G Guru DNA Investor Style
Q1 2026 · 13F
GURU PROFILE · Q1 2026 · 13F-HR Marquee
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Cathie Wood — diversified growth contrarian

Cathie Wood's ARK Investment Management is the best-known pure-play disruptive-innovation manager, concentrated in early-stage and speculative growth. The book sits at the cohort's extreme for risk appetite and low quality scores, led by Tesla.

ARK Investment Management LLC
Positions
172
Avg Annual Return, 5 yr
+36,5%
Alpha vs S&P 500, Annual
+18,1%
Max Drawdown
−36,7%
Sharpe (5 yr)
1,03

DNA Fingerprint

6 axes · Q1 2026
255075100VALUE4RISK100CONCENTRATION25TURNOVER57QUALITY5CONTRARIAN84
Q1 2026 (latest)

Style Traits

  • Value Value / Growth
    4 +0 since Q1 2025

    Growth Value

  • Risk Risk Appetite
    100 0 since Q1 2025

    Low High

  • Concentration Portfolio Focus
    25 −9 since Q1 2025

    Diversified Focused

  • Turnover Trading Activity
    57 +12 since Q1 2025

    Long-term Active

  • Quality Profitability
    5 +2 since Q1 2025

    Speculative Profitable

  • Contrarian Contrarianism
    84 +28 since Q1 2025

    With Crowd Against Crowd

Methodology

Each axis is a percentile rank from 0 to 100 relative to the profiled guru cohort; 50 is the cohort midpoint. The higher the value, the stronger the trait. The dashed overlay is the median shape of the guru's behavioral peer group, so you can read where this investor is unusual within their own style. The Trajectory arrows trace the drift from four quarters ago to now — an illustration of the method over a short window, not a statistical claim.

  • Value (Value / Growth) — how cheaply the portfolio's stocks are priced versus the market, by valuation multiples (e.g. price-to-earnings). A higher score means cheaper, value-style picks; a lower score means pricier, growth-style bets the market expects to grow fast.
  • Risk (Risk Appetite) — how much price volatility and business fragility the portfolio carries. A higher score means bolder, more volatile holdings (think biotech or meme stocks); a lower score means defensive, steady names like utilities and staples.
  • Concentration (Portfolio Focus) — how much of the portfolio sits in its few largest positions. A higher score means a focused book of big convictions; a lower score means bets spread thinly across many names.
  • Turnover (Trading Activity) — how much the lineup of holdings changes from one quarter to the next. A higher score means an active trader rotating names in and out; a lower score means a patient, buy-and-hold roster.
  • Quality (Profitability) — how profitable and financially solid the businesses in the portfolio are. A higher score means durable, profitable companies; a lower score means speculative or pre-profit bets.
  • Contrarian (Contrarianism) — how often the guru's trades go against what the other gurus are doing. A higher score means buying what the crowd sells and vice versa; a lower score means moving with the consensus.

Extended DNA

Beyond the radar's six: two further behavioral reads — whether new buys add to existing holdings or start fresh, and the size of companies the book favors — on the same 0–100 cohort-percentile scale.

  • Follow-On Buying — Of the quarter's buys, the share that add to tickers already held rather than open fresh positions. A higher score means doubling down on existing convictions; a lower score means spreading into new bets.
  • Size Bias — Whether the book tilts toward large, easy-to-trade companies or smaller, thinly-traded ones — gauged from each holding's trading liquidity, which stands in for company size rather than measuring market cap directly. A higher score means large, liquid mega-caps; a lower score means smaller, less-liquid names.
  • Conviction Follow-On Buying
    77 +19 since Q1 2025

    New bets Adds to conviction

  • Size Size Bias
    17 −15 since Q1 2025

    Small-cap Large-cap

DNA Anomalies

1 deviations · basis Q2 2024–Q4 2025
GURU PATTERNBOUGHT · LARGERSOLD · LARGERSOLD · SMALLERBOUGHT · SMALLERsoldboughtlargersmallerCRCLROKUAVGO
Dot colour — type of deviationConcentration / contrarianMomentumOther positions (no deviation)5% of portfolio
What deviated from pattern
CRCLROKUAVGO
Circle Internet Group · Roku, Inc. · Broadcom Inc.
Turnover: a notable shift toward more active trading — 1.9σ above its 7-quarter norm (36→57). Led by ROKU, CRCL, AVGO.

Backtest · Cost of Delay

real 13F delay vs S&P 500
Cost of Delay

Copying with the real 13F publication delay costs  4,1 pp of return over 2 years.

Guru (2 years)
+82,0%
Copier (13F)
+77,9%
S&P 500
+38,5%
90110130150170190182178139Q3 ’24Q4 ’24Q1 ’25Q2 ’25Q3 ’25Q4 ’25Q1 ’26Q2 ’26DELAY SPREAD

Managers with assets above $100M disclose positions in Form 13F-HR within 45 days after quarter end. The backtest runs three $100,000 portfolios: the guru rebalances at quarter-end prices, the copier mirrors the same weights on the actual filing date, and S&P 500 is the benchmark.

The hatched area is the cost of delay: the difference in cumulative returns between the guru and the copier in percentage points. The delay is not always a disadvantage — if a stock fell between quarter end and the filing date, the copier buys in cheaper.

The guru curve is also a model: 13F shows only long positions in US equities at quarter end, without intra-quarter trades, shorts, or cash. Commissions, slippage, and taxes are not accounted for.

Notable Signals

synthesis metrics
Value × Quality

Speculative growth

Growth-tilted with low quality scores — the high-risk corner of the style box (value 4/100, quality 5/100 vs peers).

Rare breed
Concentration × Contrarian

Diversified contrarian

A spread of off-consensus names rather than one big bet — diversified contrarianism (concentration 25/100, contrarian 84/100 vs peers).

Contrarian
Risk × Quality

Swinging for the fences

High risk appetite with low quality scores — the boom-or-bust end of the cohort (risk 100/100, quality 5/100 vs peers).

Aggressive

Top 10 Positions

of 172 · Q1 2026
Ticker Company Δ for quarter Weight
TSLA Tesla, Inc. −0,6
8,0%
AMD.SW ADV MICRO DEVICE +0,8
4,2%
CRSP CRISPR Therapeutics AG +0,5
4,1%
SHOP Shopify Inc. −0,4
3,8%
PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. −0,3
3,5%
TEM Tempus AI, Inc. +0,4
3,3%
CRCL Circle Internet Group +1,1
3,3%
HOOD Robinhood Markets, Inc. −0,4
3,2%
COIN Coinbase Global, Inc. −0,6
3,2%
TER Teradyne, Inc. −0,2
2,8%