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Northern Trust CORP — 13F Portfolio Breakdown & Top Holdings (Q2 2026)
Northern Trust CORPCIK: 0000073124
Diversified strategyLong-term holder
Total reported value
$859.8B
Reporting period: 2026-06-30 · Number of holdings: 19568
NORTHERN TRUST CORP disclosed 19568 holdings in its latest 13F filing for the period ending 2026-06-30, with total reported value of $859.8B and a quarterly turnover rate of 19.7%.
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Personality snowflake
- Concentration
- 4.95
- Portfolio Stability
- 19.73
- Momentum
- 58.67
- Sector conviction
- 56.5
- Diversification
- 100
- Sizing Uniformity
- 26.51
Northern Trust CORP's disclosed holdings carry a Herfindahl concentration index of 0.012 — mathematically equivalent to about 81 equally-sized positions, well below its 19568 actual disclosed holdings. That gap points to a strategy built around a small core of high-conviction bets rather than broad diversification.
Position sizes vary widely across the portfolio (a coefficient of variation of 7.35), with a handful of outsized bets alongside many smaller positions.
No strong tilt toward either adding to existing winners or initiating outsized new positions was observed in the latest reported quarter.
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Recent moves
View source Form 13F filing on SEC.govAdd MU
+3.9% $9.0B
Add AMD
+1.6% $6.4B
Trim MSFT
-1.3% -$158.4M
Add INTC
-4.6% $4.0B
Add AMAT
+0.9% $3.4B
Add LRCX
-1.2% $3.0B
Holdings Map
New buyAddUnchangedTrim
Institutional Game-State Analysis
Core Intent
Northern Trust's most consequential visible moves this quarter were semiconductor adds — Micron's weight nearly tripled from 0.46% to 1.45%, AMD rose from 0.44% to 1.13%, and AVGO was added from 1.95% to 2.12% — while NVDA, AAPL and INTC were trimmed. The trims barely moved the needle in weight terms: NVDA was essentially flat at 5.83%→5.84%, AAPL slipped only 5.34%→5.31%, so the active footprint looks like a modest intra-tech rotation rather than a sector exit. GOOGL was added to 2.72% and GOOG, though trimmed, still rose to 2.15%, leaving combined Alphabet exposure at least neutral.
Macro & Fundamentals
The incremental money flowing into MU, AMD and AVGO — names tied to AI infrastructure, HBM memory pricing and compute — lines up with the prevailing AI-capex cycle; that is an inference from limited data, however, since 13F filings show only quarter-end outcomes, and index-rebalancing or valuation-driven flows could produce the same footprint. With information technology at 36.9% of the book, the net effect is to push existing tech exposure further into the semiconductor subsector rather than to raise tech overall.
Blind Spots / Risks
The data's clearest limitation is that shares_change_pct is null across all eight names, so 'trim' tells us nothing about magnitude — the starkest case is INTC, labeled a trim while its weight tripled, implying the sell-down was swamped by relative price strength. That same opacity applies to NVDA and AAPL, whose trims could be cosmetic at this scale. Because 13F filings exclude derivatives, any hedging overlay is invisible, and with 4,440 holdings and an HHI of 0.012, this top-changes list is a razor-thin slice of a predominantly passive book — reading a strong directional signal into it would over-interpret the data.
