ETF Foundry
DRAFT — HYPOTHETICAL MODEL PORTFOLIO — NOT A REGISTERED FUND, NOT AN OFFER TO SELL SECURITIES, NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE.
investment factor · long-only model fund

Foundry Technology CompEquIss Factor ETF

ETF Foundry Research (hypothetical) · rebalanced monthly

FCOTHYPOTHETICAL MODEL
Since ’99
+162%
Expense Ratio
0.45%
placeholder
Holdings
71
cap-weighted
Inception
Sep 2020
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Full Sharpe
0.33
Ann. Return (LS)
5.9%
Ann. Volatility
17.8%
Max Drawdown
-39.1%
Test Sharpe ’19–26
0.26
Test FF5 α (ann.)
5.4%
vs Fama-French 5
Test FF5 α t-stat
0.72
not significant
Monthly turnover
15%
of the long leg, per rebalance
Cumulative return (LS)
162%
over 271 months
This fund holds the long leg only
Long leg Sharpe
0.94
what this fund holds
Long leg ann. return
20.9%
buyable, long-only
Long-short Sharpe
0.33
requires shorting
Bottom bucket ann. return
15.1%
the basket shorted

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

271 months

Holdings

Every constituent of the long leg — sort, search or filter by sector

71 of 71 · 100.0% of book
TickerCompanySectorMarket capWeight
1NVDA
NVIDIA CORPTechnology$4.91T
40.14%
2AVGO
BROADCOM INCTechnology$1.76T
14.43%
3MU
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INCTechnology$958.80B
7.84%
4AMD
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INCTechnology$808.39B
6.61%
5AMAT
APPLIED MATERIALS INCTechnology$420.53B
3.44%
6LRCX
LAM RESEARCH CORPTechnology$391.80B
3.20%
7PLTR
PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INCTechnology$317.36B
2.60%
8PANW
PALO ALTO NETWORKS INCTechnology$292.32B
2.39%
9KLAC
KLA CORPTechnology$277.91B
2.27%
10DELL
DELL TECHNOLOGIES INCTechnology$256.87B
2.10%
11ANET
ARISTA NETWORKS INCTechnology$212.31B
1.74%
12APH
AMPHENOL CORPTechnology$186.01B
1.52%
13STX
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PLCTechnology$176.62B
1.44%
14MRVL
MARVELL TECHNOLOGY INCTechnology$165.06B
1.35%
15WDC
WESTERN DIGITAL CORPTechnology$164.49B
1.35%
16APP
APPLOVIN CORPTechnology$142.62B
1.17%
17GLW
CORNING INCTechnology$133.06B
1.09%
18FTNT
FORTINET INCTechnology$118.40B
0.97%
19HPE
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COTechnology$60.67B
0.50%
20LITE
LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INCTechnology$57.01B
0.47%
21COHR
COHERENT CORPTechnology$54.31B
0.44%
22CIEN
CIENA CORPTechnology$53.00B
0.43%
23FLEX
FLEX LTDTechnology$43.69B
0.36%
24JBL
JABIL INCTechnology$31.54B
0.26%
25P
EVERPURE INCTechnology$23.06B
0.19%
26ASTS
AST SPACEMOBILE INCTechnology$22.43B
0.18%
27MTSI
MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS INCTechnology$20.40B
0.17%
28FN
FABRINETTechnology$17.14B
0.14%
29SITM
SITIME CORPTechnology$14.65B
0.12%
30SMCI
SUPER MICRO COMPUTER INCTechnology$14.54B
0.12%
31ONTO
ONTO INNOVATION INCTechnology$13.92B
0.11%
32TTMI
TTM TECHNOLOGIES INCTechnology$13.71B
0.11%
33RMBS
RAMBUS INCTechnology$10.97B
0.09%
34SANM
