Smead Capital Management, 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 16 quarters, returned +9.8% per quarter — versus +4.3% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 68.8% of quarters (excess t = 0.91, 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 32 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVE | $394M | | TRIM |
| APA | $351M | | TRIM |
| MRK | $297M | | TRIM |
| SPG | $291M | | TRIM |
| AMGN | $246M | | TRIM |
| MAC | $230M | | TRIM |
| COP | $221M | | TRIM |
| FANG | $212M | | TRIM |
| DHI | $206M | | TRIM |
| OXY | $201M | | TRIM |
| AXP | $182M | | TRIM |
| TGT | $181M | | TRIM |
| EBAY | $161M | | TRIM |
| NVR | $142M | | TRIM |
| LEN | $138M | | TRIM |
| BAC | $135M | | TRIM |
| FITB | $132M | | TRIM |
| JPM | $122M | | TRIM |
| HD | $101M | | TRIM |
| WAL | $96M | | TRIM |
QoQ vs previous quarter's share count · NEW = new position · ADD/TRIM = ±2% shares · HOLD = unchanged.
New positions in 2026 Q1
None.
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.