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

Foundry Financial Services NetDebtPrice Factor ETF

ETF Foundry Research (hypothetical) · rebalanced monthly

FNEFHYPOTHETICAL MODEL
Since ’99
+92%
Expense Ratio
0.45%
placeholder
Holdings
111
cap-weighted
Inception
Oct 2019
placeholder
Full Sharpe
0.24
Ann. Return (LS)
3.4%
Ann. Volatility
14.2%
Max Drawdown
-53.2%
Test Sharpe ’19–26
-0.04
Test FF5 α (ann.)
2.3%
vs Fama-French 5
Test FF5 α t-stat
0.54
not significant
Monthly turnover
9%
of the long leg, per rebalance
Cumulative return (LS)
92%
over 331 months
This fund holds the long leg only
Long leg Sharpe
0.59
what this fund holds
Long leg ann. return
12.5%
buyable, long-only
Long-short Sharpe
0.24
requires shorting
Bottom bucket ann. return
9.1%
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

331 months

Holdings

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

111 of 111 · 100.0% of book
TickerCompanySectorMarket capWeight
1COF
CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$129.46B
24.63%
2BNY
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORPFinancial Services$107.85B
20.52%
3STT
STATE STREET CORPFinancial Services$50.51B
9.61%
4NTRS
NORTHERN TRUST CORPFinancial Services$34.17B
6.50%
5RJF
RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$32.81B
6.24%
6CRCL
CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP INCFinancial Services$15.03B
2.86%
7EQH
EQUITABLE HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$13.79B
2.62%
8UMBF
UMB FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$11.09B
2.11%
9BPOP
POPULAR INCFinancial Services$11.08B
2.11%
10CFR
CULLEN/FROST BANKERS INCFinancial Services$10.15B
1.93%
11WAL
WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATIONFinancial Services$8.99B
1.71%
12UBSI
UNITED BANKSHARES INCFinancial Services$6.56B
1.25%
13TCBI
TEXAS CAPITAL BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$4.59B
0.87%
14CATY
CATHAY GENERAL BANCORPFinancial Services$4.20B
0.80%
15WSFS
WSFS FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$4.16B
0.79%
16BANF
BANCFIRST CORPFinancial Services$3.90B
0.74%
17BHF
BRIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$3.77B
0.72%
18FHB
FIRST HAWAIIAN INCFinancial Services$3.56B
0.68%
19HG
HAMILTON INSURANCE GROUP LTDFinancial Services$3.47B
0.66%
20PRK
PARK NATIONAL CORPFinancial Services$3.43B
0.65%
21FBK
FB FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$3.09B
0.59%
22ARX
ACCELERANT HOLDINGSFinancial Services$2.95B
0.56%
23FBNC
FIRST BANCORPFinancial Services$2.67B
0.51%
24CUBI
CUSTOMERS BANCORP INCFinancial Services$2.65B
0.50%
25SLDE
SLIDE INSURANCE HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$2.35B
0.45%
26HCI
HCI GROUP INCFinancial Services$2.27B
0.43%
27HAPN
HAPPEN INCFinancial Services$2.22B
0.42%
28LOB
LIVE OAK BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$1.97B
0.37%
29TFIN
TRIUMPH FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$1.92B
0.37%
30DCOM
DIME COMMUNITY BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$1.78B
0.34%
31OBK
ORIGIN BANCORP INCFinancial Services$1.62B
0.31%
32MCB
METROPOLITAN BANK HOLDING CORPFinancial Services$1.22B
0.23%
33CCB
COASTAL FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$1.20B
0.23%
34UVE
UNIVERSAL INSURANCE HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$1.09B
0.21%
35ESQ
ESQUIRE FINANCIAL HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$1.06B
0.20%
36FSBC
FIVE STAR BANCORPFinancial Services$1.04B
0.20%
37CPF
CENTRAL PACIFIC FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$1.02B
0.19%
38CCNE
CNB FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$1.02B
0.19%
39BFST
BUSINESS FIRST BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$1.01B
0.19%
40TRST
TRUSTCO BANK CORP N YFinancial Services$960M
0.18%
41NBBK
NB BANCORP INCFinancial Services$951M
0.18%
42FRBT
FORBRIGHT INCFinancial Services$947M
0.18%
43ROOT
ROOT INCFinancial Services$944M
0.18%
44SPFI
SOUTH PLAINS FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$880M
0.17%
45CCBG
CAPITAL CITY BANK GROUP INCFinancial Services$861M
0.16%
46FCBC
