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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 25, 2025 | Baron Discovery Fund | 14.7% | 7.6% | ALKT, BASE, CW, CYBR, DAY, DKNG, DT, EXAS, GWRE, INSP, IRT, KTOS, LLYVA, MAC, MEG, MRCY, NOVT, PAR, RH, TEM, WYNN | AI, Cloud, cybersecurity, defense, growth, small caps, sports betting, technology | The fund is positioned across multiple defense companies benefiting from increased funding and demand for advanced military technologies. Companies like Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Karman Holdings are well positioned for accelerated multi-year growth in areas such as hypersonic technology, drone engines, missile defense, and space launch components. | WYNN INSP CLWR KARH MEG KTOS |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Baron Discovery Fund | 13.5% | 9.3% | AEIS, ALGM, AXNX, AXON, CDNA, CYBR, DKNG, ENDV, ESTA, FND, GTLB, INTA, KNSL, MASI, MRCY, NARI, NVTS, RH, S, SITE | cybersecurity, growth, healthcare, semiconductors, small cap, technology, Valuations | Fund focuses on small-cap growth stocks which remain in a three-plus year bear market while large-cap stocks reach all-time highs. Small-cap growth stocks have attractive valuations both on an absolute basis and relative to large-cap stocks, and typically show significant appreciation coming out of deep market downturns. | INTA MASI CYBR DKNG KNSL |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Conestoga SMid Cap Composite | 12.9% | 12.1% | AXON, BFAM, CWST, DSGX, EXPO, FIVN, FSV, MRCY, NEOG, NOVT, PYCR, QTWO, RGEN, ROAD, ROL, SPSC, TFX, TREX, WK, WSO | growth, industrials, infrastructure, mid cap, small cap, software, technology, Waste management | The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is creating significant demand for construction, repair, and maintenance of America's surface infrastructure. Construction Partners has benefited with 13 consecutive quarters of backlog growth as strong demand offsets seasonal weakness. | View | |
| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Conestoga Mid Cap Composite | 8.4% | 9.4% | AAPL, AXON, CCCS, CWST, DGII, EXPO, MRCY, MSTR, NEOG, NVDA, PLOW, PRO, PYCR, ROAD, SLP, SMCI, SPSC, TSLA, VCEL, WK | growth, healthcare, industrials, mid cap, Performance, technology | The market's advance remained heavily dependent on AI-related stocks, with NVIDIA continuing its meteoric rise and Super Micro Computer benefiting from the surge in artificial intelligence-related stocks. The AI theme contributed significantly to market performance across multiple cap segments. | View | |
| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Conestoga Small Cap Composite | 10.1% | 7.8% | AAPL, AXON, CCCS, CWST, DGII, EXPO, MRCY, MSTR, NEOG, NVDA, PLOW, PRO, PYCR, ROAD, SLP, SMCI, SPSC, TSLA, VCEL, WK | growth, healthcare, industrials, infrastructure, small cap, technology | The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is creating significant demand for construction, repair, and maintenance of America's surface infrastructure. Construction Partners has benefited with 13 consecutive quarters of backlog growth as strong demand offsets seasonal weakness. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Baron Discovery Fund | -6.2% | -6.2% | AXON, CWAN, CYBR, DKNG, EXAS, GTLS, GWRE, INDI, INSP, KTOS, LLYVA, MASI, MEG, MRCY, NARI, PAR, RDDT, TEM, TTAN, WING | Biotechnology, defense, growth, Market Dislocation, small cap, tariffs, Value Investing | The fund has significant exposure to defense companies including Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and newly added Karman Holdings. These companies are positioned to benefit from growing defense spending on hypersonic missiles, space programs, and unmanned aircraft solutions. Karman specifically targets the fastest-growing segments of defense with 90% sole-sourced sales and proprietary IP-driven solutions. | ACLX KARM WING MEG INDI EXAS |
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| 2025 Q3 | Nov 4, 2025 | Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund | 3.2% | -1.5% | AEIS, ALE, AZEK, BWIN, COLB, CRI, DLB, DY, FLWS, HAE, HGV, JHX, KN, KNX, MRCY, MTSI, OGS, PCP, PPBI, REI, SPNS, WNC | Banking, defense, healthcare, Natural Gas, semiconductors, small caps, value | Small cap equities delivered robust performance in Q3 2025, with the Russell 2000 reaching its first all-time high since November 2021. Small caps benefited from dovish Fed rhetoric, attractive relative valuations, broadening market breadth, earnings recovery, and rotation away from mega-cap stocks. Valuations remain compelling relative to large caps, with the Russell 2000 trading near multi-decade lows on a relative basis. | COLB MTSI MRCY SUPN |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 28, 2025 | Baron Discovery Fund | 2.8% | 10.6% | AAON, AEIS, BIRK, BMI, CDNA, CYBR, DKNG, DT, EXAS, GTLS, INSP, KTOS, LLYVA, MEG, MRCY, PAR, PRMB, SPRY, WING, WYNN | cybersecurity, defense, earnings, growth, Quality, small cap, technology, water | The Fund benefits from a generational increase in defense spending amid heightened global conflicts. Defense companies like Kratos, Mercury Systems, and Karman Holdings are winning new contracts across multiple divisions and benefiting from the current administration's openness to smaller, agile defense contractors. The defense spending cycle appears to be in a generational upswing. | KTOS WING INSP PAR BIRK KTOS WING INSP BIRK |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 27, 2025 | 13D Activist Fund | 8.9% | 2.7% | ABG, ALV, APD, BILL, EXEL, KVUE, MIDD, MRCY, PENN, PFGC, PSO.L, QRVO, RIOT, SWX, TRIP, TWLO, VSAT, VSTS, WK, YETI | activism, M&A, SMID Cap, technology, value | Activist activity and success have been flourishing with the Universal Proxy Card increasing campaign success rates from 73% to 88%. The fund expects significant alpha generation from activists like Jeff Smith, Scott Ferguson and Dan Loeb as markets rotate into value investing. | WK VSAT TRIP PFGC |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 13, 2025 | Conestoga Mid Cap Composite | -3.2% | 1.1% | AAON, BCPC, CSWI, CWST, DSGX.TO, ESE, EXPO, FSV.TO, HLIO, HLMN, MIR, MRCY, NOVT, QTWO, RBC, ROAD, SLP, SPSC, STVN, VERX | defense, growth, Quality, small caps, software, value | Small cap stocks reached new all-time highs in Q3, with the Russell 2000 rising 12% and significantly outperforming the S&P 500. The rally has been characterized by historically narrow leadership, with the top 20 performing stocks representing 78% of the Russell 2000 Growth Index's gains year-to-date. This concentration is more extreme than during the COVID rally in 2020. | IDXX US WST US |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 13, 2025 | Conestoga Small Cap Composite | -1.4% | -8.4% | AAON, BCPC, CSWI, CWST, DSGX, ESE, EXPO, FSV, HLIO, HLMN, MIR, MRCY, NOVT, QTWO, RBC, ROAD, SLP, SPSC, STVN, VERX | Beta, defense, growth, profitability, Quality, small cap, software, technology | Small cap stocks reached new all-time highs in Q3, with the Russell 2000 Index rising 12% and significantly outperforming the S&P 500. The rally has been characterized by historically narrow leadership, with the top 20 performing stocks representing 78% of the Russell 2000 Growth Index's overall gains year-to-date. This extreme concentration exceeds even the COVID rally period when the top 20 stocks made up just 39% of returns. | ROAD US HLIO US MRCY US |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 13, 2025 | Conestoga SMid Cap Composite | -1.1% | -2.1% | AAON, BCPC, CSWI, CWST, DSGX.TO, ESE, EXPO, FSV, HLIO, HLMN, MIR, MRCY, NOVT, QTWO, RBC, ROAD, SLP, SPSC, STVN, VERX | defense, growth, industrials, Quality, small caps, software, technology | Small cap stocks reached new all-time highs in Q3, with the Russell 2000 rising 12% and significantly outperforming the S&P 500. The rally has been characterized by historically narrow leadership, with the top 20 performing stocks representing 78% of the Russell 2000 Growth Index's gains year-to-date. This extreme concentration exceeds even the COVID rally period when the top 20 stocks made up just 39% of returns. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 13, 2025 | Conestoga Micro Cap Composite | 11.7% | 18.5% | AAON, BCPC, CSWI, CWST, DSGX.TO, ESE, EXPO, FSV.TO, HLIO, HLMN, MIR, MRCY, NOVT, QTWO, RBC, ROAD, SLP, SPSC, STVN, VERX | Beta, defense, industrials, profitability, Quality, small caps, software, technology | Small cap stocks reached new all-time highs in Q3, with the Russell 2000 rising 12% and significantly outperforming the S&P 500. The rally has been characterized by historically narrow leadership, with the top 20 stocks representing 78% of the Russell 2000 Growth Index's gains year-to-date. This concentration is more extreme than during the COVID rally in 2020. | BWMN US WLDN US |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Baron Discovery Fund | 0.2% | 11.0% | ALKT, CWAN, CWST, DKNG, DT, ESTA, EXAS, FROG, GCI, GTLB, INDIE, LLYVA, LOAR, MRCY, PRMB, RGEN, S, SITM, TREX, VRNS, WAY | AI, defense, growth, healthcare, Quality, small caps, software | The fund discusses AI as a transformative force requiring careful alignment of goals with humanity's interests. They view AI advancement as creating massive capital investment opportunities, particularly in datacenter buildout, while acknowledging concerns about AI's impact on software competitive advantages. The fund maintains significant