Ariel Investments 13F annual report

Ariel Investments is an investment fund managing more than $9.24 trillion ran by James Prescott. There are currently 115 companies in Mr. Prescott’s portfolio. The largest investments include Jones Lang Lasalle and Generac Inc, together worth $527 billion.

$9.24 trillion Assets Under Management (AUM)

As of 7th August 2024, Ariel Investments’s top holding is 1,326,074 shares of Jones Lang Lasalle currently worth over $272 billion and making up 2.9% of the portfolio value. Relative to the number of outstanding shares of Jones Lang Lasalle, Ariel Investments owns more than approximately 0.1% of the company. In addition, the fund holds 1,928,250 shares of Generac Inc worth $255 billion, whose value grew 16.5% in the past six months. The third-largest holding is Mattel worth $241 billion and the next is ADT Inc worth $231 billion, with 30,360,559 shares owned.

Currently, Ariel Investments's portfolio is worth at least $9.24 trillion. The total portfolio value may be much higher due to cash assets that are not publicly disclosed such as fixed income, real estate, or cash equivalents.

Careers at Ariel Investments

The Ariel Investments office and employees reside in Chicago, Illinois. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, James Prescott serves as the Vice President, Compliance at Ariel Investments.

Recent trades

In the most recent 13F filing, Ariel Investments revealed that it had opened a new position in Labcorp and bought 444,431 shares worth $90.4 billion. This means they effectively own approximately 0.1% of the company. Labcorp makes up 10.7% of the fund's Health Care sector allocation and has grown its share price by 3.0% in the past year.

The investment fund also strengthened its position in ADT Inc by buying 780,762 additional shares. This makes their stake in ADT Inc total 30,360,559 shares worth $231 billion. ADT Inc soared 11.6% in the past year.

On the other hand, there are companies that Ariel Investments is getting rid of from its portfolio. Ariel Investments closed its position in Labcorp on 14th August 2024. It sold the previously owned 544,574 shares for $119 billion. James Prescott also disclosed a decreased stake in Jones Lang Lasalle by approximately 0.1%. This leaves the value of the investment at $272 billion and 1,326,074 shares.

One of the largest hedge funds

The two most similar investment funds to Ariel Investments are Centersquare Investment Management and Gamco Investors, Inc. Et Al. They manage $9.24 trillion and $9.2 trillion respectively.


James Prescott investment strategy

Ariel Investments’s portfolio is diversified across 12 sectors. Currently, their heaviest sector is Consumer Discretionary — making up 18.6% of the total portfolio value. The fund focuses on investments in the United States as 61.7% of the portfolio companies are based in the United States.

The majority of the companies in the fund’s portfolio are large-cap stocks. Stocks with a size of more than $10 billion in market cap make up 35% of the total holdings value. On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only 1.7% of the portfolio. The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $57.9 billion.

The complete list of Ariel Investments trades based on 13F SEC filings

These positions were updated on August 14th based on the fund’s latest 13F filing. Quickly find out what the most recently closed or increased positions are.

