NPORT-EX 2 paradigmmicrosoi-march2022.htm

 

 Paradigm Micro-Cap Fund 
       Schedule of Investments
      March 31, 2022 (Unaudited)
 Shares               Fair Value    % of Net Assets
                   
 COMMON STOCKS                
                   
 Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment, NEC               
           80,000   Ducommun Incorporated *          $    4,191,200   3.14%
                   
 Ball & Roller Bearings               
          295,310   NN, Inc. *                  850,493   0.64%
                   
 Communications Services, NEC               
           60,000   Calix, Inc. *               2,574,600   1.93%
                   
 Computer Communications Equipment               
          200,000   A10 Networks, Inc.                2,790,000    
          320,000   Extreme Networks, Inc. *               3,907,200    
                    6,697,200   5.02%
                   
 Electromedical & Electrotherapeutic Apparatus             
           80,000   Cutera, Inc. *               5,520,000   4.14%
                   
 Electronic Computers               
           20,000   Omnicell, Inc. *               2,589,800   1.94%
                   
 Footwear, (No Rubber)               
          220,000   Caleres, Inc.               4,252,600   3.19%
                   
 Household Furniture               
           20,000   Hooker Furnishings Corporation                378,800   0.28%
                   
 Industrial Organic Chemicals               
             5,950   Sensient Technologies Corporation                499,502   0.37%
                   
 Instruments For Measuring & Testing Of Electricity & Electric Signals         
           32,650   Cohu, Inc. *                  966,440   0.72%
                   
 Measuring & Controlling Devices, NEC              
           50,000   Onto Innovation Inc. *               4,344,500   3.26%
                   
 Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)             
          100,000   Summit Materials, Inc. - Class A *             3,106,000   2.33%
                   
 Miscellaneous Manufacturing Industries              
             5,200   Hillenbrand, Inc.                  229,684   0.17%
                   
 Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories               
          250,000   Modine Manufacturing Company *             2,252,500   1.69%
                   
                   
 Pharmaceutical Preparations               
          100,000   Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. *                436,000    
           40,000   Ocular Therapeutix Inc. *                  198,000    
                       634,000   0.48%
                   
 Radio & TV Broadcasting & Communications Equipment             
           50,000   Aviat Networks, Inc. *               1,538,500   1.15%
                   
 Retail - Apparel & Accessory Stores               
           30,000   Citi Trends, Inc. *                  918,750    
           39,200   Zumiez Inc. *               1,497,832    
                    2,416,582   1.81%
                   
 Retail - Catalog & Mail-Order Houses               
           40,000   Insight Enterprises, Inc. *               4,292,800   3.22%
                   
 Retail - Family Clothing Stores               
           13,300   American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.                223,440   0.17%
                   
 Retail - Retail Stores, NEC               
          100,000   Kirkland's, Inc. *                  929,000   0.70%
                   
 Semiconductors & Related Devices               
           40,000   FormFactor, Inc. *               1,681,200    
           19,005   Ichor Holdings, Ltd. *                  676,958    
           33,700   Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. (Singapore)             1,887,874    
          100,000   MaxLinear, Inc. *               5,835,000    
          100,000   Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. *               4,239,000    
                   14,320,032   10.73%
                   
 Services - Business Services, NEC               
           88,100   Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. *                507,456   0.38%
                   
 Services - Computer Integrated Systems Design             
          100,000   NextGen Healthcare, Inc. *               2,091,000    
          640,000   Ribbon Communications Inc. *             1,977,600    
                    4,068,600   3.05%
                   
 Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation             
          100,000   Marin Software Incorporated *                288,000   0.22%
                   
 Services - Computer Programing Services         
           40,000   Computer Programs & Systems, Inc. *             1,378,000   1.03%
                   
 Services - Help Supply Services               
           55,000   Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. *             1,191,850    
          130,500   Kelly Services, Inc. - Class A             2,830,545    
                    4,022,395   3.01%
                   
 Services - Home Health Care Services               
           19,700   Addus HomeCare Corporation *             1,837,813   1.38%
                   
