AQUILA HIGH INCOME FUND
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS
March 31, 2023
(unaudited)
Principal Amount |
Corporate Bonds (93.8%) | Value | (a) | |||
Basic Industry (1.0%) | ||||||
Paper (1.0%) | ||||||
Mercer International, Inc. | ||||||
$ 975,000 | 5.500%, 01/15/26 | $ 949,660 | ||||
Brokerage/Asset Managers/ Exchanges (3.2%) | ||||||
LPL Holdings, Inc. | ||||||
3,375,000 | 4.625%, 11/15/27 144A | 3,189,375 | ||||
Capital Goods (7.8%) | ||||||
Aerospace/Defense (1.0%) | ||||||
TransDigm, Inc. | ||||||
1,000,000 | 6.375%, 06/15/26 | 977,500 | ||||
Building Materials (2.9%) | ||||||
Builders FirstSource, Inc. | ||||||
1,253,000 | 5.000%, 03/01/30 144A | 1,160,270 | ||||
PGT Innovations, Inc. | ||||||
1,866,000 | 4.375%, 10/01/29 144A | 1,686,211 | ||||
2,846,481 | ||||||
Diversified Manufacturing (2.9%) | ||||||
WESCO Distribution, Inc. | ||||||
2,750,000 | 7.250%, 06/15/28 144A | 2,823,700 | ||||
Packaging (1.0%) | ||||||
Berry Global, Inc. | ||||||
1,000,000 | 5.625%, 07/15/27 144A | 993,315 | ||||
Total Capital Goods | 7,640,996 | |||||
Communications (4.8%) | ||||||
Cable Satellite (2.2%) | ||||||
Viasat, Inc. | ||||||
2,300,000 | 5.625%, 09/15/25 144A | 2,180,538 | ||||
Media Entertainment (2.6%) | ||||||
Nexstar Media, Inc. | ||||||
2,800,000 | 5.625%, 07/15/27 144A | 2,587,285 | ||||
Total Communications | 4,767,823 | |||||
AQUILA HIGH INCOME FUND
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)
March 31, 2023
(unaudited)
Principal Amount |
Corporate Bonds (continued) | Value | (a) | |||
Consumer Cyclical (25.8%) | ||||||
Automotive (4.4%) | ||||||
Ford Holdings LLC | ||||||
$ 1,000,000 | 9.300%, 03/01/30 | $ 1,154,245 | ||||
Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC | ||||||
1,000,000 | 3.096%, 05/04/23 | 998,750 | ||||
JB Poindexter & Co., Inc. | ||||||
2,350,000 | 7.125%, 04/15/26 144A | 2,203,125 | ||||
4,356,120 | ||||||
Consumer Cyclical Services (5.2%) | ||||||
ASGN, Inc. | ||||||
1,575,000 | 4.625%, 05/15/28 144A | 1,469,648 | ||||
Cars.com, Inc. | ||||||
1,850,000 | 6.375%, 11/01/28 144A | 1,748,250 | ||||
Cushman & Wakefield US Borrower LLC | ||||||
2,100,000 | 6.750%, 05/15/28 144A | 1,880,078 | ||||
5,097,976 | ||||||
Gaming (5.4%) | ||||||
Caesars Entertainment, Inc. | ||||||
500,000 | 6.250%, 07/01/25 144A | 500,023 | ||||
Churchill Downs, Inc. | ||||||
600,000 | 5.500%, 04/01/27 144A | 587,451 | ||||
2,000,000 | 4.750%, 01/15/28 144A | 1,872,850 | ||||
Penn Entertainment, Inc. | ||||||
500,000 | 5.625%, 01/15/27 144A | 469,475 | ||||
Scientific Games International, Inc. | ||||||
900,000 | 8.625%, 07/01/25 144A | 921,375 | ||||
VICI Properties LP/VICI Note Co., Inc. | ||||||
1,000,000 | 4.625%, 12/01/29 144A | 910,315 | ||||
5,261,489 | ||||||
Home Construction (1.7%) | ||||||
Century Communities, Inc. | ||||||
1,675,000 | 6.750%, 06/01/27 | 1,670,817 | ||||
AQUILA HIGH INCOME FUND
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)
March 31, 2023
(unaudited)
Principal Amount |
Corporate Bonds (continued) | Value | (a) | |||
Consumer Cyclical (continued) | ||||||
Leisure (2.9%) | ||||||
