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Soros Fund Management 13F Portfolio ยท George Soros

Portfolio Manager
George Soros
Performance
+11.83% (2026 Q2)
AUM (13F)
$8.14B
# of Holdings
254
Performance Rank
Allocation (Top 20)
34.19%
Latest filing
Q2 2026

2026 Q2 ยท 13F Analysis

Why Is Soros Fund Management Betting on Power Grids?

Published September 20, 2026 ยท Based on the SEC 13F filing for 2026 Q2

Key takeaways

  • AI's second trade is electricity, not silicon.
  • Utilities and data-center REITs replace consumer discretionary exposure.
  • Amazon cut 39.2% to fund grid and power infrastructure buys.
  • Real estate weight jumps from 0.31% to 5.26% in one quarter.
  • Health care quietly rebuilt into a five-name position.

The thesis in one look

The dominant move this quarter is a swap of consumption for electrons. Soros Fund Management cut its consumer-discretionary weight from 30.85% to 21.1% in 2026-Q2 and pushed the proceeds into regulated utilities, data-center real estate, and the electrical hardware that connects the two. The bet is that the binding constraint on AI is no longer silicon but megawatts, transformers, and interconnection queues.

The $8.14B book is deliberately unconcentrated โ€” the top 10 positions are just 23.3% of assets, and the largest single name, Amazon, sits at 3.7% after a 39.2% share reduction. That structure is the tell. This is not one high-conviction wager; it is an entire supply chain being re-priced, one regulated utility and one smart meter at a time.

The timing is defensible: the book returned 11.83% in the quarter and its 3-year weighted annualized return is 13.11%. The five-year record, at -7.47% annualized, is the scar tissue behind the drift toward cash-generative, rate-base assets.

Portfolio concentration
AMZN โ€” 7.0% ($281.84M)TSM โ€” 6.2% ($249.37M)GOOGL โ€” 5.3% ($213.09M)NVDA โ€” 5.3% ($213.02M)EA โ€” 5.0% ($199.09M)AAPL โ€” 3.8% ($153.23M)LIN โ€” 3.5% ($138.74M)TKO โ€” 2.9% ($116.39M)AEP โ€” 2.6% ($105.07M)ETR โ€” 2.6% ($104.97M)Other โ€” 55.7% ($2.23B)
44%in top 10
  • AMZN7.0%
  • TSM6.2%
  • GOOGL5.3%
  • NVDA5.3%
  • EA5.0%
  • AAPL3.8%
  • LIN3.5%
  • TKO2.9%
  • AEP2.6%
  • ETR2.6%
  • Other55.7%

Performance History

Performance Metric3-Year Annualized3-Year Cumulative5-Year Annualized5-Year Cumulative
Top 20 Holdings Weighted+13.11%+44.73%-7.47%-32.18%
Top 20 Holdings Unweighted+15.86%+55.51%+0.85%+4.33%

Fund Performance vs S&P 500

Exposure

Sector allocation

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

Technology30.3%โˆ’2.5%
Consumer Discretionary21.1%โˆ’9.8%
Utilities14.7%+3.8%
Finance7.9%+0.5%
Industrials6.5%โˆ’0.3%
Health Care6.2%+3.5%
Real Estate5.3%+5.0%
Basic Materials3.5%โˆ’0.6%
Unclassified2.6%โˆ’0.5%
Miscellaneous1.1%+0.2%
Energy0.9%+0.7%

Portfolio

Portfolio allocation

The fund's largest reported positions.

