Sterling Capital Management LLC
In its 13F for Q2 2025 (holdings as of June 30, 2025, filed August 8, 2025), Sterling Capital Management LLC reported 3,250 stock positions worth $7.0 billion. Its top holding was Microsoft (MSFT) at 5.3% of the portfolio, followed by Nvidia (NVDA, 3.4%) and Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO, 2.8%). Compared with Q1 2025, it opened 247 new positions, sold out of 196, added to 2,315 and reduced 617. The biggest buy was Nvidia (NVDA, shares +20%) and the biggest sale Unitedhealth (UNH, shares −42%).
- Most Recent 13F
- Q2 2026
- Location
- CHARLOTTE, NC
- CIK
- 0001329883
- Portfolio Value
- $7.0B (Q2 2025)
- SEC Filing
- 0001398344-25-014776 ↗ filed Aug 8, 2025
Holdings Value
Holdings 3,250 stocks · $7.0B
| MSFT Microsoft Corp. | 5.28% | 746,460 | $371.3M | Add +7.0% |
| NVDA Nvidia Corp. | 3.44% | 1,532,587 | $242.1M | Add +19.7% |
| VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF | 2.80% | 346,108 | $196.6M | Add +6.9% |
| SCHW Schwab (charles) Corp. | 2.63% | 2,028,959 | $185.1M | Reduce -6.5% |
| AAPL Apple Inc. | 2.25% | 772,054 | $158.4M | Add +23.5% |
| FERG Ferguson Enterprises Inc. | 2.05% | 662,382 | $144.2M | Add +59.8% |
| AMZN Amazon.com Inc. | 1.77% | 566,783 | $124.3M | Reduce -4.4% |
| ADI Analog Devices Inc. | 1.75% | 516,259 | $122.9M | Reduce -6.3% |
| ADP Automatic Data Processing | 1.69% | 384,794 | $118.7M | Reduce -5.4% |
| LIN Linde PLC | 1.64% | 246,396 | $115.6M | Reduce -6.4% |
| AMP Ameriprise Financial Inc. | 1.63% | 214,844 | $114.7M | Reduce -7.3% |
| HD Home Depot Inc. | 1.43% | 274,546 | $100.7M | Reduce -3.2% |
| ROK Rockwell Automation Inc. | 1.33% | 280,574 | $93.2M | Reduce -19.3% |
| DE Deere & Co. | 1.28% | 176,523 | $89.8M | Add +415.4% |
| MRSH Marsh & McLennan Cos | 1.26% | 406,559 | $88.9M | Add +6.2% |
| EG Everest Group Ltd. | 1.26% | 260,429 | $88.5M | Reduce -6.4% |
| ABBV Abbvie Inc. | 1.23% | 467,217 | $86.7M | Add +4.8% |
| CTRA Coterra Energy Inc. | 1.20% | 3,324,276 | $84.4M | Reduce -5.7% |
| ACN Accenture PLC Class A | 1.18% | 277,098 | $82.8M | Add +8.1% |
| BAH Booz Allen Hamilton Holdings | 1.16% | 783,260 | $81.6M | Reduce -6.5% |
| AFL Aflac Inc. | 1.16% | 772,061 | $81.4M | Add +146.3% |
| DPZ Domino's Pizza Inc. | 1.15% | 180,084 | $81.1M | Add +2076.8% |
| META Meta Platforms Inc. Class A | 1.12% | 106,551 | $78.6M | Add +4.9% |
| ELV Elevance Health Inc. | 1.08% | 195,975 | $76.2M | Reduce -36.9% |
| PEP Pepsico Inc. | 1.08% | 572,972 | $75.7M | Reduce -20.6% |
| ORCL Oracle Corp. | 0.95% | 304,927 | $66.7M | Add +0.8% |
| V Visa Inc. Class A | 0.94% | 186,881 | $66.4M | Add +2.7% |
| AVGO Broadcom Inc. | 0.91% | 231,230 | $63.7M | Add +27.2% |
| RJF Raymond James Financial Inc. | 0.90% | 410,270 | $62.9M | Add +39.2% |
| ABT Abbott Laboratories | 0.83% | 429,982 | $58.5M | Reduce -5.8% |
| GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C | 0.83% | 329,585 | $58.5M | Reduce -11.9% |
| UNH Unitedhealth Group Inc. | 0.82% | 185,265 | $57.8M | Reduce -42.0% |
| GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc. | 0.80% | 79,218 | $56.1M | Reduce -10.7% |
| MET Metlife Inc. | 0.76% | 665,682 | $53.5M | Reduce -6.4% |
| IEMG iShares Core MSCI Emerging | 0.76% | 889,624 | $53.4M | Add +41.9% |
| WM Waste Management Inc. | 0.76% | 232,399 | $53.2M | Add +1368.3% |
| TSLA Tesla Inc. | 0.75% | 164,988 | $52.4M | Add +22.2% |
| NDAQ Nasdaq Inc. | 0.65% | 513,659 | $45.9M | Reduce -5.2% |
| GOOGL Alphabet Inc. Class A | 0.65% | 258,073 | $45.5M | Reduce -12.4% |
| DHI D.R. Horton Inc. | 0.58% | 313,970 | $40.5M | Add +1883.6% |
| LLY Eli Lilly & Co. | 0.57% | 51,748 | $40.3M | Add +18.3% |
| CUBE Cubesmart | 0.57% | 945,579 | $40.2M | Reduce -42.0% |
| INTU Intuit Inc. | 0.57% | 50,772 | $40.0M | Add +9.3% |
| NFLX Netflix Inc. | 0.56% | 29,315 | $39.3M | Add +19.0% |
| IWY iShares Russell Top 200 Grow | 0.50% | 142,663 | $35.2M | Add +9.4% |
| IDEV iShares Core MSCI Dev MKTS | 0.50% | 460,093 | $35.0M | Reduce -5.8% |
| AVY Avery Dennison Corp. | 0.48% | 191,513 | $33.6M | Reduce -62.9% |
| BDX Becton Dickinson and Co. | 0.46% | 189,128 | $32.6M | Reduce -21.8% |
| CACI Caci International Inc. Class A | 0.44% | 64,627 | $30.8M | Reduce -30.6% |
| DXCM Dexcom Inc. | 0.43% | 350,140 | $30.6M | Add +36.5% |
| MRVL Marvell Technology Inc. | 0.40% | 363,140 | $28.1M | Add +14.4% |
| MO Altria Group Inc. | 0.39% | 472,467 | $27.7M | Reduce -73.6% |
| COST Costco Wholesale Corp. | 0.38% | 27,277 | $27.0M | Add +19.5% |
| COHR Coherent Corp. | 0.38% | 299,662 | $26.7M | Reduce -12.9% |
| TEVA Teva Pharmaceutical-SP ADR | 0.35% | 1,487,972 | $24.9M | Reduce -27.1% |
| CPRT Copart Inc. | 0.35% | 503,923 | $24.7M | Add +429.0% |
| CRH CRH PLC | 0.35% | 267,814 | $24.6M | Add +8.4% |
| APO Apollo Global Management Inc. | 0.34% | 167,353 | $23.7M | Add +4.6% |
| MA Mastercard Inc. Class A | 0.32% | 40,221 | $22.6M | Add +25.1% |
| TTWO Take-Two Interactive Softwre | 0.31% | 88,996 | $21.6M | Reduce -36.8% |
| IWX iShares Russell Top 200 Valu | 0.29% | 238,514 | $20.1M | Add +0.1% |
| VLO Valero Energy Corp. | 0.28% | 148,079 | $19.9M | Reduce -76.6% |
| HCA HCA Healthcare Inc. | 0.28% | 51,705 | $19.8M | Reduce -8.7% |
| JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.28% | 67,265 | $19.5M | Add +0.4% |
| SPGI S&P Global Inc. | 0.27% | 35,387 | $18.7M | Reduce -6.9% |
| DHR Danaher Corp. | 0.26% | 94,064 | $18.6M | Add +12.3% |
| OKE Oneok Inc. | 0.26% | 225,479 | $18.4M | Reduce -24.0% |
| IWS iShares Russell Mid-Cap Valu | 0.24% | 126,123 | $16.7M | Add +19.7% |
| CBRE CBRE Group Inc. Class A | 0.23% | 114,746 | $16.1M | Reduce -15.6% |
| TMUS T-Mobile US Inc. | 0.23% | 66,523 | $15.8M | Reduce -6.9% |
| FFIV F5 Inc. | 0.22% | 53,018 | $15.6M | Reduce -5.5% |
| AKAM Akamai Technologies Inc. | 0.22% | 194,653 | $15.5M | Reduce -5.9% |
| BRO Brown & Brown Inc. | 0.21% | 134,888 | $15.0M | Reduce -22.6% |
| PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A | 0.21% | 107,947 | $14.7M | Reduce -16.6% |
