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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 | Conestoga Mid Cap Composite | 3.5% | 4.5% | AAON, BSY, CPRT, FICO, GWRE, HEI, IDXX, MTD, NET, POOL, ROP, VEEV, WCN, WSO | Competitive Advantage, earnings, growth, Mid Caps, volatility | The commentary focuses on maintaining high-quality growth exposure despite macro-driven volatility. Management highlights the resilience of companies with strong competitive positions and long runways for earnings expansion. Mid-cap growth is positioned as a balance between scalability and valuation discipline. | MTD NET FICO AAON POOL ROP WSO WCN CPRT VEEV IDXX GWRE HEI.A BSY |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 22, 2025 | Conestoga SMid Cap Composite | 5.0% | -1.0% | AXON, CWAN, EXPO, FICO, GWRE, HEI, MMSI, NEOG, POOL, RBC, ROAD, WSO | cash flow, fundamentals, growth, SMID Caps, valuation | The letter emphasizes disciplined growth investing amid tariff uncertainty and rapid market rebounds. While narrow leadership hurt short-term performance, management remains focused on companies with scalable business models and consistent cash generation. SMid-cap growth is viewed as attractive as valuation gaps persist. | RBC GWRE AXON ROAD |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 20, 2025 | BBH Select Series – Mid Cap Fund | 5.4% | -0.9% | FOUR, GLOB, GWRE, WSO | cash flows, Intrinsic Value, Mid Caps, moats, volatility | The commentary focuses on bottom-up stock selection in mid-cap companies trading below intrinsic value amid tariff and policy uncertainty. Structural growth drivers and competitive moats are emphasized over macro forecasting. The fund positions volatility as an opportunity to add to businesses with durable cash flow potential. | View | |
| 2025 Q2 | Jul 17, 2025 | SouthernSun SMID Cap | 10.3% | - | APG, BOOT, MSA, SAM, WSO | Capital discipline, cash flow, operations, Resilience, SMID Caps | The letter focuses on resilient SMID-cap businesses adapting to macro uncertainty through pricing discipline, operational efficiency, and prudent capital allocation. Management emphasizes aftermarket revenue, service models, and recurring cash flows as stabilizers. Volatility is framed as manageable for companies with strong execution and balance sheets. | MSA SAM WSO BOOT APG |
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| 2025 Q1 | Apr 25, 2025 | SouthernSun SMID Cap | -8.8% | -8.8% | BOOT, BR, MOD, PII, USPH, WSO | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 30, 2025 | SouthernSun SMID Cap | - | 8.7% | BCO, CXT, DAR, MOD, WSO | Artificial Intelligence, cash flow, industrials, Quality, Value Investing | The firm underscored resilience amid cyclical shifts, citing Modine Manufacturings AI datacenter cooling exposure and Brinks strong recurring revenue. While AI investment continues to expand, SouthernSun maintains its emphasis on valuation discipline and balance sheet strength. Management noted that lower-quality speculative stocks drove near-term rallies but reiterated their conviction in durable, niche-dominant companies. | CXT WSO DAR BCO MOD CXT WSO DAR BCO MOD |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | BBH Select Series – Mid Cap Fund | -3.9% | -5.6% | ANET, ATR, BJ, BRO, CBRE, DAR, ENTG, FOUR, GFL, GWRE, GXO, HEI.A, ICLR, ITT, KEYS, LPLA, MCW, NVR, TTWO, TW, ULS, VMC, WH, WMS, WSC, WSO, WST, ZBRA | AI, fundamentals, Intrinsic Value, mid cap, profitability, Quality, technology, value | AI-related demand is driving the fastest growth in Keysight's wireline business and represented approximately 10% of Keysight total revenue in 2025. The enthusiasm for artificial intelligence driving enormous capital expenditures in associated infrastructure has been a key catalyst for the low-quality rally. Keysight is extremely well positioned to benefit from ongoing technology innovation across the wireless, networking, and semiconductor markets. The fund focuses on high-quality, profitable companies and avoids speculative ventures. Portfolio companies have grown revenues and EBITDA by 10% and 11% over the last twelve months, respectively, compared to 5% and 4% for the Index. The portfolio enjoys superior operating margins and return on equity of 20% and 17%, compared to 12% and 15% for the Index. The fund was trading at 82% of underlying intrinsic value estimates on a weighted-average basis as of December 31, 2025. The manager seeks to invest at a discount to intrinsic value to establish a margin of safety and mitigate