Top Holdings

Top 10 holdings

StockCompany% Port.SharesValueActivityOwnershipAvg. CostDate
AMZN
AMAZON COM INC
3.7%1.18M$281.8M
-39.23%(-763.26K)
2025-Q2: 382.9K shares2025-Q3: 2.23M shares2025-Q4: 2.36M shares2026-Q1: 1.95M shares2026-Q2: 1.18M shares
$211.62(+24.06%)
2026-06-30
TSM
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC
3.27%522.2K$249.4M
-0.03%(-160)
2025-Q2: 125.5K shares2025-Q3: 136.1K shares2025-Q4: 349.9K shares2026-Q1: 522.3K shares2026-Q2: 522.2K shares
$273.57(+56.04%)
2026-06-30
GOOGL
ALPHABET INC
2.8%596.3K$213.1M
+3.90%(+22.36K)
2025-Q2: 27.0K shares2025-Q3: 658.4K shares2025-Q4: 639.1K shares2026-Q1: 573.9K shares2026-Q2: 596.3K shares
$280.84(+22.74%)
2026-06-30
NVDA
NVIDIA CORPORATION
2.79%1.06M$213.0M
-0.80%(-8.57K)
2025-Q2: 540.3K shares2025-Q3: 547.7K shares2025-Q4: 665.7K shares2026-Q1: 1.07M shares2026-Q2: 1.06M shares
$156.92(+44.06%)
2026-06-30
EA
ELECTRONIC ARTS INC
2.61%971.0K$199.1M
+0.54%(+5.20K)
2025-Q2: 0 shares2025-Q3: 110.0K shares2025-Q4: 428.4K shares2026-Q1: 965.8K shares2026-Q2: 971.0K shares
$201.09(+4.28%)
2026-06-30
AAPL
APPLE INC
2.01%529.5K$153.2M
+5.79%(+29.00K)
2025-Q2: 21.1K shares2025-Q3: 349.7K shares2025-Q4: 416.2K shares2026-Q1: 500.5K shares2026-Q2: 529.5K shares
$242.24(+26.06%)
2026-06-30
LIN
LINDE PLC
1.82%267.3K$138.7M
+2.86%(+7.42K)
2025-Q2: 0 shares2025-Q3: 0 shares2025-Q4: 0 shares2026-Q1: 259.9K shares2026-Q2: 267.3K shares
$462.41(+3.56%)
2026-06-30
TKO
TKO GROUP HOLDINGS INC
1.53%578.2K$116.4M
-4.32%(-26.09K)
2025-Q2: 335.5K shares2025-Q3: 620.0K shares2025-Q4: 635.6K shares2026-Q1: 604.2K shares2026-Q2: 578.2K shares
$168.80(+19.24%)
2026-06-30
AEP
AMERICAN ELEC PWR CO INC
1.38%768.0K$105.1Mnew2025-Q2: 0 shares2025-Q3: 0 shares2025-Q4: 0 shares2026-Q1: 0 shares2026-Q2: 768.0K shares
$100.75(+24.67%)
2026-06-30
ETR
ENTERGY CORP NEW
1.38%913.9K$105.0M
+1084.16%(+836.73K)
2025-Q2: 1.08M shares2025-Q3: 337.6K shares2025-Q4: 155.8K shares2026-Q1: 77.2K shares2026-Q2: 913.9K shares
$110.07(-2.02%)
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
8
AEPAMERICAN ELEC PWR CO INC1.4%
NBISNEBIUS GROUP N.V.1.1%
APGEAPOGEE THERAPEUTICS INC1.0%
DBRGDIGITALBRIDGE GROUP INC0.8%
+4 opened
Added to
23
ETRENTERGY CORP NEW+1084.2%
DLRDIGITAL RLTY TR INC+839.8%
SPGIS&P GLOBAL INC+509.9%
ITRIITRON INC+46.4%
+19 more
Trimmed
14
AMZNAMAZON COM INC-39.2%
SWSMURFIT WESTROCK PLC-40.0%
GTLSCHART INDS INC-11.5%
MSFTMICROSOFT CORP-10.4%
+10 more

Where conviction is rising: the meter, the warehouse, the substation

The additions cluster with unusual precision around one physical bottleneck โ€” getting power to compute.

  • American Electric Power: brand new, $105.1M, 1.38% of the book.
  • Entergy: share count up 1084.2% to $105.0M, 1.38%.
  • Digital Realty: shares up 839.8% to $96.9M, 1.27%.
  • Itron: up 46.4% to $98.5M, a metering and grid-edge name filed under Industrials.
  • Forgent Power Solutions: up 515.6% to $35.1M, electrical gear for data centers.
  • Nebius Group: new at $85.6M, carried at a 895.9% gain versus average cost.

The pattern is coherent rather than scattered. AEP and Entergy are regulated rate-base utilities with data-center interconnection pipelines; Digital Realty and DigitalBridge own the physical floor space; Forgent and Itron sell the transformers and meters. Nebius is the one name that pays off if the AI cloud demand underpinning all of it is real. Health care is the quieter second cluster, with new stakes in Apogee Therapeutics and Bio-Techne plus adds to Nuvalent and Madline.

Conviction

The big buys

The biggest dollar adds this quarter โ€” where conviction is rising.

PositionChangePortfolio weightValue
AEPAMERICAN ELEC PWR CO INCNew+$105.1M1.4%$105.1M
ETRENTERGY CORP NEWAdded 1084.2%+$96.1M1.4%$105.0M
DLRDIGITAL RLTY TR INCAdded 839.8%+$86.6M1.3%$96.9M
NBISNEBIUS GROUP N.V.New+$85.6M1.1%$85.6M
APGEAPOGEE THERAPEUTICS INCNew+$74.9M1.0%$74.9M
DBRGDIGITALBRIDGE GROUP INCNew+$65.0M0.8%$65.0M
TMHCTAYLOR MORRISON HOME CORPNew+$51.9M0.7%$51.9M
MACMACERICH CONew+$48.8M0.6%$48.8M

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

The trims are funding, not a verdict on the businesses

Selling Amazon into a 24.1% gain versus average cost is a portfolio construction decision, not a bearish call. The -39.2% cut freed roughly $181.9M, which maps almost exactly onto the utility and REIT adds. Amazon is still the top holding at 3.7%.

