Estimated return — disclosed long book

What Appaloosa Management LP’s US-listed long positions did, derived from the share counts and market values in consecutive 13F filings, shown against SPY over exactly the same quarters. This is not the fund’s return. A 13F excludes shorts, bonds, cash, non-US listings and derivatives, says nothing about fees or leverage, and only sees positions held at both quarter ends. The fund figure is a price return while SPY is a total return, so the comparison is tilted against the manager by roughly a dividend yield.

Q4 2015
+5.0%
SPY +7.0% -2.1%
2015 YTD(2Q so far)
-5.4%
SPY +0.1% -5.5%