exposure to enterprise software companies, particularly cybersecurity and systems software. They believe complexity of enterprise integration protects established players from AI disruption, with companies like Dynatrace, Varonis, and SentinelOne offering defensive moats through proven resilience and security. The fund focuses on innovative healthcare companies including molecular diagnostics (Exact Sciences), medical devices (Establishment Labs), and healthcare IT (Waystar). They see opportunities in companies improving patient outcomes through technology and automation in healthcare processes. The fund holds defense companies benefiting from increased defense budgets, including allocations for unmanned vehicles and missile defense systems. They trimmed positions after meaningful valuation increases but maintain defense as a core holding area. | CWST GLIBA PRMB LLYVA VRNS INDI FROG CAS WAY CWAN ESTA EXAS |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund | 7.3% | 9.4% | ACHC, ACIW, AER, ASC, BDC, BWIN, CHCT, DY, FIBK, HURN, ITRI, LUMN, MDVL, MMSI, MRCY, MTSI, NVRI, PETQ, PTEN | financials, healthcare, rates, small caps, technology, value | The fund focuses exclusively on small-cap investments with valuations remaining attractive relative to large caps. Small caps trade at 16.7x P/E versus 25.8x for large caps, near multi-decade lows. The manager believes small caps are better positioned to benefit from reshoring, M&A activity, and infrastructure spending. | View | |
| 2022 Q3 | Sep 30, 2022 | Alger Small Cap Focus Fund | 6.4% | 5.9% | HSKA, MRCY, NTRA, QDEL, RBC, SWAV | - | View | ||
| 2022 Q3 | Sep 30, 2022 | Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund | 7.3% | 9.4% | ACHC, CCRN, MRCY, PETQ | - | View | ||
| 2022 Q3 | Sep 30, 2022 | Baron Small Cap Fund | 9.6% | 14.5% | AVNT, AXNX, AZPN, CAKE, CLVT, GDYN, HLLY, ICLR, IT, KNSL, MRCY, RPAY, TTD | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q2 | Jun 30, 2023 | Conestoga Small Cap Composite | 10.1% | 7.8% | AAPL, AXON, BL, DSGX, FICO, FOXF, FSS, LMAT, MLAB, MRCY, MSFT, NOVT, PYCR, RBC, ROAD, SITE, SPSC, SSD, TREX, WSO | growth, industrials, Performance, small cap, technology | Investor enthusiasm for Artificial Intelligence drove performance of seven large technology stocks that were responsible for nearly all of the S&P 500's return in the first six months of 2023. The portfolio suffered from lack of exposure to the computer hardware industry which was up almost 75% over three months. | View | |
| 2023 Q2 | Jun 30, 2023 | Conestoga SMid Cap Composite | 12.9% | 12.1% | AAPL, AXON, BFAM, CWAN, CWST, DSGX, EXPO, FICO, GGG, GWRE, MRCY, MSFT, PYCR, RBC, RGEN, ROL, SITE, SPSC, TREX, WSO | consumer discretionary, growth, industrials, SMID Cap, technology, Utilities | SPS Commerce benefits from secular growth in the digitization of ecommerce and maintains a steady, durable business model that has remained resilient in a slower macroeconomic environment. The company highlights that historically they have only seen about a 1% drag on revenue growth from macro slowdowns. | View | |
| 2022 Q1 | May 22, 2022 | Baron Discovery Fund | -16.4% | -16.4% | ACC, AXNX, AXON, GTLS, JBGS, MRCY, PING, VLDX | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q4 | Jan 30, 2024 | Baron Discovery Fund | 13.5% | 9.3% | AAON, ACVA, AEIS, AXON, BASE, CYBR, DKNG, ESTA, EWCZ, FND, GTLB, GTLS, ICHR, KNSL, KTOS, MRAI, MRCY, REXR, S, VRNS | cybersecurity, defense, growth, HVAC, small caps, technology, value | Multiple cybersecurity holdings performed strongly in Q4, with SentinelOne, GitLab, Varonis, and CyberArk all contributing positively. The managers see accelerating demand driven by AI adoption requiring data security, SEC disclosure requirements, and vendor consolidation favoring comprehensive platforms over point solutions. | AAON VRNS GTLB ^FTSE |
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| 2024 Q4 | Jan 13, 2025 | 13D Activist Fund | 0.8% | 1.7% | ALV, APD, AZTA, BBWI, ENV, EXEL, FTR, HR, JHG, LW, MDU, MRCY, NSIT, PSO, RIOT, RPD, SWX, THS, TWLO, VSTS | activism, Bitcoin, Corporate Governance, Data centers, M&A, Proxy Fights, SMID Cap, value | 2024 was a record year for shareholder activism with 128 new initiations in North America. Success rates continue to soar with activists achieving 96% success rate in 2023 and 86% in 2024 versus high 60s historically. Shareholder activism is becoming more mainstream with 40 non-activists launching new campaigns in 2024. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Dave Adams | Mercury Systems Inc. | Industrials | Aerospace & Defense | Bull | NASDAQ | Aerospace, backlog, Computing, Defense, Government, growth, Security | View Pitch |
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