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

Foundry Financial Services Net Operating Assets Factor ETF

ETF Foundry Research (hypothetical) · rebalanced monthly

FNOFHYPOTHETICAL MODEL
Since ’99
+74%
Expense Ratio
0.45%
placeholder
Holdings
108
cap-weighted
Inception
Dec 2019
placeholder
Full Sharpe
0.21
Ann. Return (LS)
3.0%
Ann. Volatility
14.3%
Max Drawdown
-40.4%
Test Sharpe ’19–26
0.28
Test FF5 α (ann.)
3.4%
vs Fama-French 5
Test FF5 α t-stat
0.57
not significant
Monthly turnover
8%
of the long leg, per rebalance
Cumulative return (LS)
74%
over 331 months
This fund holds the long leg only
Long leg Sharpe
0.51
what this fund holds
Long leg ann. return
11.9%
buyable, long-only
Long-short Sharpe
0.21
requires shorting
Bottom bucket ann. return
8.8%
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

331 months

Holdings

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

108 of 108 · 100.0% of book
TickerCompanySectorMarket capWeight
1BNY
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORPFinancial Services$107.85B
14.01%
2HOOD
ROBINHOOD MARKETS INCFinancial Services$90.01B
11.69%
3APO
APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT INCFinancial Services$69.45B
9.02%
4MET
METLIFE INCFinancial Services$60.48B
7.86%
5STT
STATE STREET CORPFinancial Services$50.51B
6.56%
6AMP
AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$47.45B
6.17%
7PRU
PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$41.32B
5.37%
8NTRS
NORTHERN TRUST CORPFinancial Services$34.17B
4.44%
9RJF
RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$32.81B
4.26%
10PFG
PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INCFinancial Services$24.61B
3.20%
11CRCL
CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP INCFinancial Services$15.03B
1.95%
12CRBG
COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$14.56B
1.89%
13EQH
EQUITABLE HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$13.79B
1.79%
14UMBF
UMB FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$11.09B
1.44%
15BPOP
POPULAR INCFinancial Services$11.08B
1.44%
16ZION
ZIONS BANCORPORATION NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONFinancial Services$10.63B
1.38%
17CFR
CULLEN/FROST BANKERS INCFinancial Services$10.15B
1.32%
18VOYA
VOYA FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$9.04B
1.17%
19WAL
WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATIONFinancial Services$8.99B
1.17%
20JXN
JACKSON FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$8.76B
1.14%
21LNC
LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPFinancial Services$8.08B
1.05%
22STEP
STEPSTONE GROUP INCFinancial Services$5.20B
0.68%
23TCBI
TEXAS CAPITAL BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$4.59B
0.60%
24FG
F&G ANNUITIES & LIFE INCFinancial Services$4.25B
0.55%
25WSFS
WSFS FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$4.16B
0.54%
26HGTY
HAGERTY INCFinancial Services$4.13B
0.54%
27BANF
BANCFIRST CORPFinancial Services$3.90B
0.51%
28BHF
BRIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$3.77B
0.49%
29FHB
FIRST HAWAIIAN INCFinancial Services$3.56B
0.46%
30ARX
ACCELERANT HOLDINGSFinancial Services$2.95B
0.38%
31CUBI
CUSTOMERS BANCORP INCFinancial Services$2.65B
0.34%
32SLDE
SLIDE INSURANCE HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$2.35B
0.31%
33HCI
HCI GROUP INCFinancial Services$2.27B
0.30%
34HAPN
HAPPEN INCFinancial Services$2.22B
0.29%
35LOB
LIVE OAK BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$1.97B
0.26%
36TFIN
TRIUMPH FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$1.92B
0.25%
37DCOM
DIME COMMUNITY BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$1.78B
0.23%
38OBK
ORIGIN BANCORP INCFinancial Services$1.62B
0.21%
39PWP
PERELLA WEINBERG PARTNERSFinancial Services$1.48B
0.19%
40TWFG
TWFG INCFinancial Services$1.43B
0.19%
41MCB
METROPOLITAN BANK HOLDING CORPFinancial Services$1.22B
0.16%
42CCB
COASTAL FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$1.20B
0.16%
43NBN
NORTHEAST BANCORPFinancial Services$1.20B
0.16%
44UVE
UNIVERSAL INSURANCE HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$1.09B
0.14%
45ESQ
