NPORT-EX 2 paradigmmicro093020nportp.htm

 

 Paradigm Micro-Cap Fund 
     Schedule of Investments
    September 30, 2020 (Unaudited)
 Shares             Fair Value    % of Net Assets
                 
 COMMON STOCKS                
                 
 Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment, NEC             
           50,000 Ducommun Incorporated *          $    1,646,000   2.49%
                 
 Ball & Roller Bearings               
          324,033 NN, Inc. *               1,672,010   2.52%
                 
 Communications Services, NEC               
           60,000 Calix, Inc. *               1,066,800   1.61%
                 
 Computer Communications Equipment               
          440,000 Extreme Networks, Inc. *               1,768,800   2.67%
                 
 Concrete Products, Except Block & Brick               
          100,000 Forterra, Inc. *               1,182,000   1.78%
                 
 Construction - Special Trade Contractors               
           17,500 Matrix Service Co. *                  146,125   0.22%
                 
 Electronic Computers               
           20,000 Omnicell, Inc. *               1,493,200   2.25%
                 
 Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts             
           40,000 Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. *                771,200   1.16%
                 
 Industrial Organic Chemicals               
             5,950 Sensient Technologies Corporation                343,553   0.52%
                 
 Instruments For Measuring & Testing Of Electricity & Electric Signals         
           32,650 Cohu, Inc.                  560,927   0.85%
                 
 Laboratory Analytical Instruments               
          150,000 Fluidigm Corporation *               1,114,500   1.68%
                 
 Measuring & Controlling Devices, NEC              
           80,000 Onto Innovation Inc. *               2,382,400   3.60%
                 
 Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)             
          140,000 Summit Materials, Inc. - Class A *             2,315,600   3.50%
                 
 Miscellaneous Manufacturing Industries              
             5,200 Hillenbrand, Inc.                  147,472   0.22%
                 
 Office Machines, NEC               
          350,000 Pitney Bowes               1,858,500   2.81%
                 
 Orthopedic, Prosthetic & Surgical Appliances & Supplies           
          340,000 Invacare Corporation               2,556,800   3.86%
                 
 Pharmaceutical Preparations               
           50,000 Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. *                  520,500    
           80,000 Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. *                925,600    
          500,000 OptiNose, Inc. *               1,950,000    
                  3,396,100   5.13%
                 
 Radio & TV Broadcasting & Communications Equipment           
          160,000 CalAmp Corp. *               1,150,400   1.74%
                 
 Retail - Apparel & Accessory Stores               
          111,900 Express Inc. *                    68,259    
           19,200 Zumiez Inc. *                  534,144    
                     602,403   0.91%
                 
 Retail - Catalog & Mail-Order Houses               
           40,000 Insight Enterprises, Inc. *               2,263,200   3.42%
                 
 Retail - Family Clothing Stores               
           13,300 American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.                196,973   0.30%
                 
 Retail - Shoe Stores               
             6,700 Foot Locker, Inc.                  221,301   0.33%
                 
 Semiconductors & Related Devices               
           10,000 FormFactor, Inc. *                  249,300    
           20,000 Ichor Holdings, Ltd. *                  431,400    
           33,700 Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. (Singapore)                754,880    
           80,000 MaxLinear, Inc. *               1,859,200    
          300,000 NeoPhotonics Corporation *               1,827,000    
          100,000 Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. *               2,146,000    
                  7,267,780   10.97%
                 
 Services - Business Services, NEC               
             8,400 Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. *                342,468   0.52%
                 
 Services - Computer Integrated Systems Design             
          100,000 Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. *                814,000    
          600,000 Ribbon Communications Inc. *             2,322,000    
                  3,136,000   4.73%
                 
 Services - Computer Processing & Data Preparation             
           17,900 Inovalon Holdings, Inc. *                  473,455   0.71%
                 
 Services - Help Supply Services               
           34,500 Kelly Services, Inc. - Class A                587,880   0.89%
                 
 Services - Home Health Care Services               
             4,700 Addus HomeCare Corporation *                444,197   0.67%
                 
 Services - Hospitals               
             5,900 Magellan Health Services Inc. *                447,102   0.68%
                 
 Services - Prepackaged Software               
           40,000 Cerence Inc. *               1,954,800    
           10,900 Progress Software Corporation                 399,812    
                  2,354,612   3.55%
                 
 Services - Management Services               
          160,000 R1 RCM Inc.  *                2,744,000   4.14%
                 
 Services - Skilled Nursing Care Facilities               
           40,000 The Ensign Group, Inc.               2,282,400   3.45%
                 
 Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery)           
           15,100 Kadant Inc.                1,655,262   2.50%
                 
 Special Industry Machinery, NEC               
           40,000 Axcelis Technologies, Inc. *                  880,000    
             9,800 Brooks Automation, Inc.                  453,348    
          200,000 Veeco Instruments Inc. *               2,334,000    
                  3,667,348   5.54%
                 
 Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus             
           59,845 AngioDynamics, Inc. *                  721,731    
           53,700 AtriCure, Inc. *               2,142,630    
          300,000 Cerus Corporation *               1,878,000    
          114,200 GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. *               1,621,640    
             6,600 OrthoPediatrics Corp. *                  303,072    
                  6,667,073   10.06%
                 
 Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus               
          300,000 Infinera Corporation *               1,848,000   2.79%
                 
 Total for Common Stocks (Cost $50,499,184)             62,773,841   94.77%
                 
 MONEY MARKET FUNDS               
       2,945,249 SEI Daily Income Trust Government Fund CL F 0.01% **         2,945,249   4.45%
 Total for Money Market Funds (Cost $2,945,249)             
                 
 Total Investment Securities              65,719,090   99.22%
             (Cost $53,444,433)              
                 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities                    513,759   0.78%
                   
 Net Assets             $  66,232,849   100.00%
                 
                 
 * Non-Income Producing Securities.               
 ** The rate shown represents the 7-day yield at September 30, 2020. 
                 
                 
 1. SECURITY TRANSACTIONS               
                 
For Federal income tax purposes, the cost of securities owned at September 30, 2020, was $53,444,433. At September 30, 2020, the composition of gross unrealized appreciation (the excess of value over tax cost) and depreciation (the excess of tax cost over value) of investments was as follows:
                 
        Unrealized Gain    $  16,949,564    
        Unrealized Loss        (4,674,907)    
        Unrealized Gain    $  12,274,657    
                 
2. SECURITIES VALUATIONS              
                 
The Fund utilizes various methods to measure the fair value of most of its investments on a recurring basis. GAAP establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation methods. The three levels of inputs are:
                 
Level 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Fund has the ability to access.
                 
Level 2 – Observable inputs other than quoted prices included in level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. These inputs may include quoted prices for the identical instrument in an inactive market, prices for similar instruments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, default rates and similar data.
                 
Level 3 – Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability, to the extent relevant observable inputs are not available, representing the Fund’s own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in valuing the asset or liability, and would be based on the best information available.
                 
The availability of observable inputs can vary from security to security and is affected by a wide variety of factors, including, for example, the type of security, whether the security is new and not yet established in the marketplace, the liquidity of markets, and other characteristics particular to the security. To the extent that valuation is based on models or inputs that are less observable or unobservable in the market, the determination of fair value requires more judgment. Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is greatest for instruments categorized in level 3.
                 
The inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, for disclosure purposes, the level in the fair value hierarchy within which the fair value measurement falls in its entirety, is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety.
                 
FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS              
                 
A description of the valuation techniques applied to the Fund’s major categories of assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis follows.
                 
Equity securities (common stocks). Equity securities generally are valued by using market quotations, but may be valued on the basis of prices furnished by a pricing service when the Adviser believes such prices accurately reflect the fair value of such securities. Securities that are traded on any stock exchange or on the NASDAQ over-the-counter market are generally valued by the pricing service at the last quoted sale price. Lacking a last sale price, an equity security is generally valued by the pricing service at its last bid price. Generally, if the security is traded in an active market and is valued at the last sale price, the security is categorized as a level 1 security, and if an equity security is valued by the pricing service at its last bid, it is generally categorized as a level 2 security. When market quotations are not readily available, when the Adviser determines that the market quotation or the price provided by the pricing service does not accurately reflect the current fair value, or when restricted securities are being valued, such securities are valued as determined in good faith by the Adviser, subject to review of the Board of Trustees (the “Trustees” or the “Board”) and are categorized in level 2 or level 3, when appropriate.
                 
Money market funds. Money market funds are valued at net asset value provided by the funds and are classified in level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.
                 
In accordance with the Trust’s good faith pricing guidelines, the Adviser is required to consider all appropriate factors relevant to the value of securities for which it has determined other pricing sources are not available or reliable as described above. There is no single standard for determining fair value, since fair value depends upon the circumstances of each individual case. As a general principle, the current fair value of an issue of securities being valued by the Adviser would appear to be the amount which the owner might reasonably expect to receive for them upon their current sale. Methods which are in accordance with this principle may, for example, be based on (i) a multiple of earnings; (ii) a discount from market of a similar freely traded security (including a derivative security or a basket of securities traded on other markets, exchanges or among dealers); or (iii) yield to maturity with respect to debt issues, or a combination of these and other methods.
                 
The following table summarizes the inputs used to value the Fund’s assets measured at fair value as of September 30, 2020:
                 
Valuation of Inputs and Assets Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total
Common Stocks  $  62,773,841    $                 -    $                 -    $    62,773,841
Money Market Funds       2,945,249                       -                       -           2,945,249
Total     $  65,719,090    $                 -    $                 -    $    65,719,090
                 
Refer to the Fund's Schedule of Investments for a listing of securities by industry. The Fund did not hold any Level 3 assets or liabilities during the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2020.