Post-spin operating and valuation sensitivity study · Valuation & Market Data · Data through October 14, 2026
Research questionHow much of FedEx's post-spin improvement is already visible, and what International margin recovery is embedded in the current share price?
Key resultThe October 13, 2026 FDX close of $290.59 corresponds to about a 6.15% 2029 International margin under the study's base Domestic and valuation assumptions, between calendar-2025 adjusted International margin of 2.9% and management's 8% target.
- Reviewed universe
- 5 fiscal-year capital-intensity observations · 2 recast operating segments · 3 forward operating cases · 5 International-margin sensitivity points
- Primary evidence
- FedEx SEC filings and investor disclosures, UPS filings, InPost transaction materials, and source-dated market-price observations
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →ETF comparison and return-sensitivity study · Systematic Markets · Data through October 12, 2026
Research questionHow do AVMV and SPY differ in valuation, concentration, factor context, AI transmission, and assumption-driven 5- and 10-year return outcomes?
Key resultThe retained sponsor snapshots put AVMV at 16.51x earnings with 12.94% in its top 10 positions versus SPY at 25.13x and 39.04%; the modeled return leader changes across growth and terminal-valuation assumptions.
- Reviewed universe
- 2 ETF sponsor snapshots · 3 long-horizon factor proxy series · 3 forward-return scenarios
- Primary evidence
- Avantis and State Street fund disclosures, Dimensional factor research, IEA energy research, and Stanford AI Index evidence
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Company cash-flow and valuation sensitivity study · Valuation & Market Data · Data through October 9, 2026
Research questionHow do PepsiCo's cash conversion, North American price/volume reset, GLP-1 exposure, and capital allocation change the owner-cash-flow growth required by the October 9, 2026 market price?
Key resultUsing $9.95B of analytical owner cash flow, 2.5% terminal growth, and a 9% discount rate, the October 9 equity value requires about 3.69% annual owner-cash-flow growth over 10 years; the result moves materially with the starting cash-flow and discount-rate assumptions.
- Reviewed universe
- PepsiCo FY2015 and FY2023–FY2025 cash-flow history, 36-week 2026 operating and cash-flow results, North American segment volume/profit evidence, selected international volume signals, two external GLP-1 household studies, one Coca-Cola peer snapshot, and a 10-year equity FCF valuation grid
- Primary evidence
- PepsiCo SEC filings and investor materials, with Coca-Cola peer context, household GLP-1 research, and dated market-price evidence
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Company valuation and operating-model case study · Valuation & Market Data · Data through October 8, 2026
Research questionHow much operating deterioration is embedded in Accenture's $196.64 October 7, 2026 share price after accounting for AI productivity, organic growth, recurring acquisitions, and normalized owner earnings?
Key resultAt $196.64, the base 9% discount-rate framework requires about 0.69% annual revenue growth if the horizon normalized owner-earnings margin is 10%; a 10% discount-rate stress case requires about 3.26%.
- Reviewed universe
- Accenture FY2022-FY2026 revenue, bookings, free cash flow, margins, workforce, AI and acquisition evidence plus FY2027 guidance and a nine-year owner-earnings DCF sensitivity grid
- Primary evidence
- Accenture SEC filings, annual reports, fiscal 2026 earnings materials and a dated market-price observation
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Company valuation reverse-DCF case study · Valuation & Market Data · Data through October 5, 2026
Research questionWhat revenue growth and mature economic free-cash-flow margins are required to reconcile Adobe's $238.79 October 5, 2026 share price, and how much AI-related operating deterioration can occur before that valuation stops reconciling?
Key resultAt $238.79, a 20% mature economic FCF margin requires about 3.10% annual revenue growth under the base 9.5% discount-rate and 3.0% terminal-growth assumptions.
- Reviewed universe
- Adobe FY2023-FY2026 cash economics, share-count history, Q3 2026 operating signals, and a nine-year reverse-DCF sensitivity grid
- Primary evidence
- Adobe SEC filings, earnings materials, product disclosures, and dated market-price evidence
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Company valuation reverse-DCF case study · Valuation & Market Data · Data through October 2, 2026
Research questionWhat revenue and free-cash-flow path is already embedded in SPCX at $158.96?
Key resultAt $158.96, the reverse DCF requires about 37.19% annual revenue growth and $769.1B of 2035 revenue; 86.1% of modeled enterprise value comes from terminal value.
