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The S&P 500 rises 0.46% on September 2
Today's session has not closed yet, so what follows is the last one that did: September 2, 2026. Below: who enters and who leaves the ranking, what executives bought with their own money, and who reports next trading day.
02What changed in the ranking
From the session of Sep 1, 2026 to that of Sep 2, 2026, across the 466 scored companies.
The ranking is recomputed every session, and this is what moved from one to the next. Next to each move is the factor that produced it: momentum changes every day, value whenever the price does, and quality and growth only when new accounts come in. Why the price moved is not in this data, so it is not told.
The biggest moves in the whole index: ZBRA climbs 62 places, from #361 to #299 (Momentum 4.2 → 4.8) and GWW drops 42 places, from #171 to #213 (Momentum 6.2 → 5.7).
Source: rankings_diarios.json.gz · rank by multi-factor (the average of the four), across the 466 companies with all four computed · scores on the 0-10 scale used on company pages, where 5 is the index average. See all 500 scored →
03Who filed, and what it did to them
The 4 companies that filed with the SEC on September 2, 2026, and how their score moved once the new numbers went in.
The section above shows the ranking moving; almost always it is the price moving it. This is the other thing: a quarterly or annual report rewrites value, quality and growth at once, and those are audited accounts, not a quote. Here is the before and after, on the 0-10 scale used on company pages, where 5 is the index average.
| Company | Rank | Multi-factor | What moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTAP | #141 → #100 (+41) | 5.2 → 5.3 | Momentum 6.1 → 6.0, Value 4.0 → 4.1, Quality 6.0 → 6.3, Growth 4.6 → 4.8 |
| CSCO | #112 → #75 (+37) | 5.3 → 5.4 | Momentum 6.8 → 7.0, Value 4.0 → 4.1, Quality 5.6 → 5.7, Growth 4.6 → 5.0 |
| KEYS | #68 → #35 (+33) | 5.5 → 5.7 | Quality 5.4 → 5.6, Growth 5.5 → 6.3 |
| BF-B | #310 → #302 (+8) | 4.7 → 4.7 | Momentum 4.2 → 4.3 |
Filing date on EDGAR, not the quarter end. Scores come from the rankings calendar: the same ones each company page publishes. No opinion on the results, only the measured effect.
04What the executives did
SEC Form 4, session of September 2, 2026. 3 sales, 269.9 million dollars.
The rare thing on a Form 4 is a purchase. The largest on September 1, 2026: Burke James A, President and CEO at Vistra, bought 4,465 shares at $135.25 (0.60 million dollars), code P, meaning on the open market and with their own money. see the Form 4 →
A buying campaign, not a trade. Cascade Investment, L.L.C., Gates William H Iii, 10% Owner at Republic Services, has bought on 16 consecutive trading sessions, Aug 10, 2026 to Aug 31, 2026: 3,683,545 shares for 807.6 million dollars, and after the last one declares 114,487,527 shares held. see the latest Form 4 → It is the largest by money of the 11 runs of three or more consecutive sessions in the Form 4 filings downloaded between Aug 25, 2025 and Sep 2, 2026. That someone buys says nothing about where the price goes: what is checkable is that they filed it with the SEC session after session.
3 purchases were filed that day across 3 companies. Over the 17 days the file covers, Aug 17, 2026 to Sep 2, 2026, there are 97 purchases worth 853 million dollars across 37 companies, against 994 sales: which is why a purchase gets told and a sale gets tabulated. The largest of the whole window was RSG, 67.24 million on August 24, 2026.
The biggest sale of the day tells you nothing. Stevens Mark A, of Nvidia, sold 268.0 million dollars of stock and still holds 29,921,132 shares: that is 3.86% of the position.
Of the 3 sales filed that day, 1 was discretionary and 2 scheduled. The largest as a share of holding was scheduled, so today the list does not start with a discretionary decision.
| Company | Role | % of holding | Value | Left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockwell Automation Bulho Matheus De A G Viera | SVP Software and Control | 31.4% | 0.17 M$ | 873 sh. |
| Nvidia Stevens Mark A · largest of the day by dollar value | Director | 3.9% | 268.00 M$ | 29,921,132 sh. |
| Hershey Hershey Trust Co Trustee In Trust For Milton Hershey School | 10% Owner | 1.1% | 1.77 M$ | 915,749 sh. |
Source: Form 4 filings with the SEC · alertas_insiders.json, session of Sep 2, 2026. Every name links to its filing on EDGAR: the claim and the proof on the same line.
The context over those same 17 days: 994 sales worth 4,742 million dollars (2 with no declared price, outside that total), of which 442 were discretionary, and of those 138 exceeded 25% of the seller's position. That is where to look.
Before drawing conclusions
Executives sell for divorces, mortgages, taxes and school fees, not only because they see clouds. The SEC does not require a reason, and we do not know it.
What we do know is that these people chose the timing. It is a map of where to look. It is not a sell signal.
