Acacia ResearchACTG
13F holders, Q3 2025 (September 30)At the end of Q3 2025, 89 institutions reported holding Acacia Research Corp. (ACTG) in their 13F filings, up 4 from Q2 2025. 11 opened new positions and 9 sold out. The largest holders were Starboard Value ($198.7M), State Street Corp. ($9.1M) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP ($8.9M). 4 famous investors held it, including Jeff Smith (3.7% of Starboard Value's portfolio), Jim Simons / Peter Brown (0.0% of Renaissance Technologies's portfolio) and Ken Griffin (0.0% of Citadel Advisors's portfolio).
- Company
- Acacia Research Corp.
- CUSIP
- 003881307
- Latest filing quarter
- Q2 2026
History
Number of 13F holders
Total Exit/New Position Q2 2025 → Q3 2025
| Institutions | Total Value | |
|---|---|---|
| New Positions | 11 | $545K |
| Exits | 9 | $1.6M |
All 13F filers, Q2 2025 → Q3 2025: 1,322,360 shares bought and 1,303,918 shares sold, net +18,442 shares. Counts holders who added, trimmed, opened or closed a position; split-adjusted.
Ownership 89 holders
| Starboard Value | 3.74% | No change | 61,123,595 | $198.7M |
| State Street Corp. | 0.00% | Reduce -0.9% | 2,790,065 | $9.1M |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 0.00% | Add +1.2% | 2,748,296 | $8.9M |
| BlackRock, Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -1.2% | 2,339,716 | $7.6M |
| Vanguard Group Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -0.7% | 2,281,627 | $7.4M |
| Renaissance Technologies | 0.01% | Reduce -2.1% | 1,526,000 | $5.0M |
| Krilogy Financial LLC | 0.16% | Reduce -14.3% | 1,198,398 | $4.3M |
| Formidable Asset Management, LLC | 0.51% | Add +7.0% | 960,355 | $3.2M |
| Levin Capital Strategies, L.P. | 0.27% | Add +195.0% | 889,547 | $2.9M |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -1.8% | 842,782 | $2.7M |
| Pacific Ridge Capital Partners, LLC | 0.60% | Reduce -2.2% | 839,201 | $2.7M |
| Peapod Lane Capital LLC | 2.11% | Add +1.1% | 726,171 | $2.4M |
| American Century Companies Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -1.5% | 486,471 | $1.6M |
| Tidal Investments LLC | 0.01% | Add +26.8% | 463,938 | $1.5M |
| Citadel Advisors | 0.00% | Reduce -24.2% | 450,088 | $1.5M |
| Permanent Capital Management, LP | 0.25% | — | 405,345 | $1.3M |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc. | 0.00% | Add +17.1% | 347,638 | $1.1M |
| Morgan Stanley | 0.00% | Add +17.5% | 325,125 | $1.1M |
| Northern Trust Corp. | 0.00% | Reduce -9.1% | 267,687 | $870K |
| Bridgeway Capital Management, LLC | 0.02% | Add +10.3% | 267,134 | $868K |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 0.00% | Reduce -3.3% | 245,902 | $799K |
| Susquehanna International Group, LLP | 0.00% | Reduce -5.5% | 226,222 | $735K |
| Empowered Funds, LLC | 0.01% | Add +12.8% | 219,834 | $714K |
| Clayton Partners LLC | 0.44% | Reduce -32.9% | 179,891 | $585K |
| UBS Group AG | 0.00% | Reduce -4.8% | 129,308 | $420K |
| Corsair Capital Management, L.P. | 0.07% | Add +53.7% | 120,345 | $391K |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. | 0.00% | Add +0.0% | 114,965 | $374K |
| GatePass Capital, LLC | 0.20% | Add +9.3% | 105,300 | $342K |
| Capital Wealth Alliance, LLC | 0.17% | Add +0.8% | 104,770 | $341K |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.00% | Add +497.4% | 103,031 | $335K |
| Jefferies Financial Group Inc. | 0.00% | No change | 85,000 | $276K |
| Jane Street Group, LLC | 0.00% | Add +56.6% | 83,417 | $271K |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 0.00% | New | 81,010 | $263K |
| Invesco Ltd. | 0.00% | Add +1.8% | 73,891 | $240K |
| Gsa Capital Partners LLP | 0.02% | Reduce -52.7% | 64,433 | $209K |
| Marshall Wace, LLP | 0.00% | Reduce -62.8% | 63,793 | $207K |
| FMR LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -3.3% | 62,810 | $204K |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 0.00% | Add +5.4% | 60,036 | $195K |
