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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 18, 2025 | Impax Global Environmental Markets Fund | 12.5% | 10.5% | APH, IEX, MSFT, NVDA, WAT, ZTS | Energy Efficiency, grid investment, Pricing Power, secular growth, sustainability | The letter emphasizes long-term structural growth in environmental markets driven by energy efficiency, grid modernization, and resource optimization. Management argues that short-term political and tariff noise has not impaired secular demand for sustainability-linked solutions. The portfolio favors high-quality businesses with pricing power and resilient earnings profiles. | WAT |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | FAM Value Fund (No separate Fenimore Value Strategy hedge fund exists) | -4.7% | - | ADI, APH, CDW, FBIN, IEX, KEYS | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q2 | Jun 30, 2023 | Fenimore Small Cap Strategy | 6.1% | - | G, IEX, THG, VRSK | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Ensemble Capital | 0.0% | 8.0% | BR, FAF, IEX, NFLX, NKE, PRM, RACE | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 4, 2026 | Baron Asset Fund | 7.9% | 8.2% | ACGL, APH, AXON, BAH, BIRK, CSGP, DAY, FICO, GWRE, IDXX, IEX, IT, MTD, RPGN, SPOT, TTD, VEEV, VRSK, WELL | AI, Biotechnology, growth, healthcare, mid cap, software, Space, technology | The fund benefits from AI-related investments including SpaceX's Starlink expansion and xAI's rapid development of Grok AI model with massive GPU deployments. Amphenol maintains significant market share in interconnect solutions within NVIDIA's AI server racks with content expected to increase as speeds and system complexity rise. SpaceX represents the fund's largest position at 12.5% of net assets, generating significant value through rapid expansion of Starlink broadband service and establishing itself as a leading launch provider with reusable technology. The company is making tremendous progress on Starship, the largest most powerful rocket ever flown. Guidewire's cloud migration is largely complete with annual recurring revenue benefiting from new customer wins and migrations to InsuranceSuite Cloud product. The landmark 10-year agreement with Liberty Mutual should help drive adoption among other Tier 1 P&C carriers. Repligen operates in fast-growing end markets including monoclonal antibodies and cell and gene therapies, with strong track record of scientific innovation. The company has opportunity to embed differentiated systems into new drug manufacturing processes as biosimilars come to market. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Weitz Large Cap Equity Fund | 0.6% | -0.2% | ADI, CHTR, CSGP, DHR, EFX, GOOGL, IDXX, IEX, IT, KMX, META, ORCL, TMO | AI, Biotechnology, Concentration, healthcare, large cap, Process Enhancement, stock selection, value | The artificial intelligence infrastructure trade took a breather after a red-hot summer. Google's Gemini AI surpassed expectations with performance moving to the front of the pack according to respected industry benchmarks, helping Alphabet solidify its spot as an AI leader. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Weitz Multi Cap Equity Fund | -1.5% | 3.2% | ACN, BRK-B, CDW, CHTR, CMCSA, CSGP, DHR, GOOGL, HEI, IDXX, IEX, IT, KMX, LBRDA, LH, LKQ, META, PRM, SIRI, TECH | healthcare, multi-cap, technology, Telecom, underperformance, value | Google's Gemini AI surpassed expectations with latest release, moving to front of pack among frontier models according to industry benchmarks. Investors questioning value of Gartner's research offerings in rapidly evolving GenAI landscape. Heightened competition continues weighing on broadband investments including Liberty Broadband and Charter Communications. Charter's capital investment cycle beginning to ease, expected to improve free cash flow and support share repurchases at depressed prices. CarMax faces challenging environment with constrained availability and affordability of late model used vehicles. Online competitor Carvana taking share while CarMax's omni-channel investments have yet to deliver improvements, leading to strategic changes and CEO departure. | CHTR KMX PRM |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Weitz Partners III Opportunity Fund | 0.7% | 3.2% | AMZN, AON, BRK-A, CHTR, DHR, EEFT, GOOGL, GPN, IEX, KMX, LBRDA, LH, MA, META, MSFT, ROP, SIRI, TECH, TMO, V | AI, Biotechnology, contrarian, healthcare, Long/Short, technology, value | The fund owned several companies deemed AI Winners including Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms, averaging roughly 16% of Fund assets in 2025. Google's latest Gemini AI release surpassed expectations with benchmarks showing performance moved to the front of the pack. The fund's deep value stocks averaging roughly 16% of portfolio assets had a disproportionately negative impact on returns in 2025. As value-oriented investors, the managers are comfortable taking contrarian positions but must be clear-eyed about how companies' prospects change. The portfolio's life sciences investments representing roughly 18% of average assets experienced a lost year in 2025. The industry began with pressure on research budgets and heightened scrutiny of healthcare apparatus, reorienting around a new normal before organic growth pickup spurred a rally. | BRK.B PRM CHTR KMX GOOGL |
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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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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | FAM Value Fund (No separate Fenimore Value Strategy hedge fund exists) | -1.2% | 4.9% | ADI, AJG, APH, AZO, BAM, BR, BRK-B, BRO, FAST, HEI, IEX, KEYS, MKL, MLM, PGR, ROST, SYK, TT, VMC, ZBRA | AI, fundamentals, mid cap, Quality, Speculation, value | Fenimore maintains focus on high-quality companies with strong balance sheets, consistent profitability, and prudent capital allocation despite continued underperformance versus speculative names. The firm believes solid business fundamentals should reassert themselves as the primary driver of stock prices in the long run, similar to the tech bubble period. AI-related infrastructure investments continue driving market enthusiasm, with companies like Amphenol benefiting from data center buildouts. However, the firm views AI excitement as creating speculation that draws capital away from other areas, leading to extended valuations for AI-related stocks. | FAST AZO BRO APH MKL |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Weitz Large Cap Equity Fund | 7.8% | 13.3% | GPN, IEX, META | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jul 28, 2024 | Weitz Partners III Opportunity Fund | 9.1% | 14.1% | AON, CSGP, GPN, IEX, LYV, ODFL, SIRI | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jul 28, 2024 | Weitz Large Cap Equity Fund | 7.8% | 13.3% | CSGP, CSU, IEX, META, ODFL, VMC | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Matthew J. Smith | IDEX Corporation | Industrials | Specialty Industrial Machinery | Bull | NYSE | — | View Pitch |
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