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. | ||||||
$ 1,475,000 | 4.875%, 11/01/24 144A | $ 1,445,500 | ||||
1,550,000 | 4.750%, 10/15/27 144A | 1,433,750 | ||||
2,879,250 | ||||||
Lodging (1.3%) | ||||||
Marriott Ownership Resorts Inc. | ||||||
1,450,000 | 4.750%, 01/15/28 | 1,295,938 | ||||
Restaurants (0.9%) | ||||||
Dave & Buster's, Inc. | ||||||
880,000 | 7.625%, 11/01/25 144A | 896,786 | ||||
Retailers (4.0%) | ||||||
Academy Ltd. | ||||||
2,050,000 | 6.000%, 11/15/27 144A | 1,999,595 | ||||
Bath & Body Works, Inc. | ||||||
870,000 | 6.694%, 01/15/27 | 867,825 | ||||
1,000,000 | 7.500%, 06/15/29 | 1,020,543 | ||||
3,887,963 | ||||||
Total Consumer Cyclical | 25,346,339 | |||||
Consumer Non-Cyclical (11.5%) | ||||||
Food and Beverage (3.9%) | ||||||
Performance Food Group, Inc. | ||||||
1,075,000 | 6.875%, 05/01/25 144A | 1,077,688 | ||||
United Natural Foods, Inc. | ||||||
1,925,000 | 6.750%, 10/15/28 144A | 1,789,114 | ||||
US Foods, Inc. | ||||||
1,000,000 | 4.750%, 02/15/29 144A | 923,750 | ||||
3,790,552 | ||||||
Healthcare (3.2%) | ||||||
Avantor Funding, Inc. | ||||||
1,000,000 | 4.625%, 07/15/28 144A | 947,500 | ||||
IQVIA, Inc. | ||||||
1,150,000 | 5.000%, 10/15/26 144A | 1,124,125 | ||||
Teleflex, Inc. | ||||||
1,100,000 | 4.250%, 06/01/28 144A | 1,046,007 | ||||
3,117,632 | ||||||
AQUILA HIGH INCOME FUND
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)
March 31, 2023
(unaudited)
Principal Amount |
Corporate Bonds (continued) | Value | (a) | |||
Consumer Non-Cyclical (continued) | ||||||
Supermarkets (4.4%) | ||||||
Albertsons Cos Inc / Safeway, Inc. / New Albertsons LP / Albertsons LLC | ||||||
$ 1,325,000 | 4.625%, 01/15/27 144A | $ 1,281,388 | ||||
1,300,000 | 5.875%, 02/15/28 144A | 1,292,012 | ||||
SEG Holding LLC/ SEG Finance Corp. | ||||||
1,875,000 | 5.625%, 10/15/28 144A | 1,776,398 | ||||
4,349,798 | ||||||
Total Consumer Non-Cyclical | 11,257,982 | |||||
Energy (12.6%) | ||||||
Independent (3.9%) | ||||||
Occidental Petroleum Corp. | ||||||
2,000,000 | 8.500%, 07/15/27 | 2,200,000 | ||||
1,000,000 | 7.500%, 05/01/31 | 1,102,900 | ||||
PDC Energy, Inc. | ||||||
500,000 | 6.125%, 09/15/24 | 497,500 | ||||
3,800,400 | ||||||
Midstream (7.5%) | ||||||
Buckeye Partners LP | ||||||
1,000,000 | 4.150%, 07/01/23 | 992,234 | ||||
Crestwood Midstream Partners LP/Crestwood Midstream Finance Corp. | ||||||
1,100,000 | 5.750%, 04/01/25 | 1,074,139 | ||||
1,000,000 | 8.000%, 04/01/29 144A | 1,020,000 | ||||
Global Partners LP/GLP Finance Corp. | ||||||
1,175,000 | 7.000%, 08/01/27 | 1,127,431 | ||||
New Fortress Energy, Inc. | ||||||
3,300,000 | 6.750%, 09/15/25 144A | 3,176,250 | ||||
7,390,054 | ||||||
Oil Field Services (1.2%) | ||||||
USA Compression Partners LP/USA Compression Finance Corp. | ||||||
1,200,000 | 6.875%, 04/01/26 | 1,166,336 | ||||
Total Energy | 12,356,790 | |||||
Finance Companies (3.9%) | ||||||
Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC | ||||||
1,492,000 | 6.500%, 10/01/25 144A | 1,492,992 | ||||
2,250,000 | 9.750%, 08/01/27 144A | 2,373,953 | ||||
3,866,945 | ||||||
Total Finance Companies | 3,866,945 | |||||
