
These are Sound Shore Fund's own holdings, not the firm's. Percentages are of the stock positions in its latest filing — the fund's cash and bonds are not included. The fund buys the large, established businesses that Wall Street has stopped paying attention to — companies still turning out real profits but trading at price-to-earnings multiples far below what those same stocks have sold for over the past decade. A working rule keeps a stock's forward multiple at no more than three-quarters of its weighted ten-year historical average, and the fund passes on names that are not still profitable and still growing steadily. Rather than agitating companies to change, it holds what it buys patiently, betting that the market will eventually revalue a neglected stock on its own. That approach reached ordinary investors in 1985, when Harry Burn III and T. Gibbs Kane Jr. launched the Sound Shore Fund as a no-load mutual fund — an early, low-cost way to give retail savers access to an institutional value strategy at a time when such access was rare. The fund's mandate and discipline have barely moved in the four decades since. Burn and Kane stepped back from day-to-day portfolio management at the end of 2024 but remain Co-Chairmen. Today the fund is run by a veteran team led by John DeGulis, who joined Sound Shore in 1996 and has been a portfolio manager since 2003, alongside longtime colleagues Peter Evans and David Bilik.
Avg. holding
6.2 mos
Longest current
≥28 mos
Berkshire Hathaway Inc · BRK.B
Win rate est.
53%
based on 38 of 88 closed positions
Turnover rhythm
10.1 / mo
100% coverage · 283 entries + exits over 28 filed mos
One year after exit est.
est. +16.1%
based on 41 of 122 closed positions
| Security | Period | Return est. |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Corporation | December 2019–December 2024 | est. +226.5% |
| Eog Resources, Inc. | September 2020–March 2022 | est. +198.0% |
| Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. | June 2025–March 2026 | est. +165.3% |
| Barrick Mining Corp | June 2025–March 2026 | est. +100.8% |
| Baker Hughes Co | June 2021–March 2025 | est. +76.4% |
based on 38 of 88 closed positions
| Security | Period | Return est. |
|---|---|---|
| Avantor, Inc. | June 2024–June 2025 | est. -40.2% |
| Pfizer Inc. | December 2019–December 2024 | est. -29.4% |
| Verizon Communications Inc | March 2021–September 2022 | est. -28.0% |
| Salesforce, Inc. | December 2025–March 2026 | est. -24.4% |
| Baxter International Inc | December 2024–September 2025 | est. -23.0% |
based on 38 of 88 closed positions
0 of 39 positions are held by no other tracked investor
Every current position is also held by another tracked investor.