- Reviewed universe
- SpaceX capital structure, Q2 2026 operating disclosures, current revenue consensus, and a 2026–2035 reverse-DCF path
- Primary evidence
- SpaceX and EchoStar SEC filings, SpaceX launch disclosures, and secondary consensus market data
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Acquisition deleveraging and floating-rate debt sensitivity · Valuation & Market Data · Data through September 24, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow much cash generation and EBITDA growth does Belden need for its stated post-RUCKUS leverage path to work?
Key resultAt approximately $300M of 2027 FCF applied to net debt, the 2.9x target requires about $703M of adjusted EBITDA, 8.22% above the $650M transaction base.
- Reviewed universe
- $1.85B term loan · 2026-2029 management leverage path · audited RUCKUS 2025 cash flow
- Primary evidence
- Belden investor materials, SEC financing filings, and audited RUCKUS financials
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Merger CVR valuation and operating-hurdle reconstruction · Valuation & Market Data · Data through September 30, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhat does SoundThinking's market price imply about the CVR, and what ShotSpotter and SafePointe operating path would support that value?
Key resultAt the 76.75M middle hurdle, 65.5M of ShotSpotter revenue requires about 563 SafePointe lane-years and roughly 760 year-end live lanes under the generous 365-lane starting assumption.
- Reviewed universe
- $8 cash consideration · $0-$3 CVR · 9 re-verified ShotSpotter contract streams · 48 operating scenarios
- Primary evidence
- SoundThinking SEC filings and merger agreement, company disclosures, and municipal procurement records
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Five-company capital-intensity comparison · Systematic Markets · Data through August 31, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow much operating cash flow are five large U.S. cloud and AI infrastructure companies reinvesting in total-company cash capital expenditures?
Key resultCohort cash capex rose to 81.81% of operating cash flow from 60.80%, a +21.01 point change.
- Reviewed universe
- 5 reviewed companies · latest TTM periods ending May or June 2026
- Primary evidence
- SEC Company Facts plus issuer Forms 10-Q and 10-K
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Campus-level project economics and capital-stack analysis · Systematic Markets · Data through September 25, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhat do Applied Digital's disclosed lease, site-margin, development-cost, secured-debt, and preferred-equity terms imply about its AI data center economics?
Key resultThe three disclosed campuses imply a 12.56% aggregate midpoint site-NOI yield on development cost; Macquarie preferred capital compounds at 12.75%.
- Reviewed universe
- 900 MW with detailed economics · 1410 MW contracted portfolio
- Primary evidence
- Applied Digital SEC filings and SEC-filed investor presentation
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Megacap repurchase and diluted-share comparison · Systematic Markets · Data through September 21, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow much are the largest S&P 500 companies spending on stock repurchases, and are diluted weighted-average share counts falling at the same time?
Key result$227.475B of repurchases were observed across seven covered issuers; 5 of 6 positive-buyback issuers also reduced diluted shares.
- Reviewed universe
- 9 unique issuers · 10 top S&P 500 security lines · 7/9 with observed repurchase facts
- Primary evidence
- SEC Company Facts plus the retained September 9, 2026 S&P 500 top-holdings cohort
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Same-cohort fundamental vs. market-weight comparison · Systematic Markets · Data through September 21, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionDo the companies that dominate S&P 500 fundamentals carry a similar share of S&P 500 market value?
Key resultOverall top-10 issuer market weight is 40.45%. The top-10 net-income cohort gap is -0.53 percentage points, while the top-10 capex cohort gap is -30.79 points.
- Reviewed universe
- 500 matched issuers · 6 reviewed fundamental comparisons
- Primary evidence
- Reviewed Grizzly Bulls Fundamental Concentration Atlas plus dated iShares IVV holdings
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Cross-study concentration synthesis · Systematic Markets · Data through June 30, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhat do the historical weight, earnings, valuation, and forward-return concentration studies say when read together?
Key resultJune 2025 top-10 weight was 38.15%, the March 2026 cap-minus-earnings gap was 4.7 points, the June 2026 forward-P/E spread was 2.0x, and the forward-return correlation fell to -0.04 when 1965 was excluded.