Generated by AI directly from this institution's Form 13F disclosures on SEC EDGAR. Reflects historical positioning only and should not be treated as investment advice — the original filing is linked below for verification. View the original 2026-06-30 Form 13F filing on SEC.gov
Top 10 holdings by weight
Full holdings list this quarter
Showing top 200 holdings (of 19568 total)
| # | Ticker | Issuer | Asset Subclass | Weight | Weight Change | Shares Change | 4Q Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVDA | Nvidia CORP | Stock-Tech | 5.84% | +0.01% | -0.67% | |
| 2 | AAPL | Apple Inc | Stock-Tech | 5.31% | -0.03% | -0.93% | |
| 3 | MSFT | Microsoft CORP | Stock-Tech | 3.41% | -0.49% | -1.30% | |
| 4 | GOOGL | Alphabet Inc-cl A | Stock-Comm Services | 2.72% | +0.25% | +0.82% | |
| 5 | AMZN | Amazon.com Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 2.62% | — | -0.57% | |
| 6 | GOOG | Alphabet Inc-cl C | Stock-Comm Services | 2.15% | +0.17% | -0.08% | |
| 7 | AVGO | Broadcom Inc | Stock-Tech | 2.12% | +0.17% | +1.19% | |
| 8 | MU | Micron Technology Inc | Stock-Tech | 1.45% | +0.99% | +3.93% | |
| 9 | META | Meta Platforms Inc-class A | Stock-Comm Services | 1.43% | -0.23% | -0.36% | |
| 10 | TSLA | Tesla Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 1.26% | — | +0.61% | |
| 11 | LLY | Eli Lilly & Co | Stock-Healthcare | 1.23% | +0.16% | -0.35% | |
| 12 | SPY | Ss Spdr S&p 500 ETF Trust-us | ETF-Large Cap & Growth | 1.19% | — | -0.76% | |
| 13 | JPM | Jpmorgan Chase & Co | Stock-Financials | 1.17% | -0.04% | -1.74% | |
| 14 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | Stock-Tech | 1.13% | +0.69% | +1.60% | |
| 15 | BRK-B | Berkshire Hathaway Inc-cl B | Stock-Other | 0.90% | -0.08% | -0.32% | |
| 16 | JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | Stock-Healthcare | 0.85% | -0.10% | -1.80% | |
| 17 | IVV | Ishares Core S&p 500 ETF | ETF-Large Cap & Growth | 0.81% | +0.01% | -0.01% | |
| 18 | AMAT | Applied Materials Inc | Stock-Tech | 0.75% | +0.35% | +0.90% | |
| 19 | LRCX | Lam Research CORP | Stock-Tech | 0.71% | +0.31% | -1.23% | |
| 20 | CAT | Caterpillar Inc | Stock-Industrials | 0.70% | +0.17% | -0.26% | |
| 21 | V | Visa Inc-class A Shares | Stock-Financials | 0.70% | -0.01% | -1.07% | |
| 22 | INTC | Intel CORP | Stock-Tech | 0.70% | +0.44% | -4.61% | |
| 23 | XOM | Exxon Mobil CORP | Stock-Energy | 0.65% | -0.31% | -4.11% | |
| 24 | CSCO | Cisco Systems Inc | Stock-Tech | 0.63% | +0.14% | -2.86% | |
| 25 | ABBV | Abbvie Inc | Stock-Healthcare | 0.60% | -0.01% | -3.08% | |
| 26 | WMT | Walmart Inc | Stock-Consumer Staples | 0.54% | -0.15% | -1.86% | |
| 27 | KLAC | Kla CORP | Stock-Tech | 0.54% | +0.23% | +876.21% | |
| 28 | COST | Costco Wholesale CORP | Stock-Consumer Staples | 0.53% | -0.12% | -1.87% | |
| 29 | MA | Mastercard Inc - A | Stock-Financials | 0.51% | -0.06% | -2.08% | |
| 30 | PG | Procter & Gamble Co/the | Stock-Consumer Staples | 0.46% | -0.06% | -1.19% | |
| 31 | HD | Home Depot Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.45% | -0.04% | -2.39% | |
| 32 | VEA | Vanguard Ftse Developed ETF | ETF-Other | 0.45% | — | +0.17% | |
| 33 | GE | General Electric | Stock-Industrials | 0.44% | +0.06% | -1.12% | |
| 34 | GUNR | Flexshares Global Upstream N | ETF-Other | 0.44% | -0.12% | -0.60% | |
