MFCIX
Meridian Contrarian Fund
Meridian Fund Inc
Expense ratio1
1.21%
Net assets2
$588.51M
Holdings2
75
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
17.23%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Oct. 24, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The M ERIDIAN C ONTRARIAN F UND seeks long-term growth of capital.

Strategy. The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of publicly traded common stocks of U.S. companies. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests in the stocks of businesses that are likely to have recently underperformed their peers, or the market due to what the Investment Adviser deems to be temporary operational issues. The Fund then emphasizes stocks which the Investment Adviser believes are undervalued in relation to the businesss (or issuers) long-term earnings power or asset value, or the stock market in general. Securities in which the Fund invests may be undervalued because of many factors, including market decline, poor economic conditions, tax-loss selling or actual or anticipated unfavorable developments affecting the issuer of the … The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of publicly traded common stocks of U.S. companies. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests in the stocks of businesses that are likely to have recently underperformed their peers, or the market due to what the Investment Adviser deems to be temporary operational issues. The Fund then emphasizes stocks which the Investment Adviser believes are undervalued in relation to the businesss (or issuers) long-term earnings power or asset value, or the stock market in general. Securities in which the Fund invests may be undervalued because of many factors, including market decline, poor economic conditions, tax-loss selling or actual or anticipated unfavorable developments affecting the issuer of the security. The Fund may invest in securities of companies with any capitalization across a broad range of industries. The Fund intends to invest at least 65% of its total assets in common stocks and equity-related securities (such as convertible debt securities and warrants). The Fund may invest up to 35% of its total assets in debt or fixed income securities, including higher yield, higher risk, lower rated or unrated corporate bonds commonly referred to as junk bonds. These are bonds that are rated Ba or below by Moodys or BB or below by S&P. The Fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in securities rated Ca or below by Moodys or C or below by S&P, or unrated but considered by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable quality. The Fund may also invest up to 25% of its total assets, calculated at the time of purchase, in securities of foreign companies, including emerging market companies. The Fund generally sells investments when (i) the Investment Adviser concludes that the companys fundamentals are not meeting expectations; (ii) better investment opportunities exist; and/or (iii) the companys business has improved and this, in the Investment Advisers opinion, is reflected in the share price.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
MONEYMKT FGTXX $50.87M 8.64%
STIT GOVT AND AGENCY INST AGPXX $24.47M 4.16%
TEXAS CAPITAL BANCSHARES INC $17.15M 2.91%
ENVISTA HOLDINGS CORP $16.84M 2.86%
FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC CL A $14.86M 2.53%
REGAL REXNORD CORP $14.53M 2.47%
CALIFORNIA RESOU $14.47M 2.46%
CACI INTL-A $13.65M 2.32%
SUN COMMUNITIES INC - REIT $12.26M 2.08%
Constellium SE, Class A CSTM $12.23M 2.08%
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Allocation by sector

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
9
Exited
7
Increased
24
Decreased
21
Unchanged
21

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of June 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
ArrowMark Colorado Holdings, LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of October 24, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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