Latest Welch Group, LLC Stock Portfolio

Welch Group, LLC Performance:

2024 Q3: 9.25%YTD: 18.58%2023: 1.72%

Performance for 2024 Q3 is 9.25%, and YTD is 18.58%, and 2023 is 1.72%.

About Welch Group, LLC and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

Welch Group, LLC is a hedge fund based in BIRMINGHAM, AL. On 19-Jul-2023, the fund reported that it had an AUM (Regulated Assets under Management) of $2.5 Billions. In it's latest 13F Holdings report, Welch Group, LLC reported an equity portfolio of $2.3 Billions as of 30 Sep, 2024.

The top stock holdings of Welch Group, LLC are SFBS, MSFT, AAPL. The fund has invested 4% of it's portfolio in SERVISFIRST BANCSHARES INC and 3.8% of portfolio in MICROSOFT CORP.

The fund managers got completely rid off SELECT SECTOR SPDR TR (XLB), FOX CORP (FOX) and PARAMOUNT GLOBAL (PARA) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in SMUCKER J M CO (SJM), INTEL CORP (INTC) and GLOBAL PMTS INC (GPN). Welch Group, LLC opened new stock positions in ENERGY TRANSFER L P (ET), BROADCOM INC (AVGO) and ADOBE INC (ADBE). The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to MEDICAL PPTYS TRUST INC (MPW), INVESCO QQQ TR (QQQ) and SALESFORCE INC (CRM).

Welch Group, LLC Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that Welch Group, LLC made a return of 9.25% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was 26.78%.

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
energy transfer l p	457,244
broadcom inc	318,263
adobe inc	306,526
allstate corp	303,251
blue owl capital corporation	253,530
novo-nordisk a s	246,833
ross stores inc	241,720
nike inc	222,669

New stocks bought by Welch Group, LLC

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
medical pptys trust inc	112
invesco qqq tr	83.68
salesforce inc	81.78
regeneron pharmaceuticals	71.43
bp prudhoe bay rty tr	60.31
applied matls inc	40.13
oreilly automotive inc	39.9
lam research corp	38.03

Additions to existing portfolio by Welch Group, LLC

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
smucker j m co	-62.21
intel corp	-35.13
global pmts inc	-33.7
vanguard index fds	-29.39
invesco exchange traded fd t	-23.93
bristol-myers squibb co	-21.14
pacer fds tr	-14.6
select sector spdr tr	-12.96

Welch Group, LLC reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

Ticker	$ Sold
grupo televisa s a b	-55,400
dana inc	-230,280
paramount global	-298,179
ampco-pittsburg corp	-9,515
warner bros discovery inc	-84,325
patterson cos inc	-253,260
vodafone group plc new	-91,424
fox corp	-320,200

Welch Group, LLC got rid off the above stocks

Sector Distribution

Welch Group, LLC has about 17.8% of it's holdings in Technology sector.

Sector	%
Technology	17.8
Financial Services	17.5
Consumer Defensive	13.8
Industrials	13.1
Healthcare	8.7
Utilities	8.5
Consumer Cyclical	6.7
Energy	5.4
Others	4.4
Communication Services	3.2

Market Cap. Distribution

Welch Group, LLC has about 90.4% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
LARGE-CAP	56.1
MEGA-CAP	34.3
MID-CAP	5.2
UNALLOCATED	4.4

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 95% of the stocks held by Welch Group, LLC either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
S&P 500	90.4
Others	5
RUSSELL 2000	4.6

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
AP	ampco-pittsburg corp	90.0 %
K	kellanova	39.9 %
FBHS	fortune brands innovations i	37.9 %
EAF	graftech intl ltd	36.1 %
IRM	iron mtn inc del	32.6 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
SFBS	servisfirst bancshares inc	21.4 M
IBM	international business machs	15.6 M
LMT	lockheed martin corp	13.7 M
RTX	rtx corporation	11.3 M
NEE	nextera energy inc	11.1 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
LRCX	lam research corp	-73.2 %
DG	dollar gen corp new	-34.7 %
INTC	intel corp	-25.8 %
MU	micron technology inc	-21.1 %
DVN	devon energy corp new	-17.1 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
QCOM	qualcomm inc	-10.0 M
CVX	chevron corp new	-3.4 M
MSFT	microsoft corp	-3.3 M
DG	dollar gen corp new	-2.0 M
GOOG	alphabet inc	-0.9 M

Welch Group, LLC Holdings Map

This heatmap illustrates the top 50 positions within the fund's portfolio.

Current Stock Holdings of Welch Group, LLC

Welch Group, LLC has 269 stocks in it's portfolio. About 32.5% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. QCOM proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. SFBS was the most profitable stock for Welch Group, LLC last quarter.

Last Reported on: 24 Oct, 2024

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
AAPL	apple inc	3.69	363,921	84,793,600	reduced	-0.57

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.02	6,630	392,629	unchanged	0.00

ABBV	abbvie inc	3.09	360,199	71,132,200	added	0.16

ABT	abbott labs	0.32	65,174	7,430,500	added	7.6

ACA	arcosa inc	0.03	7,500	710,700	unchanged	0.00

ACN	accenture plc ireland	0.29	18,590	6,571,030	added	7.55

ADBE	adobe inc	0.01	592	306,526	new

ADM	archer daniels midland co	0.01	4,240	253,311	added	0.26

ADP	automatic data processing in	0.02	1,709	472,932	unchanged	0.00

AEE	ameren corp	0.01	2,460	215,152	new

AEP	american elec pwr co inc	0.03	6,852	703,055	added	0.13

AFK	vaneck etf trust	0.03	2,333	572,635	unchanged	0.00

AFL	aflac inc	0.41	84,218	9,415,550	added	0.44

AFTY	pacer fds tr	0.04	17,599	924,828	reduced	-14.6

AJG	gallagher arthur j & co	2.88	235,046	66,134,900	reduced	-1.51

ALL	allstate corp	0.01	1,599	303,251	new

AMAT	applied matls inc	0.01	1,505	303,999	added	40.13

AMD	advanced micro devices inc	0.34	47,485	7,791,340	added	9.57

AMGN	amgen inc	0.01	852	274,569	unchanged	0.00

AMZN	amazon com inc	0.45	55,874	10,411,100	added	5.35