Needham Aggressive Growth Fund Institutional Class (NEAIX)

Fund Assets	1.98B
Expense Ratio	1.201%
Min. Investment	$100,000
Turnover	16.00%
Dividend (ttm)	n/a
Dividend Yield	n/a
Dividend Growth	n/a
Payout Frequency	Annual
Ex-Dividend Date	Nov 13, 2025

Previous Close	70.47
YTD Return	14.58%
1-Year Return	16.08%
5-Year Return	86.55%
52-Week Low	54.22
52-Week High	101.03
Beta (5Y)	1.13
Holdings	114
Inception Date	Dec 30, 2016

About NEAIX

The Needham Aggressive Growth Fund Institutional Class is an open-end mutual fund that primarily targets long-term, tax-efficient capital appreciation. The fund focuses on investing in small- and mid-cap domestic growth equities, emphasizing sectors such as technology, industrials, healthcare, and specialty services. With a strategy designed to uncover companies demonstrating high returns on capital—particularly those led by founders or experienced management teams—the fund seeks to identify overlooked or undervalued growth opportunities with the potential for significant compounding over multiple years. Its portfolio typically exhibits a concentrated structure, with a substantial percentage allocated to its top holdings and a notable bias toward the technology and industrials sectors. The fund benchmarks its performance against the Russell 2000 Growth Index and may invest in venture-backed, post-IPO opportunities as well as engage in selective short sales and cash holdings. This institutional share class is tailored for investors with a higher minimum investment requirement and seeks to deliver long-term capital growth through disciplined bottom-up research and active portfolio management.

• Fund Family: Needham
• Category: Small Growth
• Performance Rating: High
• Risk Rating: High
• Stock Exchange: Nasdaq
• Ticker Symbol: NEAIX
• Share Class: Institutional Class
• Index: S&P 500 TR

Performance

NEAIX had a total return of 16.08% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 17.41%.

Other Share Classes

These are alternative share classes of the same fund, from the same provider.

Symbol	Share Class	Expense Ratio
NEAGX	Retail Class	1.64%

Top 10 Holdings

43.78% of assets

Name	Symbol	Weight
Vicor Corporation	VICR	6.94%
Arteris, Inc.	AIP	5.91%
BNY Dreyfus Treasury Secs Csh Mgmt Inst	DIRXX	4.65%
PDF Solutions, Inc.	PDFS	4.63%
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.	VSH	4.56%
nLIGHT, Inc.	LASR	4.54%
Vertiv Holdings Co	VRT	3.35%
Vishay Precision Group, Inc.	VPG	3.33%
CECO Environmental Corp.	CECO	3.19%
Oil-Dri Corporation of America	ODC	2.69%

Dividend History

Ex-Dividend	Amount	Pay Date
Nov 13, 2025	$1.22446	Nov 13, 2025
Nov 10, 2021	$2.87971	Nov 10, 2021
Nov 11, 2020	$1.23353	Nov 11, 2020
Nov 8, 2019	$2.31728	Nov 8, 2019
Nov 9, 2018	$2.79289	Nov 9, 2018
Nov 10, 2017	$1.19313	Nov 10, 2017

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Last checked:

Oct 16, 2026

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