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Wellington Management Group 13F Portfolio

Portfolio Manager
Wellington Management Group LLP
Performance
+10.46% (2026 Q2)
AUM (13F)
$580.17B
# of Holdings
1898
Performance Rank
Allocation (Top 20)
33.18%
Latest filing
Q2 2026

2026 Q2 · 13F Analysis

Wellington Management Trades AI Winners for Drug Supply Chains

Published September 6, 2026 · Based on the SEC 13F filing for 2026 Q2

Key takeaways

  • Harvests crowded AI platform gains to fund second-derivative semiconductor and infra plays
  • Builds a full health-care ecosystem from drug discovery to distribution and payors
  • Recycles mega-cap tech profits into underowned cash-flow compounds like CVS and CAH
  • Cools on money-center banks while nudging up higher-quality fee and utility names
  • Keeps tech above 50% but shifts from AI narratives toward picks-and-shovels exposure

The thesis in one look

Wellington’s 2026 Q2 book reads like a risk-budget reset from AI headlines into healthcare and hard plumbing. Tech is still a dominant 50.11% of the disclosed portfolio, but the fund is clearly cashing in on the richest AI winners and redeploying into less-crowded, cash-generative compounders.

The pattern at the top is unmistakable: NVDA, MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, AMZN, META and LLY were all cut despite massive gains versus cost. Those trims free billions that reappear in semis further down the stack, drug distribution, and boring-but-essential infrastructure.

Health care steps up to 18.67% from 17.81%, while industrials, consumer staples and energy all tick higher. Finance and consumer discretionary slip. This is not a style change; it’s a rotation inside growth — away from pure AI platform beta, toward the beneficiaries who will see the volume, bandwidth and prescription flows when the hype cycle fades.

Portfolio concentration
NVDA — 8.7% ($24.43B)AVGO — 6.9% ($19.48B)MSFT — 6.3% ($17.76B)AAPL — 6.1% ($17.20B)GOOGL — 5.6% ($15.87B)LLY — 4.7% ($13.19B)AMZN — 4.7% ($13.12B)MRK — 3.9% ($11.08B)MA — 2.3% ($6.52B)GOOG — 2.2% ($6.08B)Other — 48.7% ($137.20B)
51%in top 10
  • NVDA8.7%
  • AVGO6.9%
  • MSFT6.3%
  • AAPL6.1%
  • GOOGL5.6%
  • LLY4.7%
  • AMZN4.7%
  • MRK3.9%
  • MA2.3%
  • GOOG2.2%
  • Other48.7%

Performance History

Performance Metric3-Year Annualized3-Year Cumulative5-Year Annualized5-Year Cumulative
Top 20 Holdings Weighted+28.16%+110.48%+17.07%+119.87%
Top 20 Holdings Unweighted+25.28%+96.65%+15.49%+105.44%

Fund Performance vs S&P 500

Exposure

Sector allocation

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

Technology50.1%−0.7%
Health Care18.7%+0.9%
Consumer Discretionary6.7%−0.7%
Finance6.5%−0.5%
Real Estate4.7%−0.2%
Industrials4.7%+0.6%
Utilities4.7%
Consumer Staples2.1%+0.5%
Energy1.0%+0.2%
Basic Materials0.9%

Portfolio

Portfolio allocation

The fund's largest reported positions.

