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Contrarius Investment Management Ltd Historical SEC 13F Holdings & Archive (Q3 2024)
Contrarius Investment Management LtdCIK: 0001483738
Sector-focusedDiversified strategyLong-term holder
Total reported value
$1.8B
Reporting period: 2024-09-30 · Number of holdings: 42
Contrarius Investment Management Ltd disclosed 42 holdings in its latest 13F filing for the period ending 2024-09-30, with total reported value of $1.8B and a quarterly turnover rate of 0.0%.
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Personality snowflake
- Concentration
- 22.05
- Portfolio Stability
- 0
- Momentum
- 50
- Sector conviction
- 97.18
- Diversification
- 84
- Sizing Uniformity
- 88.39
Contrarius Investment Management Ltd's disclosed holdings carry a Herfindahl concentration index of 0.055 — mathematically equivalent to about 18 equally-sized positions, well below its 42 actual disclosed holdings. That gap points to a strategy built around a small core of high-conviction bets rather than broad diversification.
Position sizes are fairly uniform across the portfolio (a coefficient of variation of 1.16), suggesting a disciplined, rules-based approach to how much capital goes into each idea.
No strong tilt toward either adding to existing winners or initiating outsized new positions was observed in the latest reported quarter.
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Recent moves
View source Form 13F filing on SEC.govNo holding changes this quarter
Holdings Map
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Top 10 holdings by weight
Full holdings list this quarter
| # | Ticker | Issuer | Asset Subclass | Weight | Weight Change | Shares Change | 4Q Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TSLA | Tesla Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 10.39% | — | -16.78% | |
| 2 | WBD | Warner Bros Discovery Inc | Stock-Comm Services | 8.97% | — | +7.39% | |
| 3 | META | Meta Platforms Inc-class A | Stock-Comm Services | 8.49% | — | -7.66% | |
| 4 | 0VVB | Paramount Global-class B | Stock-Other | 8.19% | — | +5.50% | |
| 5 | JD | Jd.com Inc-adr | Stock-Consumer Disc | 6.51% | — | -3.04% | |
| 6 | BIDU | Baidu Inc - Spon Adr | Stock-Comm Services | 4.96% | — | +0.83% | |
| 7 | BABA | Alibaba Group Holding-sp Adr | Stock-Consumer Disc | 4.95% | — | -22.73% | |
| 8 | FOX | Fox CORP - Class B | Stock-Comm Services | 4.60% | — | -6.11% | |
| 9 | AMZN | Amazon.com Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 4.50% | — | -10.73% | |
| 10 | DKNG | Draftkings Inc-cl A | Stock-Consumer Disc | 3.88% | — | +37.56% | |
| 11 | ABNB | Airbnb Inc-class A | Stock-Consumer Disc | 3.68% | — | +32.98% | |
| 12 | ZM | Zoom Communications Inc | Stock-Tech | 3.59% | — | +1.53% | |
| 13 | XYZ | Block Inc | Stock-Financials | 3.37% | — | +0.53% | |
| 14 | ABX | Barrick Gold CORP | Stock-Financials | 3.07% | — | -3.75% | |
| 15 | NTLA | Intellia Therapeutics Inc | Stock-Other | 2.39% | — | +6.88% | |
| 16 | COIN | Coinbase Global Inc -class A | Stock-Financials | 2.15% | — | -3.50% | |
| 17 | CRSP | CRISPR Therapeutics AG | Stock-Healthcare | 2.10% | — | +14.32% | |
| 18 | SE | Sea Ltd-adr | Stock-Comm Services | 2.08% | — | +17.16% | |
| 19 | PDD | Pdd Holdings Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 1.55% | — | +812.54% | |
| 20 | QVCAUSD | Qurate Retail Inc-series A | Stock-Other | 1.22% | — | -0.32% | |
