Values First Advisors 13F annual report

Values First Advisors is an investment fund managing more than $167 billion ran by Ed West. There are currently 153 companies in Mr. West’s portfolio. The largest investments include Pimco Etf Tr and Ishares Tr, together worth $35.8 billion.

Limited to 30 biggest holdings

$167 billion Assets Under Management (AUM)

As of 12th July 2024, Values First Advisors’s top holding is 107,013 shares of Pimco Etf Tr currently worth over $10.8 billion and making up 6.5% of the portfolio value. In addition, the fund holds 248,500 shares of Ishares Tr worth $25.1 billion. The third-largest holding is Vanguard Scottsdale Fds worth $4.49 billion and the next is Ensign Inc worth $3.36 billion, with 27,136 shares owned.

Currently, Values First Advisors's portfolio is worth at least $167 billion. 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 Values First Advisors

The Values First Advisors office and employees reside in Gray, Tennessee. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Ed West serves as the Chief Compliance Officer and Operations Manager at Values First Advisors.

Recent trades

In the most recent 13F filing, Values First Advisors revealed that it had opened a new position in Grand Canyon Ed Inc and bought 14,018 shares worth $1.96 billion.

The investment fund also strengthened its position in Pimco Etf Tr by buying 1,417 additional shares. This makes their stake in Pimco Etf Tr total 107,013 shares worth $10.8 billion.

On the other hand, there are companies that Values First Advisors is getting rid of from its portfolio. Values First Advisors closed its position in SS&C Technologies Inc on 19th July 2024. It sold the previously owned 32,130 shares for $2.07 billion. Ed West also disclosed a decreased stake in Ensign Inc by approximately 0.1%. This leaves the value of the investment at $3.36 billion and 27,136 shares.

One of the smallest hedge funds

The two most similar investment funds to Values First Advisors are Ims Capital Management and Asahi Life Asset Management Co., Ltd. They manage $167 billion and $167 billion respectively.


Ed West investment strategy

Values First Advisors’s portfolio is diversified across 13 sectors. Currently, their heaviest sector is Health Care — making up 14.7% of the total portfolio value. The fund focuses on investments in the United States as 60.8% 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 24% of the total holdings value. On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only 2.0% of the portfolio. The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $19.8 billion.