ESQUIRE FINANCIAL HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$1.06B
0.14%
46FSBC
FIVE STAR BANCORPFinancial Services$1.04B
0.14%
47CPF
CENTRAL PACIFIC FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$1.02B
0.13%
48TRST
TRUSTCO BANK CORP N YFinancial Services$960M
0.12%
49ROOT
ROOT INCFinancial Services$944M
0.12%
50SPFI
SOUTH PLAINS FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$880M
0.11%
51CCBG
CAPITAL CITY BANK GROUP INCFinancial Services$861M
0.11%
52FCBC
FIRST COMMUNITY BANKSHARES INCFinancial Services$848M
0.11%
53EGBN
EAGLE BANCORP INCFinancial Services$835M
0.11%
54SMBK
SMARTFINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$823M
0.11%
55HRTG
HERITAGE INSURANCE HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$821M
0.11%
56PGC
PEAPACK GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$817M
0.11%
57SHBI
SHORE BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$776M
0.10%
58GDOT
GREEN DOT CORPFinancial Services$760M
0.10%
59IBCP
INDEPENDENT BANK CORPFinancial Services$750M
0.10%
60AROW
ARROW FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$687M
0.09%
61BCAL
CALIFORNIA BANCORPFinancial Services$683M
0.09%
62TCBX
THIRD COAST BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$674M
0.09%
63RRBI
RED RIVER BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$644M
0.08%
64SFST
SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$588M
0.08%
65CBNK
CAPITAL BANCORP INCFinancial Services$584M
0.08%
66GLRE
GREENLIGHT CAPITAL RE LTDFinancial Services$566M
0.07%
67GCBC
GREENE COUNTY BANCORP INCFinancial Services$559M
0.07%
68HBCP
HOME BANCORP INCFinancial Services$544M
0.07%
69OBT
ORANGE COUNTY BANCORP INCFinancial Services$504M
0.07%
70BSVN
BANK7 CORPFinancial Services$485M
0.06%
71BWFG
BANKWELL FINANCIAL GROUP INCFinancial Services$479M
0.06%
72BMRC
BANK OF MARIN BANCORPFinancial Services$468M
0.06%
73WTBA
WEST BANCORPORATION INCFinancial Services$460M
0.06%
74PCB
PCB BANCORPFinancial Services$424M
0.06%
75MVBF
MVB FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$377M
0.05%
76BCML
BAYCOM CORPFinancial Services$371M
0.05%
77TSBK
TIMBERLAND BANCORP INCFinancial Services$343M
0.04%
78MYFW
FIRST WESTERN FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$323M
0.04%
79FVCB
FVCBANKCORP INCFinancial Services$321M
0.04%
80FCCO
FIRST COMMUNITY CORPFinancial Services$307M
0.04%
81FDBC
FIDELITY D & D BANCORP INCFinancial Services$305M
0.04%
82OVLY
OAK VALLEY BANCORPFinancial Services$282M
0.04%
83CBNA
CHAIN BRIDGE BANCORP INCFinancial Services$275M
0.04%
84FXNC
FIRST NATIONAL CORPFinancial Services$267M
0.03%
85BPRN
PRINCETON BANCORP INCFinancial Services$263M
0.03%
86ATLO
AMES NATIONAL CORPFinancial Services$262M
0.03%
87NKSH
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INCFinancial Services$233M
0.03%
88INBK
FIRST INTERNET BANCORPFinancial Services$233M
0.03%
89PEBK
PEOPLES BANCORP OF NORTH CAROLINA INCFinancial Services$232M
0.03%
90EFSI
EAGLE FINANCIAL SERVICES INCFinancial Services$229M
0.03%
91CZWI
CITIZENS COMMUNITY BANCORP INCFinancial Services$224M
0.03%
92OPBK
OP BANCORPFinancial Services$223M
0.03%
93CFBK
CF BANKSHARES INCFinancial Services$215M
0.03%
94OVBC
OHIO VALLEY BANC CORPFinancial Services$206M
0.03%
95FCAP
FIRST CAPITAL INCFinancial Services$205M
0.03%
96RBKB
RHINEBECK BANCORP INCFinancial Services$190M
0.02%
97HNVR
HANOVER BANCORP INCFinancial Services$179M
0.02%
98MNSB
MAINSTREET BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$172M
0.02%
99SBFG
SB FINANCIAL GROUP INCFinancial Services$170M
0.02%
100FGBI
FIRST GUARANTY BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$164M
0.02%
101FNWD
FINWARD BANCORPFinancial Services$157M
0.02%
102BOTJ
BANK OF THE JAMES FINANCIAL GROUP INCFinancial Services$121M
0.02%
103SFBC
SOUND FINANCIAL BANCORP INCFinancial Services$120M
0.02%
104RVSB
RIVERVIEW BANCORP INCFinancial Services$107M
0.01%
105AUBN
AUBURN NATIONAL BANCORPORATION INCFinancial Services$93M
0.01%
106FUSB
FIRST US BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$92M
0.01%
107OPHC
OPTIMUMBANK HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$74M
0.01%
108HFBL
HOME FEDERAL BANCORP INC OF LOUISIANAFinancial Services$70M
0.01%

