Ars Investment Partners 13F annual report

Ars Investment Partners is an investment fund managing more than $1 trillion ran by Kristen Niebuhr. There are currently 137 companies in Mrs. Niebuhr’s portfolio. The largest investments include Apple Inc and Micron Technology, together worth $114 billion.

$1 trillion Assets Under Management (AUM)

As of 10th July 2024, Ars Investment Partners’s top holding is 382,948 shares of Apple Inc currently worth over $65.7 billion and making up 6.5% of the portfolio value. Relative to the number of outstanding shares of Apple Inc, Ars Investment Partners owns more than approximately 0.1% of the company. In addition, the fund holds 409,083 shares of Micron Technology worth $48.2 billion, whose value grew 53.1% in the past six months. The third-largest holding is Alphabet Inc worth $54.9 billion and the next is Lam Research worth $46.9 billion, with 48,294 shares owned.

Currently, Ars Investment Partners's portfolio is worth at least $1 trillion. The total portfolio value may be much higher due to cash assets that are not publicly disclosed such as fixed income, real estate, or cash equivalents.

Careers at Ars Investment Partners

The Ars Investment Partners office and employees reside in New York, New York. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Kristen Niebuhr serves as the Chief Compliance Officer at Ars Investment Partners.

Recent trades

In the most recent 13F filing, Ars Investment Partners revealed that it had opened a new position in CRH Plc and bought 350,354 shares worth $30.2 billion. This means they effectively own approximately 0.1% of the company. CRH Plc makes up 17.8% of the fund's Materials sector allocation and has grown its share price by 43.6% in the past year.

The investment fund also strengthened its position in Cleveland-Cliffs Inc by buying 14,559 additional shares. This makes their stake in Cleveland-Cliffs Inc total 1,573,506 shares worth $35.8 billion. Cleveland-Cliffs Inc dropped 5.3% in the past year.

On the other hand, there are companies that Ars Investment Partners is getting rid of from its portfolio. Ars Investment Partners closed its position in Tanger Factory Outlet Ctrs I on 17th July 2024. It sold the previously owned 378,959 shares for $8.56 billion. Kristen Niebuhr also disclosed a decreased stake in Apple Inc by 0.2%. This leaves the value of the investment at $65.7 billion and 382,948 shares.

One of the average hedge funds

The two most similar investment funds to Ars Investment Partners are Bayesian Capital Management, L.P. and Traynor Capital Management. They manage $1.05 trillion and $1.05 trillion respectively.


Kristen Niebuhr investment strategy

Ars Investment Partners’s portfolio is diversified across 13 sectors. Currently, their heaviest sector is Technology — making up 23.6% of the total portfolio value. The fund focuses on investments in the United States as 53.3% of the portfolio companies are based in the United States.

The majority of the companies in the fund’s portfolio are large-cap stocks. Stocks with a size of more than $10 billion in market cap make up 33% of the total holdings value. On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only 5.8% of the portfolio. The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $110 billion.

The complete list of Ars Investment Partners trades based on 13F SEC filings

These positions were updated on July 17th based on the fund’s latest 13F filing. Quickly find out what the most recently closed or increased positions are.

