WELCH & FORBES 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 32 quarters, returned +4.7% per quarter — versus +2.7% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 56.2% of quarters (excess t = 1.52, 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 368 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA | $540M | | TRIM |
| AAPL | $426M | | HOLD |
| GOOG | $336M | | HOLD |
| MSFT | $326M | | HOLD |
| ORLY | $261M | | HOLD |
| V | $217M | | HOLD |
| RTX | $211M | | TRIM |
| JPM | $192M | | HOLD |
| SYK | $167M | | HOLD |
| COST | $161M | | HOLD |
| JNJ | $161M | | HOLD |
| LLY | $155M | | HOLD |
| HD | $141M | | HOLD |
| CB | $126M | | HOLD |
| ECL | $125M | | HOLD |
| TJX | $123M | | HOLD |
| AMZN | $118M | | HOLD |
| GOOGL | $118M | | TRIM |
| DHR | $116M | | HOLD |
| PG | $110M | | HOLD |
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.