Foundry Financial Services Earnings Quality (Accruals) Factor ETF
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Every other metric on this page is the long-shortstrategy, which needs a short book. This fund is the long leg alone, so these are the figures for what it actually holds. The bottom-bucket number is that basket’s own return — not short P&L.
Hypothetical growth of $1 — long-short backtest
Gross of the placeholder expense ratio and trading costs · not investor results
Holdings
Every constituent of the long leg — sort, search or filter by sector
| Ticker | Company | Sector | Market cap | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1CRCL | CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP INC | Financial Services | $15.03B | 25.48% |
2FDS | FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC | Financial Services | $9.18B | 15.56% |
3WULF | TERAWULF INC | Financial Services | $9.00B | 15.26% |
4CIFR | CIPHER DIGITAL INC | Financial Services | $7.18B | 12.18% |
5RIOT | RIOT PLATFORMS INC | Financial Services | $6.91B | 11.71% |
6MARA | MARA HOLDINGS INC | Financial Services | $4.08B | 6.91% |
7CLSK | CLEANSPARK INC | Financial Services | $3.34B | 5.67% |
8CRVL | CORVEL CORP | Financial Services | $3.13B | 5.30% |
9CRD.A | CRAWFORD & CO | Financial Services | $537M | 0.91% |
10ABTC | AMERICAN BITCOIN CORP | Financial Services | $386M | 0.65% |
11PMTS | CPI CARD GROUP INC | Financial Services | $216M | 0.37% |
Full long-leg book as of July 2026 · cap-weighted · total market cap $58.98B. Hypothetical model holdings — not a registered fund’s portfolio.
Sector Breakdown
Portfolio Style
Size × value map of the long-leg book
Share of long-leg capital by market cap × book-to-market, using terciles of the 554-name universe at July 2026. Rows: Large ≥ $4.3B, Small < $753M. Columns: Value ≥ 0.61, Growth < 0.39 B/M. The dot marks the capital-weighted centroid of the book — 87% toward Large, 96% toward Growth. +15% unclassified (1 missing size/value). Hypothetical holdings — descriptive, not realized P&L.
Capital-weighted centroid of the long leg, December 1999 → July 2026; the right-hand end is the same value as the box’s dot. 11 names now. Hypothetical holdings — descriptive, not P&L.
Constraint checks
How this book measures against the concentration and liquidity rules — as implemented here
These are UNCONSTRAINED factor sleeves: the construction pipeline sorts on a signal and cap-weights the top bucket, applying no issuer cap, no industry cap and no liquidity screen beyond the universe filter. A failing test therefore reports a constraint that was never applied during construction — it is not a defect in the strategy and not an error in the data. The same signal can be solved subject to these constraints.
7 independent checks plus 1 arithmetically implied by another check (RIC / IRC 851(b)(3)(A) 50% bucket), which is reported separately so the tally cannot overstate scrutiny.
1 of 7 checks could not be tested. Those are neither passes nor failures — they are gaps in what the data can answer, and they are excluded from the passed count above rather than folded into it.
With respect to 75% of total assets, no more than 5% may be invested in the securities of any one issuer.
Required>= 75.0%Actual41.9%Margin-33.1%No more than 25% of total assets may be invested in the securities of any one issuer.
Required<= 25.0%Actual25.5%Margin-0.5%Close to the line. The engine flags this verdict as one a routine data rebuild could flip. Read it as borderline rather than settled — the margin beside it is the whole story.
Days required to liquidate the largest position at 20% of one day's dollar volume.
Required<= 7.0 daysActual15.9 daysMargin-8.9 days
At least 50% of total assets must sit in cash, government securities, other RICs, and other securities limited to 5% of assets and 10% of the issuer's voting securities per issuer.
Required>= 50.0%Actual41.9%Margin-8.1%Arithmetically entailed by '40 Act 5(b)(1) diversification (75%/5% asset leg) — it cannot fail independently, so it is reported outside the tally rather than counted as a separate check.
Engineering approximation of the cited rules for a DRAFT / HYPOTHETICAL model portfolio that is not a registered fund. This reports whether the portfolio passes the stated test AS IMPLEMENTED HERE; it is not a compliance opinion and is not a statement that any fund is compliant. Real filings need securities counsel.
1 verdict(s) sit within 1.0pp of their limit and can be flipped by a routine data rebuild; do not headline them, and always show the margin.
Data version — panel=20260719T025334 rows=2239262 asof=202607 issuers=20260719T014536 rates=20260804T224700
Measured on the 2026-07 formation date across 11 holdings (cap-weighted). A different formation date can produce different verdicts.
Derivatives risk (Rule 18f-4)
Whether this long-only book is subject to the VaR tests at all
This assessment describes the long-only book this fund holds — the top bucket only.
This fund QUALIFIES for the limited-derivatives-user exception, so it is excepted from the VaR tests; the ratio below is informational, not the operative limit.
Rule 18f-4(c)(4): a fund whose derivatives exposure (gross notional, including the value of assets sold short) is <= 10% of net assets is excepted from the VaR tests and the full derivatives risk management program.
No confidence interval: this follows from portfolio construction, not from an estimate.
