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Needham Aggressive Growth Fund and Needham Growth Fund are both included in The Wall Street Journal’s April 8 “Winners’ Circle,” a list of the 10 actively-managed U.S. stock funds with the best 12-month total returns through March 31, 2024 (“The Surprising Top Mutual Fund in the First Quarter; Hennessy Cornerstone Growth claims the No. 1 spot over the past year as small-to-midcap funds start to supplant the dominant large-cap growth funds,” by Lawrence Strauss). John Barr is quoted in the article.

Needham Aggressive Growth Fund and Needham Growth Fund are both included in The Wall Street Journal’s April 8 “Winners’ Circle,” a list of the 10 actively-managed U.S. stock funds with the best 12-month total returns through March 31, 2024 (“The Surprising Top Mutual Fund in the First Quarter; Hennessy Cornerstone Growth claims the No. 1 […]

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Needham Aggressive Growth appears today in the ‘Winners’ Circle’ feature in the ‘Investing Monthly’ section in the Wall Street Journal online
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Investor’s Business Daily: How the Best-Performing Mutual Funds 
Deliver Consistent Market-Beating Returns

How A Top Small-Cap Growth Fund Beats The Market Buying ‘Hidden Compounders’
John Barr, of Needham Aggressive Growth (NEAGX), stands alone as his fund is the only small-cap stock fund to make IBD’s 2026 list of best-performing mutual funds

His secret sauce to picking winning small stocks? Identify “hidden compounders” that fly under the radar, and then patiently wait until they get discovered.

Read the full article here.