Opportunity Equity
A Strategy Focused on High Returns
Why an Unconstrained, Actively Managed Equity Strategy?
Attempting to Outperform: Investing in a broad market-derived ETF guarantees that an investor will underperform the benchmark index due to fees. If an investor doesn’t want to spend significant time navigating the vagaries of the market, investing in an actively managed strategy provides the opportunity to achieve outperformance.
Recognize Expertise: Selecting an active manager can be challenging. It’s important to look at a manager’s performance history over various market cycles, and the longer the history, the better.
Capitalize on a Broad Opportunity Set: We look well beyond the benchmark and operate outside of the traditional style box, seeking to find market inefficiencies wherever they exist. Theoretically, the flexibility to migrate to the best opportunities should allow us to generate better returns, if our valuation judgments turn out to be correct.
Why Opportunity Equity?
Remain Patient: As an even larger market contingency focuses on timing investments exactly right to the next quarter, month or even minute, the ability to think long-term creates significant “time-arbitrage” opportunities. We are patient, long-term value investors. We believe our ability to think in terms of years provides us significant advantages.
Demonstrate Valuation Expertise: Valuation has been at the heart of our investment approach since Bill Miller started managing money in 1982. We combine academic, theoretical and practical approaches to valuation. Developing an in-depth understanding of valuation, including corporate strategy, investor behavior and capital allocation is central to our process.
Be Different: We focus on investing, not the benchmark, which is why our portfolio typically doesn’t look anything like the benchmark. Academics call this high active share1, and we believe it gives us a greater opportunity to outperform. The benchmark provides a limited pool of investment possibilities, so we invest beyond that and concentrate where we see the greatest values.
Align Interests: We have significant investments in the strategy, alongside investors.
Why Now?
Seek Upside: Opportunity Equity’s portfolio is positioned in a differentiated, offensive way, and looks to provide upside. Though the market and strategy are near all-time highs, we still see plenty of attractive investment opportunities.
Diversify Holdings: Since the recent financial crisis, low volatility and defensive strategies have been in favor. However, diversification works both ways. Investors should balance their portfolios with a manager focused on maximizing upside.
Understand Value, not Time: Timing a purchase or a sale perfectly is virtually impossible, but earning attractive returns is not. We make portfolio decisions based on our assessment of fair value for our holdings, always keeping the long-term goal in perspective.
Porfolio Snapshot
All data as of 02/28/2023
Investment Minimum: $10 million
Annualized Performance2
- Gross of Fees
- Net of Fees
- S&P 500
|
QTD |
YTD |
1-Year |
3-Year |
5-Year |
10-Year |
15-Year |
20-Year |
Since Inception (12/31/1999) |
Gross of Fees |
15.2% |
15.2% |
-18.9% |
5.0% |
4.4% |
10.8% |
6.6% |
9.3% |
7.4% |
Net of Fees |
15.0% |
15.0% |
-19.7% |
3.9% |
3.3% |
9.7% |
5.5% |
8.2% |
6.3% |
S&P 500 |
3.7% |
3.7% |
-7.7% |
12.2% |
9.8% |
12.3% |
9.8% |
10.2% |
6.4% |
Equity Sector Breakdown3
- Consumer Discretionary 38.2%
- Financials 19.0%
- Industrials 10.3%
- Energy 9.9%
- Communication Services 9.0%
- Health Care 6.5%
- Information Technology 4.6%
- Materials 2.5%
Market Capitalization Breakdown3
- Greater Than $50B 29.4%
- $15B to $50B 24.8%
- $3B to $15B 35.4%
- Less Than $3B 10.5%
Top 10 Holdings By Issuer3
- Expedia Group, Inc. 5.7%
- OneMain Holdings, Inc. 5.5%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.4%
- Taylor Morrison Home Corporation 4.4%
- Delta Air Lines, Inc. 4.2%
- Energy Transfer, L.P. 4.2%
- Mattel, Inc. 3.8%
- Ovintiv Inc. 3.7%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.6%
- Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. 3.3%
Characteristics3
- Number of Holdings 37
- Active Share 92.4%
- P/E (forward four quarters) 10.3
- P/S 1.0
- P/B 2.1
- Estimated 1 Year EPS Growth 7.4%
- Weighted Average Market Cap (billion) $138.0
- Annual Turnover 45.7%
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Investing involves risk of loss and past performance is no guarantee of future results.
1Cremers, Martijn and Antti Petajisto, How Active Is Your Fund Manager? A New Measure That Predicts Performance. Yale University working paper. and Antti Petajisto, Active Share and Mutual Fund Performance. High active share does not guarantee outperformance – it may result in outperformance or underperformance.
2 Performance for periods longer than one year is annualized. Miller Value Partners claims compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®). To receive a complete list and description of our composites and/or a presentation that adheres to the GIPS standards, please contact us.
3 Source: FactSet. Representative portfolio characteristics, holdings, sector weightings, turnover and market capitalization are subject to change at any time. Holdings, sector weightings, market capitalization, turnover and portfolio characteristics of individual client portfolios may differ, sometimes significantly, from those shown. This information does not constitute, and should not be construed as, investment advice or recommendations with respect to the securities and sectors listed. All investments are subject to risk, including the possible loss of principal. There is no guarantee investment objectives will be met. Neither Miller Value Partners nor its information providers are responsible for any damages or losses arising from any use of this information.