Latest Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC Stock Portfolio

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC Performance:

2024 Q3: 3.02%YTD: 6.24%2023: 15.7%

Performance for 2024 Q3 is 3.02%, and YTD is 6.24%, and 2023 is 15.7%.

About Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

In it's latest 13F Holdings report, Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC reported an equity portfolio of $280.7 Millions as of 30 Sep, 2024.

The top stock holdings of Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC are IJR, BAB, BBAX. The fund has invested 9.9% of it's portfolio in ISHARES TR and 8.1% of portfolio in INVESCO EXCH TRADED FD TR II.

The fund managers got completely rid off CISCO SYS INC (CSCO), NIKE INC (NKE) and NATIONAL FUEL GAS CO (NFG) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in PURPLE INNOVATION INC (PRPL), TESLA INC (TSLA) and M & T BK CORP (MTB). Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC opened new stock positions in BROADCOM INC (AVGO), ISHARES TR (ACWF) and AMERICAN EXPRESS CO (AXP). The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to CINTAS CORP (CTAS), FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL (FNF) and NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP (NOC).

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC made a return of 3.02% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was 13.74%.

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
broadcom inc	926,153
ishares tr	256,296
american express co	253,864
regions financial corp new	243,379
equifax inc	235,088
firstenergy corp	230,930
on hldg ag	230,690
nextera energy inc	221,469

New stocks bought by Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
cintas corp	286
fidelity national financial	123
northrop grumman corp	81.74
merck & co inc	74.06
exxon mobil corp	47.04
ishares tr	44.29
caterpillar inc	40.73
mastercard incorporated	37.76

Additions to existing portfolio by Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
purple innovation inc	-87.61
tesla inc	-27.45
m & t bk corp	-22.57
quanta svcs inc	-15.48
hartford finl svcs group inc	-10.63
j p morgan exchange traded f	-10.00
lockheed martin corp	-8.52
at&t inc	-5.32

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

Ticker	$ Sold
cisco sys inc	-723,577
ares capital corp	-207,942
national fuel gas co	-342,210
nike inc	-380,166
novo-nordisk a s	-329,301
spdr ser tr	-240,237
ishares tr	-283,858

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC got rid off the above stocks

Sector Distribution

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC has about 59.3% of it's holdings in Others sector.

Sector	%
Others	59.3
Technology	13
Financial Services	5.1
Healthcare	4.6
Communication Services	4.6
Consumer Defensive	4.1
Consumer Cyclical	3.8
Industrials	2.7
Utilities	1.4

Market Cap. Distribution

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC has about 40.4% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
UNALLOCATED	59.3
MEGA-CAP	26.9
LARGE-CAP	13.5

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 39.9% of the stocks held by Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
Others	59.8
S&P 500	39.9

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
TSLA	tesla inc	27.9 %
IBM	international business machs	27.6 %
HCA	hca healthcare inc	26.0 %
SBUX	starbucks corp	25.2 %
LMT	lockheed martin corp	24.6 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
AAPL	apple inc	1.5 M
IJR	ishares tr	0.9 M
IJR	ishares tr	0.6 M
WMT	walmart inc	0.4 M
IJR	ishares tr	0.4 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
CTAS	cintas corp	-72.3 %
F	ford mtr co	-15.7 %
AMAT	applied matls inc	-14.4 %
NXPI	nxp semiconductors n v	-10.5 %
GOOG	alphabet inc	-8.8 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
CTAS	cintas corp	-1.9 M
GOOG	alphabet inc	-0.5 M
MSFT	microsoft corp	-0.3 M
AMZN	amazon com inc	-0.2 M
GOOG	alphabet inc	-0.2 M

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC Holdings Map

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

Current Stock Holdings of Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC has 173 stocks in it's portfolio. About 49.8% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. CTAS proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. AAPL was the most profitable stock for Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC last quarter.

Last Reported on: 22 Oct, 2024

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
AAPL	apple inc	5.80	69,824	16,268,900	added	3.81

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.83	21,364	2,320,770	unchanged	0.00

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.51	17,695	1,420,910	unchanged	0.00

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.22	10,342	612,469	added	0.51

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.10	2,897	271,101	reduced	-0.03

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.07	1,922	204,097	reduced	-0.47

ABBV	abbvie inc	0.59	8,322	1,643,430	added	15.02

ACWF	ishares tr	0.77	34,635	2,171,290	reduced	-5.1

ACWF	ishares tr	0.26	17,158	745,000	added	1.92

ACWF	ishares tr	0.09	4,361	256,296	new

ADBE	adobe inc	0.12	662	342,770	added	1.22

ADI	analog devices inc	0.28	3,456	795,468	added	3.47

ADP	automatic data processing in	0.08	840	232,363	unchanged	0.00

AEP	american elec pwr co inc	0.16	4,421	453,595	unchanged	0.00

AGNG	global x fds	0.45	39,201	1,260,310	added	2.02

AGNG	global x fds	0.24	21,861	676,598	added	0.34

AGNG	global x fds	0.14	5,521	383,102	unchanged	0.00

AGZD	wisdomtree tr	0.13	10,398	358,627	reduced	-3.26

ALTS	proshares tr	0.10	4,547	281,286	added	2.99

AMAT	applied matls inc	0.17	2,416	488,126	reduced	-0.98