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SG Americas Securities 13F Portfolio

Portfolio Manager
SG Americas Securities, LLC
Performance
+37.36% (2026 Q2)
AUM (13F)
$178.73B
# of Holdings
2878
Performance Rank
Allocation (Top 20)
52.74%
Latest filing
Q2 2026

2026 Q2 · 13F Analysis

Four AI Platforms Now Command 19.9% of SG Americas Securities' Book

Published August 30, 2026 · Based on the SEC 13F filing for 2026 Q2

Key takeaways

  • Concentrates nearly 20% of the book in four AI platform leaders
  • Recycles AVGO and MU gains into NVDA and second-wave AI semis
  • Shifts from passive SPY exposure toward stock-picking in tech and consumers
  • Builds an EV and aerospace complex around TSLA, RTX and GE
  • Adds GLP-1 and pharma defensives as a parallel health-care growth bet

The thesis in one look

SG Americas Securities came into 2026-Q2 already tech-heavy and left the quarter running an explicit AI platform-and-plumbing barbell, funded by broad beta and legacy winners. Technology still dominates at 66.95% of the top-50, but the mix inside that sleeve changed meaningfully while consumer and industrial cyclicals were pulled into the AI slipstream.

The top of the book is now a deliberate bet that value accrues at the AI operating-system layer. Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon together account for 19.9% of reported equity exposure, with Nvidia alone at 7.16%. Around that core, they built out second-line semiconductor and infrastructure names, while simultaneously scaling up exposure to EVs, aerospace and health care – three end-markets that should monetize AI and automation over the next cycle.

This is not a cautious “own the index and let tech run” stance. They cut SPY by -57.4% and shrank financials from 8.95% to 4.81%, explicitly choosing stock selection over beta in a quarter where their weighted 3‑year annualized performance already sits at 33.16%. The message is clear: SG Americas thinks we are in a durable AI-led earnings regime, and they are prepared to express that view with concentrated single-name risk.

Portfolio concentration
NVDA — 10.7% ($12.47B)MU — 8.6% ($10.01B)MSFT — 7.6% ($8.87B)AMZN — 5.8% ($6.73B)AAPL — 5.8% ($6.70B)GOOGL — 5.4% ($6.27B)AVGO — 4.5% ($5.19B)GOOG — 4.1% ($4.75B)TSLA — 4.1% ($4.71B)JPM — 3.7% ($4.30B)Other — 39.8% ($46.36B)
60%in top 10
  • NVDA10.7%
  • MU8.6%
  • MSFT7.6%
  • AMZN5.8%
  • AAPL5.8%
  • GOOGL5.4%
  • AVGO4.5%
  • GOOG4.1%
  • TSLA4.1%
  • JPM3.7%
  • Other39.8%

Performance History

Performance Metric3-Year Annualized3-Year Cumulative5-Year Annualized5-Year Cumulative
Top 20 Holdings Weighted+32.75%+133.96%+18.25%+131.18%
Top 20 Holdings Unweighted+28.00%+109.74%+13.41%+87.65%

Fund Performance vs S&P 500

Exposure

Sector allocation

Current sector weights across the reported book, with the shift since last quarter.

Technology67.0%−4.5%
Consumer Discretionary11.3%+6.3%
Health Care7.2%+1.5%
Finance4.8%−4.1%
Industrials4.6%+3.3%
Telecommunications1.3%+1.3%
Consumer Staples1.1%+0.3%
Unclassified1.1%−1.9%
Real Estate0.5%−0.6%
Basic Materials0.5%−1.3%
Energy0.5%−0.2%

Portfolio

Portfolio allocation

The fund's largest reported positions.