FIRST COMMUNITY BANKSHARES INCFinancial Services$848M
0.16%
47EGBN
EAGLE BANCORP INCFinancial Services$835M
0.16%
48HTB
HOMETRUST BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$824M
0.16%
49SMBK
SMARTFINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$823M
0.16%
50HRTG
HERITAGE INSURANCE HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$821M
0.16%
51SHBI
SHORE BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$776M
0.15%
52HIPO
HIPPO HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$764M
0.15%
53GDOT
GREEN DOT CORPFinancial Services$760M
0.14%
54AROW
ARROW FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$687M
0.13%
55BCAL
CALIFORNIA BANCORPFinancial Services$683M
0.13%
56TCBX
THIRD COAST BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$674M
0.13%
57RRBI
RED RIVER BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$644M
0.12%
58CBNK
CAPITAL BANCORP INCFinancial Services$584M
0.11%
59GLRE
GREENLIGHT CAPITAL RE LTDFinancial Services$566M
0.11%
60HBCP
HOME BANCORP INCFinancial Services$544M
0.10%
61OBT
ORANGE COUNTY BANCORP INCFinancial Services$504M
0.10%
62BSVN
BANK7 CORPFinancial Services$485M
0.09%
63BMRC
BANK OF MARIN BANCORPFinancial Services$468M
0.09%
64PBFS
PIONEER BANCORP INCFinancial Services$431M
0.08%
65PCB
PCB BANCORPFinancial Services$424M
0.08%
66FCBM
FIRST CAROLINA FINANCIAL SERVICES INCFinancial Services$389M
0.07%
67MVBF
MVB FINANCIAL CORPFinancial Services$377M
0.07%
68BCML
BAYCOM CORPFinancial Services$371M
0.07%
69AII
AMERICAN INTEGRITY INSURANCE GROUP INCFinancial Services$366M
0.07%
70AVBH
AVIDBANK HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$353M
0.07%
71TSBK
TIMBERLAND BANCORP INCFinancial Services$343M
0.07%
72COSO
COASTALSOUTH BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$326M
0.06%
73MYFW
FIRST WESTERN FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$323M
0.06%
74FVCB
FVCBANKCORP INCFinancial Services$321M
0.06%
75JMSB
JOHN MARSHALL BANCORP INCFinancial Services$313M
0.06%
76FCCO
FIRST COMMUNITY CORPFinancial Services$307M
0.06%
77FDBC
FIDELITY D & D BANCORP INCFinancial Services$305M
0.06%
78FNRN
FIRST NORTHERN COMMUNITY BANCORPFinancial Services$300M
0.06%
79OVLY
OAK VALLEY BANCORPFinancial Services$282M
0.05%
80CBNA
CHAIN BRIDGE BANCORP INCFinancial Services$275M
0.05%
81FXNC
FIRST NATIONAL CORPFinancial Services$267M
0.05%
82BPRN
PRINCETON BANCORP INCFinancial Services$263M
0.05%
83ATLO
AMES NATIONAL CORPFinancial Services$262M
0.05%
84VABK
VIRGINIA NATIONAL BANKSHARES CORPFinancial Services$250M
0.05%
85NKSH
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INCFinancial Services$233M
0.04%
86INBK
FIRST INTERNET BANCORPFinancial Services$233M
0.04%
87EFSI
EAGLE FINANCIAL SERVICES INCFinancial Services$229M
0.04%
88CZWI
CITIZENS COMMUNITY BANCORP INCFinancial Services$224M
0.04%
89OPBK
OP BANCORPFinancial Services$223M
0.04%
90CFBK
CF BANKSHARES INCFinancial Services$215M
0.04%
91OVBC
OHIO VALLEY BANC CORPFinancial Services$206M
0.04%
92FCAP
FIRST CAPITAL INCFinancial Services$205M
0.04%
93RBKB
RHINEBECK BANCORP INCFinancial Services$190M
0.04%
94FINW
FINWISE BANCORPFinancial Services$189M
0.04%
95BVFL
BV FINANCIAL INCFinancial Services$186M
0.04%
96HNVR
HANOVER BANCORP INCFinancial Services$179M
0.03%
97MNSB
MAINSTREET BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$172M
0.03%
98SBFG
SB FINANCIAL GROUP INCFinancial Services$170M
0.03%
99FGBI
FIRST GUARANTY BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$164M
0.03%
100AFBI
AFFINITY BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$139M
0.03%
101LSBK
LAKE SHORE BANCORP INCFinancial Services$135M
0.03%
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
0.02%
105AUBN
AUBURN NATIONAL BANCORPORATION INCFinancial Services$93M
0.02%
106FUSB
FIRST US BANCSHARES INCFinancial Services$92M
0.02%
107HNNA
HENNESSY ADVISORS INCFinancial Services$79M
0.02%
108OPHC
OPTIMUMBANK HOLDINGS INCFinancial Services$74M
0.01%
109NSTS
NSTS BANCORP INCFinancial Services$73M
0.01%
110HFBL
HOME FEDERAL BANCORP INC OF LOUISIANAFinancial Services$70M
0.01%
111CLST
CATALYST BANCORP INCFinancial Services$70M
0.01%

