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What grade does IPFPX get?

Morningstar rates funds on what they returned. We grade them on where their money sits today: how much of the book overlaps with the converged buys of the top specialist stock pickers.

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Fundprints Fund Grade · as of 2026-09-01

Poplar Forest Partners Fund

#90 of 440 graded active funds · blend · mid segment peer group

The point · specialist footprint

IPFPX puts less of its book behind proven specialists than 67% of graded funds.

Bottom 20%

● Bottom 40%

Middle

Top 40%

Top 20%

beat the S&P in 22% of quarters+3.8 pts/qtr better · 43% beat rate

That has mattered: over the past 2.7 years, funds with this little specialist backing trailed top-rung funds by about 3.8 points per quarter and beat the S&P in only 22% of fund-quarters. If it also charges an active fee, the higher-graded alternatives deserve a look.

2,825 graded funds · 2.7 years of filings, measured as they were published · evidence, not advice

The grade scores this fund's specialist share — the slice that overlaps what the top 1% of proven funds are building. We ignore index ballast and names outside our edge on purpose: that slice is small, and it's what decides the outcome.

Conviction exposure

8.1%

of the book in specialist-converged names

Late-stage weight

36.9%

of the book in Crowded or Fading names

Active share

97.9%

how far it strays from the index

The best grades have beaten the worst by about +5% a year since we began grading. The gap held in 9 out of 10 months. Measured on filings as they were published, no hindsight.

Inside the book — top names by stage · as of 2026-09-09

Consensus
C 5.5%ALL 4.5%MRK 4.5%+14 locked
Emerging
FDX 4.1%
Crowded
UTHR 6.1%T 4.9%CVS 3.9%+4 locked
Fading
NFG 5%TSN 4.3%MUR 2.5%+2 locked

We email you the day it crosses 50% crowded, and where you stand every month.

Graded monthly from point-in-time filings. A description of where the money sits, not a recommendation. Evidence, not advice.

The read · what to do with it

Support leaving these positions

UTHR 6.1% of the fund · Crowded

NFG 5% of the fund · Fading

T 4.9% of the fund · Crowded

TSN 4.3% of the fund · Fading

CVS 3.9% of the fund · Crowded

Where it's genuinely early

FDX 4.1% of the fund · Emerging

Read from today's disclosed book. Evidence, not advice.

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