Bristlemoon Capital, a global equities firm, released its “Bristlemoon Global Fund” third-quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The fund returned 5.0% in the September quarter, 5.6% for September 2025, net of fees. Since its inception, the fund has produced a cumulative return of 19.3%, net of fees. The fund focuses on compounding the capital at attractive rates over the long term. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2025.
In its third-quarter 2025 investor letter, Bristlemoon Global Fund highlighted stocks such as AASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML). Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) offers lithography solutions for the development and production of advanced semiconductor equipment systems. The one-month return of ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) was 7.94%, and its shares gained 7.33% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On October 10, 2025, ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) stock closed at $936.19 per share, with a market capitalization of $383.584 billion.
Bristlemoon Global Fund stated the following regarding ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) in its third quarter 2025 investor letter:
“ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) is a Dutch company that develops, assembles and sells photolithography (“litho” or “lithography”) machines that are used to print integrated circuit designs onto silicon wafers during the semiconductor fabrication process. ASML is the sole supplier of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines that are used by the likes of TSMC and Intel to fabricate the most advanced chips for AI, smartphones and computing. It also has an effective monopoly over Deep Ultraviolet (DUV) machines which are the primary litho workhorses within a fab.