Case file · CIK 0001336528

Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P.

Concentrated 13F manager useful for high-conviction portfolio signals.

Bill AckmanFounder / CEO
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Pershing Square

Historical tagActivistWatch forConcentrated convictionUse caseGovernance catalyst mapData layerSEC 13F

Legend case note

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square is an activist portfolio in public view.

Ackman is useful to track because his public book is usually concentrated, thesis-driven, and tied to governance or business-model change.

Why he matters

Ackman built his reputation on concentrated activist campaigns, public theses, and willingness to press management teams. That makes the disclosed book unusually legible.

How to read it

A Pershing position often implies a multi-year business-quality or governance thesis, not just a quarter-to-quarter trade.

What to watch

Watch position size, add/reduce behavior, and whether the company has a catalyst that can change market perception.

Smart Money VelocityVelocity score blends 13F value growth, concentration, theme purity, option exposure, and filing history. It is a prioritization score, not a return.

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Velocity + theme concentration

Score blends filing growth, concentration, theme purity, call exposure, and filing history.

13F value

$15.5BQ4 2025, latest public filing

Growth since first filing

1.49x$10.4B$15.5B

Reporting lag13F filings arrive after the quarter ends. The page shows a delayed public snapshot, not live positions.

45dQuarter-end snapshot, not live positions
Public Disclosure Proxy Return

This is not actual fund performance. Returns and rankings use public disclosures after they become visible, not private NAV or live trading.

Disclosure workflow

How to read this page

Every number is anchored to a public quarterly filing. The report date is the portfolio snapshot; the filing date is when the market could actually see it.

Report quarterQ4 2025Public filing date2026-02-17Ranking startsafter public filingRanking gate70% price coverageCoverage is the share of eligible public holdings that can be mapped to a ticker and priced. Debt, internal funds, and non-priced lines are excluded from the denominator.

Public holdings

Q4 2025 exposure map

1113F lines
HoldingThemeTypeValue%
BROOKFIELD CORPBN · 61,403,089 sharesOtherSH$2.8B18.1%
UBER TECHNOLOGIES INCUBER · 30,207,734 sharesConsumerSH$2.5B15.9%
AMAZON COM INCAMZN · 9,607,824 sharesConsumerSH$2.2B14.3%
ALPHABET INCGOOG · 6,163,871 sharesConsumerSH$1.9B12.5%
META PLATFORMS INCMETA · 2,673,569 sharesConsumerSH$1.8B11.4%
RESTAURANT BRANDS INTL INCQSR · 22,866,773 sharesOtherSH$1.6B10.0%
HOWARD HUGHES HOLDINGS INCHHH · 18,852,064 sharesOtherSH$1.5B9.7%
HILTON WORLDWIDE HLDGS INCHLT · 3,028,664 sharesOtherSH$870M5.6%
ALPHABET INCGOOGL · 678,297 sharesConsumerSH$212.3M1.4%
SEAPORT ENTMT GROUP INCSEG · 5,023,780 sharesOtherSH$99.3M0.64%
HERTZ GLOBAL HLDGS INCHTZ · 15,241,127 sharesOtherSH$78.3M0.50%

Quarter tape

Reported 13F value

SEC EDGAR
Q2 2024$10.4BQ3 2024$12.9BQ4 2024$12.6BQ4 2024$46.5MQ1 2025$11.9BQ2 2025$13.7BQ3 2025$14.6BQ4 2025$15.5B

Signal breakdown

Why this matters

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VelocityVelocity score blends 13F value growth, concentration, theme purity, option exposure, and filing history. It is a prioritization score, not a return.

13F value is 1.49x the first tracked filing.

99
ConcentrationPurity describes how much of the portfolio is concentrated in one inferred theme. It is useful when a manager is expressing a very specific thesis.

Top ten public lines are 99.5% of the latest report.

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Holdings

11 reportable lines in the latest public filing.

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History

8 tracked quarterly 13F reports in the database or seed layer.

Publisher mode

Twitter-ready card

Evidence layer

What is public, what is inferred

Public SEC data

13F reports disclose long reportable U.S. securities and long put/call options. They do not show cash, private stakes, shorts, written options, or current live holdings.

Inferred theme

Theme tags are deterministic product analysis from issuer, CUSIP, option type, and keyword rules. They are not SEC labels.

Daily automation

Vercel Cron calls the EDGAR ingestion endpoint every day and records per-manager ingestion results.