Estimated return — disclosed long book

What Mohnish Pabrai’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.

Q2 2026
-19.1%
SPY +15.1% -34.2%
2026 YTD(2Q so far)
-2.1%
SPY +10.1% -12.2%
By calendar year
YearEstimatedSPYDifference
2025+21.6%+17.7%+3.9%
2024-27.4%+24.9%-52.3%
20233/4 Q+120.5%+16.1%+104.5%
2022-44.8%-18.2%-26.6%
2021+6.8%+28.7%-22.0%
2020+6.1%+18.3%-12.2%
2019+9.1%+31.2%-22.2%
2018-16.2%-4.6%-11.6%
2017+58.3%+21.7%+36.6%
2016-13.7%+12.0%-25.7%
2015-15.6%+1.2%-16.9%
20142/4 Q-2.8%+6.1%-8.9%

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.