Taking time
to invest.
Huffman Prairie Holdings
Huffman Prairie Holdings is an investment firm whose mission is to find exceptional small- and medium-sized public and private companies. The way we identify businesses is different. Rather than focusing on past returns and metrics to define “cheap” or “quality” or a good investment, we focus on the small, undiscovered, underappreciated, and obscure. We are qualitative investors that seek out not the what but the why – the story and people behind the numbers. Huffman Prairie was founded by Shane Connor and is based in Dayton, OH – 600 miles from Wall Street.
"There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible."
Strategy
Huffman Prairie manages a partnership that invests in small- and medium-sized businesses.
Qualitative
Opportunity exists beyond the easily identified and quantified. We learn and appreciate the qualitative aspects and differentiators.
Concentrated
Few companies are truly exceptional. We want to find them and hold on.
Thorough
It takes time. Our research efforts focus on taking the time to understand and appreciate businesses and teams before their potential is recognized.
Aligned
We have a performance-driven fee structure and are heavily invested alongside our partners.
Our Name
After their first flight in 1903, the Wright brothers flew for miles in circles around Huffman Prairie – pastures outside their hometown of Dayton – achieving some of the greatest advancements in aviation history. Still, most believed heavier-than-air flight was impossible and would believe so until 1908.
Dayton Daily News publisher James Cox, recounted reports coming “to our office that the airship had been in the air over the Huffman Prairie…but our news staff would not believe the stories. Nor did they ever take the pains to go out to see.”
This is a powerful lesson for investors. Sometimes we have to look harder, be creative, and take the time to understand.
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.”