RH and the Gentle Decline

Kettle Hill, a fund with a name that suggests both stability and a slight dampness, has taken a position in RH. One hundred sixty-one thousand shares, to be precise. It’s February 13, 2026, and the world keeps turning. So it goes.

What Happened

They bought some stock. Twenty-eight and a half million dollars worth, if you’re keeping score. The market, of course, doesn’t care about dollars. It cares about… well, it cares about whatever it cares about. It’s a mystery, really. The price at the end of the quarter was the same. A coincidence, probably. Or a sign. It’s hard to say.

What Else to Know

  • This RH purchase represents 6.4% of Kettle Hill’s reported U.S. equity holdings. A significant chunk, but then, everything is relative.
  • Their top holdings, as of late 2025:
    • ESTC: $29.69 million
    • U: $29.06 million
    • RH: $28.87 million
    • PENN: $26.16 million
    • WYNN: $25.89 million
  • The stock, as of that same February 13th, was at $205.06. Down 46.1% over the year. Underperforming the S&P 500 by a rather depressing 57.9 percentage points. Numbers. They just keep coming.

Company Overview

Metric Value
Price (Feb 13, 2026) $205.06
Market capitalization $3.85 billion
Revenue (TTM) $3.41 billion
Net income (TTM) $109.93 million

Company Snapshot

  • They sell furniture. Nice furniture, apparently.
  • They sell it directly to people who want it. Mostly affluent people.
  • They operate in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. A surprisingly small area, when you think about it.

RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, is a retailer. It sells things people want, or think they want. It’s a multi-channel operation, meaning they sell things in stores, catalogs, and on the internet. It’s a system. A perfectly functional system. And yet…

What This Transaction Means for Investors

Kettle Hill took a relatively large position. It wasn’t in their portfolio last quarter. Now it’s the third largest. Bold, perhaps. Or just a desperate attempt to find something, anything, that might appreciate. The stock took a beating after 2021. It traded sideways for a while. Then it went down again. A familiar story. So it goes.

But here’s the thing. Revenue was up 10% in the first nine months of 2025. Net income increased by 64%. They’re keeping expenses in check. A small victory, in a world full of defeats. The P/E ratio is still high, at 37. But the forward P/E is 20. That suggests a possible recovery. Or maybe it doesn’t. The market is rarely logical.

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It’s a gamble, of course. All investments are. But sometimes, the most sensible thing to do is to buy something that everyone else is avoiding. It’s a contrarian strategy. And in a world gone mad, maybe it’s the only strategy that makes any sense. Or maybe not. It’s all just noise, really. A fleeting moment in the vast, indifferent universe. So it goes.

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2026-03-06 01:13