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Conglomerate · CIK 0001096343

Tom Gayner

Markel Group
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Tom Gayner runs Markel Group, a conglomerate overseeing $12.54B in disclosed equity holdings (SEC CIK 0001096343). The latest portfolio (2025Q4) discloses 128 positions across 10 sectors, with the largest positions in GOOG, BRK.A and BRK.B. On a mark-to-market basis the tracked portfolio has returned 13.0% over the past year. OpenStocks tracks 40 consecutive quarterly snapshots for this manager — every position change, new entry, and exit is logged below.

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Portfolio
$12.54B
Positions
128
Quarter
2025Q4
Filings tracked
40
1Y+13.0%Since filing+141.8%Full performance →
Quarter
2025Q42025Q32025Q22025Q12024Q42024Q32024Q22024Q12023Q42023Q32023Q22023Q1
1-YearTWR
+13.02%
since 2024Q4
3-Year
—
insufficient history
5-Year
—
insufficient history
10-Year
—
insufficient history

Performance overview

We mark Tom Gayner (Markel Group)'s disclosed portfolio to current market prices and compare its growth against the S&P 500 (SPY). Tom’s portfolio is 13.0% over the last 12 months · 141.8% since 2016Q1.

Portfolio growth vs SPY
Rebased to 100 at 2021Q2 · through 2025Q4
Tom Gayner
+36.1%
SPY
+69.5%
Alpha
-33.4pp
63921211491782021Q22023Q32025Q4
Portfolio line is the GIPS-compliant time-weighted return chain-linked across the manager's quarterly 13F filings — unaffected by capital flows. Quarters with insufficient held-through coverage are skipped, which can briefly flatten the line.
Capital flow per quarter
BuysSellsNet
+$7.91B+$3.96B$0-$3.96B-$7.91B'21Q2'21Q3'21Q4'22Q1'22Q2'22Q3'22Q4'23Q1'23Q2'23Q3'23Q4'24Q1'24Q2'24Q3'24Q4'25Q1
Latest · 2025Q1
+$165M
Lifetime buys
$9.69B
Lifetime sells
$9.16B
Portfolio over time
AUMPositions
$0$3.74B$7.49B$11.34B1352'21Q2'23Q1'25Q1
QoQ AUM
-0.7%
16Q lifetime AUM
+42.6%
QoQ positions
+3
16Q lifetime positions
+10
Position concentration
135 positions
Top 1
8%
of book
  • Top 18%$889.5MBRK.A
  • Top 2-519%$2.11BBRK.B, BN, GOOG
  • Top 6-1015%$1.65BAMZN, V, HD
  • Top 11-2018%$1.97BADI, PGR, BLK
  • Rest41%$4.64BRest of port