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MAD RIVER INVESTORS

Reported holdings as of Q3 2026, from 32 quarterly filings.

CIK
1384484
Reported value
$245.7M
Positions
30
Top 10 weight
88.9%
Filed
2026-10-27
Days after quarter end
27

Holdings

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SecurityTickerValue SharesWeightWeight change Held Change
TEXAS PACIFIC LAND CORPORATITPL$92.8M284,77137.77%-8.81pp23qHELD
PERMIAN BASIN RTY TRPBT$33.3M1,056,36613.54%+4.15pp19q+5.1%+$1.6M
GRAYSCALE BITCOIN TRUST ETFGBTC$23.0M355,4449.34%+3.23pp11q-1.3%-$303.3K
LANDBRIDGE COMPANY LLCLB$21.6M266,7058.81%+0.89pp9qHELD
HAWAIIAN ELEC INDS INC MTN B CALLHE$12.2M1,319,0504.98%-1.94pp8qHELD
MIAMI INTL HLDGS INCMIAX$10.0M297,1574.05%+0.05pp5q+2.8%+$273.3K
WATERBRIDGE INFRASTRUCTURE LWBI$7.6M268,7513.08%-0.35pp5qHELD
MESABI TRMSB$6.4M327,3162.61%-0.45pp25q+1.1%+$70.2K
WHEATON PRECIOUS METALS CORPWPM$6.0M45,0242.45%+0.10pp32q-19.8%-$1.5M
FIDELITY WISE ORIGIN BITCOINFBTC$5.7M78,4292.32%+0.98pp11q+11.5%+$585.5K
FRANCO NEV CORPFNV$5.0M21,0572.04%+0.29pp31q-6.4%-$345.0K
GRAYSCALE BITCOIN MINI TR ETBTC$3.0M81,5171.23%+0.44pp8qHELD
SAN JUAN BASIN RTY TRSJT$2.2M597,5000.89%-newNEW
PALO ALTO NETWORKS INCPANW$2.2M5,4840.89%+0.19pp5qHELD
FERMI INCFRMI$2.0M483,2000.83%+0.77pp2q+2828.5%+$2.0M
APPLE INCAAPL$1.9M5,8470.79%+0.25pp5q+15.8%+$265.4K
CBOE GLOBAL MKTS INCCBOE$1.8M6,6800.75%+0.14pp32qHELD
VANGUARD INDEX FDSVTI$1.7M4,6000.70%-0.24pp14q-32.4%-$823.3K
INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE INICE$1.2M8,0010.50%+0.13pp26q+2.0%+$23.6K
ORACLE CORPORCL$1.1M8,0500.45%+0.01pp5qHELD
AMAZON COM INCAMZN$847.1K3,4000.34%+0.04pp5qHELD
CISCO SYS INCCSCO$645.8K6,0000.26%flat5qHELD
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCUNH$624.0K1,7000.25%-0.01pp5qHELD
CINCINNATI FINL CORPCINF$573.7K3,6000.23%-0.02pp5qHELD
EATON CORP PLCETN$515.7K1,2000.21%+0.02pp5qHELD
CARNIVAL CORP LTDCCL$458.3K18,6770.19%-0.83pp2q-80.4%-$1.9M
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC DELBRKB$385.9K7750.16%+0.04pp32q+24.0%+$74.7K
RLI CORPRLI$331.9K6,0000.14%flat32qHELD
JOHNSON & JOHNSONJNJ$317.7K1,2000.13%+0.02pp5qHELD
ROYAL GOLD INCRGLD$221.8K9400.09%-newNEW

By sector

Industry comes from the SIC code on each company's own SEC filings, which is self-reported and sometimes out of date. Derivative exposure is counted with the shares. Securities the SEC assigns no industry - funds, trusts, foreign issues - are shown as not classified rather than dropped.