Top Holdings

Top 10 holdings

StockCompany% Port.SharesValueActivityOwnershipAvg. CostDate
NVDA
NVIDIA CORPORATION
4.21%122.08M$24.43B
-8.79%(-11.77M)
2025-Q2: 146.23M shares2025-Q3: 143.37M shares2025-Q4: 140.71M shares2026-Q1: 133.86M shares2026-Q2: 122.08M shares
$49.37(+357.86%)
2026-06-30
AVGO
BROADCOM INC
3.36%51.58M$19.48B
+3.81%(+1.89M)
2025-Q2: 57.53M shares2025-Q3: 46.62M shares2025-Q4: 47.39M shares2026-Q1: 49.69M shares2026-Q2: 51.58M shares
$143.68(+174.05%)
2026-06-30
MSFT
MICROSOFT CORP
3.06%47.60M$17.76B
-9.74%(-5.14M)
2025-Q2: 53.30M shares2025-Q3: 51.61M shares2025-Q4: 48.91M shares2026-Q1: 52.74M shares2026-Q2: 47.60M shares
$104.94(+363.19%)
2026-06-30
AAPL
APPLE INC
2.97%59.45M$17.20B
-8.58%(-5.58M)
2025-Q2: 76.45M shares2025-Q3: 83.75M shares2025-Q4: 77.31M shares2026-Q1: 65.03M shares2026-Q2: 59.45M shares
$131.67(+131.93%)
2026-06-30
GOOGL
ALPHABET INC
2.74%44.40M$15.87B
-6.76%(-3.22M)
2025-Q2: 66.04M shares2025-Q3: 65.61M shares2025-Q4: 57.29M shares2026-Q1: 47.62M shares2026-Q2: 44.40M shares
$90.45(+281.11%)
2026-06-30
LLY
ELI LILLY & CO
2.27%11.00M$13.19B
-18.08%(-2.43M)
2025-Q2: 13.99M shares2025-Q3: 14.56M shares2025-Q4: 13.36M shares2026-Q1: 13.43M shares2026-Q2: 11.00M shares
$294.54(+300.42%)
2026-06-30
AMZN
AMAZON COM INC
2.26%55.06M$13.12B
-11.77%(-7.34M)
2025-Q2: 61.85M shares2025-Q3: 58.51M shares2025-Q4: 66.22M shares2026-Q1: 62.40M shares2026-Q2: 55.06M shares
$121.22(+116.57%)
2026-06-30
MRK
MERCK & CO INC
1.91%86.25M$11.08B
+2.29%(+1.93M)
2025-Q2: 76.86M shares2025-Q3: 75.28M shares2025-Q4: 86.44M shares2026-Q1: 84.31M shares2026-Q2: 86.25M shares
$80.40(+69.41%)
2026-06-30
MA
MASTERCARD INCORPORATED
1.12%12.70M$6.52B
-2.33%(-302.85K)
2025-Q2: 12.28M shares2025-Q3: 12.30M shares2025-Q4: 13.50M shares2026-Q1: 13.00M shares2026-Q2: 12.70M shares
$381.03(+48.77%)
2026-06-30
GOOG
ALPHABET INC
1.05%17.21M$6.08B
+24.91%(+3.43M)
2025-Q2: 16.25M shares2025-Q3: 17.17M shares2025-Q4: 15.26M shares2026-Q1: 13.78M shares2026-Q2: 17.21M shares
$120.78(+183.71%)
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.

Added to
27
CAHCARDINAL HEALTH INC+247.5%
AMDADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC+33.9%
MUMICRON TECHNOLOGY INC+28.7%
GEGE AEROSPACE+97.3%
+23 more
Trimmed
23
LLYELI LILLY & CO-18.1%
METAMETA PLATFORMS INC-38.2%
NVDANVIDIA CORPORATION-8.8%
WFCWELLS FARGO & CO-40.1%
+19 more

Where conviction is rising: second-derivative AI, healthcare ecosystem, and bandwidth

The biggest incremental bet is on the health-care plumbing that sits between drug makers and patients. Cardinal Health jumps to 0.61% of the book after a +247.5% share increase and a roughly $2.51B capital add, while CVS is up +49.8% in shares with about $1.16B more capital behind it.

On the AI side, they are rotating within semis rather than out of them. NVDA is trimmed, but Micron and AMD are pushed higher — MU shares up +28.7% (about $1.30B in new capital) and AMD up +33.9% (about $1.37B added) — a clear vote for memory and CPU/GPU share gain as the next leg of AI demand.

They also leaned into Alphabet’s non-voting GOOG line, boosting it +24.9% with roughly $1.21B more, while leaving GOOGL as a modest trim. That’s a governance/arbitrage expression, not a change of mind on the franchise. Below the headlines, GE Aerospace (+97.3% shares, ~$1.25B), Corning (+50.9%, ~$1.14B) and the oddly still-listed SanDisk (+71.2%, ~$1.01B) show a serious push into the physical bandwidth and components side of the digital economy.

Conviction

The big buys

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

PositionChangePortfolio weightValue
CAHCARDINAL HEALTH INCAdded 247.5%+$2.51B0.6%$3.53B
AMDADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INCAdded 33.9%+$1.37B0.9%$5.42B
MUMICRON TECHNOLOGY INCAdded 28.7%+$1.30B1.0%$5.82B
GEGE AEROSPACEAdded 97.3%+$1.25B0.4%$2.54B
GOOGALPHABET INCAdded 24.9%+$1.21B1.1%$6.08B
CVSCVS HEALTH CORPAdded 49.8%+$1.16B0.6%$3.50B
GLWCORNING INCAdded 50.9%+$1.14B0.6%$3.37B
SNDKSANDISK CORPAdded 71.2%+$1.01B0.4%$2.43B

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

What they are selling: skimming the AI cream and de-risking banks

The funding list starts with LLY, META, NVDA, MSFT, AMZN and AAPL — the very stocks that powered Wellington’s 3-year annualized 28.16% run. Lilly alone sees an -18.1% share cut and roughly -$2.91B reduction, despite the position still sitting over 300% above cost.

