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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 22, 2025 | Brandes Small Cap Value Fund | 12.1% | 4.9% | AOUT, ARLO, AVDL, ELAN, EPC, GIL.TO, GLOB, HBI, HURC, HXL, IEX, KMT, MOG.A, ORION, PAHC, PBH, PINC, PKE, SON, UNF | healthcare, industrials, positioning, small caps, underperformance, value | The fund focuses on small-cap value investing, seeking companies trading below intrinsic value estimates. The manager emphasizes the fund's lower valuations compared to the Russell 2000 Index while offering exposure to companies with strong balance sheets and compelling growth prospects. | GLOB PBH |
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| 2026 Q1 | Apr 22, 2026 | Third Avenue Small-Cap Value Fund | 7.8% | 7.8% | COMP, CPRX, ECPG, HOG, KALU, LXU, PBF, QLYS, RHI, SD, TDW, TPH, UNF | AI, cybersecurity, disruption, energy, Fertilizers, small caps, Staffing, value | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | The London Company Small Cap | -7.1% | -7.1% | ACIW, ATKR, CNNE, DV, MC, NGVT, RVLV, THG, UNF | Defensive, Quality, Recession, small caps, tariffs, value | The portfolio maintains a defensive, lower volatility posture focused on Quality factors. Quality factors have historically posted their best relative returns during periods of decelerating growth and through recessions, typically lagging in early recovery but keeping pace during mid-cycle years. | NGVT UNF ATKR RVLV MC DV SGI THG ACIW |
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| 2026 Q1 | Apr 13, 2026 | The London Company Small Cap | -2.0% | -2.0% | CCC, CERT, GOLF, HAE, HWKN, MATX, MC, NGVT, RVLV, UNF | energy, Geopolitical, healthcare, industrials, Quality, small cap, value, water | HWKN |
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| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Third Avenue Small-Cap Value Fund | -4.4% | 3.3% | AMBC, BATRA, COLL, CTAS, ECPG, FPH, FRPH, ICFI, ITIC, IVT, KALU, LXU, MYRG, OCFC, PB, PBF, PRAA, SEB, SSKN, SUPN, TPH, UMBF, UNF | Buybacks, private equity, Regional Banks, Resource Conversion, small caps, value | The portfolio trades at a historically large discount to estimated net asset value, with Fund Management believing considerable potential exists for attractive absolute returns. The fund focuses on underpriced assets trading below intrinsic value. | FPH AMBC OCFC |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 21, 2025 | Third Avenue Small-Cap Value Fund | 7.2% | - | ABAC, BATRK, BCC, BXC, COLL, CTAS, CTLP, ECPG, FRPH, HBB, HFWA, ITIC, KALU, LXU, MYRG, PB, PRA, ROG, SD, SUPN, TDW, UMBF, UNF, VSTO | Building Materials, financials, healthcare, industrials, Pharmaceuticals, small caps, technology, value | The fund focuses on buying companies trading at discounts to conservative estimates of net asset value, with shares not reflective of potential for business improvement or value creation. The investment approach emphasizes businesses well-financed and trading below intrinsic value with identifiable value creation levers. | ROG BOISE AMBC AMBC |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 21, 2025 | Brandes Small Cap Value Fund | 11.2% | 16.6% | AOUT, ARLO, AVDL, ELAN, EPC, GIL.TO, GLOB, HBI, HURC, HXL, IEX, KMT, MOG.A, ORION, PAHC, PBH, PINC, PKE, SON, UNF | healthcare, industrials, positioning, small caps, technology, underperformance, value | The fund focuses on small-cap value investing, seeking companies trading below intrinsic value estimates. The manager emphasizes the fund's lower valuations compared to the Russell 2000 Index while offering exposure to companies with strong balance sheets and compelling growth prospects. | PBH GLOB PBH GLOB |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 12, 2025 | TimesSquare Capital Management U.S. Small Cap Growth Strategy | 2.0% | - | ACVA, BJ, CWST, KTOS, MIR, NVDA, PAR, SITM, UNF, VERX | AI, Biotechnology, defense, Federal Reserve, growth, M&A, small cap, software | AI remains a dominant theme though some cracks are beginning to appear. Industry participants questioned the pace of infrastructure spending to support AI and how sustainable that would be. Some spending appeared circular, with debt levels increasing for the biggest AI spenders approaching dot-com peak levels. | SITM US KRAT US |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 22, 2026 | Third Avenue Small-Cap Value Fund | 4.6% | 14.0% | ALG, BATRK, BXC, COLL, CTAS, ECPG, FPH, ICFI, KALU, LXU, MYRG, NYCB, OCSL, PB, PRA, SEB, SUPN, UMBF, UNF | Aluminum, Governance, Owner-Operator, Pharmaceuticals, Regional Banks, small caps, value | The Fund pursues a decidedly value-oriented investment approach, seeking to underpay for ownership of a business. The managers focus on finding rare nexuses of good people, good assets and good prices. The Fund initiated a new position in Flagstar Bank at a large discount to tangible book value. Flagstar has been undergoing transformation and has a credible path to achieve profitability more typical of a U.S. regional bank. Kaiser Aluminum led fourth quarter performance following strong quarterly financial results and progress on its multi-year investment to upgrade and expand production capacity in aerospace and packaging. Collegium Pharmaceutical generated strong performance contribution after producing record quarterly revenue and disclosing improved operating income guidance and a new share repurchase authorization. | FLG UNF ECPG COLL KALU |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 19, 2024 | Third Avenue Small-Cap Value Fund | 8.3% | 0.0% | ALG, AMZN, BATRA, COLL, CSEC, ECPG, FRPH, HBB, ITIC, KALU, MYRG, NVDA, PRA, SEB, SUPN, TDW, UMBF, UNF, WASH | large cap, Outperformance, Relative Valuation, small caps, value | Small-cap stocks are trading at only 75% of large-cap valuations, an extremely unusual level of cheapness last seen during the tech bubble. The managers believe this represents a compelling opportunity for significant outperformance when the cycle turns. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | The London Company Small Cap | UniFirst Corporation | Industrials | Commercial Services & Supplies | Bull | NYSE | Cintas, Commercial Services, M&A Target, Margin Improvement, takeover, Uniform Rental | View Pitch |
| Jan 24, 2026 | Fund Letters | Vic Cunningham | UniFirst Corporation | Industrials | Diversified Support Services | Bear | New York Stock Exchange | Alignment, Governance, Takeovers, Uniforms, valuation | View Pitch |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Lighting Rock Research | UniFirst Corporation | Industrials | Specialty Business Services | Bull | NYSE | — | View Pitch |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Daniel Jones | UniFirst Corporation | Industrials | Specialty Business Services | Bull | NYSE | — | View Pitch |
| Manager Name | Fund Name | Fund AUM | Invested Value | Portfolio Weight | Shares Owned | Shares Bought / Sold During Quarter | % Bought / Sold During Quarter | % of Shares Outstanding Owned |
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