Security Shares Owned Value Allocation
Apple Inc
16.16%
382,948
$65,667,997,000 6.55%
Micron Technology Inc.
1.19%
409,083
$48,226,795,000 4.81%
Alphabet Inc
2.50%
363,595
$54,945,843,000 5.48%
Lam Research Corp.
10.53%
48,294
$46,920,660,000 4.68%
Freeport-McMoRan Inc
2.19%
942,023
$44,293,921,000 4.42%
Ascendis Pharma A/S
10.83%
254,967
$38,543,361,000 3.84%
Amazon.com Inc.
1.47%
198,799
$35,859,364,000 3.58%
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc
0.93%
1,573,506
$35,781,526,000 3.57%
Biohaven Ltd
1.93%
636,371
$34,803,130,000 3.47%
NVIDIA Corp
10.75%
35,309
$31,903,603,000 3.18%
CRH Plc
Opened
350,354
$30,221,511,000 3.01%
Broadcom Inc.
5.68%
22,655
$30,027,164,000 2.99%
Marathon Pete Corp
0.34%
122,621
$24,708,132,000 2.46%
Kratos Defense & Sec Solutio
10.04%
1,244,754
$22,878,579,000 2.28%
RTX Corp
3.73%
232,780
$22,703,082,000 2.26%
Spdr S&p 500 Etf Tr
12.55%
42,771
$22,372,260,000 2.23%
Martin Marietta Matls Inc
19.14%
35,408
$21,738,689,000 2.17%
Gallagher Arthur J & Co
4.18%
83,599
$20,903,094,000 2.08%
Commercial Metals Co.
28.70%
327,906
$19,271,057,000 1.92%
Ge Healthcare Technologies I
25.04%
185,023
$16,820,417,000 1.68%
Merck & Co Inc
3.87%
122,692
$16,189,209,000 1.61%
General Mtrs Co
15.13%
351,005
$15,918,077,000 1.59%
MP Materials Corp.
13.47%
1,072,928
$15,342,870,000 1.53%
L3Harris Technologies Inc
0.32%
70,772
$15,081,451,000 1.50%
Eaton Corp Plc
0.98%
48,135
$15,050,806,000 1.50%
Charter Communications Inc N
15.85%
42,650
$12,395,370,000 1.24%
Blackstone Inc
4.76%
92,162
$12,107,322,000 1.21%
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Opened
12,006
$11,555,655,000 1.15%
Chevron Corp.
1.38%
70,930
$11,188,498,000 1.12%
Steel Dynamics Inc.
1.24%
73,270
$10,860,812,000 1.08%
Olin Corp.
11.94%
179,629
$10,562,185,000 1.05%
Northrop Grumman Corp.
5.35%
21,262
$10,177,108,000 1.01%
General Electric Co
Opened
51,790
$9,090,699,000 0.91%
Tanger Factory Outlet Ctrs I
Closed
378,959
$8,564,473,000
Select Sector Spdr Tr
0.63%
145,274
$17,679,814,000 1.76%
Blackrock Inc.
5.89%
9,213
$7,680,878,000 0.77%
Johnson & Johnson
9.47%
48,427
$7,660,667,000 0.76%
Moderna Inc
Closed
70,250
$7,256,123,000
Targa Res Corp
23.43%
63,804
$7,145,410,000 0.71%
Occidental Pete Corp
5.17%
107,334
$6,975,637,000 0.70%
Comcast Corp New
9.25%
139,517
$6,048,062,000 0.60%
Uniti Group Inc
15.12%
1,024,058
$6,041,942,000 0.60%
Abbvie Inc
0.15%
30,678
$5,586,464,000 0.56%
Spdr Ser Tr
7.66%
121,115
$8,521,400,000 0.85%
VanEck ETF Trust
4.01%
20,478
$4,607,345,000 0.46%
Applied Matls Inc
4.72%
20,207
$4,167,290,000 0.42%
Gildan Activewear Inc
11.74%
105,135
$3,903,663,000 0.39%
Analog Devices Inc.
4.09%
19,023
$3,762,559,000 0.38%
Ishares Inc
9.87%
141,673
$3,757,182,000 0.37%
Ardagh Metal Packaging S A
21.49%
1,028,212
$3,526,767,000 0.35%
Enterprise Prods Partners L
2.03%
114,468
$3,340,176,000 0.33%
Devon Energy Corp.
11.43%
60,517
$3,036,743,000 0.30%
Pepsico Inc
1.22%
16,986
$2,972,720,000 0.30%
Ishares Tr
8.32%
86,959
$8,297,931,000 0.83%
Asml Holding N V
4.41%
2,272
$2,204,908,000 0.22%
Canadian Natl Ry Co
4.64%
16,433
$2,164,390,000 0.22%
General Dynamics Corp.
619.73%
7,586
$2,142,969,000 0.21%
Xcel Energy Inc.
0.87%
36,870
$1,981,763,000 0.20%
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
No change
3,282
$1,907,531,000 0.19%
Perma-fix Environmental Svcs
9.31%
152,427
$1,812,357,000 0.18%
Global X Fds
6.75%
45,472
$1,810,240,000 0.18%
Crown Castle Inc
Opened
16,606
$1,757,413,000 0.18%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
5.40%
19,258
$1,734,183,000 0.17%
Cloudflare Inc
20.90%
17,636
$1,707,694,000 0.17%
Nucor Corp.
1.57%
7,775
$1,538,673,000 0.15%
Caredx Inc
11.61%
134,110
$1,420,225,000 0.14%
Innovate Corp
1.49%
1,868,038
$1,308,934,000 0.13%
Spdr S&p Midcap 400 Etf Tr
1.48%
2,269
$1,262,376,000 0.13%
Quanta Svcs Inc
Opened
4,754
$1,235,089,000 0.12%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
5.32%
22,604
$1,225,815,000 0.12%
Mondelez International Inc.
0.01%
16,653
$1,165,710,000 0.12%
Meta Platforms Inc
0.13%
2,371
$1,151,310,000 0.11%
Techprecision Corp
6.04%
309,265
$1,116,447,000 0.11%
Union Pac Corp
8.46%
4,406