Top Holdings

Top 10 holdings

StockCompany% Port.SharesValueActivityOwnershipAvg. CostDate
NVDA
NVIDIA CORPORATION COM
7.16%62.30M$12.47Bnew2025-Q2: 2.92M shares2025-Q3: 2.10M shares2025-Q4: 37.81M shares2026-Q1: 0 shares2026-Q2: 62.30M shares
$182.48(+23.89%)
2026-06-30
MU
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC COM
5.75%8.67M$10.01B
-18.09%(-1.91M)
2025-Q2: 75.1K shares2025-Q3: 52.3K shares2025-Q4: 4.28M shares2026-Q1: 10.58M shares2026-Q2: 8.67M shares
$276.43(+267.10%)
2026-06-30
MSFT
MICROSOFT CORP COM
5.1%23.78M$8.87B
+338.70%(+18.36M)
2025-Q2: 90.2K shares2025-Q3: 128.8K shares2025-Q4: 6.75M shares2026-Q1: 5.42M shares2026-Q2: 23.78M shares
$396.44(+22.61%)
2026-06-30
AMZN
AMAZON COM INC COM
3.87%28.25M$6.73B
+367.48%(+22.21M)
2025-Q2: 1.18M shares2025-Q3: 601.7K shares2025-Q4: 5.62M shares2026-Q1: 6.04M shares2026-Q2: 28.25M shares
$220.06(+19.30%)
2026-06-30
AAPL
APPLE INC COM
3.85%23.16M$6.70B
+232.52%(+16.19M)
2025-Q2: 13.12M shares2025-Q3: 5.40M shares2025-Q4: 12.59M shares2026-Q1: 6.96M shares2026-Q2: 23.16M shares
$260.05(+17.43%)
2026-06-30
GOOGL
ALPHABET INC CAP STK CL A
3.6%17.55M$6.27B
-0.16%(-28.92K)
2025-Q2: 7.02M shares2025-Q3: 6.65M shares2025-Q4: 7.76M shares2026-Q1: 17.58M shares2026-Q2: 17.55M shares
$251.17(+37.24%)
2026-06-30
AVGO
BROADCOM INC COM
2.98%13.75M$5.19B
-35.59%(-7.60M)
2025-Q2: 8.15M shares2025-Q3: 10.74M shares2025-Q4: 10.93M shares2026-Q1: 21.34M shares2026-Q2: 13.75M shares
$267.07(+47.43%)
2026-06-30
GOOG
ALPHABET INC CAP STK CL C
2.73%13.45M$4.75B
+24.25%(+2.62M)
2025-Q2: 3.93M shares2025-Q3: 4.27M shares2025-Q4: 6.06M shares2026-Q1: 10.82M shares2026-Q2: 13.45M shares
$259.51(+32.04%)
2026-06-30
TSLA
TESLA INC COM
2.71%11.21M$4.71B
+559.33%(+9.51M)
2025-Q2: 638.1K shares2025-Q3: 1.09M shares2025-Q4: 1.23M shares2026-Q1: 1.70M shares2026-Q2: 11.21M shares
$379.53(-10.26%)
2026-06-30
JPM
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO COM
2.47%13.15M$4.30B
-15.70%(-2.45M)
2025-Q2: 41.1K shares2025-Q3: 2.8K shares2025-Q4: 6.22M shares2026-Q1: 15.60M shares2026-Q2: 13.15M shares
$312.42(+16.74%)
2026-06-30

Portfolio changes

What the fund actually did

Every reported change this quarter, grouped by direction. The signal is in the rotation, not any single trade.

New buys
3
NVDANVIDIA CORPORATION COM7.2%
CSCOCISCO SYS INC COM0.9%
TXNTEXAS INSTRS INC COM0.5%
Added to
39
MSFTMICROSOFT CORP COM+338.7%
AMZNAMAZON COM INC COM+367.5%
AAPLAPPLE INC COM+232.5%
TSLATESLA INC COM+559.3%
+35 more
Trimmed
8
AVGOBROADCOM INC COM-35.6%
MUMICRON TECHNOLOGY INC COM-18.1%
SPYSTATE STR SPDR S&P 500 ETF T TR UNIT-57.4%
JPMJPMORGAN CHASE & CO COM-15.7%
+4 more

Where conviction is rising: from AI operating systems to chip capacity and demand

The biggest adds cluster tightly around one idea: AI is a platform transition, not a fad, and profits will compound at the platforms and in the capital equipment that feeds them. Nvidia’s debut as a new 7.16% position (about $12.5B) is the cleanest tell — they didn’t ease in; they teleported it straight into the fund’s largest line.

