SCHWARTZ INVESTMENT COUNSEL 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 32 quarters, returned +1.0% per quarter — versus +2.7% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 34.4% of quarters (excess t = 0.37, 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 129 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPL | $195M | | TRIM |
| NVDA | $96M | | HOLD |
| TXN | $95M | | HOLD |
| HEI/A | $94M | | TRIM |
| MA | $92M | | TRIM |
| SPGI | $76M | | ADD |
| ROP | $75M | | ADD |
| APG | $75M | | TRIM |
| MCO | $67M | | ADD |
| LOW | $63M | | HOLD |
| ORLY | $61M | | HOLD |
| VRSN | $61M | | ADD |
| ACN | $60M | | ADD |
| CVX | $52M | | TRIM |
| BR | $51M | | ADD |
| ATR | $49M | | HOLD |
| TSM | $49M | | HOLD |
| FANG | $47M | | TRIM |
| TSEM | $46M | | HOLD |
| EXE | $45M | | 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.