Estimated return — disclosed long book

What Engaged Capital LLC’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
-11.6%
SPY -4.4% -7.2%
By calendar year
YearEstimatedSPYDifference
2025-28.8%+17.7%-46.5%
2024-13.7%+24.9%-38.6%
2023+7.3%+26.2%-18.8%
20223/4 Q-26.7%-14.2%-12.4%
2021+19.5%+28.7%-9.2%
2020+62.6%+18.3%+44.3%
20193/4 Q+36.6%+29.0%+7.6%
20183/4 Q-11.4%-7.8%-3.6%
20172/4 Q+9.5%+7.6%+1.8%
20163/4 Q+80.4%+9.3%+71.1%
20153/4 Q-22.9%-5.4%-17.5%
20142/4 Q-4.4%+6.1%-10.5%

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.