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🪞 Michael Burry · Scion

Dormant. This investor last filed a 13F for Sep 2025 and has not filed under this CIK since. The holdings below are that final disclosed book, kept as a historical record; no new predictions are produced for a book that has stopped reporting.

Contrarian, special situations + short bias.

Style
Specialist
Disclosed holdings
8
Top pick hit rate
1.7%
Backtest edge
-

Hit rate is measured, not predicted: across 2,030 investor-quarters of walk-forward holdout, the name this model ranked first was the investor’s actual next new buy 1.7% of the time, against 0.62% for a name drawn at random from the same board. That is 2.77x chance. The model ranks the whole board; AUC and the rest of the scoring detail are on the how it works page.

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📜 Top disclosed holdings: Sep 2025

TickerCompanyWeightLast change
PLTRPalantir Technologies Inc66.04%🆕 New
NVDANvidia Corporation13.51%🆕 New
PFEPfizer Inc11.07%🆕 New
HALHalliburton Co4.45%🆕 New
MOHMolina Healthcare Inc1.73%🆕 New
LULULululemon Athletica Inc1.29%➖ Trimmed
SLMSlm Corp0.96%🆕 New
BRKR 6.375 09/01/28Bruker Corp0.95%🆕 New

Source: SEC Form 13F (public domain), long U.S. equity positions only, disclosed up to 45 days after quarter-end. Top 15 of 8 shown.

💲 Where they bought: accumulation cost

13F shows holdings, not trade prices. Implied average cost is total value ÷ shares; the zone is the price range that quarter, where they accumulated. “vs cost” is today versus that average. This is where they bought, not a future price.

TickerAvg costAccumulation zoneTodayvs costDip target
PLTR$182.42$131–$187$185.93+1.9%$77.00
NVDA$186.58$153–$186$220.78+18.3%$76.74
PFE$25.48$22–$24$28.46+11.7%$9.96
HAL$24.60$20–$25$36.18+47.1%$10.18
MOH$191.36$152–$306$198.75+3.9%$126.15
LULU$177.93$160–$248$115.00-35.4%$102.01
SLM$27.68$27–$34$26.77-3.3%$13.87

Dip target = the recent high discounted by this investor’s historical tendency to add on weakness. Behavioral, not a guarantee.

🎯 Disclosed options: calls vs puts

13F discloses option positions too. Calls lean bullish or levered; puts lean bearish or hedging. This is the not-just-buying side of what they disclose.

TickerPositionLean
PLTRputsbearish / hedge
NVDAputsbearish / hedge
PFEcallsbullish / levered
HALcallsbullish / levered

Source: 13F option lines (put_call). Disclosed positions, not advice.

🧬 Factor fingerprint, the style behind the book

52% of Michael Burry · Scion’s day-to-day swings are explained by public, buyable factors (Fama-French 5 + momentum), regressed on their current disclosed book (7 of 7 names, ~421 trading days). Market beta 1.35.

growth
value
large-cap
small-cap
low-quality
quality
contrarian
momentum
aggressive
conservative

⚠️ This is the part the great investors can’t hide: their style is a tilt toward known factors, and every one of these is sold as a cheap index ETF. Buying the factors gets you most of the book for a few basis points. What’s left after the factors (the residual) is noisy on a single concentrated book and is not a reliable edge, read this as transparency about the style you’re copying, not a secret signal. Loadings are in-sample on current static weights, U.S. long positions only. Research, not advice.

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