Heartland Value Fund Q2 2026 Portfolio Activity
In the second quarter, the Heartland Value Fund gained 17.05%, compared with the 17.19% return for the Russell 2000 Value Index. Earlier this year, we reduced our stake in Photronics, a leading manufacturer of photomasks that are used to transfer circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers and flat panel substrates during the fabrication process. i3 Verticals' shares slumped from around $34 last fall to below $20 in May over concerns that emerging automation and machine learning technologies are disrupting software stocks.