| GPN Global Payments Inc. | 0.20% | 175,772 | $14.1M | Reduce -6.9% |
| AXON Axon Enterprise Inc. | 0.20% | 16,645 | $13.8M | Reduce -15.5% |
| MLI Mueller Industries Inc. | 0.19% | 171,133 | $13.6M | Add +17.8% |
| AMT American Tower Corp. | 0.19% | 60,991 | $13.5M | Add +8.3% |
| MTZ Mastec Inc. | 0.19% | 79,049 | $13.5M | Add +16.3% |
| GE General Electric filed as GE AEROSPACE | 0.19% | 51,937 | $13.4M | Add +344.3% |
| NXPI NXP Semiconductors NV | 0.19% | 60,497 | $13.2M | Reduce -7.2% |
| HWM Howmet Aerospace Inc. | 0.18% | 69,774 | $13.0M | Reduce -1.2% |
| IWP iShares Russell Mid-Cap Grow | 0.18% | 91,440 | $12.7M | Add +1.9% |
| VRT Vertiv Holdings Co. Class A | 0.18% | 97,471 | $12.5M | Add +36.8% |
| NOW ServiceNow Inc. | 0.18% | 12,154 | $12.5M | Add +19.2% |
| URI United Rentals Inc. | 0.17% | 15,930 | $12.0M | Add +17.9% |
| IRRRF iShares Core MSCI World | 0.17% | 100,752 | $11.9M | Reduce -0.1% |
| CASY Casey's General Stores Inc. | 0.17% | 22,977 | $11.7M | Reduce -3.6% |
| ISRG Intuitive Surgical Inc. | 0.16% | 21,182 | $11.5M | Add +24.2% |
| KO The Coca-Cola Co. | 0.16% | 161,667 | $11.4M | Add +5.1% |
| LEN Lennar Corp. Class A | 0.16% | 102,805 | $11.4M | Add +703.9% |
| RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. | 0.16% | 35,233 | $11.0M | Add +66.0% |
| AMGN Amgen Inc. | 0.16% | 39,452 | $11.0M | Add +47.0% |
| CR Crane Co. | 0.15% | 56,750 | $10.8M | Add +1.0% |
| UBER Uber Technologies Inc. | 0.15% | 115,115 | $10.7M | Add +43.6% |
| DLR Digital Realty Trust Inc. | 0.15% | 59,663 | $10.4M | Add +12.0% |
| DASH DoorDash Inc. Class A | 0.15% | 41,941 | $10.3M | Add +240.6% |
| GEV GE Vernova Inc. | 0.15% | 19,422 | $10.3M | Add +48.1% |
| MCK McKesson Corp. | 0.14% | 13,854 | $10.2M | Add +17.7% |
| CRM Salesforce Inc. | 0.14% | 36,198 | $9.9M | Reduce -13.7% |
Other holdings (20): bonds, preferreds, convertibles and warrants · $9.6M (not counted above)
Total filed on the 13F, all lines: $7.0B.
Portfolio Sells Q1 2025 → Q2 2025
| UNH Unitedhealth Group Inc. | Reduce -42.0% | 0.82% | −1.78 |
| MO Altria Group Inc. | Reduce -73.6% | 0.39% | −1.27 |
| VLO Valero Energy Corp. | Reduce -76.6% | 0.28% | −1.02 |
| ELV Elevance Health Inc. | Reduce -36.9% | 1.08% | −1.01 |
| CVX Chevron Corp. | Reduce -97.9% | 0.02% | −0.97 |
| AVY Avery Dennison Corp. | Reduce -62.9% | 0.48% | −0.95 |
| PEP Pepsico Inc. | Reduce -20.6% | 1.08% | −0.61 |
| CUBE Cubesmart | Reduce -42.0% | 0.57% | −0.51 |
| BDX Becton Dickinson and Co. | Reduce -21.8% | 0.46% | −0.40 |
| CTRA Coterra Energy Inc. | Reduce -5.7% | 1.20% | −0.38 |
| EG Everest Group Ltd. | Reduce -6.4% | 1.26% | −0.31 |
| LIN Linde PLC | Reduce -6.4% | 1.64% | −0.26 |
| ADP Automatic Data Processing | Reduce -5.4% | 1.69% | −0.24 |
| BAH Booz Allen Hamilton Holdings | Reduce -6.5% | 1.16% | −0.20 |
| CP Canadian Pacific Kansas City | Reduce -92.1% | 0.02% | −0.20 |
| OKE Oneok Inc. | Reduce -24.0% | 0.26% | −0.20 |
| HD Home Depot Inc. | Reduce -3.2% | 1.43% | −0.18 |