Meta is slashed by -38.2% with about -$2.51B pulled, while NVDA sheds -8.8% of its shares (around -$2.36B) and MSFT -9.7% (roughly -$1.92B). AMZN and AAPL are trimmed more gently but still free roughly $1.75B and $1.62B respectively.

Outside of mega-cap growth, Wells Fargo is the most telling signal in financials: shares down -40.1%, with about -$2.18B taken off the table. That, plus cuts to NDAQ, BAC and a small trim in Marsh & McLennan, says they are dialing back balance-sheet and market-structure risk to fund fee-heavy BLK (shares up +23.3%) and overseas bank UBS (+19.3%).

Sector shifts: still tech-heavy, but from AI platforms to plumbing and patients

At the top-down level, tech’s weight barely budged, from 50.84% to 50.11%. What changed is who inside tech carries that risk: capital is migrating from mega-cap AI platforms into memory, analog, components, and aerospace — MU, AMD, KLAC, APH, GE and SNDK all see higher share counts.

Health care is the clearest gainer, up to 18.67% from 17.81%. The move is not just into big pharma (MRK, JNJ, AZN, UNH, ELV all increased), but into the distribution/payor axis via CAH and CVS — a full ecosystem bet from molecule to patient and reimbursement.

Industrials expand from 4.03% to 4.66%, helped by TSLA, GLW, DHR and NOC, signaling a tilt toward physical enablers of digital demand. Consumer staples climb from 1.59% to 2.08% through KO and CVS, while energy edges up via FANG. Meanwhile, finance drifts down from 7.0% to 6.48%, and consumer discretionary from 7.39% to 6.71%, consistent with taking cyclicality and rate sensitivity down a notch.

What this quarter implies: extending the AI trade into real-world cash flows

Taken together, the book suggests Wellington is not abandoning AI at all; it is extending the theme into the less glamorous profit pools that will monetize AI-driven demand over the next decade. Memory, interconnects, glass, energy and aerospace all stand to benefit from higher compute intensity, regardless of which model wins.

The simultaneous build-out of a health-care ecosystem — drug innovators held, distributors and PBM-linked retailers added, payors and device makers nudged up — looks like a structural bet on aging populations and pricing power, not a trade. These are the stocks you want if nominal health spending grows faster than GDP.

On the risk side, pulling back from money-center banks and shaving high-beta consumer discretionary (AMZN, HD, DIS) points to some caution around the macro and the rate path, even as they keep overall equity beta high. If the past 3 years’ 110.48% cumulative gain are any guide, this quarter is less a change of heart and more a disciplined roll-down from crowded winners into the next layer of durable cash-flow compounding.

Frequently asked questions

What did Wellington Management Group LLP buy in 2026 Q2?+

In 2026 Q2, Wellington added most aggressively to Cardinal Health, AMD, Micron, GE Aerospace, Alphabet’s GOOG shares, CVS, Corning and SanDisk, increasing exposure to health-care distribution, second-derivative semiconductors, and bandwidth-related industrials.

What did Wellington Management Group LLP sell in 2026 Q2?+

The largest trims were Eli Lilly, Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Alphabet’s GOOGL line, effectively harvesting gains in mega-cap AI, big pharma and major banks to fund new convictions.

What is Wellington Management Group LLP's biggest holding as of 2026 Q2?+

Nvidia is the largest disclosed position at 4.21% of the portfolio, followed by Broadcom at 3.36% and Microsoft at 3.06%, underscoring a still-heavy commitment to semiconductors and software platforms despite trims.

How is Wellington Management Group LLP positioned by sector in 2026 Q2?+

Technology dominates at 50.11% of the reported book, with health care at 18.67%. Smaller but meaningful allocations include consumer discretionary, finance, real estate, industrials, utilities, consumer staples, energy and basic materials.

Did Wellington Management Group LLP change its AI exposure in 2026 Q2?+

Wellington reduced exposure to headline AI winners like Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet’s GOOGL, but increased positions in Micron, AMD, KLA, Alphabet’s GOOG, GE Aerospace and Corning, signaling a shift toward the infrastructure and components that support AI workloads.

How has Wellington Management Group LLP performed over the past 3 years?+

Over the three years ending 2026 Q2, Wellington’s 13F equity portfolio delivered a weighted annualized return of 28.16%, or 110.48% cumulatively, with the latest quarter up 10.46%.

Source filings

Holdings on this page are parsed from Wellington Management Group LLP’s Form 13F filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (CIK 902219). View Wellington Management Group LLP’s 13F filings on SEC

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