Which funds own CAKE
Cheesecake Factory Inc in the Q2 2026 filings. At least 4 of the 91 current managers on file reported a position, worth $58m between them. It is among the largest positions of fewer than a fifth of the current managers on file. The quarter went the other way: 6 managers trimmed or sold out against 2 buying.
- Managers holding
- 4
- at least, of 91 current
- Combined value
- $58m
- as reported
- Opened
- 0
- new this quarter
- Added to
- 2
- already held
- Trimmed or sold out
- 6
- 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAMCO Investors Inc Activist · $11.1bn book | $25m | 0.2% | 307,500 | +$7.6m0 | Held |
| ExodusPoint Capital Management LP Multi-strategy · $15.5bn book | $17m | 0.1% | 216,138 | +$11m+107,499 | Added |
| PDT Partners LLC Quantitative · $1.9bn book | $14m | 0.7% | 172,778 | +$4.3m0 | Held |
| Polen Capital Management LLC Long-only · $11.6bn book | $2.6m | 0.0% | 33,297 | +$1.3m+8,475 | Added |
Sold out of this quarter
Valued at what the position was worth in the previous filing, because by this one it is gone.
- Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP · Long/short equity$46m held before
- Voloridge Investment Management LLC · Quantitative$20m held before
- Wellington Management Group LLP · Long-only$12m held before
- Soros Fund Management LLC · Macro$8.9m held before
- Winton Group Ltd · Quantitative$5.9m held before
- Oaktree Capital Management LP · Activist$2.1m held before
Ownership through time
At least 8 of the 95 managers whose filings are on file listed CAKE in Q2 2026, against 3 in Q2 2013. 1 manager fewer than in Q1 2026: 1 started a position; 1 listed it again; 3 no longer listed it among the positions read, which can mean a holding below the listed range, a filing that reported no holdings, 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 2013: 3
- Q3 2013: 3
- Q4 2013: 5
- Q1 2014: 5
- Q2 2014: 5
- Q3 2014: 4
- Q4 2014: 5
- Q1 2015: 5
- Q2 2015: 4
- Q3 2015: 7
- Q4 2015: 7
- Q1 2016: 5
- Q2 2016: 7
- Q3 2016: 10
- Q4 2016: 10
- Q1 2017: 12
- Q2 2017: 8
- Q3 2017: 6
- Q4 2017: 8
- Q1 2018: 10
- Q2 2018: 10
- Q3 2018: 9
- Q4 2018: 9
- Q1 2019: 10
- Q2 2019: 7
- Q3 2019: 8
- Q4 2019: 5
- Q1 2020: 7
- Q2 2020: 3
- Q3 2020: 7
- Q4 2020: 4
- Q1 2021: 3
- Q2 2021: 3
- Q3 2021: 5
- Q4 2021: 5
- Q1 2022: 4
- Q2 2022: 3
- Q3 2022: 3
- Q4 2022: 4
- Q1 2023: 5
- Q2 2023: 6
- Q3 2023: 5
- Q4 2023: 6
- Q1 2024: 5
- Q2 2024: 7
- Q3 2024: 8
- Q4 2024: 8
- Q1 2025: 7
- Q2 2025: 7
- Q3 2025: 10
- Q4 2025: 7
- Q1 2026: 9
- Q2 2026: 8
- Q2 2013: $235m
- Q3 2013: $168m
- Q4 2013: $203m
- Q1 2014: $237m
- Q2 2014: $219m
- Q3 2014: $208m
- Q4 2014: $214m
- Q1 2015: $186m
- Q2 2015: $181m
- Q3 2015: $167m
- Q4 2015: $180m
- Q1 2016: $207m
- Q2 2016: $183m
- Q3 2016: $197m
- Q4 2016: $377m
- Q1 2017: $586m
- Q2 2017: $215m
- Q3 2017: $164m
- Q4 2017: $304m
- Q1 2018: $215m
- Q2 2018: $260m
- Q3 2018: $161m
- Q4 2018: $152m
- Q1 2019: $284m
- Q2 2019: $223m
- Q3 2019: $195m
- Q4 2019: $194m
- Q1 2020: $30m
- Q2 2020: $63m
- Q3 2020: $81m
- Q4 2020: $60m
- Q1 2021: $13m
- Q2 2021: $27m
- Q3 2021: $32m
- Q4 2021: $13m
- Q1 2022: $18m
- Q2 2022: $7.2m
- Q3 2022: $8.4m
- Q4 2022: $11m
- Q1 2023: $18m
- Q2 2023: $44m
- Q3 2023: $41m
- Q4 2023: $55m
- Q1 2024: $42m
- Q2 2024: $107m
- Q3 2024: $96m
- Q4 2024: $98m
- Q1 2025: $211m
- Q2 2025: $266m
- Q3 2025: $130m
- Q4 2025: $76m
- Q1 2026: $79m
- Q2 2026: $276m
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
Largest increases, by shares
- Balyasny Asset Management LLCnew: 562,400 shares+$45m
- ExodusPoint Capital Management LP108,639 to 216,138 shares+$8.6m
- Polen Capital Management LLC24,822 to 33,297 shares+$674k
Largest decreases, by shares
- Brevan Howard Capital Management LP71,118 to 50,041 shares-$1.7m
- First Eagle Investment Management LLC147,591 to 133,591 shares-$1.1m
Left it
No manager on file is shown leaving it.
| Manager | Value over time | First listed | Largest | Q2 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | Q2 2026 | $159m | $159m | |
| Balyasny Asset Management LLC | Q4 2014 | $52m | $45m | |
| GAMCO Investors Inc | Q2 2013 | $58m | $24m | |
| ExodusPoint Capital Management LP | Q2 2019 | $17m | $17m | |
| PDT Partners LLC | Q4 2013 | $14m | $14m | |
| First Eagle Investment Management LLC | Q3 2021 | $17m | $11m | |
| Brevan Howard Capital Management LP | Q1 2025 | $4.0m | $4.0m | |
| Polen Capital Management LLC | Q2 2025 | $2.6m | $2.6m | |
| Wellington Management Group LLP | Q2 2013 | $199m | last listed Q2 2025 | |
| Neuberger Berman Group LLC | Q2 2013 | $136m | last listed Q4 2018 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | Q1 2017 | $101m | last listed Q4 2017 | |
| AQR Capital Management LLC | Q3 2015 | $71m | last listed Q4 2018 | |
| Renaissance Technologies LLC | Q3 2013 | $63m | last listed Q4 2015 | |
| Millennium Management LLC | Q4 2017 | $56m | last listed Q4 2017 | |
| Arrowstreet Capital LP | Q1 2017 | $52m | last listed Q3 2020 | |
| Voloridge Investment Management LLC | Q4 2015 | $41m | last listed Q1 2026 | |
| Holocene Advisors LP | Q4 2017 | $39m | last listed Q4 2021 | |
| Two Sigma Advisers LP | Q4 2016 | $39m | last listed Q1 2019 |
What CAKE is worth
Knowing who owns it is half the question. The other half is what it is worth against the companies it trades beside, which is the one an interviewer will follow up with.
Build the comp set around CAKE →How much of the picture this is
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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