The complete list of Values First Advisors trades based on 13F SEC filings

These positions were updated on July 19th 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
Pimco Etf Tr
1.34%
107,013
$10,770,840,000 6.45%
Ishares Tr
2.76%
248,500
$25,064,469,000 15.02%
Vanguard Scottsdale Fds
0.98%
77,445
$4,490,205,000 2.69%
Ensign Group Inc
6.81%
27,136
$3,356,506,000 2.01%
Emergent Biosolutions Inc
0.84%
466,151
$3,179,151,000 1.90%
Monolithic Pwr Sys Inc
25.76%
3,530
$2,900,250,000 1.74%
VAALCO Energy, Inc.
1.25%
456,718
$2,863,624,000 1.72%
Ishares U S Etf Tr
3.06%
53,197
$2,677,416,000 1.60%
Mid-amer Apt Cmntys Inc
10.50%
18,620
$2,655,504,000 1.59%
Trane Technologies plc
1.09%
7,790
$2,562,301,000 1.54%
NNN REIT Inc
3.23%
59,181
$2,521,129,000 1.51%
Lemaitre Vascular Inc
14.85%
28,074
$2,309,963,000 1.38%
National Beverage Corp.
21.03%
42,238
$2,164,259,000 1.30%
Synovus Finl Corp
17.23%
51,635
$2,075,223,000 1.24%
Cognex Corp.
18.58%
44,349
$2,073,763,000 1.24%
Bio-Techne Corp
30.65%
28,898
$2,070,550,000 1.24%
Expeditors Intl Wash Inc
0.68%
16,582
$2,069,237,000 1.24%
SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc
Closed
32,130
$2,068,238,000
Amphenol Corp.
28.47%
30,294
$2,040,895,000 1.22%
1st Source Corp.
11.58%
37,505
$2,011,030,000 1.20%
Simulations Plus Inc.
0.04%
40,861
$1,986,668,000 1.19%
Toro Co.
24.61%
21,168
$1,979,461,000 1.19%
Grand Canyon Ed Inc
Opened
14,018
$1,961,268,000 1.18%
Cintas Corporation
29.96%
2,791
$1,954,139,000 1.17%
Fortinet Inc
Closed
27,735
$1,894,580,000
Cincinnati Finl Corp
8.12%
15,990
$1,888,379,000 1.13%
Microchip Technology, Inc.
16.50%
20,593
$1,884,213,000 1.13%
Eog Res Inc
9.96%
14,751
$1,856,661,000 1.11%
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc
1.91%
7,590
$1,844,257,000 1.11%
American Finl Group Inc Ohio
6.43%
14,925
$1,836,043,000 1.10%
Spdr Ser Tr
1.35%
31,442
$2,954,791,000 1.77%
Donaldson Co. Inc.
9.58%
25,421
$1,819,093,000 1.09%
Gentex Corp.
19.99%
53,833
$1,814,722,000 1.09%
Hackett Group Inc (The)
Opened
82,821
$1,798,862,000 1.08%
Badger Meter Inc.
Opened
9,143
$1,703,854,000 1.02%
Medifast Inc
203.03%
65,169
$1,421,985,000 0.85%
Shockwave Med Inc
Closed
4,320
$1,406,843,000
Roper Technologies Inc
4.97%
2,484
$1,400,025,000 0.84%
Waste Connections Inc
6.24%
7,877
$1,381,318,000 0.83%
TransMedics Group, Inc.
7.10%
9,068
$1,365,813,000 0.82%
Datadog Inc
2.50%
10,438
$1,353,646,000 0.81%
Trade Desk Inc
11.04%
13,753
$1,343,296,000 0.80%
Old Dominion Freight Line In
0.61%
7,605
$1,343,044,000 0.80%
D.R. Horton Inc.
0.75%
8,878
$1,251,116,000 0.75%
Lam Research Corp.
0.18%
1,136
$1,209,966,000 0.72%
Tanger Inc.
0.42%
41,900
$1,135,922,000 0.68%
Hawkins Inc
0.04%
12,048
$1,096,365,000 0.66%
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc.
1.14%
778
$1,087,662,000 0.65%
Goldman Sachs Etf Tr
1.49%
10,779
$1,078,706,000 0.65%
Idexx Labs Inc
11.45%
2,135
$1,040,319,000 0.62%
Crowdstrike Holdings Inc
5.49%
2,426
$929,517,000 0.56%
Apartment Income REIT Corp.
Closed
