GENDELL JEFFREY L
"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 29 quarters, returned +2.9% per quarter — versus +2.9% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 48.3% of quarters (excess t = 0.93, 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 101 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| IESC | $4.9B | | HOLD |
| IWM | $237M | | NEW |
| AMR | $112M | | ADD |
| OC | $102M | | ADD |
| TPC | $97M | | ADD |
| SNDK | $95M | | TRIM |
| WTM | $83M | | ADD |
| RIG | $78M | | ADD |
| BW | $75M | | HOLD |
| GNW | $63M | | ADD |
| OIH | $61M | | ADD |
| GLW | $55M | | ADD |
| WDC | $54M | | TRIM |
| MU | $47M | | TRIM |
| SLB | $46M | | ADD |
| APH | $46M | | NEW |
| MHK | $42M | | TRIM |
| AMD | $41M | | ADD |
| BXC | $40M | | ADD |
| AVTR | $39M | | 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.