13F Position Size vs. Portfolio Weight: Which Number Actually Matters?
A 13F share count tells you little until you convert it into portfolio weight — here is how to read conviction, not just dollars.
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Q3 2026 Just Ended: Your 13F Watchlist Before the November Filings
The third quarter closed on September 30, so here is what to watch in the 13F filings due in mid-November and how to prepare.
Read more →Intel's Comeback: 685 Funds Opened First-Time Positions in Q2 2026
Intel drew a wave of brand-new 13F buyers in Q2 2026 — here is what the filings show, and why a late-arriving crowd deserves a second look.
Read more →Berkshire's Alphabet Buy: Why Share Classes Trip Up 13F Readers
Berkshire's Q2 2026 Alphabet increase looks different depending on whether you count GOOGL, GOOG, or both — here is how to read it correctly.
Read more →George Soros's Contrarian Micron Bet: Buying What Renaissance and Bridgewater Are Selling
Soros Fund Management's Q2 2026 13F shows a nearly eightfold increase in Micron just as Renaissance, Bridgewater, and Appaloosa were heading for the exits.
Read more →Ken Griffin's Citadel Rotates Out of AI Infrastructure Into AI Profits
Citadel's Q2 2026 13F shows Ken Griffin trimming Nvidia, Broadcom, and Micron while adding aggressively to Amazon and Microsoft — a bet on AI monetization over AI spending.
Read more →Elliott Management's 770% Options Bet Against the AI Trade
Paul Singer's Elliott Investment Management dramatically expanded its bearish options bet on the Nasdaq in Q2 2026, and its 13F reveals a portfolio built to survive an AI unwind.
Read more →Amazon Was Q2's Most Widely Bought Stock. Here's What the 13Fs Actually Show
More hedge funds added Amazon in Q2 2026 than any other stock — we break down who bought, how much, and what the filings can't tell you.
Read more →Tepper's $242M Apple Puts: How to Read Options in a 13F
Appaloosa's Q2 2026 13F shows put options on Apple and Berkshire Hathaway, and the way those lines are reported makes them easy to misread as bullish buys.
Read more →The Ex-US Rotation Is the Biggest Trade 13F Filings Can Barely See
International equities have outrun US stocks for two years running, but Form 13F only reports US-listed securities — leaving the decade's largest rotation visible only through ADRs and ETF wrappers.
Read more →Industrials Became the AI Trade — and Most 13F Analysis Is Still Looking at Chips
The best-performing AI exposure of 2026 wasn't a semiconductor — it was a bulldozer and a gas turbine, and the 13F record shows institutions arriving at that conclusion unevenly.
Read more →Q3 Closes September 30 — and the Snapshot Will Flatter Every Fund That Missed the Rotation
The third quarter delivered one of the sharpest value-over-growth rotations in years, and the 13Fs that land in November will show the destination without showing who arrived late.
Read more →Carvana Quietly Became the Most Crowded Tiger Cub Trade of Q2 2026
Viking, Lone Pine, Coatue and Durable all piled into Carvana in the second quarter — a convergence that says more about the growth-fund playbook than about used cars.
Read more →The AI Trade Moved to the Grid: What 13Fs Show About the Nuclear Power Bet
Institutions have quietly built positions in nuclear operators and SMR developers as the AI power thesis matured — but one FERC ruling exposed the risk 13F data cannot price.
Read more →The $34 Billion 13F Nobody Reads: Gates Foundation Trust Exits Microsoft and Buys a One-Month-Old Spinoff
The Gates Foundation Trust filed one of the quarter's most revealing 13Fs — a completed Microsoft exit, a 14% Berkshire cut, and a brand-new spinoff bought within weeks of listing.
Read more →Real Estate at 4.77%: The 13F Trade That Just Got a Rate Shock
Institutions leaned into REITs during a quarter when the 10-year sat near 4.5%. It closed this week at 4.77% — and 13F filings show who is exposed.
Read more →When Fund Managers Buy Fund Managers: Klarman's Pershing Square Stake and the Alts Trade
Baupost's new position in Pershing Square is small in dollars but large in meaning — and it points at a broader 13F question about who owns the asset managers.
Read more →The 13F Positions Funds Are Legally Allowed to Hide
Confidential treatment requests let managers delay disclosing their best ideas for up to a year — and the positions they hide tend to be the ones that work.
Read more →Copper Is the AI Trade That 13F Filings Barely Show
Copper hit all-time highs in August 2026 on data-center and grid demand, but institutional exposure to the miners still looks thin in Q2 filings — a gap worth understanding.
Read more →The One Stock Value Investors and Macro Traders Both Bought Last Quarter
Berkshire, Klarman, Tepper, Druckenmiller and Loeb all added Alphabet in Q2 2026 — a rare agreement between investing styles that usually contradict each other.