SANMINA CORPTechnology$10.57B
0.09%
35ESE
ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INCTechnology$8.25B
0.07%
36AAOI
APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS INCTechnology$8.22B
0.07%
37ZETA
ZETA GLOBAL HOLDINGS CORPTechnology$5.40B
0.04%
38EPAM
EPAM SYSTEMS INCTechnology$4.63B
0.04%
39ACLS
AXCELIS TECHNOLOGIES INCTechnology$4.19B
0.03%
40RNG
RINGCENTRAL INCTechnology$3.46B
0.03%
41AXTI
AXT INCTechnology$3.00B
0.02%
42BELFA
BEL FUSE INCTechnology$2.91B
0.02%
43BHE
BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS INCTechnology$2.81B
0.02%
44ADEA
ADEIA INCTechnology$2.80B
0.02%
45VISN
VISTANCE NETWORKS INCTechnology$2.74B
0.02%
46ATEN
A10 NETWORKS INCTechnology$2.59B
0.02%
47AEHR
AEHR TEST SYSTEMSTechnology$2.55B
0.02%
48INOD
INNODATA INCTechnology$1.99B
0.02%
49FIVN
FIVE9 INCTechnology$1.96B
0.02%
50MQ
MARQETA INCTechnology$1.85B
0.02%
51ASAN
ASANA INCTechnology$1.77B
0.01%
52DXC
DXC TECHNOLOGY COTechnology$1.55B
0.01%
53LYTS
LSI INDUSTRIES INCTechnology$879M
0.01%
54RPD
RAPID7 INCTechnology$815M
0.01%
55EFOR
EVERFORTH INCTechnology$768M
0.01%
56LPTH
LIGHTPATH TECHNOLOGIES INCTechnology$657M
0.01%
57FEIM
FREQUENCY ELECTRONICS INCTechnology$650M
0.01%
58ALIT
ALIGHT INCTechnology$584M
0.00%
59TASK
TASKUS INCTechnology$534M
0.00%
60SPT
SPROUT SOCIAL INCTechnology$518M
0.00%
61CLMB
CLIMB GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INCTechnology$482M
0.00%
62PAYS
PAYSIGN INCTechnology$478M
0.00%
63CRNC
CERENCE INCTechnology$390M
0.00%
64MKTW
MARKETWISE INCTechnology$314M
0.00%
65BKTI
BK TECHNOLOGIES CORPTechnology$307M
0.00%
66TSSI
TSS INCTechnology$274M
0.00%
67FIRY
FIRY INCTechnology$130M
0.00%
68INSG
INSEEGO CORPTechnology$122M
0.00%
69TCX
TUCOWS INCTechnology$114M
0.00%
70TRT
TRIO-TECH INTERNATIONALTechnology$103M
0.00%
71STEM
STEM INCTechnology$56M
0.00%

Full long-leg book as of July 2026 · cap-weighted · total market cap $12.23T. Hypothetical model holdings — not a registered fund’s portfolio.

Sector Breakdown

1 sectors
Technology
100.0%

Portfolio Style

Size × value map of the long-leg book

71 classified
Value
Blend
Growth
Large
Mid
Small
<1%1
13%10
86%23
<1%4
<1%6
<1%5
<1%6
<1%8
<1%5

Share of long-leg capital by market cap × book-to-market, using terciles of the 421-name universe at July 2026. Rows: Large ≥ $8.9B, Small < $1.9B. Columns: Value ≥ 0.63, Growth < 0.38 B/M. The dot marks the capital-weighted centroid of the book — 100% toward Large, 93% toward Growth. Hypothetical holdings — descriptive, not realized P&L.

Tilt over time
Size tilt100% → Large
SmallLarge
Value ↔ growth tilt93% → Growth
ValueGrowth

Capital-weighted centroid of the long leg, December 2003July 2026; the right-hand end is the same value as the box’s dot. 71 names now. Hypothetical holdings — descriptive, not P&L.

Constraint checks

How this book measures against the concentration and liquidity rules — as implemented here

How this book was built

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.

