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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 31, 2025 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | 12.7% | 3.7% | ABNB, ACGL, ANSYS, BIRK, CHH, CSGP, DEI, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDXX, IOT, IRDM, JEF, LVS, LYV, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP, SPOT, TOL, TSLA, VRSK | Balance Sheets, consumer discretionary, growth, small caps, tariffs, technology | Tesla continues to benefit from sequential acceleration in automotive segment and new lower-cost models expected in 2025. The company's energy storage business is growing and becoming a significant contributor to earnings and margins. Tesla should benefit from its eight-year, $10 billion investment in AI training for autonomous technology. | View | |
| 2025 Q2 | Jul 22, 2025 | Nightview Capital | - | - | AAPL, AMZN, BABA, GOOG, LVS, TSLA, UBER, WYNN | AI, Automation, China, innovation, Robotics, technology, Tesla, Transformation | AI is described as a general-purpose technology platform shift on the level of electricity or the printing press, with exponential economic upside potential. AI models are now designing proteins, writing software, accelerating scientific discovery, generating art, analyzing legal contracts, and augmenting human intelligence across every industry from agriculture to aerospace. The infrastructure to deploy and monetize AI at scale is being laid with foundational model companies racing ahead. | AMZN TSLA BABA LVS WYNN 9868 HK AMZN TSLA BABA US LVS WYNN |
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| 2025 Q1 | Apr 29, 2025 | Polen Capital – Emerging Markets Growth | 1.7% | 1.7% | 0700.HK, BABA, DLO, DNP.WA, INFY, INPST.L, LVS, NTES, TOTS3.SA, TSM, YUMC | AI, Brazil, China, Currency, emerging markets, Poland, security selection | China market continued rally from last year, supported by monetary easing and fiscal policies. DeepSeek's R1 AI model release marked significant technological milestone, with major companies like Tencent and Baidu integrating AI models into services, creating optimism about improved earnings in consumer digital services. | DLO LVS DNP.WA TOTS3.SA TME |
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| 2023 Q1 | Apr 18, 2023 | Kovitz Core Equity | 9.1% | 9.1% | ANET, AXP, GOOGL, J, KEYS, LVS, META, PM, PPG, PWR, V | AI, Banking, compounders, long-term, Quality, value | Rapid innovation in AI, particularly Microsoft's partnership with ChatGPT creator OpenAI to enhance Bing's search capabilities, is creating intensifying competition in search. This may lead to a period of change in how people interact with search and the Internet, potentially affecting Alphabet's dominant position. | 0PMJ LN KEYS 0JZ0 LN AXP PPG ^VIX |
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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | -8.0% | -8.0% | ABNB, ACGL, AMH, ANSS, BIRK, CHH, CSGP, DEI, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDXX, ILMN, IRDM, JEF, KKD, LVS, LYV, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP, SPOT, TSLA, VRSK | AI, consumer discretionary, Electric Vehicles, financials, growth, real estate, software, technology | X.AI Holdings Corp. is developing an AI model to understand the true nature of the universe, launching Grok 3 which demonstrated top scores ahead of other industry-leading AI models. The company opened the Colossus data center with over 100,000 GPUs and recently acquired X (formerly Twitter) to access vast real-time multimodal data from 600 million users. Tesla's AI ambitions include a robotaxi service launching this year and a fast-growing humanoid program that could transform its growth story. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Janus Henderson Forty Fund | -8.7% | -8.7% | AAPL, AMZN, AVGO, DDOG, GOOGL, HWM, ICE, LLY, LVS, MA, MELI, META, MNST, MRVL, MSFT, NVDA, ORCL, PCVX, TSM | AI, growth, large cap, Risk Appetite, technology, Trade Policy, volatility | Despite uncertainty around AI spending pace pressuring tech stocks, the fund expects infrastructure spending to continue as hyperscalers expand capacity. As compute costs decline, demand for AI applications should accelerate, with growth potentially shifting toward software and data-rich companies that can monetize AI through productivity gains and new services. | DDOG MRVL ICE HWM |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 3, 2026 | Fidelity Growth Strategies Fund | -3.4% | 12.6% | ALNY, ATI, AXON, BROS, COHR, COR, DXCM, FICO, FIX, HLT, HOOD, HWM, IDXX, LITE, LVS, NET, RBLX, RCL, ROAD, STRL | aerospace, AI, growth, industrials, mid cap, technology | The fund benefited from AI infrastructure investment driving demand for optical components and semiconductors. Coherent saw surge in demand for products in advanced semiconductor manufacturing due to AI infrastructure spending. The broader market was supported by ongoing boom in artificial intelligence spending. Strong positioning in aerospace and defense components through ATI and Howmet Aerospace holdings. ATI designs and manufactures components for aerospace and defense firms representing two-thirds of its business, with strong earnings growth projected for 2025 and Q1 2026. | IDXX AXON LITE ATI COHR |
