Who Owns Tesla (TSLA)? Institutional Ownership Map
More than 670 institutions disclose Tesla in their 13F filings, about $151B in long value. The cap-table picture: the passive index core, the active money moving, and what 13F leaves out.
The short version
As of the latest 13F filings, 671 institutional managers disclose a position in Tesla (TSLA), totaling about $151B in reported long value, and the top of the cap table is dominated by passive index managers, not stock-pickers. State Street (about $43B), Geode (about $25B), Vanguard (about $18B from its portfolio-management entity), and Fidelity/FMR (about $13B) hold the largest reported stakes, all of them index or quasi-index money. The active picture sits below that: the single standout move last quarter was Citadel Advisors, which grew its disclosed TSLA position by about 135%. 13F is a quarterly, long-only, 45-day-lagged snapshot, so treat it as a map of disclosed institutional positioning, not a live order book.
Who owns the most Tesla?
The largest disclosed Tesla holders are the index giants. This is the single most important fact about TSLA ownership and the one most "who owns Tesla" answers get wrong by leading with a hedge fund: the biggest holders are the funds that have to own Tesla because it is a top weight in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100.
| Rank | Holder | Reported value | Latest change | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State Street Corp | ~$43B | reduced (-0.12%) | Q1 2026 |
| 2 | Geode Capital Management | ~$25B | added (+3.5%) | Q1 2026 |
| 3 | Vanguard Portfolio Management | ~$18B | new position | Q1 2026 |
| 4 | Fidelity (FMR) | ~$13B | reduced (-8.75%) | Q1 2026 |
| 5 | Vanguard Fiduciary Trust | ~$6B | new position | Q1 2026 |
Values are each filer's reported long position as of its most recent 13F; live figures and the full holder list are on the Tesla ownership page. The "as of" column matters: 13F filings arrive asynchronously, so one quarter's largest filer may be a quarter ahead of another's.
The passive core vs the active money
Read TSLA's holder list as two layers.
The passive core is the top of the table: State Street, Geode, Vanguard's index sleeves, and the index portion of Fidelity. These managers hold Tesla in proportion to its index weight. Their quarter-over-quarter moves track fund flows and index rebalancing far more than any view on the stock. When Geode "adds" 3.5%, that is mostly new money flowing into total-market and S&P 500 funds, not a Geode analyst turning bullish on Tesla.
The active money is everyone making a position-sizing decision. That is where the signal lives, and it is mostly further down the list. The standout active move last quarter came from Citadel Advisors, which grew its disclosed TSLA long by about 135%, the kind of triple-digit increase that registers as a real conviction shift rather than a flow. Other notable adds included Viking Global Investors (up about 47%), Capstone Investment Advisors (up about 59%), and Rafferty Asset Management (up about 27%). On the other side, Holocene Advisors cut its disclosed position by about 36%, Danske Bank trimmed about 22%, and even Fidelity (FMR) reduced by close to 9%. None of those is a verdict on the stock by itself, but a screen of who is adding versus trimming, weighted by manager quality, is the actual use of this data. The smart-money leaderboard is the practical starting view.
One nuance specific to Tesla: hedge funds frequently express TSLA views through options, and 13F reports put and call positions as flagged rows valued against the underlying. A naive aggregator that sums every TSLA row into a "long book" turns a protective put into a bullish bet. Our data separates option legs from the long-equity book, so a manager's reported TSLA long is the share position, not a blended notional. (More on that trap: 13F options, puts and calls explained.)
A data-quality footnote: the Vanguard reorg
If you pull TSLA ownership from raw EDGAR right now, you will see multiple Vanguard entities reporting Tesla: the legacy Vanguard Group alongside newer entities (Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC and Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co) that began filing separately after an internal reorganization. Sum them and you double-count billions of dollars of the same shares. This is the kind of identifier and entity-resolution problem that makes institutional ownership data hard to keep clean, and it is exactly what a sourced, deduplicated layer is for. We model the reorg so the combined view does not inflate Vanguard's true position. (Background: 13F amendments and restatements.)
What 13F does and does not tell you about TSLA
Four limits to keep in mind before treating any "who owns Tesla" number as complete:
- It lags up to 45 days. A 13F reports positions as of quarter-end and is due 45 days later, so the picture can be a full quarter stale by the time you read it. TSLA can move 20% in that window.
- It is long-only. 13F covers long positions in 13(f) securities. Short positions, cash, and most derivatives net exposure do not appear. A fund that looks "long TSLA" on a 13F may be hedged.
- It misses smaller and foreign holders. Only managers with $100M+ in 13(f) securities must file a Form 13F, so retail, smaller funds, and many non-US holders are invisible here.
- Insiders file separately. Tesla's own officers and directors report their trades on Form 4 within two business days, a different and faster feed than 13F. See insider activity for TSLA and the filing-type comparison.
The honest summary: 13F tells you which large institutions disclosed a Tesla long position at the last quarter-end and how it changed, not who owns Tesla in real time.
How to track Tesla ownership as it updates
The durable workflow is to resolve the entity once, pull the holder list, and diff across quarters rather than reading a single filing. With the REST API:
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
"https://arkolith.com/api/v1/stocks/TSLA"
For an AI agent, the same data is exposed through MCP tools so the assistant can answer "which funds added Tesla last quarter" directly, with each figure carrying its source filing and quarter. Start with the MCP quickstart, the 13F data layer, or the live Tesla ownership page. Every figure on those surfaces is sourced to its SEC EDGAR accession, which is the point: an ownership claim without a filing date and quarter-end is incomplete.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Tesla's largest institutional shareholder?
Among institutional 13F filers, State Street Corp reports the largest Tesla position, around $43 billion at its latest filing, followed by Geode Capital Management at around $25 billion. Both are index-fund managers holding Tesla in line with its weight in major indexes, not active stock-pickers.
How many institutions own Tesla?
671 institutional managers disclose a Tesla long position in their most recent 13F filings in our dataset, totaling about $151 billion in reported value. That count covers managers with at least $100M in 13(f) securities; it excludes retail holders, smaller funds, and many foreign holders that do not file 13F.
Which hedge funds are buying Tesla?
Recent active moves point to renewed conviction in pockets of the data. Citadel Advisors grew its disclosed TSLA long by about 135% last quarter, and Viking Global Investors added roughly 47%, while Holocene Advisors and Danske Bank trimmed theirs. Screen the full list, weighted by manager quality, on the investors leaderboard rather than reading one fund in isolation.
Is Tesla mostly owned by index funds?
At the top of the cap table, yes. The largest disclosed holders are index or quasi-index managers (State Street, Geode, Vanguard, Fidelity), whose stakes track index weight and fund flows. The active, conviction-driven positions sit lower in the list and are where quarter-over-quarter changes carry the most signal.
Is 13F ownership data live?
No. A 13F is a quarterly snapshot filed up to 45 days after quarter-end, so Tesla's disclosed ownership can be months old by the time it publishes. Use it for institutional positioning and quarter-over-quarter changes, never as a live book.
Arkolith turns SEC ownership filings into clean, sourced, queryable data. See the live Tesla ownership page, connect an agent through the MCP quickstart, or get a key. Not investment advice.
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