MVSNX — Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund
Data updated: 2025-03-26
MVSNX — Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Information Technology Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
MVSNX Fund Overview
MVSNX — Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Manager Directed Portfolios, categorised as United States Large Cap Blend / Core Information Technology Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Manager Directed Portfolios
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Information Technology Equity
- Assets under management: $29.89M
- 1-year return: 16.9%
- Ticker: MVSNX
- SEC CIK: 0001359057
- SEC series ID: S000076578
- Share class ID: C000236563
MVSNX Investment Objective and Strategy
Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Manager Directed Portfolios.
Investment objective
The Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund (the Fund) seeks long-term growth of capital.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund invests in equity securities that the Adviser believes have strong growth characteristics and are undervalued in the marketplace. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests primarily (at least 65% of its net assets) in equity securities, principally common and preferred stocks, of U.S. companies. The Fund tends to invest more significantly in equity securities of companies with larger market capitalizations, but may also invest in equity securities of mid and small market capitalization companies. The Adviser considers companies with market capitalizations below $2 billion to be small capitalization companies. The Adviser considers companies with market capitalizations between $2 billion and $15 billion to be mid capitalization companies and companies with market capitalizations of $15 billion or greater to be large capitalization companies.
The Funds primary investable universe includes any company with a market capitalization of $2 billion or greater. In selecting securities, the Adviser seeks to invest in businesses that it believes can grow excess returns on capital into the future and which the Adviser believes trade at a discount to fair value. The Adviser also utilizes a bottom-up stock selection process to identify growth businesses with a sustainable competitive advantage. The Advisers evaluation of a companys growth potential considers a variety of data including, but not limited to, size of the companys addressable market, market share trends, pricing power, unit growth, nominal sales growth, competitive advantages that will influence a companys ability to maintain or gain market share and generate returns on capital that exceed the cost of capital, operating leverage, capital investment required to achieve the estimated growth and the amount of free cash flow remaining for shareholders.
The Adviser assesses a stocks valuation by comparing the Advisers estimate of a stocks intrinsic value to that of the market price. The Fund maintains a portfolio of approximately 30-50 stocks. However, the actual number of portfolio holdings may vary due to market conditions. Should the Advisers analysis of the Funds investable universe determine that there are a large number of businesses that have attractive growth opportunities and are materially undervalued by the market, the Fund could own more than 50 stocks. Conversely, if the Advisers analysis determines that there are a more limited number of businesses conforming to the Advisers investment criteria, the Fund could own fewer than 30 stocks. Holdings are generally spread across a number of industries/sectors but may have a higher percentage in sectors that the Adviser believes have greater investment opportunities.
As of the Funds fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, 33.1% of the Funds assets were invested in the information technology sector. The Fund may purchase securities of companies engaged in initial public offerings (IPOs) and may from time to time invest in foreign securities, including American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The Adviser generally sells a stock when it believes the risk/reward characteristics turn negative, the fundamentals deteriorate, a more attractive investment is identified, or the stock achieves the Advisers estimate of intrinsic value. The Adviser believes that the risk/reward characteristics of a stock turn negative when the probability and magnitude of permanent capital loss related to owning a stock are not offset by the probability and magnitude of potential appreciation in stock price.
Factors that may result in an increase to the risk of holding a particular stock include an incorrect assessment of the business economics by the Adviser, changes in the macroeconomic environment or secular trends, eroding competitive advantages, the failure of a companys management team to allocate capital to maximize per share intrinsic value and a stock price which no longer reflects an adequate discount to intrinsic value.
MVSNX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| First American Treasury Obliga | 7.27% |
| Microsoft Corp | 6.65% |
| Apple Inc | 5.45% |
| Amazon.com Inc | 5.44% |
| TransDigm Group Inc | 5.16% |
| Alphabet Inc | 5.00% |
| Visa Inc | 4.74% |
| Linde PLC | 4.11% |
| Broadcom Inc | 3.93% |
| Salesforce Inc | 3.88% |
MVSNX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 93.0% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 7.3% |
MVSNX Performance
Total returns for MVSNX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 16.9% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 12.5% |
MVSNX Risk Information
Risk metrics for MVSNX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.5%
MVSNX Costs and Fees
MVSNX costs about $108 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.08%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.47%
- Portfolio turnover: 21%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.48 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
MVSNX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2025-01, Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund had net outflows of $29.03M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2025-01 | −$1.69M |
| 2024-12 | $5.49M |
| 2024-11 | −$1.81M |
| 2024-10 | −$1.39M |
| 2024-09 | −$1.30M |
| 2024-08 | −$12.33M |
MVSNX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
MVSNX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Mar Vista Strategic Growth Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-02-22
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-02-24
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2022-07-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-03-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-12-30
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-09-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-01-12
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.