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| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | 14.4% | 29.5% | ABNB, ACGL, AMH, ANSYS, BRKR, CHH, CSGP, DEI, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDXX, ILMN, IRDM, JEF, KREM, LVS, LYV, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP.TO, SPOT, TSLA, VRSK | consumer discretionary, Electric Vehicles, financials, growth, Hotels, Space, Streaming, technology | Tesla continues to demonstrate strong performance with 54% quarterly gains, driven by core automotive acceleration and new lower-cost model releases expected in 2025. The company benefits from lower interest rates helping car sales and halting continuous price reductions, while energy storage business grew 60% sequentially. | View | |
| 2024 Q3 | Oct 7, 2024 | Nightview Capital | 0.0% | 0.0% | AAPL, ABNB, AMZN, BLK, DKNG, GOOGL, GS, H, LVS, META, MGM, MS, NFLX, QCOM, SCHW, TSLA, TSM, WYNN | AI, Autonomy, Cloud, growth, technology, Tesla, Travel | Autonomous transportation represents one of humanity's most pivotal technological shifts, with self-driving vehicles being the first major real-world application of AI. Tesla's vision-based FSD system creates a self-reinforcing product development cycle through real-world data collection from its global fleet. | TSLA |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 28, 2025 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | 4.8% | 8.6% | ABNB, ACGL, BIRK, CHH, CSGP, DEI, DUOL, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDXX, IOT, IRDM, JEF, LVS, LYV, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP, SPOT, TOL, TSLA, VRSK | AI, consumer discretionary, Electric Vehicles, growth, portfolio construction, small caps, technology | AI concerns impacted several holdings including FactSet and Verisk, with investors fearing competitive threats to data moats. However, FactSet continues to benefit from AI through revenue enhancements and cost containments. Tesla's AI initiatives advance rapidly with robotaxi network expansion and Full Self-Driving development. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | 12.3% | 22.3% | ABNB, ACGL, BIRK, CHH, CSGP, DEI, DUOL, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDXX, IOT, JEF, LVS, LYV, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP, SPOT, TOL, TSLA, VRSK | AI, consumer, Electric Vehicles, growth, healthcare, real estate, Space, technology | The fund discusses concerns about AI introduction into the economy and its impact on subscription-based software companies. AI competition has hurt valuations of platform investments like Spotify, CoStar, and Guidewire, though it hasn't impacted their financial performance. The fund holds X.AI Holdings Corp., formed through merger of X and xAI, which has developed competitive AI model Grok. The consumer remains quite resilient despite concerns about higher inflation, interest rates, and tighter labor market. Consumer-oriented investments including FIGS, Hyatt Hotels, and On Holding showed strength in the quarter. The fund sees continued resilience in consumer demand for health care apparel and premium products. SpaceX is generating significant value with rapid expansion of Starlink broadband service, deploying vast satellite constellation with substantial user growth. The company has established itself as leading launch provider with reusable technology and is making tremendous progress on Starship rocket. SpaceX represents the fund's largest position at 19.2% of net assets. Tesla remains a core holding representing 8.1% of net assets as an electric vehicle leader. The fund views Tesla as a disruptive growth company with large underpenetrated addressable markets, well financed with significant equity stakes by founder-led management giving further conviction in the investment. | DUOL CSGP SPOT ONON H FIGS GWRE |
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| 2024 Q4 | Jan 21, 2025 | Kovitz Core Equity | 2.4% | 19.9% | AMAT, AMD, AMTM, AMZN, CRM, GOOG, GOOGL, LVS, NVDA, TMO, TSLA | AI, large cap, semiconductors, technology, US, value | AI enthusiasm is driving massive capital spending by hyperscale cloud providers, with semiconductor stocks returning 76% in 2024. However, the manager notes that investments are being made before returns are proven, creating potential risk if reality doesn't match expectations. The portfolio includes AI-exposed holdings like AMD, Arista Networks, and Applied Materials. | LVS TMO AMAT AMD AMTM GOOGL CRM AMZN |
