Which funds own AVTR
Avantor Inc in the Q2 2026 filings. At least 4 of the 91 current managers on file reported a position, worth $1.4bn between them. It is among the largest positions of fewer than a fifth of the current managers on file. Buying and selling roughly cancelled this quarter, which is what a name looks like when the argument is still live.
- Managers holding
- 4
- at least, of 91 current
- Combined value
- $1.4bn
- as reported
- Opened
- 0
- new this quarter
- Added to
- 4
- already held
- Trimmed or sold out
- 5
- 5 sold out entirely
Only each manager’s largest 200 positions are listed here, so a smaller holder may be missing.
Managers reporting a position
Largest first. Weight is the share of that manager’s whole reported book, which is the number worth quoting: $400m is a rounding error in one book and a defining bet in another.
| Manager | Value | Weight | Shares | Change on the quarter | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dodge & Cox Activist · $191bn book | $1.2bn | 0.6% | 120,020,974 | +$250m+372,645 | Added |
| Marshall Wace LLP Quantitative · $127bn book | $130m | 0.1% | 13,130,158 | +$103m+9,692,325 | Added |
| Freestone Grove Partners LP Multi-strategy · $15.6bn book | $57m | 0.4% | 5,714,884 | +$35m+2,923,727 | Added |
| Southeastern Asset Management Inc Activist · $1.9bn book | $47m | 2.4% | 4,725,478 | +$19m+1,205,266 | Added |
Sold out of this quarter
Valued at what the position was worth in the previous filing, because by this one it is gone.
- Wellington Management Group LLP · Long-only$190m held before
- Tudor Investment Corp · Macro$18m held before
- Brevan Howard Capital Management LP · Macro$3.3m held before
- Moore Capital Management LP · Macro$900k held before
- Maverick Capital Ltd · Long/short equity$800k held before
Ownership through time
At least 5 of the 95 managers whose filings are on file listed AVTR in Q2 2026, against 10 in Q2 2019. 4 managers fewer than in Q1 2026: 1 listed it again; 3 sold out, by their own filings; 2 no longer listed it among the positions read, which can mean a holding below the listed range or a filing not yet made.
Each manager’s largest 500 positions a quarter are read, so a small holding in a very large book can be missing, and a manager is counted as leaving only where its own filing shows it.
- Q2 2019: 10
- Q3 2019: 9
- Q4 2019: 11
- Q1 2020: 11
- Q2 2020: 12
- Q3 2020: 22
- Q4 2020: 21
- Q1 2021: 15
- Q2 2021: 12
- Q3 2021: 17
- Q4 2021: 16
- Q1 2022: 22
- Q2 2022: 20
- Q3 2022: 23
- Q4 2022: 20
- Q1 2023: 16
- Q2 2023: 14
- Q3 2023: 18
- Q4 2023: 14
- Q1 2024: 16
- Q2 2024: 13
- Q3 2024: 9
- Q4 2024: 11
- Q1 2025: 10
- Q2 2025: 10
- Q3 2025: 10
- Q4 2025: 7
- Q1 2026: 9
- Q2 2026: 5
- Q2 2019: $2.1bn
- Q3 2019: $1.4bn
- Q4 2019: $2.0bn
- Q1 2020: $1.3bn
- Q2 2020: $1.9bn
- Q3 2020: $2.7bn
- Q4 2020: $4.2bn
- Q1 2021: $4.2bn
- Q2 2021: $5.2bn
- Q3 2021: $6.3bn
- Q4 2021: $6.6bn
- Q1 2022: $5.5bn
- Q2 2022: $5.4bn
- Q3 2022: $2.2bn
- Q4 2022: $2.0bn
- Q1 2023: $1.5bn
- Q2 2023: $1.4bn
- Q3 2023: $1.9bn
- Q4 2023: $3.0bn
- Q1 2024: $3.1bn
- Q2 2024: $2.1bn
- Q3 2024: $2.6bn
- Q4 2024: $2.8bn
- Q1 2025: $2.2bn
- Q2 2025: $2.0bn
- Q3 2025: $1.8bn
- Q4 2025: $1.8bn
- Q1 2026: $1.3bn
- Q2 2026: $1.5bn
Between the quarter ends of Q1 2026 and Q2 2026. Each change in shares is valued at the Q2 2026 price, so the price’s own move is left out; a 13F shows the two quarter ends, not when in between anything was bought or sold.
Started in Q2 2026
No manager on file started a position.
Largest increases, by shares
- Freestone Grove Partners LP2,791,157 to 5,714,884 shares+$29m
- Southeastern Asset Management Inc3,520,212 to 4,725,478 shares+$12m
- Dodge & Cox119,648,329 to 120,020,974 shares+$3.7m
Largest decreases, by shares
- D. E. Shaw & Co.13,110,674 to 9,571,523 shares-$35m
Left it
- Wellington Management Group LLPwas $190m
- Tudor Investment Corpwas $18m
- Maverick Capital Ltdwas $790k
| Manager | Value over time | First listed | Largest | Q2 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dodge & Cox | Q3 2023 | $2.1bn | $1.2bn | |
| Marshall Wace LLP | Q2 2019 | $130m | $130m | |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | Q4 2021 | $103m | $95m | |
| Freestone Grove Partners LP | Q4 2024 | $57m | $57m | |
| Southeastern Asset Management Inc | Q3 2025 | $64m | $47m | |
| T. Rowe Price Associates Inc | Q2 2019 | $3.0bn | last listed Q4 2023 | |
| Invesco Ltd | Q4 2019 | $1.1bn | last listed Q1 2024 | |
| Fidelity (FMR LLC) | Q2 2019 | $794m | last listed Q2 2022 | |
| Janus Henderson Group Ltd | Q1 2022 | $458m | last listed Q2 2025 | |
| Third Point LLC | Q4 2019 | $455m | last listed Q1 2022 | |
| Viking Global Investors LP | Q2 2019 | $449m | last listed Q3 2022 | |
| Wellington Management Group LLP | Q2 2022 | $357m | last listed Q1 2026 | |
| Millennium Management LLC | Q2 2019 | $233m | last listed Q1 2025 | |
| Durable Capital Partners LP | Q1 2024 | $217m | last listed Q4 2024 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | Q2 2019 | $191m | last listed Q2 2022 |
What AVTR is worth
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A Form 13F reports US-listed long equity and nothing else: no shorts, no bonds, no cash and no non-US listings. It arrives forty-five days after the quarter ends, so a manager who sold in July still shows the position in a filing published in August. This page reads the managers on file here rather than every filer in the market, and each manager’s largest positions rather than the whole table, so a small position in a very large book may not appear. Say “their last filing showed” rather than “they own”, and the distinction will do you credit.
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