Holding & Investment 63.7%Capital Markets 18.2%Utilities 5.0%Mining & Metals 4.5%Energy 3.1%Computer Hardware 1.9%Other sectors 2.9%Not classified 0.7%
 
SectorValueShare
Holding & Investment$156.5M63.7%
Capital Markets$44.7M18.2%
Utilities$12.2M5.0%
Mining & Metals$11.0M4.5%
Energy$7.6M3.1%
Computer Hardware$4.8M1.9%
Other sectors$7.2M2.9%
Not classified$1.7M0.7%

What the disclosed book did

This is not the fund's return. A 13F shows long US equity positions only, so shorts, bonds, foreign listings, private holdings and cash are all invisible here. What this measures is the quarter's change in value of the positions this manager disclosed, had they been left untouched - the return a reader following the filing would have earned.

QuarterBookMarket DifferencePriced
Q3 2026-9.0%+2.1%-11.1%100%
Q2 2026-3.6%+14.8%-18.4%100%
Q1 2026+26.9%-4.6%+31.6%100%
Q4 2025-7.0%+2.4%-9.4%100%
Q3 2025-0.3%+7.8%-8.1%100%
Q2 2025-5.6%+10.5%-16.1%100%
Q1 2025+10.0%-4.6%+14.6%100%
Q4 2024+28.6%+2.1%+26.4%100%

Market is SPY over the same two quarter ends, priced the same way as everything else here - the median across every filer reporting it. It is a large-cap US proxy, so a manager holding small caps or biotech will beat or trail it for reasons that are not skill. Prices are quarter-end to quarter-end and say nothing about the path in between, or about trades opened and closed inside a quarter.

Quarter by quarter

QuarterValuePositions NewAddedTrimmed ExitedTop 10 Days to file
Q3 2026$245.7M30285188.9%27
Q2 2026$268.1M29248491.5%34
Q1 2026$277.9M31087391.3%23
Q4 2025$219.6M34195486.9%37
Q3 2025$233.8M371738386.8%14
Q2 2025$223.3M23059192.0%8
Q1 2025$236.0M241412392.4%22
Q4 2024$215.2M262213289.5%16
Q3 2024$180.3M262413387.6%22
Q2 2024$149.3M270314087.7%33
Q1 2024$144.1M273215286.3%19
Q4 2023$107.7M261017087.2%26
Q3 2023$141.3M252110489.1%18
Q2 2023$135.3M275510187.4%34
Q1 2023$141.9M231611491.9%34
Q4 2022$172.4M261314194.5%37
Q3 2022$137.3M26168292.6%26
Q2 2022$127.9M27078290.9%39
Q1 2022$129.5M293218386.4%28
Q4 2021$131.2M295119186.3%40
Q3 2021$155.8M25000087.8%39
Q2 2021$155.8M252316087.8%33
Q1 2021$150.0M231611189.8%33
Q4 2020$101.8M23169185.2%34
Q3 2020$78.6M232018084.8%29
Q2 2020$87.2M21207087.6%41
Q1 2020$65.2M190214487.3%35
Q4 2019$117.0M23123183.3%30
Q3 2019$102.7M230111582.4%30
Q2 2019$114.2M280114183.0%38
Q1 2019$112.8M291118083.3%36
Q4 2018$90.5M28000081.1%37

Rows marked UNVERIFIED ID, PLACEHOLDER ID, TICKER AS ID or NON-CUSIP ID carry an identifier that is not a valid CUSIP. They are shown because the filer reported that money, but treat the security named with caution - hover the chip for what is wrong with it, and see the methodology.

Held counts consecutive filings in which this manager reported the position, and can reach further back than the quarters listed above: the tabs begin at Q4 2018 because earlier coverage is too sparse to describe a market, but tenure is counted over every filing we hold, some reaching to 2007. A position sold and later rebought starts again from one.

Weight change is the shift in this position's share of the whole book, in percentage points. It is the more useful column: when money flows into or out of a broad fund, almost every holding is bought or sold at once, so added and trimmed largely track flows. A weight that rose while the book shrank is a decision. Both compare with the previous quarter this filer reported, not the previous calendar quarter.