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Balance-sheet support and the VEP are real, but the operating businesses still do not show enough clean earnings power to justify pitch promotion now. Keep it dead unless full-year results improve without disposal help, VEP asset sales/capital returns continue while excess liquidity remains clear, or the discount to liquid-asset backing widens materially again.

Small-cap Japan mobile-gaming turnaround could have been weird enough to check, but the visible setup is still game-hit dependence with author pain rather than a clean mispricing.

AI-related glass-fiber framing looked exciting on the stub, but the visible card already screamed thematic growth rerating rather than neglected value.

Baupost and Harris both added meaningfully in the same quarter, which is exactly the kind of multi-manager overlap the 13F engine is supposed to surface.

force a decision off the 12 May 2026 interim results by comparing actual cash generation and earnings reset versus the withdrawn £39m to £43m FY26 adj PBT range

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Pershing opened an 11.37% position, which is too large to ignore and automatically clears the bar for a live conviction-change lead.

revisit only if price cheapens materially versus creditable financial-asset backing, management shows cleaner capital-return behavior, or a governance/control event creates a believable minority-holder realization path

coverage-universe/companies/MCCK/first-pass/2026-04-21_initial.md

Asset backing depends too heavily on monetizing finished-goods inventory. The balance-sheet support is not hard enough yet, so this stays killed unless inventory shrinks cleanly, margins stabilize, buybacks return at a still-cheap price, or valuation cheapens materially versus tougher haircuts.

coverage-universe/companies/HURC/first-pass/2026-04-21_initial.md

Harris opened a filtered Tier 2 new position above the weight floor, which is exactly the kind of diversified-manager entry the engine is supposed to catch.

Himalaya opened a new position, which is automatically interesting given Li Lu's concentrated roster and low turnover.

coverage-universe/companies/CAM.L/first-pass/2026-04-21_initial.md

Pershing added 50% and Akre added 40% in the same quarter, which is the kind of cross-manager reinforcement worth preserving even without a fresh new-position flag.

Baupost opened a large new position while Pershing added aggressively in the same quarter, with Berkshire simultaneously fully exiting, which makes this a real high-signal disagreement rather than ordinary 13F noise.

Packaging-and-test exposure plus AI/advanced-packaging framing could matter if the market is still anchoring to a cyclical trough.

Berkshire opened a new position, which matters even at a small visible weight because new Berkshire lines are rare and worth triaging.

High-quality payroll compounder showed up with steady-growth framing, but that is exactly the sort of thing everyone with a spreadsheet already knows.

Real business, but not a clear value-funnel mispricing. Company IR shows FY2025 net sales of about JPY 49.0bn, operating profit of about JPY 10.6bn, net income of about JPY 8.0bn, year-end cash of about JPY 19.0bn, and equity ratio of about 83.5%, with 9M FY2026 sales up about 13.8% and operating profit up about 4.8%. The problem is price, not quality: Yahoo chart data showed the stock around JPY 3,380, which implies roughly ~1.9x book on FY2025 net assets per share of JPY 1,787 and about ~19.6x FY2025 EPS of JPY 172. Even after giving credit for the net cash, this still looks more like a deservedly premium niche industrial than a broken-expectations value setup.

Japanese gas-detection niche with service/maintenance mix, clean balance sheet, and a still-reasonable multiple looked like the only top-card name with actual value-funnel potential instead of generic quality growth.

Japan recruiting-platform story had decent visible economics, but the setup looked like another straightforward growth rerating argument.

Japanese consolidation/accounting software with recurring revenue and governance tailwinds looked economically attractive on the stub.

Card showed healthcare optics in company info and industrial motor language in the summary, which is not a great sign before the work even starts.