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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 4, 2026 | Baron Asset Fund | 7.9% | 8.2% | ACGL, APH, AXON, BAH, BIRK, CSGP, DAY, FICO, GWRE, IDXX, IEX, IT, MTD, RPGN, SPOT, TTD, VEEV, VRSK, WELL | AI, Biotechnology, growth, healthcare, mid cap, software, Space, technology | The fund benefits from AI-related investments including SpaceX's Starlink expansion and xAI's rapid development of Grok AI model with massive GPU deployments. Amphenol maintains significant market share in interconnect solutions within NVIDIA's AI server racks with content expected to increase as speeds and system complexity rise. SpaceX represents the fund's largest position at 12.5% of net assets, generating significant value through rapid expansion of Starlink broadband service and establishing itself as a leading launch provider with reusable technology. The company is making tremendous progress on Starship, the largest most powerful rocket ever flown. Guidewire's cloud migration is largely complete with annual recurring revenue benefiting from new customer wins and migrations to InsuranceSuite Cloud product. The landmark 10-year agreement with Liberty Mutual should help drive adoption among other Tier 1 P&C carriers. Repligen operates in fast-growing end markets including monoclonal antibodies and cell and gene therapies, with strong track record of scientific innovation. The company has opportunity to embed differentiated systems into new drug manufacturing processes as biosimilars come to market. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 12, 2026 | Davis Real Estate Fund | 0.0% | -5.7% | AMT, ARE, AVB, BRX, BXP, CPT, CUZ, DEI, DLR, EQIX, EXR, GPOR.L, HPP, MAA, PLD, REXR, SHO, VTR, WELL | AI, Data centers, Passive flows, Performance, real estate, REITs, valuation | Fund focuses on real estate investment trusts across multiple sectors including senior housing, apartments, office, industrial, and life sciences. Performance was impacted by passive flows favoring larger companies and sector rotation dynamics. The fund maintains overweight positions in apartments and office while being underweight in senior housing. AI demand driving unprecedented data center space requirements with holdings in Digital Realty and Equinix benefiting from recent leasing deals. Risks include power availability constraints, transmission limitations, and potential technology disruption that could reduce data center demand over time. | DLR EQIX PLD ARE WELL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Artisan Focus Fund | -0.5% | 19.9% | AAPL, ADI, AXON, CAT, COF, ENR.DE, GE, GS, HWM, ISRG, JPM, LLY, NDAQ, NVDA, ROK, RR.L, SHOP.TO, TSM, WELL, WFC | aerospace, AI, energy, financials, growth, industrials, semiconductors, technology | AI impacts on productivity should create abundant inflection points across nearly all S&P sectors in profitability and ROIC. When amortizing AI capex over the system that will use it, the returns appear massive and under-reported. S&P margins look structurally too low in most forecasts as labor efficiency gains may likely create an upward drift in margin ceilings. Aerospace is cyclically inflecting ahead of a long duration upcycle supported by secular growth of the global middle class. The Aerospace Normalization theme was the largest positive contributor in 2025 with General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Howmet all making meaningful contributions driven by fundamental strength. Power demand creates new secular growth opportunities, with data centers reaching deep into industrial portfolios. Caterpillar's co-located power capability at data centers represents significant revenue upside potential to the Energy & Transportation segment. Analog Devices represents the premium analog compounder as the cycle turns, with best-in-class economics including 70%+ gross margins and 45-50% EBIT targets. The team believes 2Q25 marked the restart of the semiconductor cycle with pricing and margin inflection underway. De-globalization theme involves redirection of capital on post pandemic priorities for security of energy and reliability of supply chains. Companies like Siemens Energy, GE Vernova, Constellation Energy and Vistra are positioned to benefit from this structural shift. Industrial automation represents a key secular trend with companies like Rockwell Automation positioned to benefit from digitization and AI-enabled transformation of enterprise operations. This includes factory automation and process optimization across manufacturing. | GE |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Baron Durable Advantage Fund | 2.7% | 16.6% | AMZN, AVGO, BX, CME, COST, CSGP, DHR, GOOGL, LPLA, MA, META, MPWR, MSCI, MSFT, NVDA, PWR, TMO, TSM, V, WELL | AI, growth, large cap, Quality, semiconductors, technology | AI disruption