# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001537140
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**Filing Date:** 2026-2
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001580642-26-000829.hdr.sgml**: 20260205

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001580642-26-000829

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 3

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260205

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260205

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260205

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** NORTHERN LIGHTS FUND TRUST III
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001537140

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497K
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-178833
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26602763

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 225 PICTORIA DRIVE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 450
- **CITY:** CINCINNATI
- **STATE:** OH
- **ZIP:** 45246
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 631-470-2621

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 17605 WRIGHT STREET
- **CITY:** OMAHA
- **STATE:** NE
- **ZIP:** 68130

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### Counterpoint Quantitative Equity ETF (Series ID: S000083027)

| Class ID   | Class Name                           | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000246525 | Counterpoint Quantitative Equity ETF | CPAI            |

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**Counterpoint Quantitative Equity ETF**

**CPAI**

**SUMMARY PROSPECTUS**

February 1, 2026

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's complete Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund's Prospectus and other information about the Fund, including the Statement of Additional Information, at www.counterpointfunds.com. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-844-509-2775 or by sending an email request to *OrderCPETFs@ultimusfundsolutions.com*. The Fund's statutory Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information dated February 1, 2026, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

Shares of the Fund are listed and traded on NYSE, Inc. (the "Exchange").

**Investment Objective: The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.**

**Fees And Expenses of the Fund: This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell 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.** 

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|:---|:---|
| **Annual Fund Operating Expenses**<br> (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |
| Management Fees | 0.65% |
| Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees | 0.00% |
| Other Expenses | 0.32% |
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 0.97% |
| Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement<sup>(1)</sup> | (0.22)% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp; **Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses**<br> **After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement** | 0.75% |

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1) Counterpoint Funds, LLC (the "Adviser")
has contractually agreed to waive its fees and reimburse expenses of the Fund, until at least February 1, 2027 to ensure that total annual
fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or reimbursement (excluding (i) any front-end or contingent deferred loads; (ii) brokerage
fees and commissions; (iii) acquired fund fees and expenses; (iv) fees and expenses associated with investments in other collective investment
vehicles or derivative instruments (including for example option and swap fees and expenses); (v) borrowing costs (such as interest and
dividend expense on securities sold short); (vi) taxes; and (vii) extraordinary expenses, such as litigation expenses (which may include
indemnification of Fund officers and Trustees and contractual indemnification of Fund service providers (other than the Adviser))) will
not exceed 0.75% of the Fund's net assets. This fee waiver and expense reimbursement are subject to possible recoupment from the
Fund within the three years after the fees have been waived or reimbursed, if such recoupment can be achieved within the lesser of the
foregoing expense limits in place at the time of recapture after recoupment is taken into account. This agreement may be terminated by
the Trust's Board of Trustees only on 60 days' written notice to the Adviser.

***Example:*** This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other 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 upon these assumptions your costs would be:

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**<u>1 Year</u>** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**<u>3 Years</u>** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**<u>5 Years</u>** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**<u>10 Years</u>** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;$77 | &nbsp;&nbsp;$287 | &nbsp;&nbsp;$515 | &nbsp;&nbsp;$1170 |

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***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. For the fiscal period ended September 30, 2025, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 324% of the average value of its portfolio.

**Principal Investment Strategies: The Adviser actively manages the Fund's portfolio by using a quantitative, model-based approach to security selection. Under normal market circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its assets (plus the amount of borrowings, if any) in common stocks and American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs"). The Fund holds at least 50 U.S. listed stocks or American Depository Receipts ("ADRs"). The stocks selected are among the highest-ranking stocks as determined by quantitative models.** 

The quantitative approach uses results from the Counterpoint Machine Learning Model**™** to rank stocks of U.S. domiciled companies and ADRs of any market capitalization. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence ("A.I.") that finds relationships between variables and outcomes, and uncovers interactions between multiple variables. The Fund's models use over 40 variables as inputs. These variables revolve around themes of value, long-term reversal, stock price momentum, company profitability, investor sentiment toward the company, and stock price stability.

If the Adviser's research indicates that a specific combination of variables would have improved the accuracy of the model's predictions, then the Adviser will use that combination of variables going forward if supported by economic reasons and/or investor behavioral biases.

The models use these variables and identify generalized relationships between historic realized stock returns and the values of those variables. The learned relationship between the input variables and the realized historic returns is updated between portfolio rebalances, allowing the models to adjust to changing market conditions. The models rank the stocks based on their expected future performance. At least every quarter, the Adviser rebalances the portfolio based on the stocks' current rankings. The Adviser adjusts the output from the model to limit the maximum exposure to any one sector to 35% or less of the Fund's net assets. The Fund will not invest more than 25% of its net assets in any one industry or group of industries within a sector.