the potential for permanent capital loss. While willing to pay a reasonable valuation multiple premium for quality, the focus remains on attractive valuations. | GWRE FOUR KEYS DAR |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 27, 2026 | Giverny Capital Asset Management | 0.0% | 12.6% | ALGN, ANET, CACC, CSU.TO, FERG, FI, GOOGL, HEI, HWKN, IBP, JPM, KGIC, KMX, MA, MEDP, META, SCHW, TSM, TWFG, WSO | AI, HVAC, insurance, Quality, small caps, technology, value | Manager discusses AI's transformative potential while noting uncertainty around returns on massive infrastructure investments. Believes AI won't displace portfolio companies like HVAC distributors and insurance companies, which may gain efficiency advantages. Compares current AI buildout to historical railroad and telecom infrastructure booms where users benefited more than builders. Portfolio is significantly overweight smaller companies with 45% in companies below $54 billion market cap versus 12.5% for the S&P 500. Manager believes these market leaders in niche areas will outperform over time despite recent underperformance relative to mega-cap tech stocks. Manager emphasizes owning high-performing businesses with strong earnings growth and capital returns. Notes the S&P Quality Index underperformed in 2025 but believes quality usually wins in the end. Recent portfolio upgrades focused on improving returns on capital, earnings growth and management quality. | FISV CACC KMX ALGN WSO KNSL SCHW ANET |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Conestoga Mid Cap Composite | -5.8% | -4.7% | AAON, AZTA, BCPC, BLFS, BMI, BSY, BWMN, COCO, CPRT, CSGP, CSW, CWAN, CWST, CYX, DGII, DSGX, ELVA, ESE, FSV, GNRC, GWRE, HEI.A, IDXX, IIIV, IRMD, IT, JKHY, KRMN, LMAT, MAMA, MEG, MLAB, MMSI, NGEN, NOVT, ODD, OLO, PHR, PL, PLMR, POOL, QTWO, RBC, RGEN, ROAD, ROL, ROP, SPSC, SSTI, STVN, TKNO, TREX, TRNS, TYL, UTI, VCEL, VEEV, VERX, VRSK, WCN, WLDN, WSO, WST | AI, Biotech, defense, healthcare, industrials, mid cap, Quality, technology | The manager emphasizes their focus on high-quality stocks with steady earnings characteristics, noting that their portfolio's emphasis on high-quality, steady earners continued to face headwinds in a market focused on short-term macroeconomic shifts. They believe quality stocks will eventually reclaim leadership after periods of low-quality outperformance. Small Cap biotechnology and pharmaceuticals emerged as significant outperformers in Q4, representing 132% of the Russell 2000 Growth Index's total returns. The manager notes they are materially underweight this sector, which created headwinds for relative performance as biotech rallied 33% for the year. The market showed persistent preference for AI-related hardware and infrastructure stocks, with AI themes dominating Index returns. The manager notes that capital flowed into more speculative AI names within the benchmark, creating valuation compression for traditional quality holdings. Defense-related stocks were among the key drivers of benchmark performance, with investors concentrating capital in defense stocks. The manager notes their lack of exposure to defense contractors weighed on relative results as this sector outperformed significantly. | GNRC BSY CSGP VEEV POOL WST IDXX ROL RGEN JKHY |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Conestoga SMid Cap Composite | -2.7% | -4.7% | AAON, AZTA, BCPC, BLFS, BMI, BSY, BWMN, COCO, CPRT, CSGP, CSW, CWAN, CWST, CYX, DGII, DSGX, ELVA, ESE, FSV, GNRC, GWRE, HEI.A, IDXX, IIIV, IRMD, IT, JKHY, KRMN, LMAT, MAMA, MEG, MLAB, MMSI, NGEN, NOVT, ODD, OLO, PHR, PL, PLMR, POOL, QTWO, RBC, RGEN, ROAD, ROL, ROP, SPSC, SSTI, STVN, TKNO, TREX, TRNS, TYL, UTI, VCEL, VEEV, VERX, VRSK, WCN, WLDN, WSO, WST | Biotechnology, defense, growth, industrials, Quality, small caps, technology | Small Caps achieved nearly 9% earnings growth in 2025 and are projected to grow by an additional 32% in 2026, contrasting with 13% growth expected for Large Caps. Small Caps are trading at a nearly 25% discount to Large Caps, creating a compelling case for outperformance for the first time since 2020. The market experienced extreme leadership concentrated in low-quality, high-beta, unprofitable stocks during the April-October rally. However, profitable stocks began outperforming unprofitable counterparts by over 5% from mid-October through year-end, suggesting high-quality stocks may be reclaiming leadership. Small Cap Biotech/Pharmaceutical stocks represented 132% of the Russell 2000 Growth Index's