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reversal factor · long-only model fund

Foundry Consumer Cyclical Short-Term Reversal Factor ETF

ETF Foundry Research (hypothetical) · rebalanced monthly

FSTCHYPOTHETICAL MODEL
Since ’99
−60%
Expense Ratio
0.45%
placeholder
Holdings
62
cap-weighted
Inception
Apr 2022
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Full Sharpe
-0.03
Ann. Return (LS)
-0.7%
Ann. Volatility
22.8%
Max Drawdown
-81.9%
Test Sharpe ’19–26
-0.15
Test FF5 α (ann.)
-4.5%
vs Fama-French 5
Test FF5 α t-stat
-0.39
not significant
Monthly turnover
78%
of the long leg, per rebalance
Cumulative return (LS)
-60%
over 331 months
This fund holds the long leg only
Long leg Sharpe
0.32
what this fund holds
Long leg ann. return
9.4%
buyable, long-only
Long-short Sharpe
-0.03
requires shorting
Bottom bucket ann. return
10.1%
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

62 of 62 · 100.0% of book
TickerCompanySectorMarket capWeight
1TSLA
TESLA INCConsumer Cyclical$1.43T
83.96%
2DHI
HORTON D R INCConsumer Cyclical$42.36B
2.49%
3YUM
YUM BRANDS INCConsumer Cyclical$40.77B
2.39%
4PHM
PULTEGROUP INCConsumer Cyclical$24.02B
1.41%
5LEN
LENNAR CORPConsumer Cyclical$20.21B
1.19%
6SGI
SOMNIGROUP INTERNATIONAL INCConsumer Cyclical$15.30B
0.90%
7TOL
TOLL BROTHERS INCConsumer Cyclical$14.09B
0.83%
8MOD
MODINE MANUFACTURING COConsumer Cyclical$12.11B
0.71%
9CAVA
CAVA GROUP INCConsumer Cyclical$8.02B
0.47%
10ECG
EVERUS CONSTRUCTION GROUP INCConsumer Cyclical$6.80B
0.40%
11MHK
MOHAWK INDUSTRIES INCConsumer Cyclical$6.80B
0.40%
12GTX
GARRETT MOTION INCConsumer Cyclical$5.95B
0.35%
13WH
WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS INCConsumer Cyclical$5.73B
0.34%
14MTH
MERITAGE HOMES CORPConsumer Cyclical$4.95B
0.29%
15BOOT
BOOT BARN HOLDINGS INCConsumer Cyclical$4.63B
0.27%
16CVCO
CAVCO INDUSTRIES INCConsumer Cyclical$4.35B
0.26%
17BBWI
BATH & BODY WORKS INCConsumer Cyclical$4.21B
0.25%
18WING
WINGSTOP INCConsumer Cyclical$3.88B
0.23%
19MHO
M/I HOMES INCConsumer Cyclical$3.83B
0.22%
20QS
QUANTUMSCAPE CORPConsumer Cyclical$3.60B
0.21%
21MSGE
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ENTERTAINMENT CORPConsumer Cyclical$3.56B
0.21%
22KBH
KB HOMEConsumer Cyclical$3.44B
0.20%
23AAP
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INCConsumer Cyclical$3.19B
0.19%
24GRBK
GREEN BRICK PARTNERS INCConsumer Cyclical$3.14B
0.18%
25CPRI
CAPRI HOLDINGS LTDConsumer Cyclical$1.89B
0.11%
26CCS
CENTURY COMMUNITIES INCConsumer Cyclical$1.89B
0.11%
27FUN
SIX FLAGS ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATIONConsumer Cyclical$1.79B
0.11%
28TRS
TRIMAS CORPConsumer Cyclical$1.46B
0.09%
29DFH
DREAM FINDERS HOMES INCConsumer Cyclical$1.45B
0.09%
30CRI
CARTERS INCConsumer Cyclical$1.40B
0.08%
31WINA
WINMARK CORPConsumer Cyclical$1.39B
0.08%
32LGIH
LGI HOMES INCConsumer Cyclical$1.36B
0.08%
33XPEL
XPEL INCConsumer Cyclical$1.19B
0.07%
34MYE
MYERS INDUSTRIES INCConsumer Cyclical$1.17B
0.07%
35MBC
MASTERBRAND INCConsumer Cyclical$1.11B
0.07%
36ARHS
ARHAUS INCConsumer Cyclical$1.09B
0.06%
37PZZA
PAPA JOHNS INTERNATIONAL INCConsumer Cyclical$1.08B
0.06%
38AEVA
AEVA TECHNOLOGIES INCConsumer Cyclical$1.05B
0.06%
39PLOW
DOUGLAS DYNAMICS INCConsumer Cyclical$1.03B
0.06%
40BH
BIGLARI HOLDINGS INCConsumer Cyclical$882M
0.05%
41SG
SWEETGREEN INCConsumer Cyclical$841M
0.05%
42HOV
HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INCConsumer Cyclical$772M
0.05%
43BLMN
BLOOMIN' BRANDS INCConsumer Cyclical$731M
0.04%
44CWH
CAMPING WORLD HOLDINGS INCConsumer Cyclical$637M
0.04%
45PACK
RANPAK HOLDINGS CORPConsumer Cyclical$583M
0.03%
46KRUS
KURA SUSHI USA INCConsumer Cyclical$567M
0.03%
47ELA
ENVELA CORPConsumer Cyclical$547M
0.03%
48BBBY
BED BATH & BEYOND INCConsumer Cyclical$372M
0.02%
49KWY
KINGSWAY CORPConsumer Cyclical$279M
0.02%
50MPAA
MOTORCAR PARTS OF AMERICA INCConsumer Cyclical$265M
0.02%
51RDNW
RIDENOW GROUP INCConsumer Cyclical$229M
0.01%
52COOK
TRAEGER INCConsumer Cyclical$193M
0.01%
53LEE
LEE ENTERPRISES INCConsumer Cyclical$175M
0.01%
54INSE
INSPIRED ENTERTAINMENT INCConsumer Cyclical$174M
0.01%
55HOFT
HOOKER FURNISHINGS CORPConsumer Cyclical$152M
0.01%
56WW
WW INTERNATIONAL INCConsumer Cyclical$146M
0.01%
57RRGB
RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INCConsumer Cyclical$130M
0.01%
58INTG
INTERGROUP CORPConsumer Cyclical$84M
0.00%
59VNCE
VINCE HOLDING CORPConsumer Cyclical$83M
0.00%
60BARK
BARK INCConsumer Cyclical$82M
0.00%
61BDL
FLANIGANS ENTERPRISES INCConsumer Cyclical$76M
0.00%
62NDLS
NOODLES & COConsumer Cyclical$66M
0.00%