| Nuveen, LLC | 0.00% | Add +8.4% | 57,333 | $186K |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 0.00% | Reduce -6.3% | 52,757 | $171K |
| Barclays PLC | 0.00% | Reduce -18.2% | 48,265 | $157K |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 0.00% | No change | 37,740 | $123K |
| Elkhorn Partners Limited Partnership | 0.08% | Add +2.9% | 35,500 | $115K |
| AQR Capital Management | 0.00% | Add +28.9% | 33,272 | $108K |
| Osaic Holdings, Inc. | 0.00% | Add +81.0% | 30,670 | $100K |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 0.00% | Add +19.5% | 26,223 | $85K |
| Bluespring Wealth Management, LLC | 0.01% | No change | 22,000 | $72K |
| NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan | 0.01% | No change | 20,000 | $65K |
| Verition Fund Management LLC | 0.00% | New | 19,964 | $65K |
| Ethic Inc. | 0.00% | New | 19,629 | $64K |
| XTX Topco Ltd | 0.00% | New | 19,590 | $64K |
| T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. | 0.00% | No change | 18,738 | $61K |
| Raymond James Financial Inc. | 0.00% | Add +10.1% | 18,600 | $60K |
| Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, The | 0.00% | Reduce -6.3% | 17,810 | $58K |
| MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. | 0.00% | Reduce -15.0% | 15,893 | $52K |
| Bank of America Corp. | 0.00% | Reduce -17.0% | 15,762 | $51K |
| Sather Financial Group Inc | 0.00% | New | 14,795 | $48K |
| Salem Investment Counselors Inc. | 0.00% | No change | 14,664 | $48K |
| Investors Research Corp | 0.01% | No change | 14,609 | $47K |
| Intech Investment Management LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -25.5% | 14,234 | $46K |
| Police & Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey | 0.00% | No change | 12,759 | $41K |
| Victory Capital Management Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -3.1% | 10,911 | $35K |
| Horizon Wealth Management, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 10,000 | $33K |
| Flagship Harbor Advisors, LLC | 0.00% | No change | 10,000 | $33K |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 0.00% | No change | 8,921 | $29K |
| Tower Research Capital LLC (TRC) | 0.00% | Add +51.1% | 8,424 | $27K |
| Capital Advisors, Ltd. LLC | 0.00% | No change | 8,000 | $26K |
| BNP Paribas Financial Markets | 0.00% | Add +98.6% | 7,329 | $24K |
| Simplex Trading, LLC | 0.00% | New | 4,422 | $14K |
| Group One Trading LLC | 0.00% | New | 4,099 | $13K |
| Ameritas Investment Partners, Inc. | 0.00% | No change | 3,139 | $10K |
| Citigroup Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -74.0% | 3,033 | $10K |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 0.00% | No change | 2,926 | $10K |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 0.00% | Add +961.0% | 2,833 | $9K |
| Cwm, LLC | 0.00% | Add +92.8% | 2,419 | $8K |
| Sterling Capital Management LLC | 0.00% | Add +127.4% | 2,360 | $8K |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 0.00% | New | 2,144 | $7K |
| PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. | 0.00% | No change | 1,513 | $5K |
| Arax Advisory Partners | 0.00% | New | 1,467 | $5K |
| Amalgamated Bank | 0.00% | No change | 1,282 | $4K |
| Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -10.7% | 892 | $3K |
| Optiver Holding B.V. | 0.00% | New | 542 | $2K |
| Private Wealth Management Group, LLC | 0.00% | Add +8.2% | 358 | $1K |
| SBI Securities Co., Ltd. | 0.00% | No change | 250 | $813 |
| EverSource Wealth Advisors, LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -94.4% | 162 | $527 |
| Rothschild Investment LLC | 0.00% | No change | 110 | $358 |
| IFP Advisors, Inc | 0.00% | Add +0.0% | 42 | $136 |
| Transamerica Financial Advisors, LLC | 0.00% | New | 20 | $65 |
| Essential Partners LLC | 0.00% | Reduce -28.6% | 5 | $16 |
"% of holder's portfolio" is ACTG's weight in each manager's 13F, not the share of Acacia Research Corp. the manager owns.