AQUILA HIGH INCOME FUND
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)
March 31, 2023
(unaudited)
Principal Amount |
Corporate Bonds (continued) | Value | (a) | |||
Other Financial (0.7%) | ||||||
The Howard Hughes Corp. | ||||||
$ 730,000 | 5.375%, 08/01/28 144A | $ 664,745 | ||||
Other Industrial (2.5%) | ||||||
Tutor Perini Corp. | ||||||
3,500,000 | 6.875%, 05/01/25 144A | 2,467,500 | ||||
REITs (4.4%) | ||||||
Other REITs (4.4%) | ||||||
RHP Hotel Properties LP/RHP Finance Corp. | ||||||
1,000,000 | 4.750%, 10/15/27 | 937,198 | ||||
Rithm Capital Corp. | ||||||
1,875,000 | 6.250%, 10/15/25 144A | 1,673,438 | ||||
XHR LP | ||||||
1,800,000 | 6.375%, 08/15/25 144A | 1,765,710 | ||||
Total REITs | 4,376,346 | |||||
Technology (10.1%) | ||||||
Black Knight InfoServ LLC | ||||||
750,000 | 3.625%, 09/01/28 144A | 679,448 | ||||
Camelot Finance SA | ||||||
1,000,000 | 4.500%, 11/01/26 144A | 945,000 | ||||
CDW LLC/CDW Finance Corp. | ||||||
825,000 | 4.250%, 04/01/28 | 768,818 | ||||
Coherent Corp. | ||||||
1,500,000 | 5.000%, 12/15/29 144A | 1,361,550 | ||||
Entegris, Inc. | ||||||
1,000,000 | 4.375%, 04/15/28 144A | 903,427 | ||||
Gartner, Inc. | ||||||
1,000,000 | 4.500%, 07/01/28 144A | 949,200 | ||||
Iron Mountain, Inc. | ||||||
925,000 | 4.875%, 09/15/27 144A | 874,310 | ||||
875,000 | 5.250%, 03/15/28 144A | 833,525 | ||||
Shift4 Payments LLC/Shift4 Payments Finance Sub, Inc. | ||||||
875,000 | 4.625%, 11/01/26 144A | 822,500 | ||||
SS&C Technologies, Inc. | ||||||
1,825,000 | 5.500%, 09/30/27 144A | 1,770,795 | ||||
Total Technology | 9,908,573 | |||||
AQUILA HIGH INCOME FUND
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)
March 31, 2023
(unaudited)
Principal Amount |
Corporate Bonds (continued) | Value | (a) | |||
Transportation (5.5%) | ||||||
Airlines (2.0%) | ||||||
American Airlines, Inc./AAdvantage Loyalty IP Ltd. | ||||||
$ 2,000,000 | 5.500%, 04/20/26 144A | $ 1,968,224 | ||||
Railroads (2.0%) | ||||||
Watco Cos. LLC / Watco Finance Corp. | ||||||
2,050,000 | 6.500%, 06/15/27 144A | 1,921,509 | ||||
Transportation Services (1.5%) | ||||||
Cargo Aircraft Management, Inc. | ||||||
1,650,000 | 4.750%, 02/01/28 144A | 1,475,348 | ||||
Total Transportation | 5,365,081 | |||||
Total Corporate Bonds (cost $98,665,559) |
92,158,155 |
Shares | Short-Term Investment (4.7%) | ||||||
4,592,818 | Dreyfus Treasury Obligations Cash Management - Institutional Shares, 4.69%* (cost $4,592,818) |
4,592,818 | |||||
Total Investments (cost $103,258,377 - note b) |
98.5% | 96,750,973 | |||||
Other assets less liabilities | 1.5 | 1,439,682 | |||||
Net Assets | 100.0% | $ 98,190,655 |
AQUILA HIGH INCOME FUND
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)
March 31, 2023
(unaudited)
Portfolio Distribution | Percent of Investments |
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Aerospace/Defense | 1.1 | % | |
Airlines | 2.1 | ||
Automotive | 4.7 | ||
Broker/ Asset Managers/ Exchanges | 3.5 | ||
Building Materials | 3.1 | ||
Cable Satellite | 2.4 | ||
Consumer Cyclical Services | 5.5 | ||
Diversified Manufacturing | 3.1 | ||