Full long-leg book as of July 2026 · cap-weighted · total market cap $1.70T. Hypothetical model holdings — not a registered fund’s portfolio.

Sector Breakdown

1 sectors
Consumer Cyclical
100.0%

Portfolio Style

Size × value map of the long-leg book

62 classified
Value
Blend
Growth
Large
Mid
Small
6%5
2%1
86%5
2%11
1%4
1%5
<1%7
<1%4
<1%6

Share of long-leg capital by market cap × book-to-market, using terciles of the 310-name universe at July 2026. Rows: Large ≥ $5.9B, Small < $1.3B. Columns: Value ≥ 0.62, Growth < 0.38 B/M. The dot marks the capital-weighted centroid of the book — 97% toward Large, 90% toward Growth. Hypothetical holdings — descriptive, not realized P&L.

Tilt over time
Size tilt97% → Large
SmallLarge
Value ↔ growth tilt90% → 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. 62 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
    21.0%
    Margin
    -54.0%
  • No more than 25% of total assets may be invested in the securities of any one issuer.

    Required
    <= 25.0%
    Actual
    84.0%
    Margin
    -59.0%
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
    21.0%
    Margin
    -29.0%

    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.

No verdict sits within 1.0pp of its limit.

Data version — panel=20260719T025334 rows=2239262 asof=202607 issuers=20260719T014536 rates=20260804T224700

Measured on the 2026-07 formation date across 62 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
2.3 (95% CI 1.6-2.9)
x reference VaR
Limit
2.00x
<= 2.00x reference VaR
Fund VaR
22.4%
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
2.32x
over
parametric
1.89x
within
cornish fisher
2.24x
over

The estimators disagree about the verdict, not just the value — the choice of method decides the answer here. Historical VaR gives ratio 2.32 (fail) but Gaussian VaR gives 1.89 (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?

published 1990
Entirely since publication
All 331 months of our record post-date the 1990 paper.
Sharpe -0.03-0.7% p.a.January 1999July 2026

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?

26 windows
Positive windows
50%
13 of 26 3-year windows made money
Worst window
-0.85
Sharpe, January 2015 – December 2017
January 1999July 2026
Median Sharpe
0.00
Dispersion
0.53
Best window
1.26

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.1.3%0.9%
3 yearsp.a.1.9%-4.2%
5 yearsp.a.-6.5%-9.4%
10 yearsp.a.7.6%-8.0%
Since inceptionp.a.5.3%-3.3%
Calendar years
YearLong legLong-short
20267 mo3.5%7.2%
2025-12.7%-21.1%
202415.3%-7.7%
202364.5%22.9%
2022-58.1%-18.5%
202125.3%-6.7%
202060.6%-41.6%
201933.4%9.2%
2018-5.6%6.9%
201713.0%-13.4%
20165.0%-9.9%
2015-10.1%-15.4%
20145.7%-3.8%
201345.3%1.1%
201230.4%8.1%
2011-1.6%5.0%
201038.1%3.9%
200937.3%-15.3%
2008-56.4%-10.9%
2007-21.6%-24.8%
200619.5%8.8%
2005-4.6%-6.3%
200423.5%6.0%
200365.0%18.8%
2002-11.8%11.5%
200149.9%49.4%
2000-36.5%16.3%
1999-14.9%-25.1%

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)FSTC
IssuerETF Foundry Research (hypothetical)
SeriesHypothetical Model Portfolio Series (not a registered trust)
Expense ratio0.45% (placeholder)
Inception2022-04-06 (placeholder)
Listing exchangeNot listed (hypothetical)
CUSIPNot applicable (hypothetical model portfolio)
RebalanceMonthly
Holdings as ofJuly 2026
Total mkt cap (long leg)$1.70T

Methodology

The Foundry Consumer Cyclical Short-Term Reversal Factor ETF tracks a rules-based model that ranks Consumer Cyclical common stocks each month by a Short-Term Reversal 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.