NPORT-EX 2 paradigmmicrosoi-9302023.htm

 

 Paradigm Micro-Cap Fund 
       Schedule of Investments
      September 30, 2023 (Unaudited)
 Shares               Fair Value    % of Net Assets
                   
 COMMON STOCKS                
                   
 Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment, NEC               
           80,000   Ducommun Incorporated *          $    3,480,800   2.61%
                   
 Communications Services, NEC               
           60,000   Calix, Inc. *               2,750,400   2.06%
                   
 Computer Communications Equipment               
          200,000   A10 Networks, Inc.                3,006,000    
          200,000   Extreme Networks, Inc. *               4,842,000    
                    7,848,000   5.88%
                   
 Electronic Computers               
           20,000   Omnicell, Inc. *                  900,800   0.67%
                   
 Footwear, (No Rubber)               
          140,000   Caleres, Inc.               4,026,400   3.02%
                   
 Household Audio & Video Equipment               
           24,700   Arlo Technologies, Inc. *                  254,410   0.19%
                   
 Industrial Organic Chemicals               
          400,000   Codexis, Inc. *                  756,000    
             5,950   Sensient Technologies Corporation                347,956    
                    1,103,956   0.83%
                   
 Instruments For Measuring & Testing Of Electricity & Electric Signals         
           32,650   Cohu, Inc. *               1,124,466   0.84%
                   
 Measuring & Controlling Devices, NEC              
           50,000   Onto Innovation Inc. *               6,376,000   4.77%
                   
 Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)             
          110,000   Summit Materials, Inc. - Class A              3,425,400   2.57%
                   
 Miscellaneous Manufacturing Industries              
             5,200   Hillenbrand, Inc.                  220,012   0.16%
                   
 Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories               
          200,000   Modine Manufacturing Company *             9,150,000   6.85%
                   
 Pharmaceutical Preparations               
          300,000   Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. *             1,251,000    
           80,000   Ocular Therapeutix Inc. *                  251,200    
          120,000   Harrow Inc. *               1,724,400    
                    3,226,600   2.42%
                   
 Printed Circuit Boards               
           80,000   TTM Technologies, Inc. *               1,030,400   0.77%
                   
 Radio & TV Broadcasting & Communications Equipment             
          100,000   Aviat Networks, Inc. *               3,120,000    
          100,460   Cambium Networks Corp. *                  736,372    
          193,700   Comtech Telecommunications Corp.              1,694,875    
                    5,551,247   4.16%
                   
 Retail - Apparel & Accessory Stores               
          120,000   Citi Trends, Inc. *               2,666,400   2.00%
                   
 Retail - Catalog & Mail-Order Houses               
           40,000   Insight Enterprises, Inc. *               5,820,000    
           80,000   Lulu's Fashion Lounge Holdings, Inc. *                160,800    
                    5,980,800   4.48%
                   
 Retail - Family Clothing Stores               
           13,300   American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.                220,913   0.17%
                   
 Semiconductors & Related Devices               
           33,700   Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. (Singapore)             1,638,831    
          120,000   MaxLinear, Inc. *               2,670,000    
          120,000   Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. *               3,560,400    
                    7,869,231   5.89%
                   
 Services - Business Services, NEC               
          188,100   Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. *             1,939,311   1.45%
                   
 Services - Computer Integrated Systems Design             
          100,000   NextGen Healthcare, Inc. *               2,373,000    
       1,200,000   Ribbon Communications Inc. *             3,216,000    
                    5,589,000   4.19%
                   
 Services - Computer Programing Services               
          120,000   Computer Programs & Systems, Inc. *             1,912,800   1.43%
                   
 Services - Health Services               
          200,000   The Pennant Group, Inc. *               2,226,000   1.67%
                   
 Services - Help Supply Services               
           55,000   Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. *             1,363,450    
          130,500   Kelly Services, Inc. - Class A             2,373,795    
                    3,737,245   2.80%
                   