- Reviewed universe
- 4 published concentration studies · 16 normalized metrics
- Primary evidence
- Published Grizzly Bulls concentration studies backed by S&P Dow Jones Indices and J.P. Morgan Asset Management
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Issuer-level fundamental concentration atlas · Systematic Markets · Data through September 21, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow concentrated are the operating fundamentals of the companies represented in the S&P 500?
Key resultThe top 10 account for 26.32% of covered revenue and 50.68% of covered capital spending; Financials account for 74.79% of covered liabilities.
- Reviewed universe
- 500 issuer CIKs · 15 reviewed accounting metrics
- Primary evidence
- SEC XBRL Company Facts with a frozen S&P 500 issuer roster and reviewed issuer continuity
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Forward-return sensitivity study · Systematic Markets · Data through June 30, 2025 · v1.0
Research questionWhat 10-year S&P 500 price returns followed historically high and low top-10 concentration starting points?
Key resultStarting concentration and subsequent decade return had a -0.72 sample correlation; excluding June 1965 reduced it to -0.04.
- Reviewed universe
- 6 non-overlapping 10-year observations
- Primary evidence
- S&P Dow Jones Indices historical concentration and price-return research
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Historical concentration reconstruction · Systematic Markets · Data through June 30, 2025 · v1.0
Research questionHow did the weight of the S&P 500 top 10 change from 1965 to 2025, and what do the matched decade returns say about concentration as a market signal?
Key resultTop-10 concentration fell from 38.24% in 1965 to 17.81% in 2015, then rose 20.34 percentage points to 38.15% in 2025.
- Reviewed universe
- 7 reconstructed decade endpoints · 6 matched 10-year return periods
- Primary evidence
- S&P Dow Jones Indices historical concentration and index methodology research
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Matched earnings-concentration snapshots · Systematic Markets · Data through March 31, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow much of the S&P 500 top 10's market-cap concentration was accompanied by trailing earnings concentration in matched March 2024 and March 2026 snapshots?
Key resultTop-10 trailing-earnings share rose from 25.5% to 33.2%, an increase of 7.7 percentage points, while the cap-minus-earnings gap narrowed to 4.7 points.
- Reviewed universe
- 2 same-method Guide to the Markets snapshots
- Primary evidence
- J.P. Morgan Asset Management Guide to the Markets, citing FactSet and Standard & Poor's
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Matched valuation-concentration snapshots · Systematic Markets · Data through June 30, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow much higher was the S&P 500 top 10 forward P/E than the remaining companies in March 2024 and June 2026, and how did that valuation split change?
Key resultThe top-10 minus remaining-company forward-P/E spread narrowed from 10.1x to 2.0x, while remaining-company P/E rose 1.3x.
- Reviewed universe
- 2 exact Guide to the Markets valuation tables · top 10, remaining companies, and full S&P 500
- Primary evidence
- J.P. Morgan Asset Management Guide to the Markets, citing FactSet and Standard & Poor's
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Backtest selection-bias benchmark · Quantitative Methods · Data through September 17, 2026
Research questionHow do backtest length and research search breadth jointly change the Sharpe ratio that pure luck can produce?
Key resultWith 100 independent zero-edge trials, the median winning Sharpe falls from 2.48 after one year to 0.78 after ten years; 1,000 ten-year trials push the median winner back to 1.01.
- Reviewed universe
- 24 exact null-model scenarios across six sample lengths and four independent search sizes
- Primary evidence
- Exact Student-t null benchmark and published Sharpe-ratio selection literature
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Strategy path-probability benchmark · Quantitative Methods · Data through September 17, 2026
Research questionHow often should an investor expect consecutive losing months for strategies with different true Sharpe ratios and track-record lengths?
Key resultA true Sharpe of 1 has a 90.8% chance of at least one three-month losing streak over five years and a 56.8% chance of at least one four-month streak.
- Reviewed universe
- 64 exact streak scenarios across Sharpe, horizon, and streak-length combinations
- Primary evidence
- Exact finite-state Normal-return benchmark and published Sharpe-ratio literature
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Sharpe loss-probability benchmark · Quantitative Methods · Data through September 17, 2026
Research questionWhat does a true annualized Sharpe ratio imply about the modeled chance of negative aggregate excess return over different horizons?
Key resultA true Sharpe of 1 implies a 38.64% modeled chance of negative one-month excess return and 15.87% over one year under the stated assumptions.
