Latest Merit Financial Group, LLC Stock Portfolio

Merit Financial Group, LLC Performance:

2024 Q3: 2.35%YTD: 3.34%2023: 6.51%

Performance for 2024 Q3 is 2.35%, and YTD is 3.34%, and 2023 is 6.51%.

About Merit Financial Group, LLC and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

Merit Financial Group, LLC is a hedge fund based in ALPHARETTA, GA. On 30-Mar-2023, the fund reported that it had an AUM (Regulated Assets under Management) of $5.5 Billions. In it's latest 13F Holdings report, Merit Financial Group, LLC reported an equity portfolio of $4.5 Billions as of 30 Sep, 2024.

The top stock holdings of Merit Financial Group, LLC are VB, IJR, VB. The fund has invested 5.8% of it's portfolio in VANGUARD INDEX FDS and 5% of portfolio in ISHARES TR.

The fund managers got completely rid off WISDOMTREE TR (DWMF), SOUTHERN COPPER CORP (SCCO) and PRICE T ROWE GROUP INC (TROW) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in ISHARES TR (ACWF), ISHARES TR (IJR) and SCHWAB STRATEGIC TR (FNDA). Merit Financial Group, LLC opened new stock positions in AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REIT INC, SPDR SER TR (BIL) and PAYLOCITY HLDG CORP (PCTY). The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to MICROSTRATEGY INC (MSTR), VANGUARD INDEX FDS (VB) and INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXC (GSY).

Merit Financial Group, LLC Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that Merit Financial Group, LLC made a return of 2.35% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was 6.52%.

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
american healthcare reit inc	4,730,290
spdr ser tr	4,632,700
paylocity hldg corp	4,226,200
spdr index shs fds	3,629,230
schwab strategic tr	3,548,310
hartford fds exchange traded	3,366,220
spdr ser tr	3,143,530
hartford fds exchange traded	2,957,040

New stocks bought by Merit Financial Group, LLC

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
microstrategy inc	1,305
vanguard index fds	1,060
invesco actively managed exc	1,058
capital group gbl growth eqt	726
ishares tr	645
ishares tr	388
fortinet inc	366
spdr ser tr	364

Additions to existing portfolio by Merit Financial Group, LLC

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
schwab strategic tr	-82.42
check point software tech lt	-60.91
ishares tr	-60.34
oreilly automotive inc	-57.66
blackrock etf trust	-53.64
ishares tr	-51.87
ishares tr	-51.38
ishares tr	-49.86

Merit Financial Group, LLC reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

None of the stocks were completely sold off by Merit Financial Group, LLC

Sector Distribution

Merit Financial Group, LLC has about 72.7% of it's holdings in Others sector.

Sector	%
Others	72.7
Technology	7.7
Industrials	5.3
Financial Services	3
Consumer Cyclical	2.5
Healthcare	2.4
Consumer Defensive	2.3
Communication Services	1.8

Market Cap. Distribution

Merit Financial Group, LLC has about 25% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
UNALLOCATED	72.7
MEGA-CAP	12.8
LARGE-CAP	12.2
MID-CAP	1.2

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 26.1% of the stocks held by Merit Financial Group, LLC either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
Others	73.8
S&P 500	24.6
RUSSELL 2000	1.5

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
WSTG	climb global solutions inc	56.4 %
RDFN	redfin corp	53.9 %
PLTR	palantir technologies inc	46.1 %
CTSO	cytosorbents corp	40.2 %
K	kellanova	39.6 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
IJR	ishares tr	18.9 M
AAPL	apple inc	11.7 M
IJR	ishares tr	7.5 M
TSLA	tesla inc	2.7 M
META	meta platforms inc	2.6 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
CTAS	cintas corp	-71.6 %
AQMS	aqua metals inc	-41.4 %
IBRX	immunitybio inc	-41.1 %
FCEL	fuelcell energy inc	-40.4 %
MSTR	microstrategy inc	-33.8 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
MSFT	microsoft corp	-3.5 M
AVGO	broadcom inc	-2.7 M
GOOG	alphabet inc	-2.3 M
GOOG	alphabet inc	-1.9 M
CTAS	cintas corp	-1.7 M

Merit Financial Group, LLC Holdings Map

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

Current Stock Holdings of Merit Financial Group, LLC

Merit Financial Group, LLC has 820 stocks in it's portfolio. About 33% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. MSFT proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. IJR was the most profitable stock for Merit Financial Group, LLC last quarter.

Last Reported on: 17 Oct, 2024

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
AAPL	apple inc	2.62	502,291	117,034,000	reduced	-5.11

AAXJ	ishares tr	1.76	822,994	78,851,100	reduced	-7.23

AAXJ	ishares tr	1.46	1,242,830	65,348,200	reduced	-6.69

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.20	155,373	8,938,600	added	8.32

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.18	76,983	8,287,180	reduced	-51.87

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.12	49,028	5,325,880	added	361

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.08	64,623	3,690,620	added	1.22

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.07	43,175	3,150,470	added	78.14

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.07	19,644	2,939,540	reduced	-4.15

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.05	31,191	2,202,400	reduced	-35.72

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.05	27,345	2,095,700	reduced	-2.29

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.04	25,288	1,922,430	reduced	-5.69

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.04	16,818	1,573,880	reduced	-19.8

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.02	70,262	1,032,150	reduced	-8.68

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.02	7,427	887,864	reduced	-2.02

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.02	13,166	835,759	reduced	-12.86

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.02	11,734	794,419	added	0.25

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.02	9,528	765,066	added	135

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.02	12,308	728,852	reduced	-17.95

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.02	14,702	719,820	reduced	-5.47