Estimated return — disclosed long book

What Jeffrey Smith’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.

Q1 2026
-5.3%
SPY -4.4% -1.0%
By calendar year
YearEstimatedSPYDifference
2025-5.7%+17.7%-23.4%
2024+6.6%+24.9%-18.3%
20232/4 Q+13.4%+8.0%+5.3%
2022-11.8%-18.2%+6.3%
2021+26.8%+28.7%-2.0%
2020+17.3%+18.3%-1.1%
20193/4 Q+21.8%+20.4%+1.4%
2018-14.3%-4.6%-9.7%
2017+14.9%+21.7%-6.8%
2016+14.7%+12.0%+2.7%
2015-11.4%+1.2%-12.6%
20141/4 Q+20.6%+4.9%+15.7%

Years marked n/4 Qare built from fewer than four quarters, and the benchmark shown beside them covers the same partial set — so the difference is like-for-like, but the year is not a full year.