**Principal Investment Risks: The following describes the risks of investing in the Fund. As with all funds, there is a risk that you could lose money through your investment in the Fund and there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal. Many factors affect the Fund's net asset value ("NAV") and performance.**

*Active Management Risk:* The Adviser's judgments about the growth, value or potential appreciation of an investment may prove to be incorrect or fail to have the intended results, which could adversely impact the Fund's performance and cause it to underperform relative to the Index, or not to achieve its investment goal.

*Authorized Participant Risk:* Only an Authorized Participant ("AP") may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants). To the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (defined below), Fund shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and possibly face trading halts or delisting. AP concentration risk may be heightened for ETFs that invest in non-U.S. securities or other securities or instruments that have lower trading volumes.

 

*Early Close/Trading Halt Risk:* An exchange or market may close or impose a market trading halt or issue trading halts on specific securities, or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be restricted, which may prevent the Fund from buying or selling certain securities or financial instruments. In these circumstances, the Fund may be unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its investments and may incur substantial trading losses.

 

*Equity Securities Risk.* Fluctuations in the value of equity securities held by the Fund causes the net asset value ("NAV") of the Fund to fluctuate.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;o *Common Stock Risks:* Common stock of an issuer in the Fund's portfolio may decline in price
if the issuer fails to make anticipated dividend payments. Common stock is subject to greater dividend risk than preferred stocks or debt
instruments of the same issuer.

 

*ETF Structure Risk:* The Fund is structured as an ETF and is subject to the special risks, including:

 

* *Not Individually Redeemable:* Shares of the Fund ("Shares") are not
individually redeemable and may be redeemed by the Fund at NAV only in large blocks known as "Creation Units." You may incur
brokerage costs purchasing enough Shares to constitute a Creation Unit. Only an Authorized Participant ("AP") may engage in
creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as Aps on an agency
basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants).

* *Trading Issues:* An active trading market for the Shares may not be developed or
maintained. Trading in Shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange,
make trading in Shares inadvisable, such as extraordinary market volatility. There can be no assurance that Shares will continue to meet
the listing requirements of the Exchange. If the Shares are traded outside a collateralized settlement system, the number of financial
institutions that can act as APs that can post collateral on an agency basis is limited, which may limit the market for the Shares.

* *Market Price Variance Risk:* The market prices of Shares will fluctuate in response
to changes in NAV and supply and demand for Shares and will include a "bid-ask spread" charged by the exchange specialists,
market makers or other participants that trade the particular security. There may be times when the market price and the NAV vary significantly.
This means that Shares may trade at a discount or a premium to NAV. In stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become
less liquid in response to the deteriorating liquidity of the Fund's portfolio. This adverse effect on the liquidity of the Shares
may, in turn, lead to differences between the market value of the Shares and the Fund's NAV.

 

*Fluctuation of Net Asset Value Risk:* The NAV of the Shares generally fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund's holdings. The market prices of the Shares generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV as well as the relative supply of and demand for the shares on the Exchange. The Adviser cannot predict whether the Shares will trade below, at or above their NAV.

 

*Large Capitalization Companies Risk:* Large capitalization companies may be less able than smaller capitalization companies to adapt to changing market conditions. Large capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited growth potential compared with smaller capitalization companies. During different market cycles, the performance of large capitalization companies has trailed the overall performance of the broader securities markets.

 

*Market and Geopolitical Risk:* The increasing interconnectivity between global economies and financial markets increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one region or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different country, region or financial market. Securities in the Fund's portfolio may underperform due to inflation (or expectations for inflation), interest rates, global demand for particular products or resources, natural disasters, climate change and climate-related events, pandemics, epidemics, terrorism, tariffs and trade wars, international conflicts, regulatory events and governmental or quasi-governmental actions. The occurrence of global events similar to those in recent years may result in market volatility and may have long term effects on both the U.S. and global financial markets.

*Model Risk:* Like any quantitative analysis, the Adviser's investment model carries a risk that the model used might be based on one or more incorrect assumptions, including as a result of the Adviser's incorrect assumptions and assessment with respect to the quality and/or relevance of the inputs and relationship between inputs. The possibility of an inaccurate or incorrect assessment of machine learning data can negatively impact the effectiveness of the model. Rapidly changing and unforeseen market dynamics could lead to a decrease in the short-term effectiveness of the model and could have an adverse effect on the securities selected for the Fund. No assurance can be given that the Fund will be successful under all or any market conditions.