total returns in the fourth quarter alone, after comprising just 11% through the third quarter. The bioprocessing market showed clear signs of recovery with companies delivering encouraging order growth. Defense technology companies specializing in highly engineered, mission-critical systems showed strong performance. Companies with exposure to space, missiles, hypersonic, and defense programs generated mid-teens organic revenue growth complemented by acquisitions. | GNRC KRMN AAON ROAD STVN TREX POOL FSV CWAN CSW JKHY RBC RGEN |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | Fenimore Dividend Focus Strategy | -4.4% | 1.9% | AJG, APH, AVY, BR, CDW, CTAS, HEI, HLI, IEX, JKHY, MCHP, MLM, PAYX, ROST, RSG, STE, SYK, TT, VRSK, WSO | AI, dividends, healthcare, mid cap, Quality, technology, value | Fenimore maintains focus on high-quality companies with strong balance sheets, consistent profitability, and prudent capital allocation. Quality as a factor remained out of favor despite many businesses showing strong long-term fundamental prospects. The firm believes solid business fundamentals should reassert themselves as the primary driver of stock prices in the long run. AI excitement and related infrastructure builds continued to drive the market, drawing capital away from nearly every other area. Investor enthusiasm was driven toward businesses with AI-related exposures. Amphenol benefited from data center buildouts supporting AI, with its IT Datacom segment growing 128% organically. Dividend-paying companies lagged non-dividend-paying companies by more than 50%. On average, portfolio holdings raised their dividends 9% over 2025, in line with their earnings growth. The top three dividend raisers were Amphenol (55%), Cintas (15%), and Verisk Analytics (15%). Valuations for portfolio companies are becoming more attractive while other indices become more overvalued. The fund sees compelling valuations within the portfolio, which management believes sets the fund up for solid future performance. Many quality franchises are trading at relative multi-year lows. | TT APH JKHY ROST |
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| 2024 Q1 | Jul 22, 2024 | Qualivian Investment Partners | 2.4% | 15.3% | AMZN, JNJ, META, NOC, ORLY, SPGI, WSO | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q2 | Jun 30, 2023 | Conestoga SMid Cap Composite | 12.9% | 12.1% | AXON, EXPO, FICO, GGG, MRCY, PLOW, RBC, RGEN, SPSC, TREX, WSO | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q1 | Apr 30, 2023 | SouthernSun SMID Cap | 8.8% | 13.9% | BCO, CLH, CR, DAR, LPX, WRK, WSO | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q4 | Apr 17, 2024 | Qualivian Investment Partners | 2.4% | 15.3% | WSO | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2026 | Fund Letters | David M. Poppe | Watsco Inc | Industrials | Industrial Distribution | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Distribution, Efficiency Standards, HVAC, Margins, Replacement Cycle | View Pitch |
| Jan 14, 2026 | Seeking Alpha | Seeking Alpha | Watsco, Inc. | Industrial Goods | Building Products & Equipment | Bear | New York Stock Exchange | A2L refrigerants, dividend increases, earnings growth, earnings multiples, HVAC industry, M&A strategy, operational challenges, regulatory impacts, residential market, Watsco, Inc. | View Pitch |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Fund Letters | Michael Cook | Watsco, Inc. | Industrials | Industrial Distribution | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Acquisitions, Distribution, HVAC, Margins, scale | View Pitch |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Fund Letters | Derek Johnston | Watsco, Inc. | Industrials | Trading Companies & Distributors | Bull | NYSE | Distribution, HVAC, Replacement, Sunbelt, Transition | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Michael Cook | Watsco Inc. | Industrials | Trading Companies & Distributors | Bull | NYSE | cash flow, construction, Distribution, growth, HVAC, M&A, market share | View Pitch |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Fund Letters | Michael Cook | Watsco Inc. | Industrials | Trading Companies & Distributors | Bull | NYSE | cash flow, construction, Distribution, growth, HVAC, M&A, market share | View Pitch |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Lighting Rock Research | Watsco, Inc. | Industrials | Industrial Distribution | 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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