| 35 | UNH | Unitedhealth Group Inc | Stock-Healthcare | 0.42% | +0.11% | -0.21% | |
| 36 | VTI | Vanguard Total Stock Mkt ETF | ETF-Other | 0.42% | +0.01% | -0.42% | |
| 37 | BAC | Bank Of America CORP | Stock-Financials | 0.41% | — | -1.05% | |
| 38 | MRK | Merck & Co. Inc. | Stock-Healthcare | 0.39% | -0.04% | -3.01% | |
| 39 | GEV | GE Vernova Inc | Stock-Industrials | 0.38% | +0.06% | +0.50% | |
| 40 | CVX | Chevron CORP | Stock-Energy | 0.37% | -0.18% | -4.55% | |
| 41 | KO | Coca-cola Co/the | Stock-Consumer Staples | 0.37% | -0.03% | -3.44% | |
| 42 | GS | Goldman Sachs Group Inc | Stock-Financials | 0.36% | +0.01% | -3.27% | |
| 43 | ITW | Illinois Tool Works | Stock-Industrials | 0.35% | -0.04% | -1.25% | |
| 44 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks Inc | Stock-Tech | 0.35% | +0.17% | +0.89% | |
| 45 | NFLX | Netflix Inc | Stock-Comm Services | 0.35% | -0.19% | -1.94% | |
| 46 | TSM | Taiwan Semiconductor-sp Adr | Stock-Tech | 0.34% | +0.05% | -4.99% | |
| 47 | VWO | Vanguard Ftse Emerging Marke | ETF-Emerging Markets | 0.34% | -0.02% | -3.50% | |
| 48 | SNDK | Sandisk CORP | Stock-Tech | 0.34% | +0.24% | +3.20% | |
| 49 | IBM | Intl Business Machines CORP | Stock-Tech | 0.33% | — | -0.75% | |
| 50 | TXN | Texas Instruments Inc | Stock-Tech | 0.33% | +0.09% | -1.37% |
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Portfolio Performance
Performance for Q3 2026
+2.5%
Performance Last 4 Quarters
+21.1%
- Stdev
- +12.6%
- Beta
- +0.96
- Alpha
- -1.2%
- Max Drawdown
- -8.3%
- Annualized Perf
- +18.8%
- Batting Avg vs S&P
- +38.9%
- Sortino
- +2.91
- Stutzer
- +0.42
- Treynor
- +0.19
- Sterling
- +1.18
- Calmar
- +2.27
- Information Ratio
- -0.98
- Tracking Error
- +1.9%
- Stdev Down
- +6.2%
- Winning Months %
- +69.4%
- Losing Months %
- +30.6%
- Best 12 Months
- +31.6%
- Worst 12 Months
- +5.1%
- Efficiency Ratio
- +0.6
- Sharpe
- +1.44
- Stdev Sectors
- +9.4%
- Skewness
- +0.03
- Kurtosis
- -0.15
- Upside Potential
- +4.48
Reported value over time
Sector allocation
Sector allocation over time
Quarterly history
| Period | Holdings | Total value | Stability | Top holdings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | 19568 | $859.8B | 20 | ||
| 2026 Q1 | 19864 | $756.6B | 14 | ||
| 2025 Q4 | 20753 | $784.4B | 10 | ||
| 2025 Q3 | 20749 | $781.7B | 23 | ||
| 2025 Q2 | 20680 | $727.2B | 0 | ||
| 2025 Q1 | 21514 | $673.5B | 100 | ||
| 2024 Q4 | 19353 | $706.2B | 0 | ||
| 2024 Q3 | 13708 | $610.9B | 0 | ||
| 2024 Q2 | 13644 | $593.5B | 0 | ||
| 2024 Q1 | 13724 | $578.8B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q4 | 13869 | $552.5B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q3 | 13573 | $516.3B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q2 | 13680 | $520.4B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q1 | 13708 | $504.4B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q4 | 14171 | $476.5B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q3 | 14507 | $437.8B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q2 | 14672 | $466.9B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q1 | 14532 | $568.4B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q4 | 15776 | $610.4B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q3 | 15593 | $565.0B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q2 | 17777 | $567.7B | 97 | ||
| 2021 Q1 | 17416 | $537.6B | 11 | ||