Rule 18f-4(c)(2)(i): fund VaR at 99% over 20 trading days must not exceed 200% of the designated reference portfolio's VaR on the same basis.
Informational — does not governThis fund is excepted from the VaR tests, so the ratio below is context rather than the operative limit. It is shown because it is still a description of the book’s risk, not because it decides anything.
historical method · 330 monthly observations · about 3.3 in the 99% tail · paired percentile bootstrap over months
The estimators disagree about the verdict, not just the value — the choice of method decides the answer here. Historical VaR gives ratio 2.27 (fail) but Gaussian VaR gives 1.62 (pass). The pass/fail conclusion is an artefact of estimator choice, not a property of the strategy.
Engineering approximation of SEC Rule 18f-4 for research display. Not a compliance opinion and not a determination that any fund is compliant. Hypothetical model portfolio, not a registered fund.
The research long-short construction behind this factor does not qualify for this exception — a dollar-neutral book counts its full short notional, which is 100% of net assets against a 10% threshold. This product sidesteps that by holding the long leg alone, which is also why the long-leg Sharpe is reported separately throughout the site.
See the long-short verdict on the factor page →Since publication
Did the edge survive the paper coming out?
There is no “before” to compare against — the predictor was already public when our data begins, so every month shown is out-of-sample relative to the original study.
Split at January of the year after the factor was published. The post-publication stretch IS genuinely out-of-sample relative to the original study -- the predictor was public by then -- so it speaks to whether the effect survived being known. Nothing is fitted here, so this is performance SINCE PUBLICATION, not validation of a model. Note the 'pre' side is our data before publication (our panel starts ~1999), NOT the study's original in-sample period, which usually ran decades earlier; a decay figure compares before-vs-after within our sample and is not a comparison against the published result.
Consistency across eras
Is this record broadly durable, or one regime?
3-year rolling windows, stepping 1 year (26 windows). Dispersion is the spread of window Sharpes — higher means the record depends more on which era you look at.
Rules-based factors fit no parameters, so these windows are not out-of-sample tests and do not validate a fitted model. They show whether the factor's record is consistent across eras or driven by one regime.
Returns
Long leg is what this fund holds — long-short is shown for reference
| Period | Long leg | Long-short |
|---|---|---|
| 1 yearcum. | 20.1% | 40.3% |
| 3 yearsp.a. | 8.7% | -19.8% |
| 5 yearsp.a. | -4.0% | -21.1% |
| 10 yearsp.a. | 12.2% | -10.2% |
| Since inceptionp.a. | 7.6% | -9.4% |
| Year | Long leg | Long-short |
|---|---|---|
| 20267 mo | 13.5% | 10.5% |
| 2025 | -6.4% | -29.8% |
| 2024 | 15.7% | -38.0% |
| 2023 | 12.4% | -10.8% |
| 2022 | -48.2% | -32.5% |
| 2021 | 54.9% | 27.7% |
| 2020 | 34.0% | -6.9% |
| 2019 | 3.1% | -28.6% |
| 2018 | 4.0% | 10.3% |
| 2017 | 60.6% | 3.0% |
| 2016 | 23.3% | 18.4% |
| 2015 | 17.3% | 3.9% |
| 2014 | 8.8% | -5.1% |
| 2013 | 47.3% | -7.8% |
| 2012 | 29.9% | 7.3% |
| 2011 | -4.9% | 10.7% |
| 2010 | 1.1% | -5.5% |
| 2009 | 23.3% | -34.8% |
| 2008 | -58.6% | 22.8% |
| 2007 | -4.0% | -32.0% |
| 2006 | 23.9% | 4.9% |
| 2005 | 39.7% | 87.7% |
| 2004 | 25.3% | -22.1% |
| 2003 | 26.4% | -28.8% |
| 2002 | -20.5% | 24.2% |
| 2001 | -37.9% | -19.7% |
| 2000 | 30.7% | -7.6% |
| 199911 mo | 16.9% | -63.9% |
Long leg = the top bucket this fund holds; long-short additionally shorts the bottom bucket and is not achievable in a long-only vehicle. Trailing figures run through July 2026: 1 year is a plain cumulative 12-month return (cum.), 3 years and longer are annualised (p.a.). Years marked with a month count are partial. These match the fact sheet’s tables by construction. Hypothetical backtest, gross of the placeholder expense ratio and trading costs — not investor results.
Fund Facts
Methodology
The Foundry Financial Services Earnings Quality (Accruals) Factor ETF tracks a rules-based model that ranks Financial Services common stocks each month by a Earnings Quality (Accruals) signal and holds the top quintile with the lowest values. Signals are computed from point-in-time Sharadar fundamentals and total-return prices. The portfolio reconstitutes monthly and is cap-weighted within the long leg.
This is a hypothetical model portfolio for research display only — not a registered fund, not an offer, and not investment advice.
Documents (draft — hypothetical)
Auto-generated from the model’s metrics and current holdings. Every document is labeled DRAFT / hypothetical.
Objective, fees, strategy, and key risks.
Full strategy, model methodology, and risks.
Policies, construction, and governance.
One-page snapshot with top holdings.
Full current constituent list.
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