is coming for all knowledge workers and most physical workers. Companies must overcome innovators' dilemmas, challenge conventional wisdom, and invest aggressively to survive. The Fund benefits from AI buildout through semiconductor investments and companies adapting to AI disruption like Alphabet's Gemini development. Semiconductor investments continue to benefit from AI buildout with over 100% of performance explained by growth in fundamentals rather than multiple expansion. NVIDIA, TSMC, and Broadcom are key beneficiaries of the AI infrastructure build-out with strong demand for next-generation nodes. Google Cloud Platform accelerated growth as Alphabet's AI investments began paying off. Cloud revenue growth accelerated to 34% year-over-year driven by demand for AI cloud services, with large deals over $1 billion signed through Q3 2025 exceeding prior two years combined. Quanta Services positioned to benefit from secular growth tailwinds including AI data centers increasing electricity demand, grid modernization, electrification, and energy transition investments. Utility capex cycle accelerating through at least end of decade. | WELL DHR MSCI MSFT CSGP META ACGL NVDA PWR AVGO TSM GOOG |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 27, 2026 | Antero Peak Group | -0.5% | 19.9% | AAPL, ADI, AXON, CAT, COF, GE, GS, HWM, ISRG, JPM, LLY, NDAQ, NVDA, ROK, RYCEY, SHOP, SMNEY, TSM, WELL, WFC | aerospace, AI, Capital markets, Data centers, energy, productivity, ROIC, semiconductors | AI impacts on productivity should create abundant inflection points across nearly all S&P sectors in profitability and ROIC. When amortizing AI capex over the system that will use it, the returns appear massive and under-reported. S&P margins look structurally too low in most forecasts as labor efficiency gains may likely create an upward drift in margin ceilings. Aerospace is cyclically inflecting ahead of a long duration upcycle supported by secular growth of the global middle class. The Aerospace Normalization theme was the largest positive contributor in 2025, with General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Howmet all making meaningful contributions driven by fundamental strength. Power demand creates new secular growth opportunities, with Caterpillar positioned for multi-year upcycle as power demand creates new secular growth at a cyclical trough. Data center reaches deep into Caterpillar's portfolio with co-located power capability. Analog Devices represents the premium analog compounder as the cycle turns, with best economics in analog including 70%+ gross margins and 45-50% EBIT target. The team believes 2Q25 marked the restart with pricing and margin inflection underway. Data monetization theme involves machine learning, AI, and cloud causing the economic value of data to structurally accelerate through new products and applications. Companies include financial services firms like Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Nasdaq. De-globalization theme involves redirection of capital on post pandemic priorities for security of energy and reliability of supply chains. Companies include Constellation Energy, GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, and Vistra Corp. | ADI CAT |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Baron Real Estate Fund | -1.4% | 4.9% | AMH, AMT, BX, CSGP, DHI, FBIN, GDS, GMG.AX, H, HLT, IRM, JLL, PLD, RKT, SKY, TMHC, TREX, VNO, VTR, WELL | Commercial, Data centers, Housing, Industrial, real estate, REITs, Travel | Fund invests in leading commercial real estate services companies CBRE, JLL, and Cushman & Wakefield that benefit from outsourcing trends, institutionalization of commercial real estate, and market share opportunities in a fragmented industry. These companies are expected to generate 15%+ annual earnings growth as commercial real estate sales and leasing activity rebounds. Multi-year setup for data centers is as strong as ever with expanding demand from cloud computing, IT outsourcing, and AI workloads from Magnificent 7 companies. New supply is constrained due to elevated construction costs and power constraints while rents are rising. Fund owns Equinix, Digital Realty Trust, GDS Holdings, and Goodman as multi-year beneficiaries. Travel companies benefit from favorable shift in consumer preferences away from goods spending to prioritizing travel experiences. Fund owns best-in-class hotel companies Hilton and Hyatt which should continue benefiting from these secular trends including flexible work arrangements allowing more travel and cyclically depressed business activity creating opportunities. Despite near-term housing market challenges from affordability issues and buyer/seller strikes, there is structural underinvestment in housing relative to demographic needs. US builds same number of homes today as 1960 despite 