| 2020 Q4 | 17173 | $513.4B | 16 | ||
| 2020 Q3 | 16569 | $456.0B | 13 | ||
| 2020 Q2 | 16580 | $422.1B | 23 | ||
| 2020 Q1 | 16460 | $348.3B | 27 | ||
| 2019 Q4 | 16047 | $446.8B | 12 | ||
| 2019 Q3 | 16140 | $417.7B | 10 | ||
| 2019 Q2 | 16238 | $421.6B | 10 | ||
| 2019 Q1 | 16017 | $404.9B | 16 | ||
| 2018 Q4 | 16167 | $356.5B | 18 | ||
| 2018 Q3 | 16065 | $408.6B | 11 | ||
| 2018 Q2 | 16040 | $393.8B | 12 | ||
| 2018 Q1 | 15500 | $384.4B | 10 | ||
| 2017 Q4 | 15500 | $394.9B | 10 | ||
| 2017 Q3 | 15538 | $383.7B | 12 | ||
| 2017 Q2 | 15580 | $357.6B | 10 | ||
| 2017 Q1 | 15578 | $346.8B | 11 | ||
| 2016 Q4 | 15050 | $326.0B | 12 | ||
| 2016 Q3 | 14945 | $321.1B | 11 | ||
| 2016 Q2 | 15037 | $308.0B | 11 | ||
| 2016 Q1 | 14999 | $301.5B | 11 | ||
| 2015 Q4 | 15276 | $301.7B | 13 | ||
| 2015 Q3 | 15232 | $299.7B | 21 | ||
| 2015 Q2 | 14840 | $331.9B | 17 | ||
| 2015 Q1 | 13583 | $332.5B | 11 | ||
| 2014 Q4 | 13227 | $331.2B | 13 | ||
| 2014 Q3 | 13195 | $318.4B | 10 | ||
| 2014 Q2 | 13078 | $320.9B | 12 | ||
| 2014 Q1 | 14781 | $317.9B | 10 | ||
| 2013 Q4 | 12591 | $311.8B | 13 | ||
| 2013 Q3 | 12724 | $283.9B | 10 | ||
| 2013 Q2 | 12654 | $275.9B | 0 |
Holding changes this quarter
Northern Trust CORP's most significant position changes for 2026-06-30: Sold out: Honeywell International Inc (HON); New buy: ; New buy: ; New buy: ; New buy: Carnival CORP LTD F.
Showing top 200 changes by size (of 4616 total)
| # | Ticker | Issuer | Weight Change | Shares Change | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MU | Micron Technology Inc | +1% | +3.93% | Add |
| 2 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +0.7% | +1.60% | Add |
| 3 | INTC | Intel CORP | +0.4% | -4.61% | Trim |
| 4 | AMAT | Applied Materials Inc | +0.4% | +0.90% | Add |
| 5 | LRCX | Lam Research CORP | +0.3% | -1.23% | Trim |
| 6 | GOOGL | Alphabet Inc-cl A | +0.3% | +0.82% | Add |
| 7 | SNDK | Sandisk CORP | +0.2% | +3.20% | Add |
| 8 | KLAC | Kla CORP | +0.2% | +876.21% | Add |
| 9 | MRVL | Marvell Technology Inc | +0.2% | +24.66% | Add |
| 10 | AVGO | Broadcom Inc | +0.2% | +1.19% | Add |
| 11 | GOOG | Alphabet Inc-cl C | +0.2% | -0.08% | Trim |
| 12 | CAT | Caterpillar Inc | +0.2% | -0.26% | Trim |
| 13 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks Inc | +0.2% | +0.89% | Add |
| 14 | LLY | Eli Lilly & Co | +0.2% | -0.35% | Trim |
| 15 | CSCO | Cisco Systems Inc | +0.1% | -2.86% | Trim |
| 16 | WDC | Western Digital CORP | +0.1% | +1.58% | Add |
| 17 | UNH | Unitedhealth Group Inc | +0.1% | -0.21% | Trim |
| 18 | STX | Seagate Technology Holdings plc | +0.1% | +0.28% | Add |
| 19 | GLW | Corning Inc | +0.1% | -3.10% | Trim |
| 20 | TXN | Texas Instruments Inc | +0.1% | -1.37% | Trim |
| 21 | CRWD | Crowdstrike Holdings Inc - A | +0.1% | -0.20% | Trim |
| 22 | DELL | Dell Technologies -c | +0.1% | -7.12% | Trim |
| 23 | ✓ | +0.1% | NEW | New buy | |
| 24 | ✓ | +0.1% | NEW | New buy | |
| 25 | GE | General Electric | +0.1% | -1.12% | Trim |
| 26 | GEV | GE Vernova Inc | +0.1% | +0.50% | Add |
| 27 | APH | Amphenol Corp-cl A | +0.1% | -0.11% | Trim |
| 28 | ✓ | +0.1% | NEW | New buy | |
| 29 | TSM | Taiwan Semiconductor-sp Adr | +0.1% | -4.99% | Trim |
| 30 | DDOG | Datadog Inc - Class A | +0.1% | +3.78% | Add |
| 31 | ADI | Analog Devices Inc | 0% | +8.75% | Add |
| 32 | QCOM | Qualcomm Inc | 0% | -4.16% | Trim |
