Class | Investor | I | Y | ||||||||
| Ticker | DHFAX | DHFIX | DHFYX | ||||||||
Before you invest, you may want to review the fund’s Prospectus, which contains information about the fund and its risks. The fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated February 28, 2025, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. For free paper or electronic copies of the fund’s Prospectus and other information about the fund, go to https://diamond-hill.com/documents, email a request to info@diamond-hill.com, call 888-226-5595, or ask any financial advisor, bank, or broker-dealer who offers shares of the fund.
Investment Objective
The investment objective of the Diamond Hill Large Cap Concentrated Fund is to provide long-term capital appreciation.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below.
| SHAREHOLDER FEES (fees paid directly from your investment) | ||
| None | ||
| ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |||||||||||
| Investor | Class I | Class Y | |||||||||
| Management fees | 0.50 | % | 0.50 | % | 0.50 | % | |||||
| Distribution (12b-1) fees | 0.25 | % | None | None | |||||||
| Other expenses | 0.21 | % | 0.17 | % | 0.05 | % | |||||
| Total annual fund operating expenses | 0.96 | % | 0.67 | % | 0.55 | % | |||||
EXPENSE EXAMPLE | ||
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
| 1 Year | 3 Years | 5 Years | 10 Years | |||||||||||
| Investor | $98 | $306 | $531 | $1,178 | ||||||||||
| Class I | 68 | 214 | 373 | 835 | ||||||||||
| Class Y | 56 | 176 | 307 | 689 | ||||||||||
PORTFOLIO TURNOVER | ||
The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund's portfolio turnover rate was 40% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategy
The fund, under normal market conditions, invests at least 80% of its net assets in U.S. equity securities with large market capitalizations ("large cap") that Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc. (the “Adviser”) believes are undervalued. Equity securities consist of common and preferred stocks. Large cap companies are defined as companies with market capitalizations of $15 billion or greater at the time of purchase. The fund is non-diversified and intends to concentrate its investments in approximately 20 securities.
The Adviser focuses on estimating a company’s value independent of its current stock price. To estimate a company’s value, the Adviser concentrates on the fundamental economic drivers of the business. The primary focus is on “bottom-up” analysis, which takes into consideration earnings, revenue growth, operating margins and other economic factors. The Adviser also considers the level of industry competition, regulatory factors, the threat of technological obsolescence, and a variety of other industry factors. If the Adviser’s estimate of a company’s value differs sufficiently from the current market price, the company may be an attractive investment opportunity. In constructing a portfolio of securities, the Adviser is not constrained by the sector or industry weights in the benchmark. The Adviser relies on individual stock selection and discipline in the investment process to add value. The highest portfolio security weights are assigned to companies where the Adviser has the highest level of conviction.
Once a stock is selected, the Adviser continues to monitor the company’s strategies, financial performance and competitive environment. The Adviser may sell a security as it reaches the Adviser’s estimate of the company’s value if it believes that the company’s earnings, revenue growth, operating margin or other economic factors are deteriorating, or if it identifies a stock that it believes offers a better investment opportunity.
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| Large Cap Concentrated Fund Summary | February 28, 2025 | ||||
Main Risks
All investments carry a certain amount of risk and the fund cannot guarantee that it will achieve its investment objective. An investment in the fund is not a deposit or obligation of any bank, is not endorsed or guaranteed by any bank, and is not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or any other government agency. You may lose money by investing in the fund. Below are the main risks of investing in the fund. All of the risks listed below are significant to the fund, regardless of the order in which they appear.
Current Market Environment Risk Various sectors of the financial markets may experience an extended period of adverse conditions. Market uncertainty can increase dramatically, and these conditions may result in disruptions of the global credit markets, periods of reduced liquidity, greater general volatility, volatility of credit spreads, and a contraction of availability of credit and lack of price transparency.
Focused Portfolio Risk The fund may have more volatility and is considered to have more risk than a fund that invests in securities of a greater number of issuers because changes in the value of a single issuer's security may have a more significant effect, either positive or negative, on the fund's net asset value.
Management Risk The Adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value and potential appreciation of a particular asset class or individual security in which the fund invests may prove to be incorrect and there is no guarantee that individual companies will perform as anticipated. The value of an individual company can be more volatile than the market as a whole, and the Adviser’s intrinsic value-oriented approach may fail to produce the intended results.