160 million more people. Fund sees long-term bullish opportunity in companies like Toll Brothers and Champion Homes as housing market rebounds. Industrial real estate benefits from multi-year demand drivers including e-commerce growth, last mile infrastructure needs, onshoring trends, and shift from just-in-time to just-in-case inventory management. AI's physical manifestation through robotics and automation will require more industrial facilities. Fund owns Prologis, EastGroup Properties, and Terreno Realty. | IRM VTR WELL FBIN SKY CSGP H PLD JLL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Baron Health Care Fund | 13.1% | 10.3% | ABBV, ACLX, ARGX, ARQT, AZN, BSX, DHR, DSXY, EHC, ELAN, INSM, ISRG, LLY, MASI, MTD, PEN, RDNT, RGEN, SYK, TEVA, TMO, WELL | Biotechnology, GLP1, healthcare, Life Sciences, M&A, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals | Strong stock selection in biotechnology contributed the vast majority of relative gains, with main drivers being Cidara Therapeutics and Abivax. Biotechnology funding surged 94% year-over-year in December, making it the strongest month in the last three years. The Fund maintains 33.2% allocation to biotechnology companies. Eli Lilly's Mounjaro and Zepbound GLP-1/GIP therapies are viewed as transformational for diabetic and non-diabetic obese patients. The manager expects this drug class to become the standard of care for both diabetes and obesity, ultimately representing a $150 billion-plus market opportunity. M&A activity has been accelerating, with notable deals including Cidara Therapeutics acquired by Merck for $9.2 billion and Penumbra acquired by Boston Scientific for $14.5 billion. Large pharmaceutical companies will lose patent protection on products generating $400 billion of sales over the next eight years. The Fund maintains 14.2% allocation to life sciences tools & services. End markets are improving with strong biotechnology funding, stable biopharmaceutical R&D investment, and reduced risk of industry disruption following drug pricing agreements with the Trump Administration. | RGEN ELAN WELL ARQT TMO EHC DOCS ARQQ TEVA ARGX LLY |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Baron Asset Fund | 8.3% | 10.6% | COO, CSGP, DUOL, DXCM, FICO, GWRE, IT, SCHW, VRSK, WELL, WST | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 2026 | Fund Letters | Andrew A. Davis | Welltower Inc. | Real Estate | Health Care REITs | Bear | New York Stock Exchange | Multipleexpansion, Occupancy, Passiveflows, Seniorhousing, valuation | View Pitch |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Fund Letters | Alex Umansky | Welltower Inc. | Real Estate | Health Care REITs | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Alignment, cashflow, Demographics, REITs, senior housing | View Pitch |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | Neal Kaufman | Welltower Inc. | Health Care | Health Care REITs | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | cashflow, Demographics, realestate, REITs, Seniorhousing | View Pitch |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | Jeffrey Kolitch | Welltower Inc. | Real Estate | Health Care REITs | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Demographics, NOI, Occupancy, senior housing, Supplyconstraints | View Pitch |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Robert J. Lake | Welltower Inc. | Other | - | Bear | NYSE | — | View Pitch |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | REITer's Digest | Welltower Inc. | Real Estate | REIT - Healthcare Facilities | Bear | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Rowan | Apollo Global Management | $10.6B | $95.5M | 0.90% | 514,660 | +514,660 | +100.00% | 0.0653% |
| Paul Tudor Jones | Tudor Investment Corp | $53.4B | $9.2M | 0.02% | 49,300 | +6,700 | +41.88% | 0.0063% |
| Steven A. Cohen | Point72 Asset Management | $86.8B | $2.0M | 0.00% | 10,600 | -7,700 | -77.00% | 0.0013% |
| Dmitry Balyasny | Balyasny Asset Management | $76.6B | $29.7M | 0.04% | 159,778 | -217,770 | -57.68% | 0.0203% |
| Israel Englander | Millennium Management LLC | $233.2B | $3.5M | 0.00% | 18,700 | -31,300 | -62.60% | 0.0024% |
| David Siegel & John Overdeck | Two Sigma Investments | $67.5B | $83.4M | 0.12% | 449,129 | +59,840 | +15.37% | 0.0570% |
| Cliff Asness | AQR Capital Management | $190.6B | $88.5M | 0.05% | 476,749 | -376,721 | -44.14% | 0.0605% |
| Mario Gabelli | GAMCO Investors | $10.4B | $4.5M | 0.04% | 24,166 | +0 | +0.00% | 0.0031% |
| Tom Steyer | Farallon Capital Management | $21.2B | $63.7M | 0.30% | 343,000 | +343,000 | +100.00% | 0.0435% |
| Rich Handler | Jefferies | $19.3B | $455,116 | 0.00% | 2,452 | -23,093 | -90.40% | 0.0003% |
| Richard Kayne & John Anderson | Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management | $37.3B | $11,607 | 0.00% | 62 | +9 | +16.98% | 0.0000% |