WOODWORTH FUND IS TITLE SPONSOR FOR MAC SCOTTISH FESTIVAL: WHISKEY RAFFLE FOR CASA CHARITY
The Woodworth Contrarian Fund is proud to be the title sponsor of the McMinnville Scottish Festival this weekend October 7th & 8th! We will be raffling off rare whiskey for charity - winners choice of a Glenmorangie Scotch or Distiller's Masterpiece Bourbon. It will be donated to a cause near and dear to us in this community, Yamhill County CASA, court appointed advocates for children caught in the justice system.
WOODWORTH FUND - SUPERCHARGED SPONSOR FOR CRUISING MCMINNVILLE
We had a great time sponsoring our local Cruising McMinnville car show and festival in downtown #McMinnville! The Cruise goes by our office on 2nd Street every year - it just made sense to join in! It was a great chance to give back to the community, talk cars, and show people how our Fund invests and what contrarian value can do for their portfolio.
WOODWORTH FUND SELECTED AS BEST CONTRARIAN VALUE-BASED HEDGE FUND OF 2022/23
We are proud to announce that our Oregon-Based fund with Deep Roots and Stubborn-Growth has been honored with an additional award as the Contrarian Value-Based Hedge Fund of the Year for 2022/23. The CorporateLiveWire team, who has awarded major firms globally, has selected The Woodworth Contrarian Fund and its team to be among the 2022/23 Global Awards winners. Please see the publication excerpt in this annoucement.
BLOCKBUSTER PERFORMANCE IN FIRST MONTH OF 2023
The award-winning Woodworth Contrarian Fund celebrates a blockbuster month of January (>30%), beating all major market averages by a wide margin on the heels of 6 successful years - commemorated by a statue of the bull and bear staring each other off.
OPINION: MCMINNVILLE GWENDOLYN HOTEL & THE MACK THEATER PROPOSALS
The proposed $60 million Gwendolyn Hotel in downtown McMinnville, which has asked permission to demolish three designated historic buildings within the Downtown National Historic District, has created a great deal of controversy.
NYSE FLOOR OPENING BELL
We are meeting with investors in NYC until the 10th. This morning we made it to the floor of the NYSE again for the opening bell with more of our partners, and swapping war stories with the best in the business.
MEETING INVESTORS IN NYC
We are meeting with investors in NYC until the 10th. If you too would like to meet with us give us a call. The managers of the Woodworth Contrarian Fund, Quinn & Drew Millegan, are pictured below on the floor of the NYSE.
WOODWORTH MANAGERS HEADED TO NYC IN DECEMBER
Quinn & Drew Millegan, pictured below - the managing partners of the award-winning Woodworth Contrarian Fund, will be in New York City next week from December 3rd-10th. If you find yourself in the City, please let us know. See you next week!
WOODWORTH NAMED BEST VALUE HEDGE FUND & BEST CONTRARIAN MANAGERS FOR 2022
We are proud to announce that our Oregon-Based fund with Deep Roots and Stubborn-Growth is now AWARD-WINNING.
NO GREATER FOOLS: CATHIE WOOD & THE ARKK FUND
Cathie Wood's ARKK fund, which as of writing was down nearly -50% YTD, has had a bad year. They are not the only major market player with performance issues.
2021 YEAR-END REPORT: 5 YEAR PERFORMANCE
We are pleased to bring you our 2021 Year-End report.
IT'S TAKEOVER SEASON
Markets value certainty. Whether terrible or euphoric, more certain outcomes make planning, valuing future revenues, and controlling for future costs much easier, and by extension makes valuing companies as a whole much more straightforward (as much as it can be). The corporate temptation of whether or not to merge, takeover, or take private becomes a much harder to ignore when the answer is seemingly self-evident.
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD, BUT IT MIGHT BE COPPER
One of the many overlooked components of a well-managed portfolio is original data - data which is often sanitized, re-analyzed, or downright omitted by the time it hits the news wires. Freeport-McMoran's recent call was particularly enlightening.
AMAZON SHOULD BE BROKEN UP: AN EVER-CLEARER PICTURE
The behemoth of a company that is Amazon is becoming is dangerously similar to gilded-age monopolies.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: PUBLIC COMPANIES SHOULD NOT DO AWAY WITH QUARTERLY EARNINGS
Our two cents on quarterly earnings reporting made its way into Pamplin Media Group's Forest Grove News Times.
TRUMP & TRANSPARENCY: PUBLIC COMPANIES SHOULD NOT DO AWAY WITH QUARTERLY EARNINGS
In an early Friday morning tweet, President Trump took up advice from business leaders to look into removing required quarterly earnings reporting by public companies to the US Securities & Exchange Commission, in favor of a 6-month reporting timeline - similar to reporting done in European markets. This is misguided.
Q2 2018 WOODWORTH CONTRARIAN NEWSLETTER RELEASE
In an early Friday morning tweet, President Trump took up advice from business leaders to look into removing required quarterly earnings reporting by public companies to the US Securities & Exchange Commission, in favor of a 6-month reporting timeline - similar to reporting done in European markets.
2017 FUND YEAR-IN REVIEW
We wanted to take this opportunity to give everyone a general update on the status of the fund and where we believe things may be headed into the new year, and happily report that the fund has attained new all-time highs as our positions taken earlier in the year have begun to bear fruit.
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