NPORT-EX 2 paradigmmicrosoi093021.htm

 

 Paradigm Micro-Cap Fund 
       Schedule of Investments
      September 30, 2021 (Unaudited)
 Shares               Fair Value    % of Net Assets
                   
 COMMON STOCKS                
                   
 Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment, NEC               
           80,000   Ducommun Incorporated *          $    4,028,000   2.80%
                   
 Ball & Roller Bearings               
          290,000   NN, Inc. *               1,522,500   1.06%
                   
 Communications Equipment, NEC               
           20,000   Vocera Communications, Inc. *                915,200   0.64%
                   
 Communications Services, NEC               
           60,000   Calix, Inc. *               2,965,800   2.06%
                   
 Computer Communications Equipment               
          200,000   A10 Networks, Inc. *               2,696,000    
          320,000   Extreme Networks, Inc. *               3,152,000    
                    5,848,000   4.06%
                   
 Concrete Products, Except Block & Brick               
          120,000   Forterra, Inc. *               2,827,200   1.96%
                   
 Construction - Special Trade Contractors               
          137,500   Matrix Service Co. *               1,438,250   1.00%
                   
 Electromedical & Electrotherapeutic Apparatus             
           40,000   Cutera, Inc. *               1,864,000   1.29%
                   
 Electronic Computers               
           20,000   Omnicell, Inc. *               2,968,600   2.06%
                   
 Engines & Turbines               
           80,000   Westport Fuel Systems Inc. * (Canada)                 263,200   0.18%
                   
 Footwear, (No Rubber)               
          150,000   Caleres, Inc.               3,333,000   2.31%
                   
 Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts               
           40,000   Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. *                892,400   0.62%
                   
 Industrial Organic Chemicals               
             5,950   Sensient Technologies Corporation                541,926   0.38%
                   
 Instruments For Measuring & Testing Of Electricity & Electric Signals         
          152,650   Cohu, Inc.               4,875,641   3.38%
                   
 Measuring & Controlling Devices, NEC              
           60,000   Onto Innovation Inc. *               4,335,000   3.01%
                   
 Millwood, Veneer, Plywood & Structural Wood Members             
           20,000   American Woodmark Corporation *             1,307,400   0.91%
                   
 Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)             
          100,000   Summit Materials, Inc. - Class A *             3,197,000   2.22%
                   
 Miscellaneous Manufacturing Industries              
             5,200   Hillenbrand, Inc.                  221,780   0.15%
                   
 Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories               
          250,000   Modine Manufacturing Company *             2,832,500   1.97%
                   
 Office Machines, NEC               
          400,000   Pitney Bowes               2,884,000   2.00%
                   
 Orthopedic, Prosthetic & Surgical Appliances & Supplies             
          500,000   Invacare Corporation               2,380,000   1.65%
                   
 Pharmaceutical Preparations               
          250,000   Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. *               1,525,000    
           80,000   Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. *             1,172,000    
          503,321   OptiNose, Inc. *               1,509,963    
                    4,206,963   2.92%
                   
 Radio & TV Broadcasting & Communications Equipment             
          120,000   CalAmp Corp. *               1,194,000    
           60,000   Comtech Telecommunications Corp.              1,536,600    
                    2,730,600   1.90%
                   
 Retail - Apparel & Accessory Stores               
           30,000   Citi Trends, Inc. *               2,188,800    
           41,200   Tilly's, Inc. - Class A                  577,212    
          109,200   Zumiez Inc. *               4,341,792    
                    7,107,804   4.93%
                   
 Retail - Catalog & Mail-Order Houses               
           40,000   Insight Enterprises, Inc. *               3,603,200   2.50%
                   
 Retail - Family Clothing Stores               
           13,300   American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.                343,140   0.24%
                   
 Retail - Retail Stores, NEC               
          200,000   Kirkland's, Inc. *               3,842,000   2.67%
                   
 Retail - Shoe Stores               
             6,700   Foot Locker, Inc.                  305,922   0.21%
                   
