| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q1 | May 1, 2025 | Conestoga SMid Cap Composite | -5.7% | -5.7% | AAON, ALTR, AZTA, CWST, DSGX, ESE, GGG, HEI.A, JKHY, MMM, MMSI, NEOG, PAYX, PYCR, RBC, ROAD, SPSC, TRNS, VERX, WSO | industrials, Outperformance, Quality, SMID Cap, tariffs, technology | The portfolio benefited from high-quality factor leadership as profitable companies with strong ROIC and EBITDA margins declined less than high beta, non-earning counterparts during the market selloff. Conestoga's emphasis on higher-quality, conservative growth companies was a key contributor to outperformance. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | May 1, 2025 | Conestoga Micro Cap Composite | -8.2% | -8.2% | AAON, ALTR, AZTA, CWST, DSGX, ESE, GGG, HEI.A, JKHY, MMM, MMSI, NEOG, PAYX, PYCR, RBC, ROAD, SPSC, TRNS, VERX, WSO | Micro Cap, Outperformance, Quality, small caps, tariffs, uncertainty | Small capitalization stocks declined nearly 11% in the first quarter and were down roughly 20% from their post-election highs. The firm expects their investment approach to outperform in periods of heightened uncertainty, which proved true for most strategies in Q1. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | May 1, 2025 | Conestoga Small Cap Composite | -11.4% | -11.4% | AAON, ALTR, AZTA, BCPC, CWST, DSGX, ESE, EXPO, FSV, MMM, MMSI, NEOG, PAYX, PYCR, RBC, ROAD, SPSC, SSD, TRNS, VERX | growth, industrials, Outperformance, Quality, small caps, tariffs, technology | Small capitalization stocks declined nearly 11% in the first quarter and were down roughly 20% from their post-election highs in November 2024. The firm expects their investment approach to outperform in periods of heightened uncertainty, which proved true as their strategies outperformed benchmarks during the quarter's volatility. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | Apr 5, 2025 | ClearBridge Investments Small Cap Growth Strategy | - | - | ARCH, BJ, CNMD, CWAN, ELF, FOUR, GERN, GKOS, GLBE, HE, HIMS, INTA, ITCI, KVYO, PYCR, RBC, RKLB, TNC, VRNS, WIX | AI, Biotech, growth, small cap, stock selection, Trade Policy, volatility | The DeepSeek model architecture caused investors to question potential returns on investment and monetization of generative AI initiatives, leading to air coming out of the sector-crossing narrative and investment tailwind around generative AI. The combination of concerns around AI reporting precipitated a meaningful pullback in stocks. | GERN HIMS ARCH RKLB GKOS |
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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 | NCG Micro Cap Growth Strategy | 14.8% | 14.8% | ACVA, AGX, AGYS, ALHC, ALKT, ARQ, ATRO, CSTL, CVLG, DAVA, DCBO, FLYW, FROG, GDYN, HROW, IRTC, MRTN, NEO, OLO, PAL, PDFS, PYCR, SDHC, SMWB, TNDM | growth, healthcare, Micro Cap, small caps, technology, valuation | NCG emphasizes investing in what they believe are the fastest growing and highest quality companies in America. They maintain focus on fundamental growth drivers of each holding and seek companies that can grow revenue and profits at strong rates in any economic environment. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | NCG Small Cap Growth Strategy | -13.0% | -13.0% | AGYS, ALHC, ATRO, BROS, CAVA, ELF, FLYW, FRPT, GLBE, INOD, IRTC, OS, PEGA, PEN, PYCR, QNST, SAIA, SDHC, SITM, VERX | earnings, growth, healthcare, industrials, policy, small cap, technology, Valuations | Strong forces driving increased infrastructure spending in the US have been gaining momentum for the past couple years and remain intact. The new administration is working to accelerate this trend and NCG is finding small companies which are direct beneficiaries. | View | |
| 2023 Q4 | Dec 31, 2023 | Conestoga SMid Cap Composite | 12.9% | 12.1% | ALTR, CCCS, CWST, DSGX, EXPO, FICO, FSV, IT, JBT, MSA, MTN, PYCR, RBC, ROAD, ROL, SITE, SPSC, SSD, STVN, TREX, WSO, WST | growth, healthcare, industrials, Quality, small cap, technology | The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is creating significant demand for maintenance and capacity increase related road projects, which benefits companies like Construction Partners in the Southeast United States. This has led to strong backlog growth for 12 consecutive quarters. | View | |
| 2023 Q4 | Dec 31, 2023 | Conestoga Small Cap Composite | 10.1% | 7.8% | AAON, ALTR, AQUA, BCPC, BL, CWST, DGII, DSGX, FOXF, HLIO, LMAT, MODN, PYCR, RBC, SITE, SSD, STVN, TREX, VCEL, XYL | Construction, growth, healthcare, industrials, Quality, small cap, technology | Conestoga remains positive on long-term expectations for relative performance of small caps over large caps, noting that relative valuations of small caps to large caps continues to sit near multi-decade lows. The market capitalization of the top five stocks in the S&P 500 Index is now three times the market capitalization of the entire Russell 2000 Index, representing unusual market breadth narrowness. | View | |
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | Conestoga Small Cap Composite | 10.1% | 7.8% | AGYS, ALTR, CWST, DGII, DH, DSGX.TO, EXPO, LMAT, MMSI, MODN, MSA, PYCR, RGEN, SITE, SLP, SPXC, SSD, STVN, TREX, ULS | Bioprocessing, growth, healthcare, industrials, small caps, software, technology | Manager discusses the current period as peak pessimism for small caps, with private equity and delayed IPOs shrinking the universe. However, they believe the current prophecy of permanent large cap tech dominance has the cautionary ring of 'it's different this time' and note that relative valuations hover near early 2000s lows. | 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 |
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