🦕 The Dinosaur
Issue 7
Old-Fashioned Stock-Picking for Modern Markets
December 8, 2025
From the Editor
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Small-caps are on the move and it looks like this time; the move may have some legs to last past year-end tax-selling season.
You might be able to stay jolly with some appealingly inexpensive industrial and material names – especially if Trump can give a kick to the underlying real economy that all this vaunted AI technology is supposed to improve. Many of these names have assets and real estate with replacement values well above carrying (book) value that don’t mean much unless the originally intended purposes remain relevant.
They are Ascent Industries (ACNT), Babcock & Wilcox (BW), Broadwind (BWEN), Hurco (HURC), Kennametal (KMT), Materion (MATR), and Twin Disc (TWIN).
Our Bonus Baby, DENTSPLY SIRONA (XRAY), is a leading supplier of dental equipment and I can’t find a dentist to say a bad word about them. It remains an important company with new products on the horizon, but top and bottom line numbers have hit a wall and the stock has gotten silly cheap from $50 in 2022 to $11 today. ”Just sayin”.
In Closing
*The Dinosaur* doesn’t roar, it rumbles quietly, patiently, confidently. When the tide turns—as it always does—those who held to discipline, valuation, and patience will be well rewarded.
Until next time,
—The Editor