 Semiconductors & Related Devices               
           60,000   Ichor Holdings, Ltd. *               2,465,400    
           20,000   FormFactor, Inc. *                  746,600    
           33,700   Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. (Singapore)             1,964,036    
          120,000   MaxLinear, Inc. *               5,910,000    
          150,000   NeoPhotonics Corporation *               1,306,500    
          100,000   Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. *               4,260,000    
                   16,652,536   11.56%
                   
 Services - Business Services, NEC               
           22,400   Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. *                587,104   0.41%
                   
 Services - Computer Integrated Systems Design             
           60,000   Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. *                802,200    
          100,000   NextGen Healthcare, Inc. *               1,410,000    
          640,000   Ribbon Communications Inc. *             3,827,200    
                    6,039,400   4.19%
                   
 Services - Computer Processing & Data Preparation             
           17,900   Inovalon Holdings, Inc. *                  721,191   0.50%
                   
 Services - Help Supply Services               
           55,000   Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. *             1,168,200    
          130,500   Kelly Services, Inc. - Class A             2,463,840    
                    3,632,040   2.52%
                   
 Services - Home Health Care Services               
           19,700   Addus HomeCare Corporation *             1,571,075   1.09%
                   
 Services - Hospitals               
             5,900   Magellan Health Services Inc. *                557,845   0.39%
                   
 Services - Prepackaged Software               
           20,000   Cerence Inc. *               1,922,200    
           10,900   Progress Software Corporation                 536,171    
                    2,458,371   1.71%
                   
 Services - Management Services               
          160,000   R1 RCM Inc.  *                3,521,600   2.44%
                   
 Services -Misc Health & Allied Services NEC         
          100,000   Viemed Healthcare, Inc. *                  555,000   0.39%
                   
 Services - Skilled Nursing Care Facilities         
           40,000   The Ensign Group, Inc.               2,995,600   2.08%
                   
 Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery)       
           15,100   Kadant Inc.                3,081,910   2.14%
                   
 Special Industry Machinery, NEC               
           80,000   Axcelis Technologies, Inc. *               3,762,400    
             9,800   Brooks Automation, Inc.               1,003,030    
          200,000   Veeco Instruments Inc. *               4,442,000    
                    9,207,430   6.39%
                   
 Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus             
           20,000   AngioDynamics, Inc. *                  518,800    
           53,700   AtriCure, Inc. *               3,734,835    
          500,000   Cerus Corporation *               3,045,000    
           19,600   OrthoPediatrics Corp. *               1,283,996    
          200,000   SeaSpine Holdings Corporation *             3,146,000    
                   11,728,631   8.13%
                   
 Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus               
          300,000   Infinera Corporation *               2,496,000   1.73%
                   
 Women's, Misses', and Juniors Outerwear               
             5,560   J.Jill, Inc. *                    96,633   0.07%
                   
 Total for Common Stocks (Cost $93,747,015)           139,483,392   96.82%
                   
 MONEY MARKET FUNDS               
       5,194,692   SEI Daily Income Trust Government Fund CL F 0.01% **         5,194,692   3.61%
 Total for Money Market Funds (Cost $5,194,692)             
                   
 Total Investment Securities            144,678,084   100.43%
               (Cost $98,941,707)              
                   
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets                   (623,900)   -0.43%
                     
 Net Assets               $144,054,184   100.00%
                   
                   
 * Non-Income Producing Securities.               
 ** The rate shown represents the 7-day yield at September 30, 2021. 
                   
                   
 1. SECURITY TRANSACTIONS               
                   
For Federal income tax purposes, the cost of securities owned at September 30, 2021, was $98,941,707. At September 30, 2021, 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    $  53,161,174    
      Unrealized Loss        (7,424,797)    
      Unrealized Gain    $  45,736,377    
                   
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, 2021:
                   
Valuation of Inputs and Assets Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total
Common Stocks    $139,483,392    $                 -    $                 -    $  139,483,392
Money Market Funds       5,194,692                       -                       -           5,194,692
Total       $144,678,084    $                 -    $                 -    $  144,678,084
                   
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, 2021.