| TTWO Take-Two Interactive Softwre | Reduce -36.8% | 0.31% | −0.15 |
| TEVA Teva Pharmaceutical-SP ADR | Reduce -27.1% | 0.35% | −0.13 |
| MRK Merck & Co. Inc. | Reduce -90.6% | 0.01% | −0.13 |
| MET Metlife Inc. | Reduce -6.4% | 0.76% | −0.13 |
| BRO Brown & Brown Inc. | Reduce -22.6% | 0.21% | −0.12 |
| AMP Ameriprise Financial Inc. | Reduce -7.3% | 1.63% | −0.11 |
| ABT Abbott Laboratories | Reduce -5.8% | 0.83% | −0.11 |
| TEAM Atlassian Corp. Class A | Reduce -64.1% | 0.04% | −0.10 |
| VRSK Verisk Analytics Inc. | Reduce -84.1% | 0.02% | −0.10 |
| CACI Caci International Inc. Class A | Reduce -30.6% | 0.44% | −0.09 |
| GPN Global Payments Inc. | Reduce -6.9% | 0.20% | −0.09 |
| GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C | Reduce -11.9% | 0.83% | −0.08 |
| AJG Arthur J Gallagher & Co. | Reduce -36.9% | 0.08% | −0.07 |
| TMUS T-Mobile US Inc. | Reduce -6.9% | 0.23% | −0.07 |
| ROK Rockwell Automation Inc. | Reduce -19.3% | 1.33% | −0.07 |
| PGR Progressive Corp. | Reduce -71.0% | 0.02% | −0.07 |
| DDOG Datadog Inc. Class A | Reduce -98.8% | 0.00% | −0.06 |
| GOOGL Alphabet Inc. Class A | Reduce -12.4% | 0.65% | −0.06 |
| RTX RTX Corp. | Reduce -83.9% | 0.01% | −0.06 |
| DKS Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. | Reduce -82.3% | 0.01% | −0.05 |
| PG The Procter & Gamble Co. | Reduce -58.5% | 0.03% | −0.05 |
| QCOM Qualcomm Inc. | Reduce -28.9% | 0.11% | −0.05 |
| AEP American Electric Power | Reduce -94.4% | 0.00% | −0.05 |
| MMM 3M Co. | Reduce -72.2% | 0.02% | −0.05 |
| EOG EOG Resources Inc. | Reduce -93.0% | 0.00% | −0.05 |
| CBRE CBRE Group Inc. Class A | Reduce -15.6% | 0.23% | −0.05 |
| MSI Motorola Solutions Inc. | Reduce -62.8% | 0.02% | −0.05 |
| MSTR Strategy Inc. | Reduce -87.9% | 0.01% | −0.05 |
| SBUX Starbucks Corp. | Reduce -42.2% | 0.04% | −0.04 |
| HLT Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. | Reduce -42.3% | 0.07% | −0.04 |
| TTD Trade Desk Inc./the Class A | Reduce -98.5% | 0.00% | −0.04 |
| NU Nu Holdings Ltd./Cayman Isl-A | Reduce -64.0% | 0.03% | −0.04 |
| GL Globe Life Inc. | Reduce -61.5% | 0.02% | −0.04 |
Portfolio Buys Q1 2025 → Q2 2025
| NVDA Nvidia Corp. | Add +19.7% | 3.44% | +1.29 |
| MSFT Microsoft Corp. | Add +7.0% | 5.28% | +1.21 |
| DPZ Domino's Pizza Inc. | Add +2076.8% | 1.15% | +1.10 |
| DE Deere & Co. | Add +415.4% | 1.28% | +1.03 |
| FERG Ferguson Enterprises Inc. | Add +59.8% | 2.05% | +1.02 |
| WM Waste Management Inc. | Add +1368.3% | 0.76% | +0.70 |
| AFL Aflac Inc. | Add +146.3% | 1.16% | +0.62 |
| DHI D.R. Horton Inc. | Add +1883.6% | 0.58% | +0.54 |
| AVGO Broadcom Inc. | Add +27.2% | 0.91% | +0.43 |
| ORCL Oracle Corp. | Add +0.8% | 0.95% | +0.29 |
| CPRT Copart Inc. | Add +429.0% | 0.35% | +0.27 |
| RJF Raymond James Financial Inc. | Add +39.2% | 0.90% | +0.26 |
| IEMG iShares Core MSCI Emerging | Add +41.9% | 0.76% | +0.23 |
| VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF | Add +6.9% | 2.80% | +0.21 |
| META Meta Platforms Inc. Class A | Add +4.9% | 1.12% | +0.21 |