Full long-leg book as of July 2026 · cap-weighted · total market cap $525.57B. 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

111 classified
Value
Blend
Growth
Large
Mid
Small
3%2
5%3
72%7
4%13
5%14
5%12
2%30
1%26
<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 — 90% toward Large, 86% toward Growth. +3% unclassified (3 missing size/value). Hypothetical holdings — descriptive, not realized P&L.

Tilt over time
Size tilt90% → Large
SmallLarge
Value ↔ growth tilt86% → 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. 111 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
    57.5%
    Margin
    -17.5%
  • No more than 25% of total assets may be invested in the securities of any one issuer.

    Required
    <= 25.0%
    Actual
    24.6%
    Margin
    0.4%

    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 days
    Actual
    16.7 days
    Margin
    -9.7 days
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 111 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
1.6 (95% CI 1.1-2.1)
x reference VaR
Limit
2.00x
<= 2.00x reference VaR
Fund VaR
15.1%
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
1.57x
within
parametric
1.34x
within
cornish fisher
1.38x
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 2007
Before publication (pre-2007)
0.09
Sharpe · 1.2% p.a.
January 1999December 2007 · 108 mo
Since publication
0.31
Sharpe · 4.4% p.a.
January 2008July 2026 · 223 mo
Change in Sharpe+0.22Sharpe strengthened 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
58%
15 of 26 3-year windows made money
Worst window
-0.87
Sharpe, January 2000 – December 2002
January 1999July 2026
Median Sharpe
0.07
Dispersion
0.67
Best window
1.58

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.19.7%-5.7%
3 yearsp.a.31.5%0.0%
5 yearsp.a.18.6%0.9%
10 yearsp.a.16.7%-0.4%
Since inceptionp.a.10.7%2.4%
Calendar years
YearLong legLong-short
20267 mo16.6%6.2%
202527.9%-7.5%
202441.4%5.7%
20230.8%-18.9%
2022-3.5%13.6%
202144.7%7.2%
20200.5%9.9%
201918.7%-18.3%
2018-14.1%9.0%
201720.7%1.0%
201621.2%-3.0%
2015-1.7%6.5%
201411.2%1.6%
201351.8%8.1%
201223.9%-15.9%
2011-12.2%24.7%
20100.1%-3.9%
200942.4%4.2%
2008-38.5%55.2%
200718.7%61.0%
200626.5%2.6%
200511.1%5.0%
200413.5%2.8%
200330.7%-10.0%
2002-15.8%-6.1%
2001-15.7%-15.4%
200017.0%-22.4%
199914.6%3.3%

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)FNEF
IssuerETF Foundry Research (hypothetical)
SeriesHypothetical Model Portfolio Series (not a registered trust)
Expense ratio0.45% (placeholder)
Inception2019-10-12 (placeholder)
Listing exchangeNot listed (hypothetical)
CUSIPNot applicable (hypothetical model portfolio)
RebalanceMonthly
Holdings as ofJuly 2026
Total mkt cap (long leg)$525.57B

Methodology

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