05The five portfolios that can actually be audited
Rebuilt month by month using only what was known on the day.
| Portfolio | Cumulative | CAGR | Sharpe | Max DD | This year | Last month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value 100Earnings, book and sales yield | +556.2% | 12.94% | 0.60 | -51.41% | +22.10% | +0.44% |
| Momentum 10012m return ex-latest month / volatility | +648.6% | 13.91% | 0.73 | -35.70% | +23.93% | -0.39% |
| Quality 100Balance-sheet and earnings quality | +644.9% | 13.87% | 0.74 | -32.91% | +12.08% | -0.13% |
| Growth 100Revenue, EPS and cash-flow growth | +593.9% | 13.35% | 0.68 | -37.85% | +18.54% | -1.26% |
| Multi-factor 100All four factors combined | +665.8% | 14.08% | 0.73 | -36.69% | +22.51% | -1.37% |
| RSP (equal-weight S&P 500) real ETF, dividends reinvested | +467.6% | 11.96% | 0.64 | -39.02% | +15.61% | +0.05% |
All five beat the benchmark (+467.6%) on cumulative return over fifteen years, but cumulative return is not the proof: the benchmark carries the bias explained below. The weakest is Value 100, with an alpha of -1.28%: negative, meaning what it earns does not pay for the market risk it takes to earn it. Publishing the figure that comes out worst is the only reason the others deserve any credit.
That benchmark is a fund you can buy
The +467.6% in the row above is RSP, the equal-weight S&P 500 ETF, with dividends reinvested and its management fee already deducted. It is the fair comparable because the portfolios also weight every holding the same, and it already carries what happened to the companies that left the index, because the fund actually sold them. The portfolios, by contrast, are measured with no trading costs, and that asymmetry flatters them.
Over this same window and measured the same way, SPY, the plain cap-weighted S&P 500, returned +676.5% (14.10% a year). Beating RSP but not SPY means the edge is in picking well inside the index, not in avoiding the concentration in the seven giants.
How much does trading take? It is measured, though not for these three: costes_estimados.json computes it on multi-factor 20, and in the cheapest scenario (a 100,000 EUR account held in dollars, 0.50 EUR a trade, no currency conversion) it comes to between 163 and 203 basis points a year, which turns its 16.75% gross into 14.38-14.85% net. It is an upper bound: the spread is not measured but estimated, and both estimators run high on liquid names. Measured on Sep 1, 2026 with data through Aug 17, 2026.
Source: carteras.json · index based at 100 on Mar 4, 2011. Walk-forward with point-in-time data: on each date scoring uses only prices up to that day and fundamentals already filed with the SEC. 185 rebalances through Aug 17, 2026.
06The rotation between factors
How far momentum is ahead today, and what happened the other times the gap opened this wide. Six-month window ending August 17, 2026.
Over the past month the value portfolio gained +0.44% while momentum lost -0.39%. Across that six-month window the benchmark rose 9.7%, so this is not the whole market moving: it is a rotation inside one.
The extreme of the series is July 9, 2020, six years ago, at +30.2 points. And what happened after each extreme? Counted, not assumed: of the 4 extremes in momentum's favor with enough data after them, in 3 the lead had flipped sign six months later; of the 5 extremes in value's favor, in 4. That is a count over 9 episodes, not a rule.
Why this is not a forecast
179 overlapping windows are not 179 independent observations: each shares five of its six rebalances with the next, so any series looks mean-reverting whether it is or not. All that can be claimed is descriptive: the gap between the two factors is +6.2 points and last month belonged to Value 100. What happens next month is not in this data.
Computed from carteras.json · 185 monthly rebalances between Apr 4, 2011 and Aug 17, 2026 (fifteen years) · 179 overlapping windows of 6 rebalances · recent stretch: the last 24 rebalances, the shortest run that still holds 4 non-overlapping windows.
07What is coming: who reports next
2 S&P 500 companies on September 3, 2026, out of 50 across the whole market.
With the rank and the score they carry before reporting. Section 03 will publish the after once the document reaches EDGAR, which is zero to three days later: the press release does not move our scores, the filed accounts do.
| Company | When | Rank | Multi-factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIEN Ciena Corporation | before the open | #4 | 6.6 |
| LULU lululemon athletica inc. | after the close | #265 | 4.8 |
Source: calendario_resultados.json · Nasdaq public earnings calendar. Earnings date announced by each company, not the SEC filing date, which is not published in advance. Scores from the Sep 2, 2026 ranking.
08The limits, and what they teach
A fixed section. Knowing where a model stops is worth as much as knowing what it gets right.
- What insiders did yesterday. Form 4 can be filed up to two business days after the trade, so the freshest data is always the day before last.
- Whether value keeps winning. Fifteen years and 185 rebalances are not enough to claim a factor mean-reverts. We can describe what happened, not what comes.
- What any company is worth. This report computes no price targets. No Monte Carlo, no DCF, no fair value. When you see one elsewhere, ask which cost of capital discounted it and who chose that number.
- Whether the S&P rises tomorrow. We measured it and the direction model does not beat saying "up" every day. There is no signal, so we don't sell one. The figures appear in section 01 whenever there is a call for the day.
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