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| 2022 Q4 | Jan 1, 2023 | Kovitz Core Equity | 5.3% | -22.6% | AMZN, CHTR, KMX, LOW, LVS, MSI | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | 11.7% | 13.2% | ABNB, ACGL, AMH, ANSYS, BIRK, CHH, CSGP, DEI, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDEXX, ILMN, IRDM, JEF, KKD, LVS, MRNA, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP, SPOT, TSLA, VRSK | concentrated, consumer discretionary, financials, growth, long-term, small caps, technology | Tesla represents the fund's largest position at 9.8% of assets, with the stock contributing 274 bps to quarterly performance. The manager believes lower interest rates should help Tesla sell more cars and halt continuous price reductions, while the energy storage business continues to grow rapidly. | View | |
| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Third Avenue International Real Estate Value Fund | 11.7% | 0.0% | 1821.HK, 8923.T, AED.MC, BYG.L, CTP.AS, G13.SI, GLENP.L, INA.AX, LVS, MRL.MC, NSR.AX, SHUR.L, SUN.HK, SVI.TO, VEST.MX | Asia, Data centers, Development, international, real estate, REITs, Self Storage, value | Fund sees significant opportunity in data center development across Spain, Portugal, and Hong Kong. Merlin Properties has developed three data centers with 60 mW capacity at 90% pre-commitment, delivering 10%+ net yield on cost, with additional US$2.3 billion pipeline for 200 mW. Sunevision Holdings benefits from constrained Hong Kong supply and accelerated cloud adoption across Asia. | MRL.MC |
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| 2022 Q4 | Aug 2, 2023 | Polen Capital – Emerging Markets Growth | 12.6% | -21.8% | 1YL GR, 2518 HK, 8139 JP, BZG GR, DNOPY, HMPRO TB, LVS, TYG GR | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jul 27, 2024 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | 11.7% | 13.2% | ACGL, AMH, ANSYS, ARE, BIRK, CHH, CSGP, DEI, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDXX, ILMN, IRDM, JEF, KKD, LVS, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP, SPOT, TSLA, VRSK | concentrated, consumer discretionary, Disruptive Growth, growth, Long/Short, rates, technology | Tesla continues to drive manufacturing costs lower and invest heavily in AI initiatives. The company expects to launch a lower cost model as soon as late 2024, which should result in accelerated revenue growth and increased factory utilization. Tesla's energy storage business almost doubled in Q2 from Q1 levels. | COST GWW IBKR TSLA SPOT |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 17, 2024 | Nightview Capital | 0.0% | 0.0% | AAPL, ABNB, AMZN, BLK, DKNG, GOOGL, GS, H, LVS, META, MGM, MS, NFLX, QCOM, SCHW, TSLA, TSM, WYNN | AI, Cloud, E-Commerce, gaming, growth, large cap, technology | Amazon's retail business shows significant operating leverage recovery after pandemic overexpansion. North American retail margins have exceeded 2019 levels and are projected to reach low double digits. The transition from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce continues with U.S. e-commerce at 15.4% of retail sales, providing years of growth runway. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Polen Capital - Emerging Markets Growth | Las Vegas Sands | Consumer Discretionary | Casinos & Gaming | Bull | NYSE | Chinese Consumer, Cyclical, dividend, Gaming, Macau, Singapore, Tourism Recovery, Value | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Nightview Capital | Las Vegas Sands | Consumer Discretionary | Casinos & Gaming | Bull | NYSE | Asia, China, Consumer Discretionary, Equity, Gaming, Macau, recovery, Tourism, Wealth Creation | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Kovitz Core Equity | Las Vegas Sands Corp | Consumer Discretionary | Casinos & Gaming | Neutral | NYSE | China recovery, COVID Recovery, Gaming, Macao, Premium Mass, risk management, Stimulus, Tourism | View Pitch |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Fund Letters | Arne Alsin | Las Vegas Sands Corp. | Consumer Discretionary | Casinos & Gaming | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Consumption, Gaming, leverage, Macau, Reopening, Tourism | View Pitch |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Sanjay Chandiramani, CFA | Las Vegas Sands Corp. | Consumer Discretionary | Resorts & Casinos | Bull | NYSE | — | View Pitch |
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