Sterling Capital Management LLC
"13F equity value" = market value of this filer's US-listed long equity positions only. It excludes cash, bonds, non-US and short positions, so it understates a fund's true assets under management — often by a lot.
13F holdings are disclosed ~45 days after quarter-end, and they never reveal when within the quarter a fund actually bought. So any 13F-based summary is structurally late and blurred — this applies to every fund, including this one.
We backtested copying it anyway. Buying this fund's new positions the day each filing went public, over 12 quarters, returned +4.9% per quarter — versus +2.9% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 66.7% of quarters (excess t = -0.57, not statistically significant). Its filings tell you what it bought — not what you should buy.
Quarterly compounding, invested quarters only · entry 47 days after quarter-end (when 13F data becomes public)
Top 20 holdings of 3215 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOO | $200M | | ADD |
| NVDA | $171M | | TRIM |
| MSFT | $152M | | TRIM |
| AAPL | $114M | | TRIM |
| AMZN | $81M | | TRIM |
| SCHW | $80M | | TRIM |
| JPM | $70M | | ADD |
| WM | $69M | | TRIM |
| LIN | $63M | | TRIM |
| ADI | $61M | | TRIM |
| MSI | $60M | | ADD |
| ABBV | $59M | | HOLD |
| SO | $58M | | ADD |
| GOOG | $57M | | TRIM |
| GOOGL | $56M | | TRIM |
| FERG | $53M | | TRIM |
| DE | $52M | | TRIM |
| LLY | $51M | | TRIM |
| AMP | $50M | | TRIM |
| ETN | $49M | | ADD |
QoQ vs previous quarter's share count · NEW = new position · ADD/TRIM = ±2% shares · HOLD = unchanged.
New positions in 2026 Q1
Method & Limitations
Method: a "new position" = held this quarter, absent last quarter (options excluded; stocks with <50 prior holders excluded to filter spin-off artifacts). Entry 47 days after quarter-end — the first day the public could act on the filing. Benchmark = equal-weighted universe of all 13F-held stocks. Limitations: quarterly snapshots can't see intra-quarter trades; survivorship bias — funds that shut down are absent, which flatters the sample. Statistics, not advice.