- Reviewed universe
- 36 Sharpe-by-horizon probabilities · 24 inverse probability thresholds
- Primary evidence
- Exact Normal-return benchmark and published Sharpe-ratio inference literature
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Private-company unit-economics analysis · Valuation & Market Data · Data through September 16, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhat gross margin should an investor underwrite for Anthropic when the 80%+ headline excludes partner revenue sharing and model training?
Key resultGrizzly Bulls uses 50–60% as a normalized economic underwriting range, not a claimed audited GAAP margin.
- Reviewed universe
- 4 Anthropic margin observations / forecasts · 6 public-company margin references
- Primary evidence
- Financial Times, Reuters, The Information, and audited SEC annual filings
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Index concentration snapshot · Systematic Markets · Data through September 9, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow concentrated was the S&P 500 in September 2026, and how much of its weight sat in a conservative company cohort directly tied to AI infrastructure and cloud-platform investment?
Key resultThe top 10 security lines were 38.09% of index weight; the conservative AI-linked cohort was 29.46%, or 77.3% of top-10 weight.
- Reviewed universe
- 10 top security lines · 9 companies · 7-company conservative AI-linked cohort
- Primary evidence
- S&P Dow Jones Indices, State Street index holdings, SEC filings, and issuer financial disclosures
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Forecast reconstruction · Systematic Markets · Data through September 12, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhat did the 10-year minus 3-month Treasury spread imply in May 2023 under the maintained New York Fed model, and what was the realized NBER classification twelve months later?
Key resultThe May 2023 spread averaged -1.73 percentage points and reconstructs to 71.4% recession probability for May 2024; NBER did not classify that target month as recession as of the study cutoff.
- Reviewed universe
- 22 May 2023 daily T10Y3M observations plus one 12-month target month
- Primary evidence
- FRED T10Y3M, New York Fed yield-curve model, and NBER business-cycle chronology
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Financial-statement source coverage study · Valuation & Market Data · Data through September 3, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow much of a 61-company market universe could strict SEC Companyfacts annual normalization cover without generic IFRS mapping, implicit FX conversion, or inferred issuer identity?
Key result59 of 61 companies (96.7%) normalized under the reviewed 13-metric annual-financials schema; the two remaining cases stopped at a CAD currency-unit boundary and an unresolved issuer-identity boundary.
- Reviewed universe
- 61 configured market companies in the September 3, 2026 measurement
- Primary evidence
- SEC Companyfacts annual US-GAAP facts and reviewed issuer identity
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →SEC ownership-extraction methodology study · SEC Evidence & Methodology · Data through September 10, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhat survives when exact SEC identity review and conservative Forms 3/4/5 extraction are applied to a selected group of billionaire profiles?
Key result1,503 of 20,834 candidates (7.2%) were simple direct non-zero positions; footnote review accounted for 50.6% of candidates.
- Reviewed universe
- 20,834 position candidates across 198 Forms-eligible profiles
- Primary evidence
- SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5 ownership filings and conservative position extraction
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →SEC transaction-evidence methodology study · SEC Evidence & Methodology · Data through August 31, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow often did Form 4/5 sale candidates require footnote review, and which recurring semantics dominated candidates blocked only by that gate?
Key result45,879 of 48,912 sale candidates (93.8%) carried a footnote-review blocker; 6,808 of 7,573 footnote-only cases used weighted-average or price-range language.
- Reviewed universe
- 48,912 non-derivative sale candidates across 513 billionaire profiles
- Primary evidence
- SEC Forms 4 and 5 non-derivative sale transactions and footnotes
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Capital-structure methodology study · Valuation & Market Data · Data through September 2, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow often is complete reviewed net-debt evidence still insufficient for the bounded enterprise-value calculation?
Key result3 of 9 reviewed companies had EV withheld despite complete net-debt review: 2 for noncontrolling interests and 1 for preferred equity; 6 were compatible.
- Reviewed universe
- 9 reviewed companies with complete current net-debt evidence
- Primary evidence
- Issuer Forms 10-Q and 10-K financing and balance-sheet disclosures
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Matched-denominator study · Voting Power & Governance · Data through August 26, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow does founder total voting power compare with issuer-disclosed share-count ownership when the same disclosure supports both?
Key result9 of 9 matched founders had voting power above disclosed share-count ownership; Alphabet remains explicitly unmatched.
