COOPERMAN LEON G
"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 20 quarters, returned +1.8% per quarter — versus +4.0% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 45.0% of quarters (excess t = 0.36, 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 41 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| VRT | $541M | | HOLD |
| RKT | $299M | | HOLD |
| ET | $257M | | HOLD |
| MIR | $156M | | HOLD |
| FIHL | $153M | | ADD |
| APO | $149M | | HOLD |
| MP | $145M | | HOLD |
| OMF | $107M | | ADD |
| SUN | $105M | | HOLD |
| ASH | $95M | | HOLD |
| CI | $87M | | HOLD |
| LAD | $85M | | ADD |
| KBR | $78M | | HOLD |
| WSC | $70M | | HOLD |
| COF | $67M | | NEW |
| ELV | $67M | | TRIM |
| STKL | $60M | | ADD |
| MSI | $59M | | HOLD |
| AESI | $54M | | TRIM |
| EPD | $52M | | HOLD |
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.