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Axon Enterprise, Inc. (AXON) is a public safety company with three major product lines: high-definition body and vehicle cameras (sensor division), subscription-based digital evidence services and storage, and non-lethal taser devices.
With around $3 billion in sales, Axon has less than 3% share of its over $100 billion addressable market. Building off its dominant position in tasers, Axon is seeking to grow its software business from approximately 44% of revenue today to over 53% towards the end of the decade, which, in turn, should enhance margins. We think Axon can increase EBITDA margins to 30%, with sustained revenue growth greater than 20%. Axon is a winner-take-most company in its markets, given its reputation, scale, and integration of evidentiary products with sensors and tasers.

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Loar Holdings Inc. (LOAR) is a niche aerospace components manufacturer. Founded in 2012, the company has an 85% proprietary product portfolio, with more than half of its revenue coming from the high-margin aftermarket channel.
Loar’s proprietary, aftermarket-focused products represent one of the strongest business models in the aerospace and defense industry, exemplified by the success of peers such as TransDigm. Loar benefits from favorable industry growth trends and strong pricing power given the critical nature of its components. The company has executed a disciplined acquisition strategy, successfully integrating more than 17 acquisitions over the past 13 years. We believe Loar is well positioned to deliver strong double-digit growth for the foreseeable future.

Coherent Corp. (COHR) develops, manufactures, and markets advanced materials, lasers, and optical systems designed to generate, modulate, amplify, direct, and detect photons–the fundamental particles of light.
Coherent is positioned to benefit from secular communications tailwinds driven by AI data center buildouts, growing data center interconnect demand, increasing optical penetration within server racks, advances in optical switching, and the migration of traditional telecom networks to pluggable transceivers. In addition to these structural drivers, the company’s operational initiatives—including margin expansion, debt reduction, and diversification of its global supply chain—continue to support its improving financial profile.

Samsara Inc. (IOT) provides a cloud-based software platform for vehicle telematics, video-based driver safety, workflow automation, equipment monitoring, and manufacturing site visibility. The platform analyzes data from millions of sensors and cameras to help companies reduce costs and improve safety. 
Samsara has been rapidly gaining market share in the $51 billion connected fleet software market, driven by its superior cloud-native architecture, ability to address both safety and telematics use cases, and its proprietary data moat (over 20 trillion data points collected annually across more than 1 million assets). The company has leveraged its strong position in commercial fleets to expand into adjacent areas such as construction equipment monitoring and driver workflow automation, increasing its value to customers.

Forgent Power Solutions, Inc. (FPS) is a leading manufacturer of electrical distribution equipment used in data centers, the power grid, and energy-intensive industrial applications. Forgent is a low- and medium-voltage equipment specialist  with focus on custom, “engineered-to-order” products.
Forgent differentiates itself by engaging deeply with customers during the design phase and delivering custom products in shorter lead times than standard offerings. This advantage is supported by its customer engagement model, manufacturing floorplan layout, and supply chain management. The company recently completed a footprint expansion to support up to $5 billion in revenue, compared with roughly $1 billion today, and demand remains robust. Even with excess overhead, margins are near best-in-class levels, with further room for expansion as growth scales.

Enpro Inc. (NPO) is a diverse industrial technology company whose proprietary, value-add products and solutions contribute key functionality to and/or safeguard a variety of critical environments across several end markets. Over half of revenue comes from sticky, aftermarket applications.
Enpro’s industrial businesses focus on high-margin, niche applications with recurring demand, supported by industry-leading brands. Its semiconductor businesses are similarly entrenched in specialized niches and are well-positioned to benefit from leading-edge investment and the reshoring of semiconductor production to the U.S. The company leverages strong free cash flow to acquire higher-growth businesses that can benefit from the Enpro platform, driving meaningful shareholder value creation over time.

Dynatrace, Inc. (DT) is a leading provider of IT system observability, offering a full-stack solution spanning user monitoring, infrastructure, and log management. To meet the demands of the modern software stack, the company re-architected its platform and expanded into security monitoring.
With its new platform, Dynatrace is better equipped to address complex use cases across multi-cloud, containerized, and hybrid environments. Estimates suggest only about 20% of enterprise applications are currently monitored, a figure expected to rise to 50% in the coming years. The growing application economy should drive greater monitoring demand as existing apps expand and new ones are developed. Dynatrace is well positioned to capture this opportunity through its differentiated platform, enterprise-grade solutions, expanding salesforce, and ongoing product innovation.

Datadog, Inc. (DDOG) offers an SaaS-based observability platform that helps businesses keep software and applications up and running. Core products include infrastructure, application performance monitoring, log management, and cloud security to provide visibility into and secure IT environments.
Datadog employs a viral go-to-market strategy and an expanding product line to generate growth through its land-and-expand business model. It is also rapidly increasing its platform capabilities with a broad use, single-pane-of-glass strategy. With strong secular trends, a large total addressable market, a flexible platform, solid unit economics, and a robust product line, we believe Datadog is well positioned to generate significant growth over the coming years.

Mercury Systems, Inc. (MRCY) designs, manufactures, and markets high-performance, embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing systems, mission systems, and software. The company's customers are Tier-1 defense contractors worldwide.
We believe Mercury is uniquely positioned to sell high-speed computing and storage subsystems to nearly all large U.S. defense contractors. Its products, which let customers more rapidly and cheaply develop their own solutions, are used for mission management, communications, sensors, electronic warfare, and other systems. Mercury serves an available market of over $40 billion, including $24 billion for C4I (command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence) systems and $18 billion for sensor and mission systems (electronic warfare, radar, and weapons).

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