Vilas Capital Fund Up 17.7% In April; 65% YTD Gain [Stat Sheet]

Jacob Wolinsky

Published onMay 8, 2019

Updated on May 8, 2019

Vilas Capital Fund performance review for the month ended April 30, 2019.

Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc

Dear Partners,

The Fund had a good April, rising 17.7% +/-. Further, due to an earnings beat, CVS and a few other stocks we own are up materially today, May 1. This brings our year-to-date performance up to a roughly 65% gain. Making our way back slowly but surely.

The table below shows the year by year performance of value stocks vs growth stocks since 1999. Value stocks are only up 3.5% per year since 2006, which basically can be accounted for by their dividends alone. Thus, despite earnings power that has roughly doubled over this 12+ year period, the stocks are flat,...

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Jacob Wolinsky

Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid

Vilas Capital Fund Up 17.7% In April; 65% YTD Gain [Stat Sheet]

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