Read more →Consumer Staples: The Sector Institutions Keep Skipping
Staples are cheap, defensive, and still barely showing up in Q2 2026 13F filings — here's what the positioning data actually says.
Read more →The Biggest Defense Trade of the Cycle Is the One 13Fs Cannot See
European rearmament is the largest defense build-up since the Cold War, and almost none of it shows up in 13F filings — which changes how you should read institutional positioning in the sector.
Read more →Berkshire Stopped Selling — and Bought Houses, Airlines and a Department Store
Greg Abel ended a 14-quarter net-selling streak in Q2 2026, and the shopping list was Lennar, D.R. Horton, Delta and Macy's — not the trade the rest of the market was making.
Read more →Energy Is 2026's Best Sector and Institutions Were Still Selling It in Q2
XLE was up roughly 30% year-to-date by late August, yet 13F filers cut their share count in the quarter — a case study in how underweight positioning and a supply shock collide.
Read more →The Small-Cap Rally Is 13F Data's Biggest Blind Spot
The Russell 2000 has led the market for most of 2026, but the structure of 13F reporting means institutional filings barely register it — and that gap is worth understanding.
Read more →Financials Were Q2's Quietest Crowded Trade
While everyone argued about AI capex, institutional money rotated into banks, insurers and emerging-market fintech — and the Q2 13F filings show it clearly.
Read more →Utilities Were the #1 Bought Sector in Q2 13Fs. That Should Worry You.
Institutional buyers piled into power utilities last quarter as the AI trade moved down the stack — but a defensive sector bought for offensive reasons carries risks the 13F data doesn't show.
Read more →Dan Loeb Deleted Semiconductors From His Portfolio — And Put $533M Into a Contested Merger
Third Point's Q2 2026 13F shows a complete exit from every chip name Loeb owned, with the proceeds redirected into Warner Bros. Discovery, Alphabet, and SpaceX.
Read more →Druckenmiller's $88M Crypto Backdoor: Why Q2 13Fs Show Funds Buying Miners, Not Bitcoin
Q2 2026 13F filings reveal a split personality in institutional crypto — hedge funds trimmed Bitcoin ETFs while quietly loading up on crypto-adjacent equities like Bitdeer and Hyperliquid Strategies.
Read more →SpaceX Ate the 13F: How One IPO Became a Concentration Problem
SpaceX went public in June and by the Q2 filing deadline it was the single largest position at multiple major hedge funds — one of them at over 60% of its disclosed book.
Read more →Ackman Sold Alphabet and Bought Toll Booths: Inside Pershing Square's Q2 2026 Pivot
Pershing Square exited Alphabet and opened four new positions in Visa, Mastercard, S&P Global, and Netflix — a quiet shift from AI winners to fee-collecting compounders.
Read more →Gold Fell 20% in Q2. The 13Fs Show Who Kept Buying.
While institutional investors argued over AI, gold quietly suffered a 20% drawdown — and Q2 13F filings reveal a split between funds who sold the miners and funds who added.
Read more →Healthcare Is the New Crowded Trade: What Q2 2026 13Fs Reveal
Q2 2026 13F filings confirm a rotation that prime brokerage data flagged weeks ago — institutional money is piling into healthcare at the fastest pace in five years.
Read more →13F Deadline Day: How to Read the Q2 2026 Filings Without Getting Trapped
Q2 2026 13F filings are due today — here are the five structural traps that make deadline-day headlines misleading, and how to read the data properly.
Read more →The July AI Unwind: What Crowded Hedge Fund Trades Mean for the August 13F Drop
July's tech sell-off exposed how crowded the AI trade has become — here's how to use the upcoming Q2 13F filings to map the crowding before it unwinds further.
Read more →Bridgewater After Dalio: What the World's Largest Hedge Fund Is Buying Now
A year into the post-Dalio era, Bridgewater's 13F shows a decisive rotation into AI hardware — here's what to watch when Q2 filings land August 14.
Read more →Activist Investors Are Back — and This Time They Just Want Companies Sold
Activist campaigns surged in Q2 2026 with a record tilt toward M&A demands — here's how to track the wave through 13F and 13D filings.
Read more →Q2 13F Filings Land August 14 — But July's Chip Rout Already Made Them Stale
Hedge funds dumped chip and memory stocks in July, so the June 30 snapshots arriving on August 14 need careful reading — here's how to extract real signal anyway.
Read more →Amazon's Blowout Quarter Just Vindicated the Smart Money's Most Crowded Bet
Amazon's Q2 earnings beat — with AWS growing 37% — rewarded the hedge fund managers who piled into AMZN in Q1, including Ackman, Tepper, and Berkshire.
