ALTA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC/
"13F equity value" = market value of this filer's US-listed long equity positions only. It excludes cash, bonds, non-US and short positions, so it understates a fund's true assets under management — often by a lot.
13F holdings are disclosed ~45 days after quarter-end, and they never reveal when within the quarter a fund actually bought. So any 13F-based summary is structurally late and blurred — this applies to every fund, including this one.
We backtested copying it. Buying this fund's new positions the day each filing went public, over 31 quarters, returned +1.5% per quarter versus +3.1% from simply owning every 13F stock — it beat that baseline in only 41.9% of quarters (excess t = -2.45). Copying it would have systematically underperformed the simplest possible strategy.
Quarterly compounding, invested quarters only · entry 47 days after quarter-end (when 13F data becomes public)
Top 20 holdings of 100 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA | $103M | | TRIM |
| GOOGL | $87M | | TRIM |
| AMZN | $83M | | TRIM |
| MSFT | $74M | | ADD |
| AVGO | $65M | | ADD |
| META | $50M | | ADD |
| APH | $50M | | TRIM |
| AAPL | $44M | | TRIM |
| TJX | $42M | | TRIM |
| MA | $39M | | TRIM |
| ETN | $38M | | ADD |
| TMO | $32M | | TRIM |
| MELI | $32M | | ADD |
| AZO | $32M | | TRIM |
| ASML | $30M | | TRIM |
| BKNG | $30M | | TRIM |
| BRK/B | $29M | | TRIM |
| SPGI | $27M | | TRIM |
| WM | $26M | | TRIM |
| INTU | $25M | | ADD |
QoQ vs previous quarter's share count · NEW = new position · ADD/TRIM = ±2% shares · HOLD = unchanged.
New positions in 2026 Q1
Method & Limitations
Method: a "new position" = held this quarter, absent last quarter (options excluded; stocks with <50 prior holders excluded to filter spin-off artifacts). Entry 47 days after quarter-end — the first day the public could act on the filing. Benchmark = equal-weighted universe of all 13F-held stocks. Limitations: quarterly snapshots can't see intra-quarter trades; survivorship bias — funds that shut down are absent, which flatters the sample. Statistics, not advice.