WADDELL & ASSOCIATES, LLC
"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 21 quarters, returned +0.6% per quarter — versus +2.4% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 38.1% of quarters (excess t = -0.95, 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 449 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| FDX | $499M | | ADD |
| PAVE | $100M | | ADD |
| GCOW | $96M | | NEW |
| MDY | $95M | | ADD |
| FNDA | $94M | | ADD |
| DGRW | $90M | | ADD |
| AUSF | $81M | | ADD |
| SCHK | $67M | | ADD |
| IEFA | $59M | | ADD |
| QQQM | $48M | | ADD |
| AVEM | $46M | | ADD |
| QQQE | $42M | | ADD |
| AGEM | $38M | | NEW |
| AAPL | $17M | | ADD |
| NVDA | $12M | | ADD |
| MSFT | $10M | | ADD |
| CAPE | $10M | | TRIM |
| SPY | $9M | | HOLD |
| DBND | $7M | | HOLD |
| PSLV | $7M | | 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.