Read more →David Einhorn's Contrarian Playbook: Gold, Homebuilders, and a Fund That Just Closed Its Doors
Greenlight Capital beat the S&P 500 by 11 points in Q1 2026 and closed to new investors — here's what Einhorn's 13F says about how he did it.
Read more →Bill Ackman's Rough 2026: What a 9% Drawdown Teaches 13F Followers
Pershing Square is trailing the S&P 500 by nearly 19 points this year — here's what Ackman's concentrated book looks like and what it teaches anyone who follows 13F filings.
Read more →Why Billionaires Keep Betting on Uber — Even as the Stock Stalls
Ackman, Tepper, and Li Lu all hold big Uber stakes while the stock lags — here's what the 13F data says heading into Q2 earnings on August 5.
Read more →Druckenmiller's Quiet Pivot: Why Natera, Not Nvidia, Is His Biggest Bet
Stanley Druckenmiller's Q1 2026 13F shows a 25% cut in U.S. exposure, a doubling-down on genetic testing leader Natera, and a growing basket of international names.
Read more →Buffett's 8-Year Exit: What the $140 Billion Giveaway Means for Berkshire Watchers
Warren Buffett plans to dispose of his entire $140 billion Berkshire stake by 2034 — here's what it means for the portfolio 13F trackers follow most closely.
Read more →David Tepper's Quiet Pivot: Out of China, All-In on the AI Supply Chain
Appaloosa's Q1 2026 13F shows Tepper unwinding his famous China trade while doubling Amazon and loading up on chips, power, and ride-share.
Read more →UnitedHealth's Earnings Beat Just Tested the 13F Sellers
Berkshire exited and Tepper slashed UNH in Q1 2026 — then UnitedHealth crushed Q2 earnings. What the filings got right, wrong, and what the lag teaches us.
Read more →SanDisk Is Up 600%+ in 2026 — And the Smart Money Saw It Coming
Q1 13F filings flagged SanDisk months before its historic rally. Here's who bought SNDK early, why the NAND supercycle keeps running, and what to watch in Q2 filings.
Read more →Q2 2026 13F Season Preview: Five Questions the August Filings Will Answer
Q2 13F filings land by August 14 — here are the five questions that will decide whether the great AI hardware rally was smart money or momentum chasing.
Read more →Chris Hohn's $8B Microsoft Exit: Why TCI Rotated Into Alphabet
TCI Fund Management slashed its Microsoft stake by 84% in Q1 2026 and rotated into Alphabet — a rare AI-driven pivot from one of Wall Street's most concentrated portfolios.
Read more →Biotech's Smart Money: What Specialist Hedge Funds Bought in Q1 2026
Q1 2026 13F filings show biotech specialist funds like ADAR1 Capital making concentrated bets on gene editing and rare-disease names — here's what the healthcare smart money is telling us.
Read more →Seth Klarman's Baupost Group Doubles Down on Amazon — What the Value Legend's Q1 2026 13F Reveals
Baupost's latest 13F shows Seth Klarman turning Amazon into a top-two holding while quietly exiting payments and data-services names — a classic value-investor pivot worth unpacking.
Read more →Citadel's $618 Billion 13F: Why Most of It Isn't a 'Bet' at All
Citadel Advisors' Q1 2026 13F shows Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, and gold at the top — but market-maker filings hide more than they reveal, and knowing the difference is the whole game.
Read more →Tiger Global's Great Rotation: Chase Coleman Dumps Software, Buys the Chip Supply Chain
Tiger Global's Q1 2026 13F shows Chase Coleman exiting seven software and consumer-tech names while piling into Taiwan Semiconductor, Applied Materials, and Broadcom.
Read more →Carl Icahn's Q1 2026 13F: An 88-Year-Old Activist Doubles Down on Energy
Icahn Capital Management's Q1 2026 13F shows a 12-stock, $8.5B portfolio that's 77% energy — and getting more concentrated, not less.
Read more →Michael Burry's China Exit and the Return to MercadoLibre: Inside Scion's Q1 2026 13F
Scion Asset Management's latest 13F shows Michael Burry dumping his entire Chinese tech basket, initiating MercadoLibre and beaten-down SaaS names, and doubling down on bearish AI bets.
Read more →The AI Power Play: Why Hedge Funds Are Loading Up on Energy Stocks
Q1 2026 13F filings reveal a striking convergence: top hedge funds are betting that the real bottleneck of the AI boom isn't chips or software — it's electricity.
Read more →Bridgewater's Q1 2026 Bet: Chips In, Software Out
Ray Dalio's $92B firm made its biggest sector rotation in years — loading up on NVIDIA, Broadcom, Micron, and TSMC while dumping Salesforce, Workday, and Adobe.
