Engine Capital Management, LP
"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 +1.8% per quarter — versus +2.6% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 45.2% of quarters (excess t = 0.98, 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 26 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVTR | $155M | | ADD |
| NATL | $113M | | HOLD |
| SUNC | $63M | | TRIM |
| DNOW | $62M | | NEW |
| BCO | $57M | | ADD |
| KBR | $56M | | ADD |
| OFIX | $50M | | ADD |
| NXST | $36M | | HOLD |
| PRKS | $34M | | ADD |
| CMP | $34M | | ADD |
| FOXF | $33M | | ADD |
| CVEO | $23M | | TRIM |
| MAGN | $21M | | HOLD |
| UNF | $19M | | TRIM |
| SONO | $17M | | HOLD |
| FVRR | $13M | | ADD |
| PHIN | $12M | | HOLD |
| IWM | $11M | | HOLD |
| AOUT | $6M | | HOLD |
| WEAV | $5M | | NEW |
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.