What Makes Modine Manufacturing Company (MOD) an Investment Bet?

Soumya Eswaran

Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 7:59 AM 3 min read

SouthernSun Asset Management, LLC, an investment management firm, released its “SouthernSun Small Cap Strategy” first quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In the first quarter, the strategy returned -11.32% on a gross basis (-11.48% net) compared to a -9.48% return for the Russell 2000 Index and -7.74% for the Russell 2000 Value Index. The strategy returned -12.55% on a gross basis (-13.21% net) for the trailing twelve months compared to -4.01% and -3.12% respectively for the indexes over the same period. In addition, please check the top 5 holdings of the strategy to know its best pick in 2025.

In its first-quarter 2025 investor letter, SouthernSun Small Cap Strategy highlighted stocks such as Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE:MOD). Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE:MOD) offers thermal management products and solutions. The one-month return of Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE:MOD) was 5.71%, and its shares lost 15.08% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On April 25, 2024, Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE:MOD) stock closed at $81.13 per share with a market capitalization of $4.265 billion.

SouthernSun Small Cap Strategy stated the following regarding Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE:MOD) in its Q1 2025 investor letter:

"Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE:MOD) is an over 100-year-old thermal management company based in Racine, WI. The company started out producing heat exchangers for tractors but quickly expanded into the automotive market and became a major supplier of heat exchangers to leading car manufacturers. As demand for automobiles increased significantly throughout the 20th century, Modine expanded operations globally. However, as the automotive market matured and became more competitive, MOD’s growth slowed, and the company went through numerous restructurings to take cost out of the business. The company attempted to diversify into the HVAC industry by buying Airedale in 2005 and Luvata in 2016, but management lacked a clear strategic vision, and the legacy automotive business continued to attract most of the time and resources.