Lone Pine: up 44% to flat is a ~31% drop from the peak
Lone Pine was up 44% at midyear and is now flat for 2026.
"Gave back 44%" undersells it a bit. Going from 1.44 back to 1.00 is a ~31% drop from the peak in one quarter.
With the Nasdaq up ~22% YTD, LPs are 22 points behind a fund that costs almost nothing.
Sources: @negligible_cap: Lone Pine gave it all back after being up 44% through the first half of the year · @Restructuring__: Citadel is again up 25%, Nasdaq up 22%, Coatue 12%, Viking and Lone Pine flat · X story: Lone Pine Capital erases 44% first-half 2026 gains, now flat for the year
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