Why Investors Shouldn't Worry About Soapstone Management Liquidating Its $7 Million Saia Position

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Josh Kohn-Lindquist, The Motley Fool

Sat, December 6, 2025 astatine 12:23 PM CST 5 min read

Soapstone sold each 23,750 shares of Saia, a nett presumption alteration of $6.5 million.
The presumption displacement represented a 4.4% alteration successful 13F reportable assets nether management.
Post-trade, Soapstone holds zero shares, eliminating the Saia involvement from the portfolio.
The Saia presumption was antecedently 4.3% of money AUM arsenic of the anterior quarter.
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Soapstone Management L.P. sold retired its full involvement successful Saia (NASDAQ:SAIA), a determination disclosed successful a Nov. 14, 2025, SEC filing, cutting $6.5 cardinal from its holdings.

Soapstone Management disclosed successful a Nov. 14, 2025, SEC filing that it sold its full presumption successful Saia during the 3rd quarter.

The money exited 23,750 shares, a involvement antecedently valued astatine $6.51 million, bringing its holdings to zero.

This exit resulted successful the removal of Saia from the fund’s 13 equity positions arsenic of Sept. 30, 2025.

Soapstone’s afloat merchantability of Saia reduced its vulnerability by 4.4% of reportable assets; arsenic of Sept. 30, 2025, the banal nary longer contributes to AUM.

Top holdings aft the filing:

Constellium (NYSE:CSTM): $24.8 cardinal (16.9% of AUM)
Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG): $22.6 cardinal (15.3% of AUM)
Public Storage (NYSE:PSA): $21.7 cardinal (14.7% of AUM)
American Water Works (NYSE:AWK): $20.2 cardinal (13.7% of AUM)
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN): $14.8 cardinal (10.1% of AUM)

As of Dec. 5, 2025, Saia shares were priced astatine $330.91, reflecting a one-year diminution of 36% and underperforming the S&P 500 by 49 percent points.

Metric

Value

Price (as of marketplace adjacent 2025-12-5)	$330.91
Market Capitalization	$8.81 billion
Revenue (TTM)	$3.23 billion
Net Income (TTM)	$283.62 million

Saia:

Offers less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation, non-asset truckload, expedited, and logistics services crossed North America.
Generates gross chiefly by transporting shipments betwixt 400 and 10,000 pounds, leveraging a web of owned and leased facilities, tractors, and trailers.
Serves a divers lawsuit basal ranging from manufacturers to retailers requiring reliable determination and nationalist freight solutions.

Saia, Inc. is simply a starring North American supplier of LTL freight transportation, operating a ample fleet and an extended terminal web to guarantee businesslike service.

I don't deliberation Soapstone's merchantability of Saia is thing for investors to panic about, whether they clasp the banal oregon not.

Institution firms are often much short-term oriented than accepted Foolish investing, truthful it is not shocking to spot Soapstone bargain and merchantability a banal wrong 2 quarters.