Megacap software and commerce were scaled aggressively as the other legs of this platform trade:

  • Microsoft jumped to 5.1% after a +338.7% share increase and about $6.85B in new capital, a direct bet on AI in productivity and cloud.
  • Amazon rose to 3.87% on a +367.5% share surge, a call option on AI-powered retail efficiency and AWS workloads.
  • Apple, at 3.85% after a +232.5% add, is being treated less like a mature hardware name and more like a distribution gatekeeper for AI to consumers.

Down the stack, they are clearly paying for AI capacity:

  • Marvell, AMD and Applied Materials saw adds of roughly $2.10B, $1.88B and $1.62B respectively, each up more than +340% in shares, while Intel and Texas Instruments were increased or initiated to anchor legacy and mixed-signal demand.
  • Lam Research and KLA were scaled aggressively — KLA’s stake exploded +6697.3% in shares — signaling a belief that the bottleneck will be fabrication and process control rather than incremental model launches.
  • ServiceNow, Palantir, Oracle and Alphabet’s non-voting line (GOOG) were all leaned into as enterprise and data-layer beneficiaries, suggesting SG Americas sees AI monetization diffusing across software workflows, not just GPUs.

Conviction

The big buys

The biggest dollar adds this quarter — where conviction is rising.

PositionChangePortfolio weightValue
NVDANVIDIA CORPORATION COMNew+$12.47B7.2%$12.47B
MSFTMICROSOFT CORP COMAdded 338.7%+$6.85B5.1%$8.87B
AMZNAMAZON COM INC COMAdded 367.5%+$5.29B3.9%$6.73B
AAPLAPPLE INC COMAdded 232.5%+$4.69B3.9%$6.70B
TSLATESLA INC COMAdded 559.3%+$4.00B2.7%$4.71B
MRVLMARVELL TECHNOLOGY INC COMAdded 958.2%+$2.10B1.3%$2.32B
AMDADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC COMAdded 340.5%+$1.88B1.4%$2.44B
AMATAPPLIED MATLS INC COMAdded 418.9%+$1.62B1.1%$2.00B

Dollar changes estimated at current prices (shares added × current price); top-50 current positions only.

What they’re selling: funding the AI build-out and paring mature winners

To finance this AI escalation, SG Americas harvested gains from earlier-cycle winners and hollowed out generic beta. The most obvious ATM was Broadcom: they cut the position by -35.6%, freeing about $2.87B, even though the name still sits at 2.98% and is up 57.4% vs their average cost.

Micron is the other notable source of cash. Despite the position still being a hefty 5.75%, they trimmed shares by -18.1%, pulling out roughly $2.21B from a stake that’s now up 211.8% versus their cost basis. The message: DRAM/HBM exposure has done its job; incremental dollars now belong in CUDA and in the capital equipment cycle.

Outside semis, the moves rhyme with a “from beta and balance sheets to idiosyncratic growth” reorientation:

  • SPY was slashed -57.4%, unlocking around $933.4M and signaling they see more upside (or at least better risk/reward) in names like Nvidia, Tesla and the consumer champions than in the S&P 500.
  • JPMorgan and Linde were both trimmed by -15.7% and -49.5% respectively, as financials and basic materials weights fell; even Visa saw a -16% reduction, shrinking a generic payments proxy to help fund AI and consumer adds.
  • Meta was shaved modestly (-7.1%), despite being slightly underwater to cost; that looks more like position sizing in an already crowded mega-cap than a thesis abandonment, especially given the simultaneous enthusiasm for Alphabet.

How exposure is rotating: less pure tech beta, more AI end-markets and defensives

At the sector level, the story is subtler than “more tech.” Technology’s reported weight actually slipped from an estimated 71.47% to 66.95%, but that’s because SG Americas traded within tech — from diversified and financial-adjacent exposure toward what they see as the AI profit pool. The real rotation is into the downstream beneficiaries and shock absorbers of that same theme.

