Estimated return — disclosed long book

What Terry Smith’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
-9.0%
SPY -4.4% -4.6%
By calendar year
YearEstimatedSPYDifference
2025+11.3%+17.7%-6.4%
2024+15.0%+24.9%-9.9%
2023+16.8%+26.2%-9.4%
2022-24.9%-18.2%-6.7%
2021+20.4%+28.7%-8.3%
2020+31.4%+18.3%+13.1%
2019+18.8%+31.2%-12.4%
2018+12.8%-4.6%+17.4%
2017+38.4%+21.7%+16.7%
20163/4 Q-0.4%+9.3%-9.7%
2015+7.4%+1.2%+6.2%
20142/4 Q+14.1%+6.1%+8.0%

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.