ALTFEST L J & CO INC
"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 anyway. Buying this fund's new positions the day each filing went public, over 32 quarters, returned +3.0% per quarter — versus +2.7% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 53.1% of quarters (excess t = -0.18, not statistically significant). Its filings tell you what it bought — not what you should buy.
Quarterly compounding, invested quarters only · entry 47 days after quarter-end (when 13F data becomes public)
Top 20 holdings of 326 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| VTIP | $50M | | ADD |
| QQQM | $46M | | HOLD |
| EMLP | $42M | | ADD |
| STIP | $41M | | ADD |
| UTEN | $36M | | TRIM |
| SCHP | $28M | | ADD |
| AAPL | $27M | | ADD |
| SPMB | $19M | | HOLD |
| SMH | $19M | | HOLD |
| USAR | $18M | | TRIM |
| GBIL | $18M | | ADD |
| FHLC | $15M | | TRIM |
| MBS | $15M | | ADD |
| LTPZ | $14M | | ADD |
| TUA | $14M | | TRIM |
| PAVE | $13M | | ADD |
| KRE | $12M | | ADD |
| LLY | $11M | | TRIM |
| AMZN | $10M | | TRIM |
| EWZ | $10M | | 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.