 Services - Home Health Care Services               
           19,700   Addus HomeCare Corporation *             1,678,243   1.26%
                   
 Services - Management Services               
          160,000   R1 RCM Inc.  *                2,411,200   1.81%
                   
 Services - Miscellaneous Health & Allied Services, NEC             
          320,000   Viemed Healthcare, Inc. *                2,153,600   1.61%
                   
 Services - Prepackaged Software               
           10,900   Progress Software Corporation                 573,122   0.43%
                   
 Services - Services, NEC         
          300,000   Enviri Corporation *               2,166,000   1.62%
                   
 Services - Skilled Nursing Care Facilities         
           40,000   The Ensign Group, Inc.               3,717,200   2.78%
                   
 Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery)       
           15,100   Kadant Inc.                3,405,805   2.55%
                   
 Special Industry Machinery, NEC               
           40,000   Axcelis Technologies, Inc. *               6,522,000    
             9,800   Azenta, Inc. *                  491,862    
          150,000   Veeco Instruments Inc. *               4,216,500    
                   11,230,362   8.41%
                   
 Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus             
           53,700   AtriCure, Inc. *               2,352,060    
          500,000   MiMedx Group, Inc. *               3,645,000    
           40,000   Orthofix Medical, Inc. *                  514,400    
           54,400   OrthoPediatrics Corp. *               1,740,800    
          100,000   TELA Bio, Inc. *                  800,000    
                    9,052,260   6.77%
                   
 Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus               
          150,000   ADTRAN Holdings, Inc.               1,234,500    
          600,000   Infinera Corporation *               2,508,000    
                    3,742,500   2.80%
                   
 Watches, Clocks, Clockwork Operated Devices/Parts             
          207,673   Fossil Group, Inc. *                  427,806   0.32%
                   
 Women's, Misses', and Juniors Outerwear               
           40,000   J.Jill, Inc. *               1,184,000   0.89%
                   
 Total for Common Stocks (Cost $75,262,286)           124,352,689   93.13%
                   
 CONTINGENT VALUE RIGHTS               
          300,000   Flexion Therapeutics Contingent Value Right * +            126,000   0.09%
 Total for Contingent Value Rights (Cost $186,000)             
                   
 MONEY MARKET FUNDS               
       8,931,149   SEI Daily Income Trust Government Fund Institutional 5.04% **       8,931,149   6.69%
 Total for Money Market Funds (Cost $8,931,149)             
                   
 Total Investment Securities            133,409,838   99.91%
               (Cost $84,379,435)              
                   
 Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities                  120,956   0.09%
                     
 Net Assets               $133,530,794   100.00%
                   
                   
 * Non-Income Producing Securities.               
 ** The rate shown represents the 7-day yield at September 30, 2023. 
 + Level 3 and illiquid security. 
                   
                   
 1. SECURITY TRANSACTIONS               
                   
For Federal income tax purposes, the cost of securities owned at September 30, 2023, was $84,379,435. At September 30, 2023, 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    $  54,997,704    
      Unrealized Depreciation        (5,967,301)    
      Unrealized Appreciation    $  49,030,403    
                   
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 Valuation Committee 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 Valuation Committee 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 Valuation Committee, 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 Valuation Committee 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 Valuation Committee 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 Board maintains responsibilities for the fair value determinations under Rule 2a-5 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and oversees the Valuation Committee.
                   
The following table summarizes the inputs used to value the Fund’s assets measured at fair value as of September 30, 2023:
                   
Valuation of Inputs and Assets Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total
Common Stocks    $124,352,689    $                 -    $                 -    $  124,352,689
Contingent Value Rights                     -                       -            126,000              126,000
Money Market Funds       8,931,149                       -                       -           8,931,149
Total       $133,283,838    $                 -    $      126,000    $  133,409,838
                   
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 September 30, 2023. As of September 30, 2023, level 3 contingent value rights held by the Fund represented 0.09% 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 therefore excluded.