🪞 Tom Russo · Gardner Russo & Quinn
Global brand compounders.
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 Tom Russo · Gardner Russo & Quinn’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%.
| # | Ticker | Company | Measured hit rate | vs base |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SUNB | Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc | 1.7% | 2.7x |
| 2 | RRC | Range Resources Corp | 1.6% | 2.6x |
| 3 | DT | Dynatrace Inc | 1.6% | 2.5x |
| 4 | DHI | Dr Horton Inc | 1.5% | 2.4x |
| 5 | UPS | United Parcel Service-Cl B | 1.4% | 2.3x |
| 6 | CAT | Caterpillar Inc | 1.2% | 2x |
| 7 | MCHP | Microchip Technology Inc | 1.2% | 1.9x |
| 8 | SNPS | Synopsys Inc | 1.1% | 1.9x |
| 9 | CSL | Carlisle Cos Inc | 1.1% | 1.8x |
| 10 | DTE | Dte Energy Company | 1.1% | 1.7x |
📉 Predicted exits, conviction fading
Of Tom Russo · Gardner Russo & Quinn’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.
| Ticker | Company | Weight | Last move | Sell likelihood |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAT | Caterpillar Inc | 0.00% | trimmed last Q | ▲▲ 62 |
| COST | Costco Whsl Corp | 0.04% | trimmed last Q | ▲ 58 |
| MKL | Markel Corp | 0.09% | trimmed last Q | ▲ 57 |
| - | Exxon Mobil Corp | 0.28% | just entered | ▲ 56 |
| PG | Procter & Gamble | 0.01% | trimmed last Q | ▲ 53 |
| JPM | J.P. Morgan Chase | 0.09% | trimmed last Q | ▲ 51 |
| GOOG | Alphabet Inc Cl C | 12.07% | held flat | · 49 |
⚠️ This predicts the ACTION (whether Tom Russo · Gardner Russo & Quinn 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
| Ticker | Company | Weight | Last change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOOG | Alphabet Inc Cl C | 12.07% | ✊ Held |
| BRK/A | Berkshire Hathaway Inc Cl A | 12.01% | ✊ Held |
| 4I1 | Philip Morris International In | 9.18% | ✊ Held |
| MA | Mastercard Inc Cl A | 8.76% | ✊ Held |
| - | Compagnie Financiere Richemont | 8.67% | ✊ Held |
| - | Heineken Holding Nv | 7.61% | ✊ Held |
| - | Nestle Sa Sponsored Adr | 6.11% | ✊ Held |
| BRK/B | Berkshire Hathaway Inc Cl B | 6.05% | ✊ Held |
| SUNB | Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc | 4.94% | ✊ Held |
| NFLX | Netflix Inc | 4.57% | ✊ Held |
| MLM | Martin Marietta Materials | 4.56% | ✊ Held |
| UBER | Uber Technologies Inc | 4.11% | ✊ Held |
| - | Eurofins Scientific | 3.60% | ➕ Added |
| DASH | Doordash Inc Cl A | 2.45% | ➕ Added |
| - | Pernod Ricard | 1.92% | ✊ Held |
Source: SEC Form 13F (public domain), long U.S. equity positions only, disclosed up to 45 days after quarter-end. Top 15 of 85 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.
| Ticker | Avg cost | Accumulation zone | Today | vs cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOOG | $353.33 | $287–$399 | $337.71 | -4.4% |
| BRK-A | $748850.00 | $699965–$748850 | $764000.00 | +2.0% |
| MA | $513.60 | $471–$524 | $591.73 | +15.2% |
| BRK-B | $500.39 | $465–$500 | $503.70 | +0.7% |
| SUNB | $74.81 | $62–$85 | $73.66 | -1.5% |
| NFLX | $71.40 | $71–$108 | $81.05 | +13.5% |
| MLM | $576.70 | $532–$634 | $528.59 | -8.3% |
| UBER | $72.16 | $69–$79 | $76.95 | +6.6% |
| DASH | $184.53 | $149–$190 | $231.74 | +25.6% |
| CMCSA | $24.55 | $22–$31 | $26.62 | +8.4% |
🧬 Factor fingerprint, the style behind the book
70% of Tom Russo · Gardner Russo & Quinn’s day-to-day swings are explained by public, buyable factors (Fama-French 5 + momentum), regressed on their current disclosed book (6 of 8 names, ~421 trading days). Market beta 0.92.
⚠️ 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
⚠️ 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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