| 21 | PINS | Pinterest Inc- Class A | Stock-Comm Services | 1.11% | — | +129.46% | |
| 22 | U | Unity Software Inc | Stock-Tech | 1.09% | — | -3.74% | |
| 23 | PYPL | Paypal Holdings Inc | Stock-Financials | 0.74% | — | -3.90% | |
| 24 | CZR | Caesars Entertainment Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.65% | — | -4.55% | |
| 25 | APP | Applovin Corp-class A | Stock-Tech | 0.61% | — | -49.70% | |
| 26 | MTCH | Match Group Inc | Stock-Comm Services | 0.55% | — | -4.05% | |
| 27 | IBM | Intl Business Machines CORP | Stock-Tech | 0.55% | — | -4.04% | |
| 28 | KGC | Kinross Gold CORP | Stock-Materials | 0.50% | — | -4.55% | |
| 29 | TCOM | Trip.com Group Ltd-adr | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.48% | — | -4.62% | |
| 30 | GRAB | Grab Holdings Limited | Stock-Tech | 0.46% | — | — | |
| 31 | PENN | Penn Entertainment Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.41% | — | +12.80% | |
| 32 | GOOGL | Alphabet Inc-cl A | Stock-Comm Services | 0.41% | — | -4.84% | |
| 33 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies Inc-a | Stock-Tech | 0.30% | — | — | |
| 34 | PM | Philip Morris International | Stock-Consumer Staples | 0.27% | — | -16.86% | |
| 35 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Stock-Tech | 0.23% | — | -4.84% | |
| 36 | DIS | Walt Disney Co/the | Stock-Comm Services | 0.17% | — | -4.57% | |
| 37 | EXPE | Expedia Group Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.17% | — | -62.69% | |
| 38 | MO | Altria Group Inc | Stock-Consumer Staples | 0.16% | — | -4.56% | |
| 39 | SNAP | Snap Inc - A | Stock-Comm Services | 0.14% | — | -4.05% | |
| 40 | NTR | Nutrien LTD | Stock-Materials | 0.13% | — | -4.82% | |
| 41 | DASH | Doordash Inc - A | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.13% | — | -4.75% | |
| 42 | MOS | Mosaic Co/the | Stock-Materials | 0.12% | — | -4.83% |
Portfolio Performance
Performance for Q3 2026
-1.3%
Performance Last 4 Quarters
+14.6%
- Stdev
- +24.2%
- Beta
- +1.42
- Alpha
- -8.3%
- Max Drawdown
- -15.4%
- Annualized Perf
- +18.7%
- Batting Avg vs S&P
- +38.9%
- Sortino
- +1.64
- Stutzer
- +0.25
- Treynor
- +0.14
- Sterling
- +0.84
- Calmar
- +1.21
- Information Ratio
- 0
- Tracking Error
- +16.7%
- Stdev Down
- +12.2%
- Winning Months %
- +55.6%
- Losing Months %
- +44.4%
- Best 12 Months
- +49.7%
- Worst 12 Months
- +4.7%
- Efficiency Ratio
- +0.32
- Sharpe
- +0.83
- Stdev Sectors
- +16.1%
- Skewness
- +0.44
- Kurtosis
- -0.57
- Upside Potential
- +3.66
Reported value over time
Sector allocation
Sector allocation over time
Quarterly history
| Period | Holdings | Total value | Stability | Top holdings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q3 | 42 | $1.8B | 0 | ||
| 2024 Q2 | 48 | $1.6B | 0 | ||
| 2024 Q1 | 49 | $1.7B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q4 | 54 | $1.9B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q3 | 52 | $1.8B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q2 | 52 | $1.9B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q1 | 46 | $1.9B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q4 | 42 | $1.6B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q3 | 47 | $1.5B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q2 | 51 | $1.5B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q1 | 53 | $2.2B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q4 | 56 | $1.8B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q3 | 59 | $2.0B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q2 | 58 | $2.1B | 92 | ||