  • Amazon: -39.2%, about -$181.9M, still the largest position.
  • Smurfit Westrock: -40.0%, a packaging name filed under Consumer Discretionary.
  • Chart Industries: -11.5%, the industrial gas equipment sleeve cooling.
  • Microsoft: -10.4%, against a -1.4% gain versus average cost.
  • Kenvue: -13.0%, a staples business the screener labels discretionary.

The flat lines matter as much. TSMC was unchanged at -0.0% and Nvidia slipped only 0.8%, so the semiconductor core was held, not liquidated. That is the signature of reallocation โ€” trimming the consumer and software sleeves while funding electrification, rather than abandoning the AI complex.

Exposure is rotating from shopping carts to substations

The sector shift is large enough to be a strategy statement. Consumer discretionary fell from 30.85% to 21.1%, utilities rose from 10.88% to 14.7%, real estate exploded from 0.31% to 5.26%, and health care nearly tripled from 2.74% to 6.2%. Technology dipped only modestly, from 32.78% to 30.31%, which confirms this is a barbell rather than a wholesale exit from growth.

Read the labels carefully before drawing conclusions. Kenvue is a consumer staples business and Smurfit Westrock is packaging, so the genuine discretionary reduction is mostly one Amazon trade. DoorDash is filed as Technology but is really consumer discretionary, and Tesla โ€” filed under Industrials โ€” sits in the discretionary bucket in the real world. Adjust for all three and the "consumer cut" is narrower, while the utility and data-center build is even more pronounced.

Finance ticked up from 7.38% to 7.9%, with bigger weights in Webster Financial and S&P Global, and Energy went from 0.17% to 0.88% on Forgent alone.

What this suggests going forward

The forward bet is that power is the next scarce asset and that regulated utilities are the cleanest way to own it. Data-center demand does not get metered by a software license; it gets metered by a rate base, and rate-base growth is a slower, more durable compounding story than another software multiple expansion.

That shapes what to watch. If interconnection queues keep lengthening, the AEP, Entergy, and Itron positions are early rather than late. If AI capital spending decelerates, Nebius and Digital Realty carry the most downside, since both are levered to the same demand curve from opposite ends.

The health care build โ€” Apogee, Bio-Techne, Nuvalent, Madline, UL Solutions โ€” looks like the fund's second attempt at uncorrelated growth now that consumer names have been harvested. And the persistent 23.3% top-10 concentration says the manager wants many small shots at this theme, not one heroic position. For a book with a -7.47% five-year annualized record, spreading the electrification bet broadly is the more defensible construction.

Rotation

How the book's themes shifted

Portfolio weight by theme, this quarter versus last.

2026 Q12026 Q2Power & regulated utilitiesPower & regulated utilities โ€” 2026 Q1: 10.88%10.88%Power & regulated utilities โ€” 2026 Q2: 14.7%14.7% +3.8ptData-center & real estateData-center & real estate โ€” 2026 Q1: 0.31%0.31%Data-center & real estate โ€” 2026 Q2: 5.26%5.26% +5.0ptHealth care & biotechHealth care & biotech โ€” 2026 Q1: 2.74%2.74%Health care & biotech โ€” 2026 Q2: 6.2%6.2% +3.5ptTechnologyTechnology โ€” 2026 Q1: 32.78%32.78%Technology โ€” 2026 Q2: 30.31%30.31% โˆ’2.5ptConsumer discretionaryConsumer discretionary โ€” 2026 Q1: 30.85%30.85%Consumer discretionary โ€” 2026 Q2: 21.1%21.1% โˆ’9.8pt
Portfolio weight by theme, 2026 Q1 (estimated at current prices) vs 2026 Q2.

Frequently asked questions

What did Soros Fund Management LLC buy in 2026-Q2?+

Eight entirely new positions: American Electric Power, Nebius Group, Apogee Therapeutics, DigitalBridge, Taylor Morrison Home, Macerich, Bio-Techne, and Nuvalent. The two largest were AEP at $105.1M and Nebius at $85.6M.

What is Soros Fund Management LLC's biggest holding?+

Amazon, at 3.7% of the portfolio and $281.8M. It is a shrinking top position, though โ€” the fund cut the share count by 39.2% during the quarter.

Why is Soros Fund Management buying utilities?+

The fund added American Electric Power outright and raised Entergy by 1084.2%, both regulated electric utilities with data-center interconnection exposure. The thesis appears to be that power generation and grid capacity, not chips, is the limiting factor for AI buildout.

How concentrated is Soros Fund Management's portfolio?+

The top 10 positions account for just 23.3% of the $8.14B book. The largest single name, Amazon, is only 3.7%, which points to a deliberately diversified, theme-driven construction.

Which sectors did Soros Fund Management cut in 2026-Q2?+

Consumer discretionary fell from 30.85% to 21.1% of the book, mostly via the Amazon reduction. Technology slipped only slightly, from 32.78% to 30.31%, so the semis core stayed intact.

Source filings

Holdings on this page are parsed from Soros Fund Management LLCโ€™s Form 13F filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (CIK 1029160). View Soros Fund Management LLCโ€™s 13F filings on SEC

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