27,045
$878,152,000
Pool Corporation
3.27%
2,782
$855,031,000 0.51%
Liquidity Svcs Inc
3.38%
42,685
$852,837,000 0.51%
Guardant Health Inc
21.77%
28,248
$815,816,000 0.49%
Toast, Inc.
2.66%
31,342
$807,670,000 0.48%
Celldex Therapeutics Inc.
8.26%
21,319
$789,025,000 0.47%
Argenx Se
8.22%
1,830
$786,962,000 0.47%
Rollins, Inc.
18.07%
14,963
$730,026,000 0.44%
Monday Com Ltd
19.59%
3,029
$729,341,000 0.44%
HubSpot Inc
5.97%
1,212
$715,004,000 0.43%
Olin Corp.
0.19%
15,138
$713,758,000 0.43%
Under Armour Inc
21.45%
108,091
$705,836,000 0.42%
Mirum Pharmaceuticals Inc
7.73%
19,754
$675,375,000 0.40%
Xometry Inc
19.48%
56,872
$657,442,000 0.39%
Lithia Mtrs Inc
2.17%
2,523
$637,033,000 0.38%
Omega Healthcare Invs Inc
1.44%
18,547
$635,250,000 0.38%
Welltower Inc.
0.17%
6,020
$627,598,000 0.38%
Asml Holding N V
3.96%
607
$621,236,000 0.37%
Lowes Cos Inc
11.50%
2,794
$615,988,000 0.37%
Northern Lts Fd Tr Iv
1.86%
17,391
$647,039,000 0.39%
Oreilly Automotive Inc
1.75%
563
$594,050,000 0.36%
Coursera, Inc.
Closed
41,669
$584,201,000
Aarons Company Inc (The)
1.03%
58,322
$582,050,000 0.35%
Extra Space Storage Inc.
0.42%
3,622
$562,835,000 0.34%
Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc
6.63%
16,993
$547,169,000 0.33%
Sprout Social, Inc.
Closed
9,085
$542,486,000
Annaly Capital Management In
2.60%
28,267
$538,772,000 0.32%
Entegris Inc
9.84%
3,848
$520,996,000 0.31%
Stag Indl Inc
0.08%
14,321
$516,425,000 0.31%
Elanco Animal Health Inc
0.62%
35,537
$512,796,000 0.31%
Kimco Rlty Corp
0.65%
26,185
$509,564,000 0.31%
Evolent Health Inc
52.98%
26,546
$507,556,000 0.30%
Targa Res Corp
7.09%
3,914
$504,089,000 0.30%
TREX Co., Inc.
3.55%
6,700
$496,632,000 0.30%
Americold Realty Trust Inc
0.27%
18,825
$480,798,000 0.29%
Dlocal Ltd
Closed
32,477
$477,405,000
GitLab Inc.
Opened
9,445
$469,588,000 0.28%
Carriage Svcs Inc
0.13%
17,434
$467,924,000 0.28%
Recursion Pharmaceuticals In
0.60%
61,763
$463,224,000 0.28%
Aptiv PLC
Closed
5,806
$462,481,000
Flywire Corporation
25.83%
27,942
$457,962,000 0.27%
Weyerhaeuser Co Mtn Be
0.05%
16,010
$454,520,000 0.27%
Waste Mgmt Inc Del
31.43%
2,020
$430,893,000 0.26%
Gallagher Arthur J & Co
9.23%
1,622
$420,604,000 0.25%
Ferguson Plc New
1.29%
2,139
$414,274,000 0.25%
KLA Corp.
12.98%
496
$408,799,000 0.24%
Exelixis Inc
0.22%
18,160
$408,052,000 0.24%
Americas Car Mart, Inc.
0.23%
6,606
$397,764,000 0.24%
Central Garden & Pet Co.
0.24%
12,792
$478,529,000 0.29%
Nutanix Inc
Opened
6,909
$392,757,000 0.24%
Copart, Inc.
2.91%
7,098
$384,439,000 0.23%
Williams Cos Inc
2.91%
8,790
$373,591,000 0.22%
Iridium Communications Inc
0.06%
13,864
$369,054,000 0.22%
MSCI Inc
Closed
655
$366,899,000
Sherwin-Williams Co.
5.59%
1,217
$363,297,000 0.22%
Mistras Group Inc
0.18%
43,681
$362,118,000 0.22%
Intuitive Surgical Inc
32.24%
808
$359,533,000 0.22%
LL Flooring Holdings Inc
0.18%
246,569
$352,594,000 0.21%
Perficient Inc.
0.52%
4,609
$344,734,000 0.21%
Palo Alto Networks Inc
52.24%
1,015
$344,155,000 0.21%
NVIDIA Corp
Opened