- Reviewed universe
- 9 matched companies · 1 source-coverage exclusion
- Primary evidence
- Issuer proxy and principal-holder ownership disclosures
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Point-in-time valuation-methodology study · Valuation & Market Data · Data through September 2, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow long after a share count's stated as-of date did the SEC filing make that count public across 21 reviewed companies?
Key resultThe median disclosure lag was 6 calendar days; 5 of 21 observations (23.8%) were at least 10 days, with a 17-day maximum.
- Reviewed universe
- 21 reviewed U.S. public-company share-count observations
- Primary evidence
- SEC Forms 10-Q and 10-K
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Evidence methodology study · SEC Evidence & Methodology · Data through September 6, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhat can the SEC source families behind the reviewed billionaire ownership dataset actually establish?
Key result6 source patterns appear across 13 relationships; 4 relationships use multiple source families.
- Reviewed universe
- 13 reviewed ownership relationships
- Primary evidence
- Forms 3/4, Schedule 13, proxy / Item 403, and filing-history metadata
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Longitudinal point-in-time methodology study · Valuation & Market Data · Data through May 20, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionDo share-count disclosure lags persist within the same issuer across repeated SEC filings?
Key resultFour of five reviewed issuers stayed within a one-day lag band; 13 of 16 observations (81.3%) were disclosed in 5–7 days, while Netflix ranged from 17 to 23 days.
- Reviewed universe
- 16 reviewed observations across 5 issuers
- Primary evidence
- Repeated SEC Forms 10-Q and 10-K
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Governance mechanics study · Voting Power & Governance · Data through August 26, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhen do enhanced founder voting rights convert or end across the selected 10-company cohort?
Key result2 of 10 reviewed companies have a hard time-based companywide sunset; other mechanisms depend on events, thresholds, transfers, or holder votes.
- Reviewed universe
- 10 founder-control structures
- Primary evidence
- SEC-hosted charters and issuer governance disclosures
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Cross-company ownership dataset · Ownership & Holdings · Data through September 6, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhat reviewed billionaire public-equity relationships can be published without flattening unlike securities and filing scopes?
Key result13 reviewed relationships preserve legal security classes, ownership form, exclusions, evidence scope, and observation dates.
- Reviewed universe
- 13 relationships · 12 profiles · 12 companies
- Primary evidence
- SEC Forms 3/4, Schedule 13, and reviewed ownership evidence
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Voting-power comparison · Voting Power & Governance · Data through July 14, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow much total company voting power did three prominent billionaires hold at their reviewed SEC observation dates?
Key resultThe highest reviewed observation was 60.8% of total company voting power; 1 observation exceeded 50%.
- Reviewed universe
- 3 person-company voting observations
- Primary evidence
- Issuer proxy and SEC ownership disclosures
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Founder-control cohort · Voting Power & Governance · Data through July 31, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow much total company voting power did founders hold across 10 selected public companies, and which mechanisms created it?
Key result4 of 10 reviewed founders exceeded 50% of total voting power; the highest observation was 82.4%.
- Reviewed universe
- 10 selected public companies
- Primary evidence
- Issuer proxy, voting, and governance disclosures
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Longitudinal disclosure comparison · Voting Power & Governance · Data through July 31, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow did founder voting power change between two comparable issuer disclosures for the same 10-company cohort?
Key result5 increased, 4 decreased, and 1 was unchanged; the study does not assign transaction causes.
- Reviewed universe
- 10 founder-company pairs with two reviewed endpoints
- Primary evidence
- Paired issuer voting-power disclosures
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Dated ownership snapshot · Ownership & Holdings · Data through September 4, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionWhat did Jensen Huang's June 17 NVIDIA filing report, and what changes when that dated position is valued later?
Key result812,004,746 NVIDIA shares were reported in the June 17 relationship; 91.4% were held indirectly.
- Reviewed universe
- 1 person-company ownership relationship
- Primary evidence
- SEC Form 4 plus dated market-price evidence
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
Explore the study →Evidence coverage census · Ownership & Holdings · Data through September 6, 2026 · v1.0
Research questionHow much of the billionaire universe can reviewed SEC ownership evidence actually support?
Key result19.3% had reviewed SEC position evidence; source reach was the first blocker for 77.5%.
- Reviewed universe
- 2,549 billionaire profiles
- Primary evidence
- SEC Forms 3/4/5 and Schedule 13 evidence
- Public data
- CSV + JSON downloads
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