Starboard Value LP
"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 26 quarters, returned -0.9% per quarter — versus +2.4% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 38.5% of quarters (excess t = -1.02, 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 23 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| QRVO | $581M | | HOLD |
| KVUE | $471M | | HOLD |
| IJH | $394M | | ADD |
| AQN | $351M | | TRIM |
| MTCH | $350M | | HOLD |
| ACTG | $294M | | HOLD |
| BILL | $269M | | HOLD |
| LW | $258M | | NEW |
| KMX | $258M | | NEW |
| RIOT | $192M | | ADD |
| GEN | $147M | | TRIM |
| NWSA | $140M | | TRIM |
| FLR | $135M | | TRIM |
| CWAN | $129M | | TRIM |
| HR | $116M | | TRIM |
| TRIP | $115M | | ADD |
| BDX | $100M | | TRIM |
| GPGI | $86M | | NEW |
| NWS | $74M | | TRIM |
| ROG | $63M | | 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.