2,780
$343,441,000 0.21%
nVent Electric plc
16.40%
4,454
$341,224,000 0.20%
Houlihan Lokey Inc
5.28%
2,492
$336,043,000 0.20%
Exact Sciences Corp.
10.30%
7,701
$325,383,000 0.19%
CDW Corp
6.21%
1,450
$324,500,000 0.19%
Vistra Corp
30.17%
3,741
$321,622,000 0.19%
Global E Online Ltd
61.61%
8,761
$317,753,000 0.19%
Ituran Location And Control Ltd.
0.79%
12,813
$315,719,000 0.19%
The Southern Co.
19.40%
4,068
$315,543,000 0.19%
Exscientia Plc
0.68%
61,815
$315,258,000 0.19%
Sage Therapeutics Inc
62.02%
28,962
$314,528,000 0.19%
CareTrust REIT Inc
0.98%
12,510
$313,998,000 0.19%
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals, Llc
5.43%
74,925
$306,443,000 0.18%
Linde Plc.
0.43%
697
$305,749,000 0.18%
Quanta Svcs Inc
Opened
1,198
$304,329,000 0.18%
MongoDB Inc
5.74%
1,216
$303,914,000 0.18%
Ardelyx Inc
4.02%
40,392
$299,301,000 0.18%
Synopsys, Inc.
13.13%
496
$295,237,000 0.18%
S&P Global Inc
6.70%
655
$292,221,000 0.18%
Patterson Cos Inc
0.72%
11,854
$285,919,000 0.17%
Lattice Semiconductor Corp.
2.18%
4,912
$284,834,000 0.17%
Agenus Inc
Opened
16,672
$279,262,000 0.17%
Stratasys Ltd
51.34%
33,175
$278,341,000 0.17%
Workday Inc
2.90%
1,237
$276,457,000 0.17%
Netapp Inc
Opened
2,110
$271,813,000 0.16%
Nextracker Inc
Opened
5,666
$265,606,000 0.16%
Autoliv Inc.
2.72%
2,432
$260,164,000 0.16%
Five9 Inc
2.31%
5,883
$259,447,000 0.16%
Neogen Corp.
0.22%
16,529
$258,346,000 0.15%
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Ltd
27.73%
1,475
$256,363,000 0.15%
Royalty Pharma plc
0.90%
9,674
$255,110,000 0.15%
Amazon.com Inc.
Closed
1,300
$234,494,000
DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc.
43.36%
11,771
$229,181,000 0.14%
Digi International, Inc.
Closed
7,163
$228,719,000
Public Svc Enterprise Grp In
Opened
3,011
$221,938,000 0.13%
Amerisafe Inc
0.60%
5,050
$221,648,000 0.13%
Scholar Rock Hldg Corp
Opened
25,979
$216,409,000 0.13%
Novanta Inc
Closed
1,218
$212,888,000
Greenbrier Cos., Inc.
0.39%
4,077
$202,008,000 0.12%
Pentair plc
Closed
2,350
$200,743,000
Dynavax Technologies Corp.
27.99%
17,370
$195,062,000 0.12%
Agenus Inc
Closed
336,100
$194,938,000
Lifetime Brands, Inc.
0.11%
22,064
$189,528,000 0.11%
Tandy Leather Factory Inc
0.18%
39,719
$178,734,000 0.11%
Remitly Global Inc
Opened
11,362
$137,707,000 0.08%
Aura Biosciences Inc
33.59%
18,124
$137,015,000 0.08%
Biolinerx Ltd
0.06%
203,759
$116,122,000 0.07%
Geron Corp.
Opened
27,006
$114,505,000 0.07%
Gulf Is Fabrication Inc
22.58%
18,328
$111,252,000 0.07%
Talphera Inc
0.21%
113,175
$100,725,000 0.06%
908 Devices Inc.
Closed
12,575
$94,940,000
Pluri Inc
Closed
110,838
$89,335,000
Pluri Inc
Opened
14,285
$82,566,000 0.05%
Inozyme Pharma, Inc.
Opened
17,067
$76,119,000 0.05%
Marinus Pharmaceuticals Inc
501.80%
62,671
$73,325,000 0.04%
Nektar Therapeutics
Opened
45,197
$56,044,000 0.03%
Aerovate Therapeutics Inc
Opened
15,381
$25,532,000 0.02%
Ishares Tr
Closed
26
$13,669,000
Ishares Tr
Opened
50
$1,578,000 0.00%
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