Finance Companies | 4.2 | ||
Food and Beverage | 4.1 | ||
Gaming | 5.7 | ||
Healthcare | 3.4 | ||
Home Construction | 1.8 | ||
Independent | 4.1 | ||
Leisure | 3.1 | ||
Lodging | 1.4 | ||
Media Entertainment | 2.8 | ||
Midstream | 8.0 | ||
Oil Field Services | 1.3 | ||
Other Financial | 0.7 | ||
Other Industrial | 2.7 | ||
Other REITs | 4.7 | ||
Packaging | 1.1 | ||
Paper | 1.0 | ||
Railroads | 2.1 | ||
Restaurants | 1.0 | ||
Retailers | 4.2 | ||
Supermarkets | 4.7 | ||
Technology | 10.8 | ||
Transportation Services | 1.6 | ||
100.0 | % |
* The rate is an annualized seven-day yield at period end. |
Note: 144A – Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At March 31, 2023, these securities amounted to a value of $73,356,321 or 74.7% of net assets. |
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
AQUILA HIGH INCOME FUND
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
March 31, 2023
(unaudited)
(a) Securities valuation policies and other investment related disclosures are hereby incorporated by reference in the annual and semi-annual reports previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-CSR.
(b) At March 31, 2023 the net unrealized depreciation on investments, based on cost for federal income tax purposes of $104,000,521 amounted to $7,249,548, which consisted of aggregate gross unrealized appreciation of $31,257 and aggregate gross unrealized depreciation of $7,280,805.
(c) Fair Value Measurements: The Fund follows a fair value hierarchy that distinguishes between market data obtained from independent sources (observable inputs) and the Fund’s own market assumptions (unobservable inputs). These inputs are used in determining the value of the Fund’s investments and are summarized in the following fair value hierarchy:
Level 1 – | Unadjusted quoted prices in inactive markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Fund has the ability to access. |
Level 2 – | Observable inputs other than quoted prices included in level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. These inputs may include quoted prices for the identical instrument on an inactive market, prices for similar instruments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, default rates and similar data. |
Level 3 – | Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability, to the extent relevant observable inputs are not available, representing the Fund’s own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in valuing the asset or liability, and would be based on the best information available. |
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
The following is a summary of the valuation inputs, representing 100% of the Fund’s investments, used to value the Fund’s net assets as of March 31, 2023:
Valuation Inputs+ | Investments in Securities | |
Level 1 – Quoted Prices | ||
Short-Term Investment | $ 4,592,818 | |
Level 2 – Other Significant Observable Inputs: | ||
Corporate Obligations | 92,158,155 | |
Level 3 – Significant Unobservable Inputs | — | |
Total | $ 96,750,973 | |
+ See schedule of investments for a detailed listing of securities. |