Market Risk The value of the fund's investments may decrease, sometimes rapidly or unexpectedly, due to factors affecting an issuer held by the fund, particular industries or overall securities markets. When the value of the fund’s investments goes down, your investment in the fund decreases in value. A variety of factors including interest rate levels, recessions, inflation, U.S. economic growth, war or acts of terrorism, natural disasters, political events, supply chain disruptions, staff shortages and widespread public health issues affect the securities markets. These events may cause volatility, severe market dislocations and liquidity constraints in many markets, including markets for the securities the fund holds, and may adversely affect the fund's investments and operations. In addition, governmental responses to these events may negatively impact the capabilities of the fund's service providers, disrupt the fund's operations, result in substantial market volatility and adversely impact the prices and liquidity of the fund's investments.
Sector Emphasis Risk The fund, from time to time, may invest 25% or more of its assets in one or more sectors, subjecting the fund to sector emphasis risk. This is the risk that the fund is subject to a greater risk of loss as a result of adverse economic, business or other developments affecting a specific sector in which the fund has a focused position, than if its investments were diversified across a greater number of industry sectors. Some sectors possess particular risks that may not affect other sectors.
Performance
The following bar chart and table show two aspects of the fund: volatility and performance. The bar chart shows the volatility — or variability — of the fund’s annual total returns over time, and shows that fund performance can change from year to year. The table shows the fund’s average annual total returns for certain time periods compared to the returns of a broad-based securities index and two supplemental indexes. The bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. Of course, the fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of its future performance. Updated performance information is available by visiting www.diamond-hill.com or by calling 1-888-226-5595.
CLASS I ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN-YEARS ENDED 12/31
| Best Quarter: | 4Q 2023, +12.51% | ||||
| Worst Quarter: | 2Q 2022, -15.55% | ||||
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| Large Cap Concentrated Fund Summary | February 28, 2025 | ||||
| AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS AS OF 12/31/24 | ||
After-tax returns are calculated using the highest historical individual federal marginal income tax rate and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on a shareholder's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant for shareholders who hold fund shares in tax-deferred accounts or to shares held by non-taxable entities. After-tax returns are shown for Class I shares only and will vary from the after-tax returns for the other share classes.
Inception Date of Class | One Year | Since Inception | |||||||||
Class I Before Taxes | 2/26/21 | 14.24 | % | 9.41 | % | ||||||
After Taxes on Distributions | 12.50 | 8.68 | |||||||||
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | 9.71 | 7.32 | |||||||||
Investor Before Taxes | 2/26/21 | 13.87 | 9.07 | ||||||||
Class Y Before Taxes | 2/26/21 | 14.34 | 9.51 | ||||||||
Russell 3000 Index | 23.81 | 11.96 | |||||||||
Russell 1000 Value Index | 14.37 | 9.26 | |||||||||
| Russell 1000 Index | 24.51 | 12.65 | |||||||||
The fund's broad-based securities market index is the Russell 3000 Index, which measures the performance of roughly 3,000 of the largest US companies based on total market capitalization.
The Russell 1000 Value Index represents the index of securities that is utilized by the Adviser for measuring performance. The Russell 1000 Value Index and the Russell 1000 Index represent indexes of securities that reflect the market sectors in which the fund may invest.
The Russell 1000 Value Index measures the performance of US large- cap companies with lower price/book ratios and forecasted growth values. The Russell 1000 Index measures the performance of roughly 1,000 US large-cap companies.
The indexes are unmanaged, market capitalization weighted, include net reinvested dividends, do not reflect fees or expenses (which would lower the return), and are not available for direct investment.
Portfolio Management
Investment Adviser
Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc.
Portfolio Manager
Austin Hawley
Portfolio Manager
since 02/2021
Buying and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Initial Investment
Investor and Class I: $2,500
Class Y: $500,000
| To Place Orders | Regular Mail: | ||||
| Diamond Hill Large Cap Concentrated Fund | |||||
| P.O. Box 46707 | |||||
| Cincinnati, OH 45246 | |||||
| Phone: 888-226-5595 | |||||
| Overnight Delivery: | |||||
| Diamond Hill Large Cap Concentrated Fund | |||||
| 225 Pictoria Drive, Suite 450 | |||||
| Cincinnati, OH 45246 | |||||
| Phone: 888-226-5595 | |||||
Transaction Policies
In general, you can buy or sell (redeem) shares of the fund by mail or phone on any business day. You can generally pay for shares by check or wire. You may be charged wire fees or other transaction fees; ask your financial professional. When selling shares, you will receive a check, unless you request a wire. You may also buy and sell shares through a financial professional.
Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes
The fund’s distributions may be taxable as ordinary income or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k) or other tax-advantaged investment plan. However, you may be subject to tax when you withdraw monies from a tax-advantaged plan.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares (other than Class Y shares) through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s web site for more information.
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