Passed
4
Failed
2
Not tested
1
Independent checks
7

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%
    Actual
    51.0%
    Margin
    -24.0%
  • No more than 25% of total assets may be invested in the securities of any one issuer.

    Required
    <= 25.0%
    Actual
    40.1%
    Margin
    -15.1%
Reported separately — arithmetically implied
  • 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%
    Actual
    51.0%
    Margin
    1.0%

    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.

    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 71 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.

Governing rule
Rule 18f-4(c)(4) limited derivatives user exception

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.

Limited derivatives user exceptionby construction

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.

Qualifies
Required
<= 10% of net assets
Exposure
0% of net assets
Margin
+10pp

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 govern

This 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.

Measured
1.5 (95% CI 0.9-2.0)
x reference VaR
Limit
2.00x
<= 2.00x reference VaR
Fund VaR
13.9%
99% / 20d
Reference
9.4%
FF5 market (mkt)

historical method · 271 monthly observations · about 2.7 in the 99% tail · paired percentile bootstrap over months

Same test, three estimators
historical
1.49x
within
parametric
1.41x
within
cornish fisher
1.27x
within

The estimators agree, which is mild evidence the number isn’t an artefact of one method.

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?

published 2006
Before publication (pre-2006)
-0.06
Sharpe · -0.8% p.a.
January 2004December 2006 · 36 mo
Since publication
0.37
Sharpe · 6.9% p.a.
January 2007July 2026 · 235 mo
Change in Sharpe+0.43the return flipped from negative to positive since publication

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?

21 windows
Positive windows
81%
17 of 21 3-year windows made money
Worst window
-0.08
Sharpe, January 2013 – December 2015
January 2004July 2026
Median Sharpe
0.30
Dispersion
0.35
Best window
1.16

3-year rolling windows, stepping 1 year (21 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

since January 2004
Trailing
PeriodLong legLong-short
1 yearcum.34.6%-16.0%
3 yearsp.a.35.0%1.5%
5 yearsp.a.24.8%3.4%
10 yearsp.a.30.7%3.7%
Since inceptionp.a.20.1%4.4%
Calendar years
YearLong legLong-short
20267 mo24.8%-9.4%
202526.8%3.8%
202447.0%24.5%
202366.6%-0.7%
2022-34.4%-21.2%
202142.0%31.7%
202062.3%14.0%
201951.9%-6.7%
20184.1%5.2%
201741.9%14.8%
201610.5%-15.0%
20151.5%-0.3%
201432.9%13.1%
201311.5%-17.4%
201216.0%10.5%
201112.5%34.9%
201025.7%12.2%
200979.5%-3.0%
2008-51.4%-10.7%
200742.7%55.0%
20066.3%-10.9%
200510.6%-0.9%
200418.1%8.0%

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

Ticker (pseudo)FCOT
IssuerETF Foundry Research (hypothetical)
SeriesHypothetical Model Portfolio Series (not a registered trust)
Expense ratio0.45% (placeholder)
Inception2020-09-06 (placeholder)
Listing exchangeNot listed (hypothetical)
CUSIPNot applicable (hypothetical model portfolio)
RebalanceMonthly
Holdings as ofJuly 2026
Total mkt cap (long leg)$12.23T

Methodology

The Foundry Technology CompEquIss Factor ETF tracks a rules-based model that ranks Technology common stocks each month by a CompEquIss 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.

Summary Prospectus

Objective, fees, strategy, and key risks.

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Prospectus

Full strategy, model methodology, and risks.

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Statement of Additional Information

Policies, construction, and governance.

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Fact Sheet

One-page snapshot with top holdings.

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Daily Holdings

Full current constituent list.

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DRAFT — HYPOTHETICAL MODEL PORTFOLIO — NOT A REGISTERED FUND, NOT AN OFFER TO SELL SECURITIES, NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE.