David Einhorn

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David Einhorn

Greenlight Capital

David Einhorn — Greenlight Capital
Greenlight
Fonds principal
3,2 Md $
Valeur du portefeuille 13F
Long/Short · Value
Style d'investissement

Profil et philosophie d'investissement

Greenlight Capital, le fonds de David Einhorn, reste très concentré sur Green Brick Partners, reflétant un pari massif sur le marché immobilier américain au premier trimestre 2026. Einhorn a également renforcé Fluor Corp et initié une position dans Core Natural Resources. Son approche forensique des positions longues comme courtes continue de définir sa stratégie, privilégiant la profondeur analytique au consensus de marché.

Track Record

Einhorn launched Greenlight Capital in 1996 with about $900,000 and ran it as a long-short value fund. Through the early 2010s Greenlight compounded at roughly 19% net annualized and peaked at over $12 billion in AUM. After a rough 2015-2018 stretch and large value-style drawdowns, the fund pivoted toward a more concentrated, deep-value book and recovered strongly: 2022 returned around 36% net while the S&P fell. Greenlight has since stabilized at a smaller AUM base. He authored 'Fooling Some of the People All of the Time' on the Allied Capital short and is widely credited with the early public warning on Lehman in 2008.

Trades emblématiques

Lehman Brothers short, 2007-2008
Einhorn dissected Lehman's Level 3 marks, real-estate exposure and capital ratios in a May 2008 speech at the Ira Sohn conference, arguing the bank was undercapitalized and over-marked. Management denied it. Four months later Lehman filed Chapter 11. The short was one of the cleanest fundamentals-driven calls of the GFC and made the Einhorn brand.
Allied Capital short, 2002-2007
He went public at a 2002 charity speech alleging Allied was inflating illiquid loan marks. Allied attacked him, the SEC investigated him, and the trade ground on for years. Eventually Allied wrote down the portfolio and was acquired in 2010 at a fraction of prior marks. Einhorn turned the saga into the book ‚Fooling Some of the People All of the Time'.
Apple long, 2010-2013 and iPref campaign
Greenlight built a big Apple position in 2010 on the view that the iPhone was underearning. In 2013, with cash piling up, Einhorn publicly pushed for ‚iPrefs' — perpetual preferred stock to return capital. Apple ultimately rejected the structure but massively expanded buybacks and dividends. The position compounded for years and validated the underearning thesis.

Stratégie actuelle (2026)

Greenlight's Q1 2026 disclosures show a deep-value, low-multiple book that explicitly fights the AI-driven mega-cap concentration. Largest disclosed longs continue to cluster around cash-generative industrials and housing-adjacent names like Green Brick Partners, plus selective consumer and energy positions. Einhorn has been vocal that passive flows have broken price discovery in small and mid caps, so he tilts toward high free-cash-flow yields, large buyback programs and management teams shrinking the float. Gold remains a core macro hedge against fiscal dominance and a weaker dollar. He has trimmed or avoided most expensive tech and runs the short book against high-multiple, narrative-driven names. The portfolio reads as a bet that the multiple gap between mega-cap quality and ignored small-mid value finally compresses.

BMI

BMI Counter-Take

Einhorn is right that price discovery is broken in small and mid caps, and the FCF-yield-plus-buyback framework is exactly the kind of edge a retail investor can replicate. The gold sleeve as a fiscal-dominance hedge is also intellectually honest. Our worry is the calendar. He has been early on this thesis for years, and ‚early' in a passive-driven market means underperforming the index for long stretches. We would copy the screening framework but pair it with a smaller core in profitable mega-cap quality, so you do not bleed relative performance while the catalyst takes its time. Pure value purism is a tax on patience.

Portefeuille actuel

DERNIER 13F 2026-03-31

Dernière déclaration SEC Form 13F. Valeur totale du portefeuille: 2,78 Md €. Positions: 45 positions.

TitreActionsΔ vs préc.Valeur (€)Portefeuille %
Green Brick Partners Inc.9,47 M532 M €19,1 %
Fluor Corp.4,75 M-14.6%193 M €6,94 %
Core Natural Resources Inc.1,86 M-11.5%170 M €6,10 %
Brighthouse Finl Inc.2,84 M+1.8%148 M €5,33 %
Pg&E Corp.6,63 M-14.8%102 M €3,65 %
Versant Media Group Inc.3,03 M★ NOUVELLE97,8 M €3,51 %
Acadia Healthcare Company In4,52 M+9.6%92,2 M €3,31 %
Victorias Secret And Co.2,26 M+29.9%91,2 M €3,28 %
Dht Holdings Inc.5,27 M-28.4%84,0 M €3,02 %
Penn Entertainment Inc.6,04 M79,2 M €2,85 %

SOURCE : SEC Form 13F (2026-05-15). BMI Smart Money Tracker.

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