| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q2 | Sep 3, 2025 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | - | - | FUN, VSAT | credit, crypto, Fed policy, integration, small caps, Speculation, Theme Parks, value | Bitcoin has reached $2 trillion market cap with Ethereum at $450 billion. President Trump authorized Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile, making crypto an institutional asset class. However, companies issuing debt at 2x asset values for crypto treasury strategies shows speculative excess. | FUN VSAT FUN |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | CLMB, CMP, DCO, GLDD, HNRG, LFCR, LTRPA, OUT, PKE, RDVT, SSP, TBRG, TRI, TRU, VSAT, WMT | aerospace, healthcare, Media, small caps, technology, value | Manager emphasizes seeking better businesses at reasonable prices, making rational purchase decisions from pessimistic sellers. Notes that the more Graham-style value opportunities exist, the more neglect there seems to be in the market. | RDVT TBRG PKE |
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| 2023 Q2 | Dec 7, 2023 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | AAP, ALC, ANGI, AZO, DCO, DELL, GBLI, GLDD, IAC, LFCR, LTRPA, MGM, MPAA, ORLY, SCWX, SNEX, SSP, TRIP, VSAT | aerospace, Concentration, infrastructure, Media, small cap, technology, value | Manager views AI as a marketing term with unclear monetization prospects. Notes that market activity in 2023 has been driven by large tech stocks attaching themselves to the AI bandwagon, but emphasizes there is nothing remotely clear about making money in AI. | View | |
| 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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| 2023 Q3 | Oct 10, 2023 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | AMSWA, ANGI, CCF, CNX, CVLT, DLHC, ECVT, HCCI, HNRG, IAC, LFCR, MGM, SSP, VMD, VSAT | Concentration, cybersecurity, energy, healthcare, Media, small caps, value | The fund focuses on concentrated investments in specific companies at specific values, seeking to capitalize on opportunities in small cap equities that are less affected by market fads. The manager emphasizes finding good businesses that grow with CEOs who understand value per share math. | AMSWA DLHC SSP IAC VSAT |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | CLMB, CMP, GBLI, IAC, OUT, RDVT, RSSS, SSP, TIPT, VSAT | Advertising, Balance Sheet, Data Services, small caps, turnaround, value | The fund focuses on small-cap value stocks that are unloved by the market, holding positions they describe as stupid cheap with real asset support. The manager emphasizes that public small-cap equity remains an unloved asset class with few players, which has historically been a setup for future success. | RDVT CLMB OUT |
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| 2022 Q3 | Sep 30, 2022 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | AZZ, CARG, CMP, ECVT, GBLI, HCCI, LGF/A, VSAT, WSTG | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q4 | Aug 1, 2024 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | AVD, CJREF, CNX, DLHC, HNGR, LFCR, LTRPA, OUT, SSP, VSAT, VTS | Agriculture, concentrated, energy, Media, small cap, Travel, value | Manager holds three energy-related stocks including Hallador Energy, CNX Resources, and Vitesse Energy. Believes demand for carbon energy is stickier than many expect and sufficient alternatives are harder to produce than anticipated, creating higher and steadier profit fundamentals for domestic energy sources. | View | |
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | AAP, AVD, CLMB, CLVT, CMP, ECVT, IAC, KBR, LFCR, LGF.B, NEU, RDVT, RSSS, SIX, SSP, SXI, VSAT | Auto Parts, Concentration, Data Services, small cap, turnaround, value | Manager emphasizes tremendous specific opportunities in undervalued small cap stocks where the spring is very tightly coiled between intrinsic value estimates and current prices. Portfolio concentrated in best ideas with stocks trading at significant discounts to estimated intrinsic value. | RDVT CLVT AAP KBR VSAT CMP SSP |
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| 2022 Q2 | Jun 30, 2022 | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | 3.7% | -6.0% | BKEP, CMP, HNRG, INFU, LGF/B, VSAT, WTM | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | Viasat Inc | Communication Services | Satellite Telecommunications | Bull | NASDAQ | broadband, Cyclical, Satellite, Space, strategic value, telecommunications, turnaround | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Cove Street Capital Small Cap Value Fund | Viasat Inc | Communication Services | Alternative Carriers | Bull | NASDAQ | asset value, Catalyst, Competition, Defense, Satellite, Space, turnaround | View Pitch |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Fund Letters | Jeffrey Bronchick | Viasat, Inc. | Information Technology | Alternative Carriers | Bear | NASDAQ | broadband, Capitalintensity, Execution, leverage, Satellite | View Pitch |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Fund Letters | Ken Squire | Viasat, Inc. | Information Technology | Communications Equipment | Bull | NASDAQ | Defense, growth, Satellites, Spin-offs, valuation | View Pitch |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Seeking Alpha | Viasat, Inc. | Communication Equipment | Bull | backlog growth, capital efficiency, cash flow growth, communications services, Defense and Advanced Technologies, mobile satellite spectrum, quantum-resistant cryptography, satellite technology, secure systems, Viasat | View Pitch | ||
| Sep 16, 2025 | Short Thesis | Kerrisdale Capital | Viasat Inc | Information Technology | Alternative Carriers (Satellite Communications) | Bear | NASDAQ | broadband, debt, Integration, Satellite, Starlink | View Pitch |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Short Thesis | The Bear Cave | Viasat Inc | Information Technology | Alternative Carriers (Satellite Communications) | Bear | NASDAQ | broadband, Integration, leverage, Satellite, Starlink | View Pitch |
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