The Most-Owned Stocks Among Hedge Funds in Q1 2026
We aggregated 1.87 million holdings from 1,824 institutional 13F filings for Q1 2026. Here are the stocks the most funds actually own, ranked by breadth of ownership.
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The short version
Across the 1,824 institutional managers in Arkolith's Q1 2026 13F dataset (1.87 million long positions worth a combined $53.7 trillion), Microsoft is the most widely held stock, appearing in 73% of all portfolios. Nvidia is the largest by dollar value at $2.45 trillion in reported holdings. The full top 12 is below, with every figure traceable to the underlying SEC filings.
How this ranking works
Every institutional manager with over $100 million in U.S. equities must disclose its long positions quarterly on Form 13F. Q1 2026 filings were due May 15, 2026. We parse every filing from SEC EDGAR, resolve each CUSIP to a ticker, exclude option legs (a put is not a long), drop superseded amendments, and count how many distinct managers hold each security.
Two honest caveats before the table. First, "13F filers" is broader than hedge funds: it includes asset managers, banks, insurers, and family offices. Second, breadth measures how many funds own a stock, not how much conviction they have. Both views are shown.
The top 12 by breadth of ownership
| Rank | Company | Ticker | Funds holding | % of filers | Reported value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft | MSFT | 1,334 | 73% | $1.68T |
| 2 | Amazon | AMZN | 1,319 | 72% | $1.24T |
| 3 | Nvidia | NVDA | 1,288 | 71% | $2.45T |
| 4 | Alphabet (Class A) | GOOGL | 1,281 | 70% | $1.11T |
| 5 | Apple | AAPL | 1,248 | 68% | $2.09T |
| 6 | Meta Platforms | META | 1,238 | 68% | $790B |
| 7 | Broadcom | AVGO | 1,182 | 65% | $890B |
| 8 | Alphabet (Class C) | GOOG | 1,178 | 65% | $777B |
| 9 | Visa | V | 1,175 | 64% | $374B |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase | JPM | 1,162 | 64% | $497B |
| 11 | Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 1,107 | 61% | $383B |
| 12 | Eli Lilly | LLY | 1,102 | 60% | $605B |
Source: SEC EDGAR Form 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31, as ingested and resolved by Arkolith on 2026-06-12. Long equity positions only.
What stands out in Q1 2026
Breadth and value tell different stories. Microsoft leads on breadth, but Nvidia carries the most institutional money by a wide margin: $2.45 trillion reported, about 46% more than Microsoft's $1.68 trillion. When a stock ranks higher by dollars than by count, the holders skew large.
The two Alphabet lines are a data lesson, not a quirk. Class A (GOOGL) and Class C (GOOG) are separate securities with separate CUSIPs, and filings report them separately. Naive aggregators merge or double-count them. Combined, Alphabet would rank first on breadth. We keep them split because that is what the filings say, and note the combination explicitly.
Mega-cap tech is still the consensus core. Seven of the top eight are technology platforms or semiconductors. The first non-tech name is Visa at #9, followed by JPMorgan. Healthcare enters with J&J and Eli Lilly at the bottom of the list.
Reading consensus like a practitioner
Breadth rankings move slowly and that is the point. The interesting signal is usually at the margins: which names are entering or leaving the consensus list quarter over quarter, and which funds are positioned against it. A few ways to go deeper:
- Track an individual manager's moves on their fund page, for example Berkshire Hathaway.
- Screen and follow specific managers on the investors leaderboard.
- Read filings yourself with our guide to how to read a 13F filing.
If you are building with this data, the same consensus table is one API call. The docs quickstart shows how to connect an AI agent over MCP or call the REST API directly, and every datapoint comes back with its source filing attached.
Frequently asked questions about hedge fund consensus
How current is this data?
13F filings disclose quarter-end positions with up to a 45-day lag. This snapshot reflects the quarter ended March 31, 2026, filed by May 15, 2026. Positions may have changed since.
Does this include short positions?
No. Form 13F only discloses long positions. A fund could hold a stock long and be net short via instruments that never appear in a 13F.
Why are Vanguard and BlackRock counted alongside hedge funds?
The 13F rules apply to all institutional investment managers over $100 million, so index giants file too. Their inclusion lifts the dollar totals. Breadth (the count of distinct holders) is less distorted by any single large filer.
Where does the underlying data come from?
Directly from SEC EDGAR filings, parsed, amendment-corrected, and identifier-resolved by Arkolith. Every figure links back to a specific accession number, which is the provenance guarantee the API exposes per datapoint.
This article reports public regulatory filings. It is not investment advice.
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