| 2021 Q1 | 61 | $1.8B | 57 | ||
| 2020 Q4 | 65 | $1.6B | 59 | ||
| 2020 Q3 | 68 | $1.1B | 48 | ||
| 2020 Q2 | 61 | $1.1B | 82 | ||
| 2020 Q1 | 55 | $780.5M | 100 | ||
| 2019 Q4 | 51 | $1.9B | 49 | ||
| 2019 Q3 | 42 | $1.7B | 43 | ||
| 2019 Q2 | 45 | $1.8B | 48 | ||
| 2019 Q1 | 46 | $1.9B | 42 | ||
| 2018 Q4 | 47 | $1.6B | 53 | ||
| 2018 Q3 | 52 | $2.2B | 34 | ||
| 2018 Q2 | 60 | $2.6B | 54 | ||
| 2018 Q1 | 57 | $2.1B | 42 | ||
| 2017 Q4 | 58 | $2.0B | 68 | ||
| 2017 Q3 | 59 | $1.7B | 44 | ||
| 2017 Q2 | 53 | $1.5B | 43 | ||
| 2017 Q1 | 52 | $1.6B | 39 | ||
| 2016 Q4 | 51 | $1.3B | 44 | ||
| 2016 Q3 | 56 | $1.4B | 62 | ||
| 2016 Q2 | 53 | $1.2B | 43 | ||
| 2016 Q1 | 51 | $1.1B | 51 | ||
| 2015 Q4 | 57 | $1.1B | 39 | ||
| 2015 Q3 | 51 | $1.0B | 40 | ||
| 2015 Q2 | 41 | $1.3B | 34 | ||
| 2015 Q1 | 37 | $1.2B | 33 | ||
| 2014 Q4 | 36 | $1.4B | 54 | ||
| 2014 Q3 | 34 | $1.4B | 44 | ||
| 2014 Q2 | 33 | $1.4B | 26 | ||
| 2014 Q1 | 32 | $1.4B | 57 | ||
| 2013 Q4 | 32 | $1.5B | 80 | ||
| 2013 Q3 | 32 | $1.1B | 64 | ||
| 2013 Q2 | 25 | $909.9M | 0 |
Holding changes this quarter
| # | Ticker | Issuer | Weight Change | Shares Change | Action |
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Filing History
FAQ
What is Contrarius Investment Management Ltd and what type of investor is it?
Contrarius Investment Management Ltd is an investment manager that files SEC Form 13F quarterly, disclosing its U.S. public equity holdings to regulators. As of the most recent reporting period (2024-09-30), the firm manages a tracked equity portfolio valued at approximately $1.8B, spread across 42 disclosed positions.
What are Contrarius Investment Management Ltd's largest equity positions?
Based on the latest 13F filing, Contrarius Investment Management Ltd's top holdings by market value are:
1. Tesla Inc (TSLA) — $182.5M (10.4%)
2. Warner Bros Discovery Inc (WBD) — $157.7M (9.0%)
3. Meta Platforms Inc-class A (META) — $149.1M (8.5%)
4. Paramount Global-class B (0VVB) — $143.9M (8.2%)
5. Jd.com Inc-adr (JD) — $114.5M (6.5%)
What changes did Contrarius Investment Management Ltd make in its most recent portfolio filing?
No notable portfolio changes were recorded for Contrarius Investment Management Ltd in the most recent quarter. Holdings appear to have remained relatively stable.
What sectors does Contrarius Investment Management Ltd focus on?
Contrarius Investment Management Ltd is concentrated in the following sectors based on its current disclosed equity portfolio:
• Consumer Discretionary: 42.3%
• Communication Services: 35.7%
• Financials: 10.6%
• Information Technology: 7.7%
• Health Care: 2.4%
• Materials: 0.9%
Investment Profile
Contrarius Investment Management Ltd returned an annualized 18.7% over the trailing 36 months — underperforming the S&P 500 by 8.3 points — based on a reconstructed track record of its disclosed 13F positions, with a beta of 1.42 (more volatile than the market) and a 39% quarterly batting average against the index.
Its portfolio is broadly diversified and long-term-holding, with 42.3% of the portfolio concentrated in Consumer Discretionary.
It has added to its ABX position over the past two quarters (+$50.0M, now $53.9M), while trimming COIN over the same stretch (-$22.6M, still holding $37.8M).
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