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SMLF holdings

SMLF reports 910 holdings and behaves like 418.6 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

6.0% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 166.0

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

910 Positions reported
418.6 Effective holdings
2.2× Concentration multiple
7.57% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 99.95% at a quoted market price (level 1), 19 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

SMLF's largest investment is Emcor Group Inc at 1.33% of net assets. BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares and Jabil Inc follow; the three together are 3.16%. Ten companies are 7.57% of the fund; the other 900 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, SMLF behaves like 418.6 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 9.9 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings SMLF has become less concentrated: it behaved like 233.6 at 2019-10-31 and 399.8 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 79 positions were added and 28 dropped; 13.0% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, SMLF went from behaving like 233.6 equally weighted positions to 399.8 — 71% more, while its top ten went from 10.67% to 8.04% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 914 399.8 8.04% 1.33%
2026-01-31 855 376 8.33% 1.48%
2025-10-31 858 406.9 7.09% 1.1%
2025-07-31 851 402.5 7.44% 1.21%
2025-04-30 852 424.6 6.44% 0.87%
2025-01-31 834 369 8.35% 1.72%
2024-10-31 835 418 6.67% 0.95%
2024-07-31 837 444.2 6.06% 0.75%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 835 436.1 6.25% 0.82%
2024-01-31 791 434.5 6.24% 0.72%
2023-10-31 839 449.7 5.94% 0.73%
2023-07-31 861 464.8 5.81% 0.69%
2023-04-30 852 439.3 6.61% 1.27%
2023-01-31 546 272 9.34% 1.23%
2022-10-31 509 254.3 10.17% 1.38%
2022-07-31 488 261.1 9.48% 1.36%
2022-04-30 485 212.7 12.4% 2.17%
2022-01-31 491 232.8 10.98% 1.6%
2021-10-31 477 240.7 9.91% 1.32%
2021-07-31 481 247.4 9.63% 1.14%
2021-04-30 460 236 10.45% 1.37%
2021-01-31 466 245.7 9.97% 1.16%
2020-10-31 439 204 12.49% 1.87%
2020-07-31 441 210.6 12% 1.66%
2020-04-30 457 201.8 12.04% 2.03%
2020-01-31 463 226.5 10.14% 1.26%
2019-10-31 483 233.6 10.67% 1.61%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

As filed, collateral included

6.03% collateral

SMLF's filing lists 911 positions including 6.03% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 166 effective holdings with a top ten of 12.99%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 418.6 with a top ten of 7.57%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 910 positions in SMLF's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: SMLF.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1EMCOR Group, Inc.1.33%1.3%
2BlackRock Funds III0.95%2.3%
3Jabil, Inc.0.88%3.2%
4nVent Electric plc0.85%4.0%
5Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.0.78%4.8%
6Mueller Industries, Inc.0.70%5.5%
7Sterling Infrastructure, Inc.0.69%6.2%
8Flex Ltd.0.69%6.9%
9Tapestry, Inc.0.66%7.5%
10Reliance, Inc.0.52%8.0%
11United Therapeutics Corp.0.51%8.6%
12Williams-Sonoma, Inc.0.50%9.1%
13Argan, Inc.0.49%9.5%
14Natera, Inc.0.49%10.0%
15Popular, Inc.0.48%10.5%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of SMLF's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 89.82%
Ireland° 1.91%
Cayman Islands° 1.90%
Bermuda° 1.89%
Puerto Rico° 0.93%
Israel 0.83%
Singapore 0.69%
United Kingdom 0.39%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of SMLF's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

36.2%Last twelve months filed
120%Whole series, compounded
13.2%Best month
-20.5%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.10 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: SMLF.json · all funds.

Who borrows SMLF's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $241m was out to 29 borrowers. The largest, JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, held 23.3% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $56m 23.3%
BofA Securities, Inc. $28m 11.4%
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $21m 8.9%
BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED $21m 8.8%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $21m 8.7%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter SMLF has filed, with each borrower: SMLF.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

840 positions became 891: 79 added (4.0% of the fund at the later date), 28 dropped (6.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 13.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of SMLF compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Jabil, Inc.0.64%0.88% Medpace Holdings, Inc.0.48%0.33%
EMCOR Group, Inc.1.12%1.33% SoFi Technologies, Inc.0.44%0.30%
Revolution Medicines, Inc.0.06%0.27% Wayfair, Inc.0.29%0.17%
Woodward, Inc.0.13%0.33% AST SpaceMobile, Inc.0.32%0.22%
Flex Ltd.0.49%0.69% Guardant Health, Inc.0.37%0.27%
Sterling Infrastructure, Inc.0.50%0.69% Karman Holdings, Inc.0.26%0.17%

New: Piper Sandler Cos. (0.27%), Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (0.19%), Versant Media Group, Inc. (0.15%), Maplebear, Inc. (0.15%), Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (0.14%), DocuSign, Inc. (0.13%). Gone: Sandisk Corp. (1.48%), Comfort Systems USA, Inc. (0.82%), Rocket Lab Corp. (0.55%), Ciena Corp. (0.40%), Lumentum Holdings, Inc. (0.36%), Coherent Corp. (0.35%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC93.48%
short-term investment STIV6.49%
derivative DE0.03%

100.0% of SMLF is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $3.63B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

98.95%Stocks held directly
0.67%Swap notional (30)
0.37%Futures notional (2)
100%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
HSBC BANK PLC$9M0.26%
Goldman Sachs International$7M0.21%
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION$7M0.19%
BNP PARIBAS$1M0.04%

Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0.388% on $25M of long swap notional . Issuers fill the spread field differently (some file the all-in rate), so compare within an issuer, not across.

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of SMLF (418.6). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
AVDV Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 1,758 392.8 8.14% 2026-05-31
IWS iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF 723 399.8 5.94% 2026-06-30
DFAT Dimensional U.S. Targeted Value ETF 1,206 403.1 6.79% 2026-07-31
IWO iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 1,136 409.7 6.06% 2026-06-30
SLY SPDR(R) S & P 600 Small Cap ETF 602 416 5.55% 2023-03-31
EES WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Fund 888 422 7.21% 2026-06-30
DISV Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 1,632 438.1 6.55% 2026-07-31
JHMM John Hancock Multifactor Mid Cap ETF 663 445.6 6.07% 2026-06-30
VTWV Vanguard Russell 2000 Value Index Fund 1,428 447.5 6.92% 2026-05-31
CFA VictoryShares US 500 Volatility Wtd ETF 501 448.8 3.93% 2026-06-30

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