*Portfolio Turnover Risk:* The Fund often buys and sells investments frequently. Such a strategy often involves higher transaction costs, including brokerage commissions, and may increase the amount of capital gains (in particular, short term gains) realized by the Fund. Shareholders may pay tax on such capital gains.

 

*Sector Exposure Risk:* The Fund may have significant exposure to a limited number of issuers conducting business in the same sector or group of sectors. Market conditions, interest rates, and economic, regulatory, or financial developments could significantly affect a single sector or a group of sectors, and the securities of companies in that sector or group of sectors could react similarly to these or other developments.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;o *Technology Sector Risk:* Technology
companies face intense competition, both domestically and internationally, which may have an adverse effect on profit margins. Technology
companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel. The products of technology companies may face obsolescence
due to rapid technological developments and frequent new product introduction, unpredictable changes in growth rates and competition for
the services of qualified personnel. Companies in the technology sector are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights.
The loss or impairment of these rights may adversely affect the profitability of these companies.

*Securities Market Risk:* The value of securities owned by the Fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, due to factors affecting particular companies or the securities markets generally. A general downturn in the securities market may cause multiple asset classes to decline in value simultaneously.

*Small and Medium Capitalization Companies Risk:* The earnings and prospects of small and medium sized companies are more volatile than larger companies and may experience higher failure rates than larger companies. Small and medium sized companies normally have a lower trading volume than larger companies, which may tend to make their market price fall more disproportionately than larger companies in response to selling pressures and may have limited markets, product lines, or financial resources and lack management experience.

**Performance: The bar chart and performance table below show the variability of the Fund's returns over time, which is some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows performance of the Shares for each full calendar year since the Fund's inception. The performance table compares the performance of the Shares over time to the performance of a broad-based market index. You should be aware that the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) may not be an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available at no cost by visiting www.counterpointfunds.com or by calling 844-509-2775.** 

**Performance Bar Chart For Calendar Year Ended December 31**

![Calendar Year Total Returns (%) as of December 31](image_002.jpg)

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| &nbsp;&nbsp;Best Quarter: | &nbsp;&nbsp;3/31/2024 | &nbsp;&nbsp;11.20% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Worst Quarter: | &nbsp;&nbsp;3/31/2025 | &nbsp;&nbsp;(2.48)% |

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**Performance Table**

**Average Annual Total Returns**

**(For periods ended December 31, 2025)**

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|  | &nbsp;&nbsp;**One Year** | &nbsp;&nbsp; **Since**<br> **Inception**<br> **(11/23/23)** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Return before taxes | &nbsp;&nbsp;17.62% | &nbsp;&nbsp;26.01% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Return after taxes on distributions | &nbsp;&nbsp;17.34% | &nbsp;&nbsp;25.80% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares | &nbsp;&nbsp;10.58% | &nbsp;&nbsp;20.35% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Index – S& P 1000<sup>®</sup> Index\* | &nbsp;&nbsp;7.04% | &nbsp;&nbsp;14.78% |

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\* The S&P 1000<sup>®</sup> Index combines the S&P MidCap 400<sup>®</sup> and the S&P SmallCap 600<sup>®</sup> to form an investable benchmark for the mid-to-small-cap segment of the U.S. equity market Index returns assume reinvestment of dividends. Investors may not invest in the index directly. Unlike the Fund's returns, the index does not reflect any fees or expenses.

After-tax returns were calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold shares of the Fund through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

**Investment Adviser:** Counterpoint Funds, LLC.

**Portfolio Managers:** Joseph Engelberg, Ph.D., Chief Research Officer of the Adviser, and Michael Krause, CFA, co-founder of the Adviser, have each served the Fund as a Portfolio Manager since it commenced operations.

**Purchase And Sale of Fund Shares: Individual Shares may be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through a broker dealer or at market price. Shares are listed for trading on the Exchange and trade at market prices rather than NAV. Shares may trade at a price that is greater than, at, or less than NAV. An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the second market (the "bid-ask spread"). Information on the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts and bid-ask spreads is available at www.counterpointfunds.com.** 

**Tax Information:** The Fund's distributions generally will be taxable as ordinary income or long-term capital gains. A sale of Shares may result in capital gain or loss.

**Payments To Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries: If you purchase the Fund 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 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 website for more information.**