BUFSX – A Small Cap Fund with Potential Positive Momentum

BUFSX – A Small Cap Fund with Potential Positive Momentum

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Small Cap Fund

Small Cap Fund

Total Assets $1.16 Billion  (12/31/21)
Expense Ratio 1.01% / 0.86%
Benchmark Morningstar U.S. Small Growth

Portfolio Managers

A Small Cap Fund With Potential Positive Momentum

The Buffalo Small Cap Fund has a long history of investing in companies that can benefit from long-term trends while maintaining valuation discipline.

Long-Term Growth Strategy – The Fund seeks high-quality companies poised for sustainable growth with strong, competitive positions and reasonable valuations.

Idea generation has been a key focus for the Fund over the past 2 years, which has broadened the portfolio, reduced single stock risk, and driven recent performance.

We believe a greater domestic focus by most small cap companies aligns well with the focus of the new administration and makes small cap investing very timely.

Top 5 BUFSX Portfolio Holdings*

  • Nevro Corp.
  • Dave & Busters Inc
  • Cyber-Ark Software
  • CoStar Group
  • Interxion Holdings

Open for Business – it is often difficult to find a Small Cap Growth fund open to new investors due to the category’s limited capacity constraints. BUFSX was closed to new investors but is now OPEN… with significant capacity to grow assets.

Performance Matters – the Buffalo Small Cap 1-year total return is beating the Russell 2000 Growth Index by 19%.

As of 3/31/243 MOYTD1 YR3 YR5 YR10 YR15 YR20 YRSince Inception
BUFFALO SMALL CAP FUND - Investor4.324.323.88-8.769.228.3412.358.5911.12
BUFFALO SMALL CAP FUND - Institutional4.364.364.07-8.639.378.4912.518.7511.29
  Russell 2000 Growth Index7.587.5820.35-2.687.387.8913.398.386.36
  Lipper Small Cap Growth Fund Index7.757.7519.70-0.209.479.4013.968.627.53

Performance data quoted represents past performance; past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance of the fund may be lower of higher than the performance quoted and standardized performance information can be obtained here. Performance is annualized for periods greater than 1 year. Each Morningstar category average represents a universe of funds with similar objectives.

Battle Tested – the Fund was launched in April 1998 and has a 19-year track record, weathering all types of markets.

Benefits of Active in Small Cap – we believe small cap stocks are often inefficiently-priced given they receive less attention from Wall Street firms. Because of this, we believe active management is the right choice for the small cap asset class over the long-term.

We seek to generate superior long-term performance with a strategy that offers a broad, diversified portfolio, which may make it less volatile.

Experienced Management – the Fund’s managers have an average of 25 years of professional investment experience.

*As of 12/31/16. Percent of net assets: Nevro 2.46%, Dave & Buster’s 2.26%, CyberArk Software 2.25%, CoStar Group 2.24%, InterXion Holding 2.23%. Holdings are subject to change without notice and are not recommendations to buy or sell any securities.

Diversification does not assure a profit, nor does it protect against a loss in a declining market.

The Russell 2000 Growth Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of those Russell 2000 Index companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. The Lipper Small Cap Growth Fund Index is an unmanaged, equally weighted performance index of the 30 largest qualifying mutual funds (based on net assets) in the Lipper Small-Cap classification. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

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BUFSX – A Small Cap Fund with Potential Positive Momentum

9 Reasons to Consider Investing in the Buffalo International Fund

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International Fund

International Fund

Total Assets $659.78 Million  (12/31/21)
Expense Ratio 1.04% / 0.89%
Benchmark Morningstar Global Markets ex-US

Portfolio Managers

9 Reasons to Consider Investing in the Buffalo International Fund

Here are the top 9 reasons we believe you should consider adding the Buffalo International Fund to your portfolio mix.

#1

Morningstar ranking shows the International Fund beating 92% of the 324 funds in the Foreign Large Growth category over the last 3 years (as of 6/30/17, based on the fund’s total returns)

#2

Overall Morningstar Rating™ of ★★★★ out of 324 Foreign Large Growth funds (as of 6/30/17 derived from a weighted average of the fund’s three-, five-, and ten-year risk adjusted returns measure)

#3

Recently profiled in CityWire magazine as “Ones to Watch

#4

Nicole Kornitzer, co-manager, was ranked as one of the “Top 20 Female PMs in the U.S.” by CityWire

#5

U.S. News named the International Fund as one of the “Best Mutual Funds in 2016

#6

 French connection – Nicole is currently based in Paris, France

#7

 Japanese connection – Justin Weiss, International Fund research analyst, lived and worked in Japan for 11 years

#8

Stability of Ownership – The Buffalo Funds’ management company has been in place since the Funds’ inception in 1994, and was responsible for creating the International Fund in 2007. Investors can benefit from the stability and long-term perspective.

#9

Beating the benchmarks – over the last 3-month, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year periods, the International Fund has beaten the following indexes:

As of 3/31/243 MOYTD1 YR3 YR5 YR10 YRSince Inception
BUFFALO INTERNATIONAL FUND - Investor5.435.4310.894.109.597.645.79
BUFFALO INTERNATIONAL FUND - Institutional5.485.4811.084.249.767.805.95
  FTSE All World Ex-US Index4.544.5413.992.556.704.953.20
  Lipper International Fund Index5.865.8614.723.087.615.113.34

Performance data quoted represents past performance; past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance of the fund may be lower of higher than the performance quoted and can be obtained here. Performance is annualized for periods greater than 1 year.


The Morningstar Rating™ for funds, or “star rating”, is calculated for managed products (including mutual funds, variable annuity and variable life subaccounts, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and separate accounts) with at least a three-year history. Exchange-traded funds and open-ended mutual funds are considered a single population for comparative purposes. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product’s monthly excess performance, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating™ for a managed product is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five-, and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating™ metrics. The weights are: 100% three-year rating for 36-59 months of total returns, 60% five-year rating/40% three-year rating for 60-119 months of total returns, and 50% 10-year rating/30% five-year rating/20% three-year rating for 120 or more months of total returns. While the 10-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the 10-year period, the most recent three-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods. The Buffalo International Fund received 5 stars among 324 for the three-year and 4 stars among 275 Foreign Large Growth funds for the five-year period ended 6/30/17.

The Morningstar percentile ranking is based on the fund’s total-return percentile rank relative to all managed products that have the same category for the same time period. The highest (or most favorable) percentile rank is 1%, and the lowest (or least favorable) percentile rank is 100%. Morningstar total return includes both income and capital gains or losses and is not adjusted for sales charges. The Buffalo International Fund was ranked in the top 17% among 276 Foreign Large Growth funds for the five-year period ended 6/30/17.

The Russell Global (ex US) Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the global equity market based on all investable equity securities, excluding companies assigned to the United States. The Lipper International Fund Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the 30 largest mutual funds in the international equity fund objective, as determined by Lipper, Inc. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

Past performance does not guarantee future results.

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