First Light Asset 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 30 quarters, returned -2.1% per quarter — versus +3.0% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 40.0% of quarters (excess t = -1.65, 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 35 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| AXGN | $133M | | TRIM |
| PVLA | $122M | | ADD |
| NEO | $72M | | TRIM |
| SIBN | $68M | | ADD |
| CNTA | $62M | | TRIM |
| APGE | $49M | | ADD |
| AMLX | $44M | | TRIM |
| TWST | $42M | | TRIM |
| CRNX | $40M | | TRIM |
| MASS | $37M | | ADD |
| NPCE | $32M | | ADD |
| EWTX | $32M | | TRIM |
| ANAB | $31M | | TRIM |
| SLP | $31M | | ADD |
| GH | $26M | | TRIM |
| TNDM | $25M | | ADD |
| ATRC | $21M | | TRIM |
| TLSI | $20M | | NEW |
| TECX | $20M | | NEW |
| IRTC | $20M | | 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.