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🪞 Joel Greenblatt · Gotham

Magic-formula value, special situations.

Style
Specialist
Disclosed holdings
150
Top pick hit rate
1.7%
Backtest edge
-2.8 pts/q

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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🔮 Predicted next buys: quarter ending 2026-09-30

The model orders Joel Greenblatt · Gotham’s candidates for the next 13F filing. No public confirmation yet. The rate beside each name is the model’s own score rewritten as a measured quantity: how often a name in that position turned out to be the next buy across 2,030 investor-quarters of holdout. Picking at random from this board lands 0.62%.

#TickerCompanyMeasured hit ratevs base
1BEPCBrookfield Renewable Corp1.8%2.9x
2WSOWatsco Inc1.8%2.8x
3RRCRange Resources Corp1.7%2.7x
4DTDynatrace Inc1.6%2.5x
5DTEDte Energy Company1.6%2.5x
6HESHess Corp1.5%2.5x
7SNOWSnowflake Inc1.4%2.2x
8LHXL3Harris Technologies Inc1.3%2.1x
9PPLPpl Corp1.3%2.1x
10FMCFmc Corp1.2%1.9x

📉 Predicted exits, conviction fading

Of Joel Greenblatt · Gotham’s current disclosed holdings, the names a model flags as most likely to be EXITED or TRIMMED next quarter, before the 13F shows it. Model score (not a calibrated probability), ranked. Holdings as of 2026-06-30.

TickerCompanyWeightLast moveSell likelihood
HUMHumana Inc0.21%added last Q▲▲ 65
-Highwoods Pptys Inc0.17%added last Q▲▲ 65
MCXMccormick & Co Inc0.13%added last Q▲▲ 63
DASHDoordash Inc0.14%added last Q▲▲ 62
WDCWestern Digital Corp0.25%trimmed last Q▲▲ 61
NEUNewmarket Corp0.24%added last Q▲▲ 61
IRDMIridium Communications Inc0.32%trimmed last Q▲▲ 61
VNOVornado Rlty Tr0.18%added last Q▲▲ 60

⚠️ This predicts the ACTION (whether Joel Greenblatt · Gotham reduces the position), not a return and not a short. A 13F shows long positions only, so a “sell” here means exiting or cutting a long, never shorting the stock. Walk-forward validated on the decision (AUC ≈ 0.66), but acting on it is not shown to make money. Research, not advice.

📜 Top disclosed holdings: Jun 2026

TickerCompanyWeightLast change
SPYState Str Spdr S&P 500 Etf T19.80%➕ Added
AAPLApple Inc1.93%✊ Held
NVDANvidia Corporation1.87%✊ Held
GSPYTidal Trust I1.60%✊ Held
IVVIshares Tr0.78%✊ Held
SNOWSnowflake Inc0.61%✊ Held
AMZNAmazon Com Inc0.47%✊ Held
GOOGLAlphabet Inc0.46%✊ Held
VOOVanguard Index Fds0.46%✊ Held
VTVVanguard Index Fds0.44%✊ Held
SGOVIshares Tr0.37%➕ Added
MUMicron Technology Inc0.34%➖ Trimmed
SNDKSandisk Corp0.33%➖ Trimmed
IRDMIridium Communications Inc0.32%➖ Trimmed
ABNBAirbnb Inc0.31%➕ Added

Source: SEC Form 13F (public domain), long U.S. equity positions only, disclosed up to 45 days after quarter-end. Top 15 of 150 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 cost
SPY$746.77$649–$758$771.10+3.3%
AAPL$289.36$253–$315$316.85+9.5%
NVDA$200.09$174–$235$220.78+10.3%
GSPY$40.60$35–$41$42.45+4.6%
IVV$748.89$651–$761$774.75+3.5%
SNOW$254.50$121–$280$329.11+29.3%
AMZN$238.34$208–$275$259.77+9.0%
GOOGL$357.37$287–$402$340.65-4.7%
VOO$686.81$596–$696$708.75+3.2%
VTV$217.93$195–$219$225.45+3.5%

🧬 Factor fingerprint, the style behind the book

98% of Joel Greenblatt · Gotham’s day-to-day swings are explained by public, buyable factors (Fama-French 5 + momentum), regressed on their current disclosed book (15 of 15 names, ~303 trading days). Market beta 1.09.

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.

📈 This mirror’s track: backtest vs S&P 500

Avg edge / quarter
-2.8 pts
Quarters beating S&P
11/34
Avg quarterly return
+1.1%
-27%91%208%2017-092021-122025-12This mirror (backtest)S&P 500

⚠️ Read this honestly. Leak-free walk-forward backtest: top-10 predicted new buys ranked from a broad ~2,000-name universe known at the rebalance date, equal-weight, 1-quarter holds, complete quarters only, gross (before costs). Small samples, per-investor edges are noisy and not statistically significant. The consensus mirror's backtest shows +2.2 pts/quarter net vs the S&P 500 over 35 complete quarters (2017Q3 to 2026Q1), directional, NOT statistically significant (t≈1.3; 95% CI includes zero). Most of that average is one quarter: 2026Q1 posted a +47.5 pt edge, roughly half of it two AI-hardware names (SNDK +258%, AMD +186%) marked at what proved to be a local peak; excluding it the edge is +0.9 pts/quarter. Past performance does not predict future results. Not investment advice.

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