# Portfolio data correction record — 2 October 2026

The corrected Stockopedia screenshot supplied for this update establishes the current holdings, bid-based valuation, monetary gains and inception performance. The earlier same-day screenshot was superseded. The result is £42,081.95, with £39,400.00 invested and £2,681.95 cash; all-time return +255.49% versus +21.19%.

## Published YTD is a separate checkpoint

The author's earlier 2 October article reports +83.6% versus +5.7%, alongside the earlier £42,202 valuation. That YTD point is retained and explicitly labelled as the earlier published checkpoint; it is not independently recalculated or asserted to correspond to the corrected later valuation.

Source: https://smallcapsbigbags.substack.com/p/portfolio-update-2-october-2026-and

## Withheld older YTD points

The supplied site's February–June YTD portfolio figures equal the corresponding inception returns minus 95.57 percentage points. The benchmark points similarly subtract 14.54 points. Subtracting cumulative percentage returns is not compounded rebasing: a common-base period return would instead use `(1 + end return) / (1 + base return) - 1`. The original base inputs and transaction series have not been independently established. No replacement observations have been invented.

The following points remain in this audit record but are not plotted:

| Date | Original portfolio YTD | Original benchmark YTD |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| 2026-02-04 | 17.02% | 5.31% |
| 2026-03-05 | 62.43% | 5.05% |
| 2026-04-16 | 44.34% | 6.84% |
| 2026-05-13 | 191.54% | 4.05% |
| 2026-06-26 | 154.31% | 5.99% |

The baseline and published August/October YTD points remain. All seven pre-existing inception-history points are unchanged; 2 October is appended. The benchmark is now labelled FTSE All-Share Index, matching the supplied screenshot rather than asserting independently verified total-return methodology. This is a data-quality correction, not a restatement of the author’s historical investment decisions.