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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jun 30, 2025 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | 13.3% | - | ALC, ALNY, BLDR, CSGP, DDOG, EFX, GWRE, HLT, HOOD, JBHT, KLAC, MELI, NET, ODFL, POOL, RCL, RGEN, SARO, SN, WDC | AI, Cyclical, growth, Logistics, mid cap, semiconductors, software | The fund maintains thematic focus on artificial intelligence exposure through software and semiconductor companies. Portfolio includes companies like Guidewire, Autodesk and Cadence that are well positioned with large datasets and existing customer relationships to train AI technology for specific use cases. | View | |
| 2024 Q1 | May 15, 2024 | Merion Road Capital | 5.4% | 11.2% | BSET, CLH, CRH, GFL, JBHT, RSG, SMC, WCN, WM | Infrastructure Spending, materials, small caps, value, Waste management | Manager built Clean Harbors into top holding, viewing hazardous waste as having similar characteristics to municipal solid waste with essential service nature, regional monopolies, and scarce assets. Industry margins expanding due to consolidation and rational pricing approach, with CLH trading at discount to peers despite market positioning. | BSET CLH |
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| 2025 Q1 | Apr 8, 2025 | Merion Road Capital | 4.9% | 4.9% | BSET, CLH, CRH, GFL, JBHT, RSG, SMC, WCN, WM | Cement, Furniture, Infrastructure Spending, small caps, value, Waste management | Manager built Clean Harbors into top holding, viewing hazardous waste as having similar characteristics to municipal solid waste with essential service nature, regional monopolies, and scarce assets. Industry consolidation and pricing discipline by Republic Services is driving margin expansion across the sector. | BSET CLH |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Heartland Mid Cap Value Fund | 8.2% | 9.7% | COIN, DCI, FAF, HOOD, HSY, JBHT, PRGO, SOFI, SQ | Consumer Staples, financials, healthcare, industrials, mid cap, Quality, value | The fund implements a two-bucket value strategy seeking both quality value companies trading at decent bargains and deeply discounted deep value companies. The approach balances high-quality companies with strong fundamentals against deeply discounted securities with self-help catalysts. | PRGO HSY DCI |
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| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | -2.5% | 10.6% | A, CSGP, DDOG, EFX, FTNT, GWRE, IDXX, JBHT, KLAC, MELI, MTD, ODFL, PCOR, PGR, POOL, ROK, SHW, SQ, TEAM, TT | Automation, Freight, growth, industrials, mid cap, Quality, semiconductors, technology | The fund maintains a key thematic overweight in semiconductors, identifying innovative, competitively advantaged, market-share gainers that can deliver strong performance over the coming years. Holdings include KLA Corporation, a semiconductor process control solutions provider affected by the industry's cyclical downturn and geopolitical risks including U.S.-China export restrictions. | View | |
| 2024 Q3 | Oct 28, 2024 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | 8.6% | 13.3% | A, ADSK, BILL, CDNS, EFX, GWRE, IQV, JBHT, KLAC, LPLA, MELI, MTD, NET, NTR, ROST, SHW, TEAM, TER, TT, WDC | growth, healthcare, mid cap, Quality, semiconductors, software, technology, Transportation | Fund maintained overweight position despite third quarter underperformance, expecting holdings to benefit as AI moves from data centers to smartphones and laptops. Increasing semiconductor complexity requires more design, capital equipment and testing. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 15, 2025 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | 7.9% | - | APP, CMG, DDOG, EFX, GWRE, GWW, HLT, HOOD, ICLR, JBHT, KLAC, MELI, MORN, MPWR, NET, ODFL, PODD, SNDK, TEAM, TER, TTD, VRSK | AI, Cyclical, growth, mid cap, semiconductors, technology, value | The portfolio maintains exposure to artificial intelligence through software and semiconductor companies. AI megatrend is boosting demand for memory and storage, particularly ultra-high-capacity drives. Strong demand for AI applications in system-on-a-chip and memory testing is a major growth driver. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Cambiar SMID Fund | 1.6% | 0.0% | ACVA, ALGN, BOKF, COO, EEFT, FNF, GOOGL, JBHT, LAZ, MAS, NVDA, WFC, WSC | AI, Credit Stress, financials, healthcare, Quality, small caps, value | The market has priced in a near-flawless AI future for years, but sentiment is shifting as investors become more scrutinizing. Only two of the Mag7 outperformed in 2025, and the market is now more discerning about how AI investments will translate into financial returns. Increased debt financing for AI capex creates vulnerability to credit tightening. The fourth quarter saw a reversal in the growth versus value trade, with traditional value sectors like Healthcare and Financials performing well while Mag7 largely lagged. The fund's quality bias and valuation sensitivity were out of step with a market prioritizing higher-beta momentum stocks. Value stocks offer attractive return potential going forward. Small cap stocks trailed larger cap counterparts for the year despite posting respectable 12.8% gains. Companies with negative income outperformed by wide margins in 2025, creating challenges for quality-focused strategies. The market environment paralleled 2021's speculative period with little regard for valuation or earnings. Corporate bankruptcies spiked in 2025, highlighting growing financial pressure amid elevated borrowing costs. Middle and lower income consumers are increasingly stretched with high credit card balances and subprime auto loan delinquencies at highest levels since 2008. Rising unemployment likely to amplify these pressures. | COO |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Distillate Capital Fundamental Stability & Value | 0.0% | 0.0% | BMY, CAH, CSCO, ELV, FFIV, FI, GPS, HCA, JBHT, JNJ, LOW, MO, MPC, MRK, REGN, TDC, TEL, TMUS, UBER, VST | free cash flow, fundamentals, international, Quality, rebalancing, small caps, valuation, value | The firm emphasizes systematic value investing through their proprietary free cash flow valuation methodology. They focus on stocks trading at attractive valuations while avoiding richly valued names, with their U.S. FSV strategy trading at more than double the free cash flow yield of the S&P 500. The strategy systematically rotates out of names that have increased in value and reinvests into less expensive stocks. The firm filters for high quality companies with stable cash flows and low debt levels. Their investment process excludes negative free cash flow companies and avoids those with high amounts of leverage while seeking fundamental stability. This quality focus has historically been smart but was a drag on returns in 2025 as unprofitable stocks outperformed significantly. The firm sees significant opportunity in small and mid-sized U.S. stocks, though selectivity is critical given the large number of unprofitable and heavily-indebted companies. Their small/mid strategy filters out negative free cash flow companies and high leverage names. The S&P 600 excludes many troubled names and has considerably outperformed the Russell 2000 over time. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Distillate Capital Small/Mid Cap Quality & Value | 0.0% | 0.0% | BMY, CAH, CSCO, ELV, FFIV, FI, GPS, HCA, JBHT, JNJ, LOW, MO, MPC, MRK, REGN, TDC, TEL, TMUS, UBER, VST | free cash flow, fundamentals, Quality, rebalancing, small cap, valuation, value | The letter extensively discusses valuation concerns across markets, highlighting that U.S. equities are historically expensive and trading at levels typically associated with subdued future returns. The firm's strategies focus on finding attractively valued stocks where quality and value overlap, with their portfolios trading at significant discounts to benchmarks. Quality is a core focus of the firm's investment process, emphasizing cash flow stability and avoiding highly leveraged or unprofitable companies. The letter discusses how their strategies systematically filter out negative free cash flow companies and those with high debt levels while seeking fundamental stability. The letter identifies significant opportunities in small and mid-sized U.S. stocks, noting that avoiding high debt levels and money-losing businesses has historically been smart but was a drag on returns in 2025. The firm sees this as creating attractive entry points for quality small cap investing. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Distillate Capital Large Cap Value | 0.0% | 8.6% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, BMY, CAH, CSCO, ELV, FFIV, FI, HCA, JBHT, JNJ, LOW, MO, MPC, MRK, REGN, TEL, TMUS, UBER, VST | FCF, fundamentals, international, Quality, rebalancing, small caps, valuation, value | U.S. equities are historically expensive by any measure and at levels typically associated with subdued future returns. The S&P 500 is trading near record multiples with just 20 stocks accounting for over 50% of the market at a 120% premium to the rest. Historical analysis shows that rich starting valuations correlate with lower longer-term returns. Despite rich overall market valuations, many high quality stocks remain attractively valued. The firm's large cap strategy trades at a free cash flow yield more than double the S&P 500 and 60% above Russell 1000 Value. Value stocks significantly outperformed after the 2000 tech bubble when similar valuation disparities existed. Significant opportunities exist in smaller stocks where avoiding high debt levels and money-losing businesses has historically been smart but was an enormous drag on returns in 2025. Negative free cash flow stocks comprised 35% of Russell 2000 and rose 67% on average, demonstrating unusual market conditions. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 12, 2026 | Heartland Mid Cap Value Fund | -1.9% | 0.1% | JBHT, KMB, MKTX | AI, Capital markets, financials, industrials, Logistics, mid cap, Quality, value | The fund employs a two-bucket approach combining Quality Value and Deep Value strategies. High-quality value stocks continued to lag speculative parts of the market, with valuation disparities as extreme as ever seen. The fund maintains discipline in valuation criteria despite current underperformance. Speculative investors have rewarded perceived AI winners with lofty valuations, assigning permanence to top-line benefits of questionable duration. The euphoria has impacted valuations across Quality Value and Deep Value companies more than expected in a value-oriented asset class. J.B. Hunt Transport Services was the top contributor, benefiting from cost reduction actions and improving operating margins despite freight market challenges. The company maintains strong cash flow generation and aggressive share repurchases while trading at a discount to industrials. MarketAxess Holdings operates the largest e-trading platform for corporate bonds in the US. The company is investing in portfolio trading capabilities to compete with peers and regain market share, with recent data suggesting share recovery happening faster than expected. | KMB MKTX JBHT |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2022 | Heartland Mid Cap Value Fund | 8.2% | 9.7% | FIS, JBHT, SRCL | deep value, financials, industrials, Manufacturing, mid cap, self-help, value | The fund focuses on quality value companies trading below intrinsic value and deeply discounted companies with internal catalysts. They seek well-managed, financially strong businesses that can grow cash flow and value over time using their 10 Principles of Value Investing approach. | JBHT SRCL FIS |
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| 2025 Q1 | Apr 14, 2025 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | -10.0% | -10.0% | A, APP, ARES, BILL, BLDR, BR, CMG, CTAS, DDOG, EFX, FTNT, GWRE, HLT, HOOD, ICLR, JBHT, KLAC, MELI, NTRA, ODFL, ORLY, ROST, SQ, TER, TTD, VRSK, WDAY, WST | AI, growth, Housing, industrials, Logistics, mid cap, semiconductors, technology | DeepSeek's emergence as a Chinese AI challenger triggered sharp selloffs in AI software and infrastructure stocks. The market faced concerns about slowing AI capex spending, affecting momentum-led growth stocks significantly. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Apr 18, 2026 | Substack | Alpha Seeker 84 | J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | Transportation | Trucking | Bull | NASDAQ Stock Market | Capacity, Freight-Cycle, Intermodal, J.B. Hunt, Logistics, market share, network efficiency, pricing dynamics, supply constraints, Transportation | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Heartland Mid Cap Value Fund | J.B. Hunt Transportation Services, Inc. | Industrials | Trucking | Bull | NASDAQ | Asset Utilization, Cost advantage, Cyclical Recovery, Freight, Intermodal Transportation, market share gains, Self Help, Value | View Pitch |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Fund Letters | Colin McWey | J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | Industrials | Transportation | Bull | NASDAQ | buybacks, Cyclicality, Freight, Intermodal, scale | View Pitch |
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