Giverny Capital Inc.
"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 24 quarters, returned +0.5% per quarter — versus +3.0% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 37.5% of quarters (excess t = -1.39, 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 51 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRK/B | $181M | | TRIM |
| GOOG | $178M | | TRIM |
| META | $176M | | HOLD |
| HEI/A | $156M | | TRIM |
| SCHW | $144M | | TRIM |
| FIVE | $141M | | TRIM |
| AME | $131M | | TRIM |
| MEDP | $123M | | TRIM |
| V | $120M | | TRIM |
| IBP | $107M | | TRIM |
| PGR | $105M | | HOLD |
| GOOGL | $100M | | TRIM |
| KEYS | $91M | | TRIM |
| NVR | $90M | | TRIM |
| BKNG | $89M | | HOLD |
| ADP | $85M | | NEW |
| MKL | $82M | | TRIM |
| KNSL | $75M | | ADD |
| BFAM | $61M | | ADD |
| OZK | $56M | | 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.