AQUILA OPPORTUNITY GROWTH FUND

SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

March 31, 2023

(unaudited)

 

Shares   Common Stocks (95.6%)   Market
Value
  (a)
    Communication Services (4.6%)        
    Entertainment (2.8%)        
30,000   Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.+   $ 3,579,000    
             
    Interactive Media & Services (1.8%)        
50,000   Snap, Inc.+   560,500    
71,000   ZoomInfo Technologies, Inc.+   1,754,410    
        2,314,910    
    Total Communication Services   5,893,910    
             
    Consumer Discretionary (5.6%)        
    Automobiles (1.0%)        
104,000   Ford Motor Co.   1,310,400    
             
    Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure (2.4%)        
38,000   Caesars Entertainment, Inc.+   1,854,780    
12,000   Expedia Group, Inc.+   1,164,360    
        3,019,140    
             
    Leisure Products (1.1%)        
80,000   Mattel, Inc.+   1,472,800    
             
    Specialty Retail (1.1%)        
10,000   Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.   1,418,900    
    Total Consumer Discretionary   7,221,240    
             
    Consumer Staples (9.1%)        
    Food & Staples Retailing (1.1%)        
29,000   Kroger Co.   1,431,730    
             
    Food Products (6.4%)        
35,000   Campbell Soup Co.   1,924,300    
58,000   Conagra Brands, Inc.   2,178,480    
32,000   Kellogg Co.   2,142,720    
53,000   The Kraft Heinz Co.   2,049,510    
        8,295,010    
             
    Household Products (1.6%)        
23,000   Church & Dwight Co., Inc.   2,033,430    
    Total Consumer Staples   11,760,170    
             
    Energy (7.5%)        
    Energy Equipment & Services (0.4%)        
18,000   Halliburton Co.   569,520    
             
    Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels (7.1%)        
7,000   Cheniere Energy, Inc.   1,103,200    
5,000   Hess Corp.   661,700    
32,000   Occidental Petroleum Corp.   1,997,760    
11,000   Phillips 66   1,115,180    
14,000   Pioneer Natural Resources Co.   2,859,360    
10,000   Valero Energy Corp.   1,396,000    
        9,133,200    
    Total Energy   9,702,720    
             

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

AQUILA OPPORTUNITY GROWTH FUND

SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)

March 31, 2023

(unaudited)

 

Shares   Common Stocks (continued)   Market
Value
  (a)
    Financials (4.5%)        
    Banks (0.5%)        
3,000   Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.   $ 316,020    
3,000   M&T Bank Corp.   358,710    
        674,730    
             
    Capital Markets (2.4%)        
14,000   The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.   636,160    
6,000   LPL Financial Holdings, Inc.   1,214,400    
11,000   State Street Corp.   832,590    
4,000   T Rowe Price Group, Inc.   451,600    
        3,134,750    
             
    Insurance (1.6%)        
20,000   MetLife, Inc.   1,158,800    
21,000   Unum Group   830,760    
        1,989,560    
    Total Financials   5,799,040    
             
    Health Care (10.6%)        
    Biotechnology (2.5%)        
2,000   Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.+   400,640    
3,000   Biogen, Inc.+   834,090    
8,000   BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.+   777,920    
5,000   Seagen, Inc.+   1,012,350    
2,000   Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.+   275,660    
        3,300,660    
             
    Health Care Equipment & Supplies (2.0%)        
3,000   IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.+   1,500,240    
8,000   Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.   1,033,600    
        2,533,840    
             
    Health Care Providers & Services (3.6%)        
10,000   Centene Corp.+   632,100    
15,000   Guardant Health, Inc.+   351,600    
5,000   McKesson Corp.   1,780,250    
13,000   Quest Diagnostics, Inc.   1,839,240    
        4,603,190    
             
    Life Sciences Tools & Services (2.5%)        
28,000   Avantor, Inc.+   591,920    
6,000   Illumina, Inc.+   1,395,300    
6,000   IQVIA Holdings, Inc.+   1,193,340    
        3,180,560    
    Total Healthcare   13,618,250    
             

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

AQUILA OPPORTUNITY GROWTH FUND

SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)

March 31, 2023

(unaudited)

 

Shares   Common Stocks (continued)   Market
Value
  (a)
    Industrials (12.1%)        
    Aerospace & Defense (2.7%)        
17,000   AeroVironment, Inc.+   $ 1,558,220    
4,000   Northrop Grumman Corp.   1,846,880    
        3,405,100    
             
    Air Freight & Logistics (0.5%)        
3,000   FedEx Corp.   685,470    
             
    Commercial Services & Supplies (2.1%)        
20,000   Republic Services, Inc.   2,704,400    
             
    Electrical Equipment (1.4%)        
4,000   Rockwell Automation, Inc.   1,173,800    
26,000   Shoals Technologies Group, Inc.+   592,540    
        1,766,340    
             
    Machinery (2.3%)        
45,000   Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.   2,035,800    
2,000   Nordson Corp.   444,520    
4,000   Xylem, Inc.   418,800    
        2,899,120    
             
    Professional Services (1.7%)        
4,000   Jacobs Solutions, Inc.   470,040    
9,000   Verisk Analytics, Inc.   1,726,740    
        2,196,780    
             
    Trading Companies & Distributors (1.4%)        
12,000   WESCO International, Inc.   1,854,480    
    Total Industrials   15,511,690    
             
    Information Technology (15.5%)        
    Communications Equipment (2.4%)        
10,000   Arista Networks, Inc.+   1,678,600    
40,000   Viasat, Inc.+   1,353,600    
        3,032,200    
             
