fund | 9.8% | 13.5% | ARAY, CCS, HXL, SBCF | active management, aerospace, Homebuilders, Outperformance, Regional Banks, small caps, undervalued, value | The fund focuses on well-managed, undervalued businesses with resilient balance sheets trading at attractive valuations. The typical stock trades at just 10.5 times 2025 estimated earnings versus 19.9 for the S&P 500. The managers believe this valuation discount creates opportunities for outperformance and potential takeover activity. | CCS SBCF HXL |
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| 2023 Q1 | Apr 14, 2023 | Madison Small Cap Fund | 6.3% | 17.2% | CIEN, CMN, CRL, CSL, EXP, GMS, HXL, SAIA, SHAK, SMPL, WSC | aerospace, AI, Construction, consumer, healthcare, Quality, small cap, Speculation | AI continues to be the dominant theme driving Russell 2000 performance, with Ciena benefiting from AI capital spending. However, the manager views fears about AI disrupting software business models as vastly overblown, noting that 60% of AI answers are incorrect and 95% of enterprise AI projects are failing. | CRL EXP HXL |
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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Hardman Johnston Large Cap Equity | -6.5% | -6.5% | AMZN, AZN, BDX, CMCSA, GOOGL, HWM, HXL, IBN, MA, META, MMC, MRVL, PYPL, SCHW, SLB, SN, STAN.L, TMUS, VRT, VRTX | aerospace, AI, growth, tariffs, technology, volatility | The portfolio was significantly impacted by AI-related volatility following DeepSeek's R1 model release, which pressured AI compute and networking supply chains. Despite the selloff in holdings like Marvell and Vertiv, the manager believes the immediate reaction was an overreaction and that reasoning models should drive greater hardware demand over time. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Jan 23, 2025 | Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund | -0.5% | 9.4% | ACHC, AMTM, ASC, AXTA, AZPN, COLD, DY, EMR, GTLS, HASI, HURN, HXL, INFN, J, KBH, LQDT, MTSI, NOK, SUM, TROX | healthcare, industrials, M&A, materials, small caps, technology, value | Manager remains optimistic about long-term potential for small-cap segment. Valuations within small-cap segment remain compelling relative to large caps, with Russell 2000 Index trading near multi-decade lows on a relative basis. Potential tailwinds include deregulation, increased M&A activity, continued decline in interest rates, continued reshoring of U.S. manufacturing, and infrastructure-related spending. | TROX HXL AXTA COLD AMTM ASC ACHC GTLS |
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| 2024 Q4 | Jan 23, 2025 | Aristotle Small/Mid Cap Equity | -0.5% | 13.5% | ACHC, AXTA, AZPN, CMCO, COLD, CTLT, DOC, GTLS, HXL, INFN, NSIT, SUM | growth, healthcare, industrials, materials, SMID Cap, technology, value | Chart Industries benefited from surging demand for cryogenic equipment used in the clean energy sector, with record high orders and substantial sales increases. The company's equipment serves the industrial gas, energy, and biomedical industries with particular strength in clean energy applications. | NSIT HXL DOC CMCO AXTA COLD |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Apr 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | Madison Small Cap Fund | Hexcel Corporation | Materials | Aerospace & Defense | Bull | NYSE | Aerospace, Airbus, Boeing, Carbon Fiber, Composite Materials, Cyclical Recovery, Defense, duopoly, high barriers to entry | View Pitch |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Fund Letters | Madison Small Cap Fund | Hexcel Corporation | Materials | Aerospace & Defense | Bull | NYSE | Aerospace, Airbus, Boeing, Carbon Fiber, Composite Materials, Defense, duopoly, materials | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Heartland Value Fund | Hexcel Corp. | Industrials | Aerospace & Defense | Bull | NYSE | Aerospace, cash flow, Composites, Defense, insider buying, M&A Target, recovery, Stealth Platforms, Wide-body Aircraft | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Madison Small Cap Fund | Hexcel Corporation | Materials | Aerospace & Defense | Bull | NYSE | Aerospace, Airbus, Boeing, Carbon Fiber, Composite Materials, Defense, duopoly, Equity, materials | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund | Hexcel | Industrials | Aerospace & Defense | Bull | NYSE | Aerospace Materials, Boeing Recovery, Carbon Fiber, Commercial Aircraft, Composite Materials, Cyclical, Self Help | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Aristotle Small/Mid Cap Equity | Hexcel | Materials | Specialty Chemicals | Bull | NYSE | Aerospace, Boeing Recovery, Carbon Fiber, Commercial Aircraft, Composite Materials, Cyclical Recovery, Self-Help Initiatives | View Pitch |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Value Investors Club | ElCid | Hexcel Corporation | Industrials | Commercial Services & Supplies | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | industrial services, infrastructure, Logistics, manufacturing, Operations, Outsourcing | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Faraz Farzam | Hexcel Corporation | Industrials | Aerospace & Defense | Bull | NYSE | Aerospace, Certification, Composites, duopoly, Free Cash Flow, Margins, recovery | View Pitch |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | David Devine | Hexcel Corporation | Industrials | Aerospace & Defense | Neutral | NYSE | — | 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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