| 33 | ASML | ASML Holding N.V. | 0% | -0.44% | Trim |
| 34 | ANET | Arista Networks Inc | 0% | -0.04% | Trim |
| 35 | FTNT | Fortinet Inc | 0% | +0.92% | Add |
| 36 | ✓ | Carnival CORP LTD F | 0% | NEW | New buy |
| 37 | ALAB | Astera Labs Inc | 0% | +8.22% | Add |
| 38 | CVS | Cvs Health CORP | 0% | -1.46% | Trim |
| 39 | CMI | Cummins Inc | 0% | +2.95% | Add |
| 40 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 0% | -6.08% | Trim |
| 41 | FLEX | Flex Ltd. | 0% | -12.27% | Trim |
| 42 | SNOW | Snowflake Inc | 0% | +4.01% | Add |
| 43 | NBIS | Nebius Group N.V. | 0% | +17.68% | Add |
| 44 | ✓ | 0% | NEW | New buy | |
| 45 | MS | Morgan Stanley | 0% | -2.37% | Trim |
| 46 | C | Citigroup Inc | 0% | -3.46% | Trim |
| 47 | VRT | Vertiv Holdings Co-a | 0% | +3.27% | Add |
| 48 | COHR | Coherent CORP | 0% | +6.79% | Add |
| 49 | PWR | Quanta Services Inc | 0% | -0.42% | Trim |
| 50 | TER | Teradyne Inc | 0% | -4.51% | Trim |
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Filing History
Related 13F Filing Analysis
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FAQ
What is Northern Trust CORP and what type of investor is it?
Northern Trust CORP is an investment manager that files SEC Form 13F quarterly, disclosing its U.S. public equity holdings to regulators. As of the most recent reporting period (2026-06-30), the firm manages a tracked equity portfolio valued at approximately $859.8B, spread across 19568 disclosed positions.
What are Northern Trust CORP's largest equity positions?
Based on the latest 13F filing, Northern Trust CORP's top holdings by market value are:
1. Nvidia CORP (NVDA) — $50.2B (5.8%)
2. Apple Inc (AAPL) — $45.7B (5.3%)
3. Microsoft CORP (MSFT) — $29.3B (3.4%)
4. Alphabet Inc-cl A (GOOGL) — $23.4B (2.7%)
5. Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) — $22.5B (2.6%)
What changes did Northern Trust CORP make in its most recent portfolio filing?
In the latest reported quarter, Northern Trust CORP made 200 notable position adjustments: 6 new positions were initiated, 77 existing holdings were added to, 112 positions were partially reduced, and 5 were completely exited. The largest of these moves: Sold out: Honeywell International Inc (HON); New buy: ; New buy: ; New buy: ; New buy: Carnival CORP LTD F
What sectors does Northern Trust CORP focus on?
Northern Trust CORP is concentrated in the following sectors based on its current disclosed equity portfolio:
• Information Technology: 36.9%
• Financials: 11.1%
• Industrials: 9.6%
• Health Care: 9.4%
• Communication Services: 9.4%
• Consumer Discretionary: 9.3%
Investment Profile
Northern Trust CORP returned an annualized 18.8% over the trailing 36 months — underperforming the S&P 500 by 1.2 points — based on a reconstructed track record of its disclosed 13F positions, with a beta of 0.96 (roughly in line with the market) and a 39% quarterly batting average against the index.
Its portfolio is broadly diversified and long-term-holding, with 36.9% of the portfolio concentrated in Information Technology.
Its turnover score has risen from 0 to 20 over the past 4 quarters — a shift toward more active trading.
It has added to its MU position over the past two quarters (+$9.4B, now $12.5B), while trimming MSFT over the same stretch (-$9.2B, still holding $29.3B).
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