    Electronic Equipment/Instrument (1.6%)        
32,000   Coherent Corp.+   1,218,560    
5,000   Rogers Corp.+   817,150    
        2,035,710    
             
    Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment (3.0%)        
20,000   Ambarella, Inc.+   1,548,400    
2,000   Enphase Energy, Inc.+   420,560    
7,000   Micron Technology, Inc.   422,380    
29,000   PDF Solutions, Inc.+   1,229,600    
4,000   Wolfspeed, Inc.+   259,800    
        3,880,740    
             

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

AQUILA OPPORTUNITY GROWTH FUND

SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)

March 31, 2023

(unaudited)

 

Shares   Common Stocks (continued)   Market
Value
  (a)
    Information Technology (continued)        
    Software (8.5%)        
7,000   Cadence Design Systems, Inc.+   $ 1,470,630    
11,000   CommVault Systems, Inc.+   624,140    
8,000   Elastic NV+   463,200    
4,000   HubSpot, Inc.+   1,715,000    
19,000   Splunk, Inc.+   1,821,720    
3,000   Synopsys, Inc.+   1,158,750    
11,000   Workday, Inc.+   2,271,940    
12,000   Zscaler, Inc.+   1,401,960    
        10,927,340    
    Total Information Technology   19,875,990    
             
    Materials (7.9%)        
    Chemicals (0.5%)        
11,000   Corteva, Inc.   663,410    
             
    Construction Materials (1.1%)        
4,000   Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.   1,420,240    
             
    Containers & Packaging (0.9%)        
20,000   Ball Corp.   1,102,200    
             
    Metals & Mining (5.4%)        
80,000   Barrick Gold Corp.   1,485,600    
108,000   Lithium Americas Corp.+   2,350,080    
40,000   Newmont Corp.   1,960,800    
10,000   Steel Dynamics, Inc.   1,130,600    
        6,927,080    
    Total Materials   10,112,930    
             
    Real Estate (6.1%)        
    Equity Real Estate Investment (5.1%)        
7,000   AvalonBay Communities, Inc.   1,176,420    
19,000   Crown Castle, Inc.   2,542,960    
90,000   VICI Properties, Inc.   2,935,800    
        6,655,180    
             
    Office REITS (1.0%)        
10,000   Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.   1,255,900    
    Total Real Estate   7,911,080    
             
    Utilities (12.1%)        
    Electric Utilities (6.8%)        
23,000   American Electric Power Co., Inc.   2,092,770    
31,000   Entergy Corp.   3,339,940    
84,000   FirstEnergy Corp.   3,365,040    
        8,797,750    
             
    Multi-Utilities (5.3%)        
52,000   CMS Energy Corp.   3,191,760    
38,000   WEC Energy Group, Inc.   3,602,020    
        6,793,780    
    Total Utilities   15,591,530    
    Total Common Stocks
(cost $110,054,998)
  122,998,550    

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

AQUILA OPPORTUNITY GROWTH FUND

SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)

March 31, 2023

(unaudited)

 

Shares   Short-Term Investment (4.5%)     Market
Value
  (a)
5,796,554   Dreyfus Treasury Obligations Cash Management - Institutional Shares, 4.69%*(cost $5,796,554)     $      5,796,554    
               
    Total Investments
(cost $115,851,552 - note b)
100.1%   128,795,104    
    Other assets less liabilities (0.1)   (188,933)    
    Net Assets 100.0%   $  128,606,171    
               
    +   Non-income producing security.          
    *   The rate is an annualized seven-day yield at period end.          

 

 

Portfolio Distribution   Percent of
Common
Stocks
 
Aerospace & Defense   2.8 %
Air Freight & Logistics   0.6  
Automobiles   1.1  
Banks   0.5  
Biotechnology   2.7  
Capital Markets   2.5  
Chemicals   0.5  
Commercial Services & Supplies   2.2  
Communications Equipment   2.5  
Construction Materials   1.2  
Containers & Packaging   0.9  
Electric Utilities   7.1  
Electrical Equipment   1.4  
Electronic Equipment/Instrument   1.7  
Energy Equipment & Services   0.5  
Entertainment   2.9  
Equity Real Estate Investment   5.4  
Food & Staples Retailing   1.2  
Food Products   6.7  
Health Care Equipment & Supplies   2.1  
Health Care Providers & Services   3.7  
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure   2.5  
Household Products   1.6  
Insurance   1.6  
Interactive Media & Services   1.9  
Leisure Products   1.2  
Life Sciences Tools & Services   2.6  
Machinery   2.4  
Metals & Mining   5.6  
Multi-Utilities   5.5  
Office REITS   1.0  
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels   7.4  
Professional Services   1.8  
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment   3.2  
Software   8.9  
Specialty Retail   1.1  
Trading Companies & Distributors   1.5  
    100.0 %

 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

 
 
 

 

 

AQUILA OPPORTUNITY GROWTH 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 appreciation on investments, based on cost for federal income tax purposes of $115,954,878 amounted to $12,840,226, which consisted of aggregate gross unrealized appreciation of $15,931,104 and aggregate gross unrealized depreciation of $3,090,878.

 

(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:    
Common Stocks and Short-Term Investment   $          128,795,104
Level 2 – Other Significant Observable Inputs  
Level 3 – Significant Unobservable Inputs  
Total   $          128,795,104
+   See schedule of investments for a detailed listing of securities.