Full long-leg book as of July 2026 · cap-weighted · total market cap $769.73B. Hypothetical model holdings — not a registered fund’s portfolio.

Sector Breakdown

1 sectors
Financial Services
100.0%

Portfolio Style

Size × value map of the long-leg book

108 classified
Value
Blend
Growth
Large
Mid
Small
11%6
3%2
74%13
2%10
2%12
3%13
1%26
1%23
<1%1

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 — 94% toward Large, 82% toward Growth. +2% unclassified (2 missing size/value). Hypothetical holdings — descriptive, not realized P&L.

Tilt over time
Size tilt94% → Large
SmallLarge
Value ↔ growth tilt82% → Growth
ValueGrowth

Capital-weighted centroid of the long leg, December 1998July 2026; the right-hand end is the same value as the box’s dot. 108 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
5
Failed
1
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
    74.3%
    Margin
    -0.7%

    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.

Reported separately — arithmetically implied

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 108 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
1.7 (95% CI 1.3-1.9)
x reference VaR
Limit
2.00x
<= 2.00x reference VaR
Fund VaR
16.7%
99% / 20d
Reference
9.6%
FF5 market (mkt)

historical method · 331 monthly observations · about 3.3 in the 99% tail · paired percentile bootstrap over months

Same test, three estimators
historical
1.74x
within
parametric
1.48x
within
cornish fisher
1.63x
within

The estimators differ materially in value but agree on the verdict. Historical and Gaussian fund VaR differ by 17%; both still land on the same side of the 2x limit.

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 2004
Before publication (pre-2004)
-0.03
Sharpe · -0.3% p.a.
January 1999December 2004 · 72 mo
Since publication
0.27
Sharpe · 4.0% p.a.
January 2005July 2026 · 259 mo
Change in Sharpe+0.29the 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?

26 windows
Positive windows
69%
18 of 26 3-year windows made money
Worst window
-0.57
Sharpe, January 2009 – December 2011
January 1999July 2026
Median Sharpe
0.22
Dispersion
0.48
Best window
1.24

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

since January 1999
Trailing
PeriodLong legLong-short
1 yearcum.7.8%6.1%
3 yearsp.a.23.4%11.3%
5 yearsp.a.16.0%6.4%
10 yearsp.a.16.0%2.4%
Since inceptionp.a.9.5%2.0%
Calendar years
YearLong legLong-short
20267 mo7.0%10.0%
202520.2%8.1%
202433.7%7.8%
202314.2%-3.5%
2022-7.9%2.2%
202146.3%15.1%
2020-0.5%-8.8%
201926.3%-1.4%
2018-16.4%-16.8%
201724.7%-1.8%
201618.9%7.9%
20151.6%5.8%
201412.0%-1.8%
201362.7%17.4%
201216.8%-6.7%
2011-19.0%-10.3%
201012.5%4.0%
200920.3%-16.2%
2008-45.1%32.3%
20073.8%35.5%
200616.8%-8.7%
200517.8%10.3%
200414.6%1.1%
200334.8%-0.9%
2002-19.9%-7.7%
2001-13.5%-0.4%
200032.2%0.9%
199912.5%0.6%

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)FNOF
IssuerETF Foundry Research (hypothetical)
SeriesHypothetical Model Portfolio Series (not a registered trust)
Expense ratio0.45% (placeholder)
Inception2019-12-09 (placeholder)
Listing exchangeNot listed (hypothetical)
CUSIPNot applicable (hypothetical model portfolio)
RebalanceMonthly
Holdings as ofJuly 2026
Total mkt cap (long leg)$769.73B

Methodology

The Foundry Financial Services Net Operating Assets Factor ETF tracks a rules-based model that ranks Financial Services common stocks each month by a Net Operating Assets 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.