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🪞 Tom Russo · Gardner Russo & Quinn

Global brand compounders.

Style
Value & quality
Disclosed holdings
85
Top pick hit rate
1.7%
Backtest edge
-1.1 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 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%.

#TickerCompanyMeasured hit ratevs base
1SUNBSunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc1.7%2.7x
2RRCRange Resources Corp1.6%2.6x
3DTDynatrace Inc1.6%2.5x
4DHIDr Horton Inc1.5%2.4x
5UPSUnited Parcel Service-Cl B1.4%2.3x
6CATCaterpillar Inc1.2%2x
7MCHPMicrochip Technology Inc1.2%1.9x
8SNPSSynopsys Inc1.1%1.9x
9CSLCarlisle Cos Inc1.1%1.8x
10DTEDte Energy Company1.1%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.

TickerCompanyWeightLast moveSell likelihood
CATCaterpillar Inc0.00%trimmed last Q▲▲ 62
COSTCostco Whsl Corp0.04%trimmed last Q 58
MKLMarkel Corp0.09%trimmed last Q 57
-Exxon Mobil Corp0.28%just entered 56
PGProcter & Gamble0.01%trimmed last Q 53
JPMJ.P. Morgan Chase0.09%trimmed last Q 51
GOOGAlphabet Inc Cl C12.07%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

TickerCompanyWeightLast change
GOOGAlphabet Inc Cl C12.07%✊ Held
BRK/ABerkshire Hathaway Inc Cl A12.01%✊ Held
4I1Philip Morris International In9.18%✊ Held
MAMastercard Inc Cl A8.76%✊ Held
-Compagnie Financiere Richemont8.67%✊ Held
-Heineken Holding Nv7.61%✊ Held
-Nestle Sa Sponsored Adr6.11%✊ Held
BRK/BBerkshire Hathaway Inc Cl B6.05%✊ Held
SUNBSunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc4.94%✊ Held
NFLXNetflix Inc4.57%✊ Held
MLMMartin Marietta Materials4.56%✊ Held
UBERUber Technologies Inc4.11%✊ Held
-Eurofins Scientific3.60%➕ Added
DASHDoordash Inc Cl A2.45%➕ Added
-Pernod Ricard1.92%✊ 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.

TickerAvg costAccumulation zoneTodayvs 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.

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
-1.1 pts
Quarters beating S&P
13/34
Avg quarterly return
+2.6%
-2%103%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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