 Services - Management Services               
          160,000   R1 RCM Inc.  *                4,281,600   3.21%
                   
 Services - Medical Laboratories               
           56,900   Exagen, Inc. *                  456,907   0.34%
                   
 Services - Miscellaneous Health & Allied Services, NEC             
          100,000   Viemed Healthcare, Inc. *                  498,000   0.37%
                   
 Services - Prepackaged Software               
          200,000   Absolute Software Corp. (Canada)             1,696,000    
           20,000   Cerence Inc. *                  722,000    
           10,900   Progress Software Corporation                 513,281    
                    2,931,281   2.20%
                   
 Services - Skilled Nursing Care Facilities         
           40,000   The Ensign Group, Inc.               3,600,400   2.70%
                   
 Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery)       
           15,100   Kadant Inc.                2,932,269   2.20%
                   
 Special Industry Machinery, NEC               
           80,000   Axcelis Technologies, Inc. *               6,042,400    
             9,800   Azenta, Inc.                  812,224    
          200,000   Veeco Instruments Inc. *               5,438,000    
                   12,292,624   9.21%
                   
 Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus             
           53,700   AtriCure, Inc. *               3,526,479    
          337,131   Cerus Corporation *               1,850,849    
           75,000   Orthofix Medical, Inc. *               2,452,500    
           19,600   OrthoPediatrics Corp. *               1,058,204    
          200,000   SeaSpine Holdings Corporation *             2,432,000    
          100,000   SI-BONE, Inc. *               2,260,000    
                   13,580,032   10.17%
                   
 Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus               
          350,000   Infinera Corporation *               3,034,500   2.27%
                   
 Watches, Clocks, Clockwork Operated Devices/Parts             
           80,000   Fossil Group, Inc. *                  771,200   0.58%
                   
 Women's, Misses', and Juniors Outerwear               
          100,000   J.Jill, Inc. *               1,517,000   1.14%
                   
 Total for Common Stocks (Cost $76,442,973)           120,805,750   90.54%
                   
 CONTINGENT VALUE RIGHTS               
          300,000   Flexion Therapeutics Contingent Value Right * +            186,000   0.14%
 Total for Contingent Value Rights (Cost $186,000)             
                   
 MONEY MARKET FUNDS               
     12,549,396   SEI Daily Income Trust Government Fund CL F 0.12% **        12,549,396   9.41%
 Total for Money Market Funds (Cost $12,549,396)             
                   
 Total Investment Securities            133,541,146   100.09%
               (Cost $89,178,369)              
                   
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets                   (124,755)   -0.09%
                     
 Net Assets               $133,416,391   100.00%
                   
                   
 * Non-Income Producing Securities.               
 ** The rate shown represents the 7-day yield at March 31, 2022. 
 + Level 3 and illiquid security. 
                   
                   
 1. SECURITY TRANSACTIONS               
                   
For Federal income tax purposes, the cost of securities owned at March 31, 2022, was $89,178,369. At March 31, 2022, 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 Appreciation    $  50,143,291    
      Unrealized Depreciation        (5,780,514)    
      Unrealized Appreciation    $  44,362,777    
                   
2. SECURITIES VALUATIONS              
                   
The Fund utilizes various methods to measure the fair value 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 March 31, 2022:
                   
Valuation of Inputs and Assets Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total
Common Stocks    $120,805,750    $                 -    $                 -    $  120,805,750
Contingent Value Rights                     -                       -            186,000              186,000
Money Market Funds      12,549,396                       -                       -          12,549,396
Total       $133,355,146    $                 -    $      186,000    $  133,541,146
                   
Refer to the Fund's Schedule of Investments for a listing of securities by industry. The Fund did not hold any material level 3 assets during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022. As of March 31, 2022, level 3 contingent value rights held by the Fund represented 0.14% of the Fund's net assets. A reconciliation of level 3 investments, including certain disclosures related to significant inputs used in valuing level 3 investments, is only presented when a portfolio has over 1% of level 3 investments.