
It is here that our tale takes a turn-like a crooked street in a town where logic has fled and only absurdity rules. Rivermont, with the precision of a blind clockmaker, divested itself of a prodigious share of its holdings-shrinking from an assertive 8.9% of its portfolio’s pride to a mere 1.9%, as if the entire enterprise was an overgrown garden, suddenly pruned by an invisible but capricious gardener. The stock, once a giant within their chest of assets, now lay modestly at 1.9%-a diminutive figure that would cause even the most hardened broker to pinch themselves or perhaps, more appropriately, to marvel at the relentless march of valuation, which had seen SXT’s share price ascend to $96.11-a number that gleamed brighter than the fullest moon, up 32% over the span of a weary year-outstripping the sluggish S&P whose sluggish pulse rose a mere 15%.