Consumer discretionary exposure more than doubled from 5.0% to 11.35%. That jump isn’t just e-commerce; it’s a composite of AI-inflected platforms (Amazon, Netflix), high-end services (Booking) and non-cyclical staples masquerading as discretionary (Costco, Walmart, Procter & Gamble) — effectively a barbell of growthy demand and quasi-defensive consumption.

Industrials moved from 1.33% to 4.6% on the back of a massive Tesla add (+559.3% in shares) plus a near-quintupling in RTX. Together with GE Aerospace, this builds an “automation and aerospace” complex that ties AI to EVs, avionics and defense budgets.

Health care climbed from 5.79% to 7.24% as they ramped Eli Lilly (+204.1% shares), UnitedHealth, AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott and Gilead. That basket looks like a deliberate GLP‑1 and Big Pharma posture designed to offset cyclicality in tech and consumers. Meanwhile, finance, basic materials and real estate each gave up several points of share, underlining that banks, chemicals and property are now secondary in this book to AI-era demand chains.

What this suggests going forward: AI regime, not AI trade

Taken together, the 2026-Q2 moves argue that SG Americas sees AI as a multi-year earnings regime, not a crowded momentum trade to fade. They have concentrated nearly a fifth of reported equity risk in four names at the center of AI infrastructure and workloads, then ring-fenced that bet with capital equipment, EVs, aerospace and health care beneficiaries.

The trimming pattern reinforces this: they’re not bailing on semis or growth; they’re upgrading within the complex. Selling down Broadcom and Micron to fund Nvidia, Marvell, AMD, Applied Materials, Lam and KLA is a classic rotation from older winners and broad exposure into the parts of the stack with the steepest incremental demand curve.

Outside pure tech, the build-out in Tesla, RTX, GE, Costco, Walmart and the GLP‑1 complex says they expect AI-driven productivity and higher real incomes to show up in physical goods, travel, and better-funded health systems. The sharp reduction in SPY and lower bank/financial weights show conviction that security selection will matter more than macro beta from here.

Going forward, if AI capex and cloud demand keep surprising to the upside, this portfolio is set up to over-earn that trend. The key risk they are implicitly underwriting is concentration: with a 40.2% top‑10 and 66.95% in tech, any regime shift away from AI leadership would hit this book hard — but SG Americas is positioning as if that shift is nowhere on the horizon.

Frequently asked questions

What did SG Americas Securities, LLC buy most aggressively in 2026-Q2?+

They made Nvidia a new 7.16% position and poured billions more into Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and a cluster of AI-focused semiconductors and equipment names like Marvell, AMD and Applied Materials.

What is SG Americas Securities, LLC's biggest holding as of 2026-Q2?+

Nvidia is the largest reported position at 7.16% of the top‑50 book, followed by Microsoft at 5.1% and Micron at 5.75%.

How did SG Americas Securities, LLC change its sector exposure in 2026-Q2?+

Technology remained dominant at 66.95% but shifted toward AI platforms and semis, while consumer discretionary, industrials and health care weights all rose and finance, basic materials, real estate and unclassified beta (SPY, Berkshire) declined.

Did SG Americas Securities, LLC reduce its use of ETFs in 2026-Q2?+

Yes. The fund cut its SPDR S&P 500 ETF position by -57.4%, using that capital to fund single-name positions in technology, consumers and industrials.

How is SG Americas Securities, LLC positioned in financial stocks after 2026-Q2?+

Financial exposure fell from 8.95% to 4.81% as the firm trimmed JPMorgan while still adding to Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, signaling a move away from broad bank beta toward more targeted capital-markets exposure.

Is SG Americas Securities, LLC investing in health care and GLP-1 themes?+

Yes. Health care weight rose to 7.24% with larger positions in Eli Lilly, UnitedHealth, AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott and Gilead, indicating interest in GLP‑1 obesity treatments and broader pharma defensives.

Source filings

Holdings on this page are parsed from SG Americas Securities, LLC’s Form 13F filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (CIK 1313360). View SG Americas Securities, LLC’s 13F filings on SEC

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