ARGENT 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 anyway. Buying this fund's new positions the day each filing went public, over 31 quarters, returned +3.8% per quarter — versus +3.1% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 58.1% of quarters (excess t = -0.81, 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 158 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOOGL | $202M | | TRIM |
| NVDA | $201M | | TRIM |
| AMZN | $181M | | TRIM |
| MSFT | $160M | | TRIM |
| HCA | $102M | | TRIM |
| MA | $100M | | TRIM |
| XOM | $100M | | TRIM |
| AVGO | $97M | | TRIM |
| AAPL | $88M | | TRIM |
| TDG | $87M | | ADD |
| URI | $81M | | TRIM |
| AMAT | $80M | | TRIM |
| DHI | $70M | | TRIM |
| DHR | $61M | | TRIM |
| JPM | $60M | | TRIM |
| MUSA | $59M | | TRIM |
| ETN | $58M | | ADD |
| PGR | $58M | | TRIM |
| META | $55M | | TRIM |
| NEE | $54M | | TRIM |
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.