$1,083,568,000 0.11%
T-Mobile US, Inc.
1.19%
5,880
$959,734,000 0.10%
American Elec Pwr Co Inc
6.78%
11,145
$959,549,000 0.10%
Liberty Latin America Ltd
90.83%
132,442
$925,770,000 0.09%
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
1.59%
4,226
$762,751,000 0.08%
Exxon Mobil Corp.
50.66%
6,268
$728,592,000 0.07%
BP plc
32.47%
18,395
$693,124,000 0.07%
Invesco Db Multi-sector Comm
13.50%
27,060
$670,006,000 0.07%
Aspen Aerogels Inc.
7.47%
33,679
$592,750,000 0.06%
Spdr Gold Tr
68.74%
2,860
$588,359,000 0.06%
Visa Inc
15.49%
2,090
$583,277,000 0.06%
Abbott Labs
No change
5,115
$581,371,000 0.06%
Phillips 66
No change
3,475
$567,607,000 0.06%
Vanguard Index Fds
No change
2,975
$521,428,000 0.05%
Stagwell Inc
No change
81,660
$507,925,000 0.05%
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.
No change
2,453
$505,269,000 0.05%
Target Hospitality Corp.
Closed
30,000
$476,400,000
Norfolk Southn Corp
4.67%
1,839
$468,706,000 0.05%
AeroVironment Inc.
2.46%
2,776
$425,505,000 0.04%
International Business Machs
15.26%
2,221
$424,122,000 0.04%
Universal Display Corp.
13.76%
2,480
$417,756,000 0.04%
Richardson Electrs Ltd
3.25%
44,531
$410,131,000 0.04%
Calumet Specialty Prods Part
10.00%
27,000
$401,220,000 0.04%
Newmont Corp
62.35%
10,969
$393,129,000 0.04%
Dish Network Corporation
Closed
65,436
$383,455,000
Liberty Broadband Corp
No change
6,500
$371,995,000 0.04%
Darling Ingredients Inc
Opened
7,853
$365,243,000 0.04%
Sono Tek Corp
Closed
68,064
$355,294,000
VirTra Inc
72.44%
33,814
$347,608,000 0.03%
Amplify Energy Corp.
No change
51,000
$337,110,000 0.03%
Motorola Solutions Inc
No change
938
$332,971,000 0.03%
EchoStar Corp
97.09%
23,351
$332,752,000 0.03%
IRIDEX Corp.
53.95%
110,065
$327,994,000 0.03%
Ferroglobe Plc
15.58%
65,000
$323,700,000 0.03%
Kyndryl Hldgs Inc
Closed
21,407
$323,246,000
Burford Cap Ltd
53.85%
20,000
$319,400,000 0.03%
Telesat Corp
40.03%
36,859
$314,039,000 0.03%
Cantaloupe Inc
16.34%
48,409
$311,270,000 0.03%
Accenture Plc Ireland
No change
858
$297,391,000 0.03%
Modine Mfg Co
Opened
3,090
$294,137,000 0.03%
Digitalbridge Group Inc
Opened
15,000
$289,050,000 0.03%
Ishares Tr
Closed
1,025
$272,640,000
Bgc Group Inc
Opened
35,000
$271,950,000 0.03%
InfuSystem Holdings Inc
15.02%
30,088
$257,854,000 0.03%
Equinix Inc
No change
300
$247,599,000 0.02%
NextEra Energy Inc
1.90%
3,874
$247,587,000 0.02%
Crane Nxt Co
7.99%
3,948
$244,381,000 0.02%
Array Technologies, Inc.
39.21%
16,343
$243,674,000 0.02%
Spdr Index Shs Fds
No change
8,579
$243,644,000 0.02%
Consolidated Edison, Inc.
No change
2,595
$235,652,000 0.02%
Rogers Corp.
Closed
1,748
$229,810,000
Conx Corp
Opened
20,697
$216,491,000 0.02%
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc.
Opened
160
$213,006,000 0.02%
Ishares Tr
Opened
2,500
$210,225,000 0.02%
Hubbell Inc.
Opened
500
$207,525,000 0.02%
Ero Copper Corp
No change
10,500
$200,865,000 0.02%
Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc.
Closed
81,825
$175,924,000
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc
Closed
41,613
$175,191,000
Ftc Solar Inc
98.58%
322,300
$173,720,000 0.02%
EZCorp, Inc.
7.59%
14,975
$169,667,000 0.02%
AerSale Corporation
Closed
10,529
$157,303,000
Millicom Intl Cellular S A
Closed
10,000
$154,500,000
Quipt Home Medical Corp
40.68%
33,964
$148,423,000 0.01%
Hudbay Minerals Inc.
Opened
20,400
$142,909,000 0.01%
Newpark Res Inc
Opened
19,585
$141,404,000 0.01%
North European Oil Rty Tr
Closed
11,000
$134,310,000
Absci Corporation
Opened
20,000
$113,600,000 0.01%
Immersion Corp
Opened
15,000
$112,200,000 0.01%
Lincoln Edl Svcs Corp
Opened
10,524
$108,713,000 0.01%
WideOpenWest Inc
Opened
30,000
$108,600,000 0.01%
TPI Composites Inc
Opened
35,000
$101,850,000 0.01%
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation
64.64%
10,950
$95,813,000 0.01%
ElectroCore Inc
Opened
12,136
$74,879,000 0.01%
MIND Technology Inc
Opened
15,670
$71,386,000 0.01%
Vertex Energy Inc
22.78%
40,000
$56,000,000 0.01%
Ess Tech Inc
Closed
20,000
$37,600,000
Smith Micro Software, Inc.
84.31%
11,656
$4,013,000 0.00%
Inuvo Inc
No change
10,000
$3,410,000 0.00%
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