Read more →Greg Abel's First Quarter: Berkshire Hathaway Triples Its Alphabet Bet
In his debut quarter as Berkshire CEO, Greg Abel tripled the Alphabet stake, bought Delta Air Lines, and cut the portfolio from 40 positions to just 26 — signaling a sharper, more concentrated Berkshire.
Read more →Dan Loeb's Q1 2026 Pivot: Out of Utilities, Into AI Picks-and-Shovels
Third Point's Q1 2026 13F reveals a sweeping portfolio overhaul — 19 positions liquidated, hard assets and semiconductor equipment added, and a clear bet on the next leg of the AI trade.
Read more →Steve Cohen's Point72 Just Dropped $2.8 Billion on AI Infrastructure
Steve Cohen's Q1 2026 13F reveals a massive $2.8 billion bet on the AI infrastructure stack — semiconductors, cloud, and data centers.
Read more →Paul Tudor Jones' 2026 Playbook: Inflation Hedges and a Cautious 13F
Paul Tudor Jones is calling inflation the defining macro theme of 2026 — and his latest 13F filing reveals just how he's positioning for it.
Read more →Bill Ackman's $2.1B Microsoft Bet: What His Q1 2026 13F Reveals
Pershing Square's surprise Microsoft stake — and the simultaneous Alphabet exit — is one of the most telling institutional moves in the Q1 2026 13F filing cycle.
Read more →David Einhorn Beat the Market in Q1 2026 — Here's How
Greenlight Capital returned 6.5% in Q1 2026 while the S&P 500 fell 4.4%, driven by gold, healthcare, and a massive concentrated bet on homebuilder Green Brick Partners.
Read more →Howard Marks Just Filed One of the Most Defensive 13Fs of the Quarter
Oaktree's Q1 2026 13F shows Howard Marks loading up on gold miners, energy hedges, and a $551 million put overlay — a portfolio built for caution, not conviction.
Read more →Druckenmiller Dumped Alphabet — And Bought 11 Chip Stocks Instead
Stanley Druckenmiller's Q1 2026 13F shows a full exit from Alphabet and a sweeping rotation into semiconductor and AI-hardware names, alongside a surprising bet on genomic testing and Argentina.
Read more →Where Ackman and Tepper Agree (And Disagree) in Q1 2026
Bill Ackman and David Tepper both filed their Q1 2026 13Fs in May — here's what they're betting on together, and where their convictions sharply diverge.
Read more →Tepper's Bold Q1 2026 Pivot: Tripling Micron, Doubling Amazon, and Exiting Every Airline
David Tepper's Appaloosa Management made sweeping changes in Q1 2026 — tripling Micron, surging into Amazon and Uber, and dumping all airline exposure. Here's what the 13F data reveals.
Read more →The Ex-OpenAI Researcher Betting $13.7B on AGI Infrastructure — and Against Chips
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP Q1 2026 13F reveals a bold, contrarian wager: short semiconductors, go long on power and compute infrastructure.
Read more →Berkshire's Post-Buffett 13F: What Greg Abel's First Quarter Reveals
Greg Abel's debut 13F shows a dramatically slimmer, tech-heavier Berkshire — 16 stocks sold, Alphabet tripled, and Delta Air Lines added as a major new bet.
Read more →Greg Abel's First Quarter: How Berkshire's New CEO Is Reshaping the Portfolio
The Q1 2026 13F filing reveals Greg Abel's bold opening moves at Berkshire Hathaway — tripling Alphabet, ditching Visa and Mastercard, and cutting the portfolio from 40 holdings to 29.
Read more →What Smart Money Revealed in Q1 2026 13F Filings
Q1 2026 13F filings are in. Here's what top hedge funds and institutional investors actually bought, sold, and concentrated into — and what it means for retail investors watching the smart money.
Read more →Which Stocks Do Multiple Billionaire Investors Own at the Same Time?
When Warren Buffett, Bill Ackman, and other top investors all hold the same stock, it's worth paying attention. Here's how to find high-conviction overlap plays using public 13F data.
Read more →Smart Money Converges: Ackman and Tepper Both Loaded Up on Amazon in Q1 2026
Bill Ackman and David Tepper made strikingly similar moves in Q1 2026 — both doubling down on Amazon while slashing exposure to travel, retail, and old-economy names.
Read more →What Is Warren Buffett Buying in Q1 2026? Berkshire's Latest 13F Breakdown
Berkshire Hathaway's latest SEC 13F filing reveals where Warren Buffett is allocating capital in Q1 2026 — and what it signals about his macro outlook.
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