| TSLA Tesla Inc. | Add +22.2% | 0.75% | +0.20 |
| NFLX Netflix Inc. | Add +19.0% | 0.56% | +0.20 |
| DXCM Dexcom Inc. | Add +36.5% | 0.43% | +0.16 |
| GE General Electric | Add +344.3% | 0.19% | +0.15 |
| LEN Lennar Corp. Class A | Add +703.9% | 0.16% | +0.14 |
| INTU Intuit Inc. | Add +9.3% | 0.57% | +0.13 |
| DASH DoorDash Inc. Class A | Add +240.6% | 0.15% | +0.11 |
| RBLX Roblox Corp. Class A | Add +4071.4% | 0.11% | +0.11 |
| VRT Vertiv Holdings Co. Class A | Add +36.8% | 0.18% | +0.10 |
| AAPL Apple Inc. | Add +23.5% | 2.25% | +0.10 |
| MRVL Marvell Technology Inc. | Add +14.4% | 0.40% | +0.10 |
| TT Trane Technologies PLC | Add +396.5% | 0.11% | +0.09 |
| RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. | Add +66.0% | 0.16% | +0.09 |
| SNOW Snowflake Inc. | Add +189.2% | 0.11% | +0.08 |
| GEV GE Vernova Inc. | Add +48.1% | 0.15% | +0.08 |
| NET Cloudflare Inc. Class A | Add +2841.6% | 0.08% | +0.08 |
| AZO AutoZone Inc. | Add +254.8% | 0.12% | +0.08 |
| DIS The Walt Disney Co. | Add +122.6% | 0.13% | +0.08 |
| IT Gartner Inc. | Add +4970.7% | 0.08% | +0.07 |
| IWY iShares Russell Top 200 Grow | Add +9.4% | 0.50% | +0.07 |
| VEEV Veeva Systems Inc. Class A | Add +136.1% | 0.11% | +0.07 |
| MTZ Mastec Inc. | Add +16.3% | 0.19% | +0.07 |
| UBER Uber Technologies Inc. | Add +43.6% | 0.15% | +0.06 |
| VST Vistra Corp. | Add +55.8% | 0.11% | +0.06 |
| APH Amphenol Corp. Class A | Add +107.8% | 0.08% | +0.05 |
| LYV Live Nation Entertainment Inc. | Add +113.1% | 0.10% | +0.05 |
| FITB Fifth Third Bancorp | Add +245.1% | 0.08% | +0.05 |
| CVS CVS Health Corp. | Add +1217.2% | 0.06% | +0.05 |
| NOW ServiceNow Inc. | Add +19.2% | 0.18% | +0.05 |
| PWR Quanta Services Inc. | Add +137.7% | 0.07% | +0.05 |
| FN Fabrinet | Add +30842.1% | 0.05% | +0.05 |
| COST Costco Wholesale Corp. | Add +19.5% | 0.38% | +0.05 |
| NEM Newmont Corp. | Add +1690.7% | 0.05% | +0.05 |
| CME Cme Group Inc. | Add +1135.2% | 0.05% | +0.05 |
| MPC Marathon Petroleum Corp. | Add +1117.7% | 0.05% | +0.05 |
Notes & Other Activity Q1 2025 → Q2 2025
| ATHENE HOLDING LTD (ATH V6.375 PERP C) | PFD | Sold out | 15,000 | $374Kbefore exit |
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (WFC V0 PERP DEPs) | PFD | Add +24.0% | 31 | $2 |
Bonds, preferreds, convertibles and warrants; not part of the stock holdings or percentages above.
All Filings
| Quarter | Positions | 13F Reported Value | Top Holdings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 3,264 | $5.9B | RREEF CORE PLUS RESIDENTIAL FU, VOO, NVDA, MANULIFE CO-INVESTMENT PARTNER, MSFT |
| Q1 2026 | 3,189 | $5.3B | VOO, NVDA, MSFT, MANULIFE CO-INVESTMENT PARTNER, AAPL |
| Q4 2025 | 3,215 | $6.1B | MSFT, NVDA, VOO, AAPL, MANULIFE CO-INVESTMENT PARTNER |
| Q3 2025 | 3,231 | $6.8B | MSFT, NVDA, VOO, AAPL, SCHW |
| Q2 2025Amended | 3,250 | $7.0B | MSFT, NVDA, VOO, SCHW, AAPL |
| Q1 2025 | 3,198 | $6.4B | MSFT, SCHW, UNH, VOO, AAPL |
| Q4 2024 | 3,220 | $7.3B | MSFT, VOO, NVDA, SCHW, AAPL |
| Q3 2024 | 3,239 | $7.7B | MSFT, UNH, VOO, HSY, ADP |