Security Shares Owned Value Allocation
Jones Lang Lasalle Inc.
7.70%
1,326,074
$272,216,471,000 2.95%
Generac Holdings Inc
10.01%
1,928,250
$254,953,215,000 2.76%
Mattel, Inc.
4.91%
14,818,010
$240,940,843,000 2.61%
ADT Inc
2.64%
30,360,559
$230,740,249,000 2.50%
Lazard Inc.
4.38%
6,041,656
$230,670,426,000 2.50%
Affiliated Managers Group Inc.
8.73%
1,442,817
$225,411,300,000 2.44%
Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.
6.31%
6,550,028
$224,207,459,000 2.43%
Northern Trust Corp.
3.60%
2,644,205
$222,060,336,000 2.40%
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
3.35%
1,336,278
$220,485,870,000 2.39%
Core Laboratories Inc
4.93%
10,292,296
$208,830,685,000 2.26%
Mohawk Industries, Inc.
2.89%
1,816,676
$206,356,227,000 2.23%
Gentex Corp.
4.73%
6,103,580
$205,751,681,000 2.23%
Kennametal Inc.
5.82%
8,660,974
$203,879,328,000 2.21%
Adtalem Global Education Inc
4.47%
2,941,733
$200,655,608,000 2.17%
Carlyle Group Inc/the
1.12%
4,937,725
$198,249,659,000 2.15%
Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc
10.71%
2,835,203
$195,203,726,000 2.11%
First American Financial Corp
2.77%
3,609,697
$194,743,154,000 2.11%
Sphere Entertainment Co
8.20%
5,538,121
$194,166,522,000 2.10%
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd
3.89%
1,184,249
$188,804,818,000 2.04%
Resideo Technologies Inc
20.26%
9,590,360
$187,587,441,000 2.03%
Charles River Laboratories International Inc.
2.86%
906,137
$187,189,782,000 2.03%
Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.
3.52%
970,156
$182,515,447,000 1.98%
BOK Financial Corp.
11.10%
1,915,225
$175,511,219,000 1.90%
Boyd Gaming Corp.
12.46%
3,031,691
$167,046,174,000 1.81%
Interpublic Group Of Cos Inc/the
3.51%
5,710,448
$166,116,933,000 1.80%
Envista Holdings Corp
11.01%
9,871,152
$164,157,258,000 1.78%
Leslie's, Inc.
46.51%
36,601,368
$153,359,732,000 1.66%
Onespaworld Holdings Ltd
18.83%
9,814,630
$150,850,864,000 1.63%
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd
1.54%
4,406,964
$150,585,959,000 1.63%
J M Smucker Co/the
56.04%
1,354,999
$147,749,091,000 1.60%
Paramount Global
16.54%
14,042,265
$145,899,134,000 1.58%
Brink's Co/the
25.81%
1,270,577
$130,107,084,000 1.41%
Manchester United Plc.
50.89%
8,007,070
$129,234,111,000 1.40%
Labcorp Holdings Inc.
Closed
544,574
$118,967,636,000
Microsoft Corporation
27.43%
265,438
$118,637,514,000 1.28%
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd
2.89%
5,681,276
$106,751,176,000 1.16%
Zebra Technologies Corp.
13.10%
330,386
$102,066,147,000 1.10%
Baidu Inc
4.08%
1,093,252
$94,544,433,000 1.02%
Labcorp Holdings Inc.
Opened
444,431
$90,446,153,000 0.98%
Stericycle Inc.
63.95%
1,526,043
$88,708,879,000 0.96%
Knowles Corp
1.83%
5,092,049
$87,888,766,000 0.95%
Littelfuse, Inc.
5.27%
328,921
$84,068,918,000 0.91%
Lindblad Expeditions Holdings Inc
3.52%
8,565,068
$82,652,906,000 0.89%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc/the
9.97%
181,857
$82,257,558,000 0.89%
nVent Electric plc
29.12%
992,935
$76,068,751,000 0.82%
Janus Henderson Group plc
0.74%
2,256,434
$76,064,390,000 0.82%
Aptiv PLC
2.28%
1,053,630
$74,196,625,000 0.80%
Masco Corp.
4.46%
1,093,202
$72,883,777,000 0.79%
Verizon Communications Inc
2.30%
1,724,311
$71,110,586,000 0.77%
Credicorp Ltd
25.70%
409,636
$66,086,576,000 0.72%
Middleby Corp/the
58.02%
510,127
$62,546,671,000 0.68%
Netapp Inc
27.44%
480,865
$61,935,412,000 0.67%
Capital One Financial Corp.
65.45%
436,335
$60,410,581,000 0.65%
Carmax Inc
8.70%
710,003
$52,071,620,000 0.56%
DaVita Inc
41.65%
359,604
$49,830,326,000 0.54%
Korn Ferry
9.33%
740,505
$49,717,506,000 0.54%
Aflac Inc.
3.93%
516,974
$46,170,948,000 0.50%
Vail Resorts Inc.
10.60%
247,095
$44,509,222,000 0.48%
GCM Grosvenor Inc.
1.47%
4,546,096
$44,369,897,000 0.48%
Stanley Black & Decker Inc
4.45%
547,494
$43,739,296,000 0.47%
CBRE Group Inc
31.25%
484,995
$43,217,905,000 0.47%
Charles Schwab Corp/the
29.81%
583,935
$43,030,170,000 0.47%
Keysight Technologies Inc
12.30%
297,978
$40,748,493,000 0.44%
NOV Inc
0.23%
2,117,843
$40,260,195,000 0.44%
CVS Health Corp
10.30%
669,084
$39,516,101,000 0.43%
Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc.
3.54%
4,192,449
$38,822,078,000 0.42%
Truist Financial Corporation
2.87%
995,605
$38,679,254,000 0.42%
MGP Ingredients, Inc.
92.66%
515,796
$38,375,222,000 0.42%
Allstate Corp/the
Opened
240,042
$38,325,106,000 0.41%
Intel Corp.
6.00%
1,230,983
$38,123,544,000 0.41%
KKR & Co. Inc
32.24%
321,348
$33,818,663,000 0.37%
Philip Morris International Inc
24.58%
318,937
$32,317,886,000 0.35%
Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc
2.97%
297,401
$32,276,931,000 0.35%
BorgWarner Inc
7.64%
926,171
$29,859,753,000 0.32%
CNH Industrial NV
16.58%
2,933,416
$29,715,504,000 0.32%
Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.
60.06%
104,187
$28,454,512,000 0.31%
Teradata Corp
0.84%
808,353
$27,936,680,000 0.30%
Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc.
53.60%
157,420
$26,529,993,000 0.29%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
5.68%
150,961
$26,238,531,000 0.28%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
2.35%
619,211
$25,715,833,000 0.28%
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
50.41%
368,411
$25,276,679,000 0.27%
Evercore Inc
3.98%
121,221
$25,266,093,000 0.27%
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc
10.81%
2,038,878
$24,660,229,000 0.27%
Molson Coors Beverage Company
12.62%
463,517
$23,560,569,000 0.26%
Lennar Corp.
Opened
156,924
$23,518,200,000 0.25%
Dr Horton Inc
Opened
165,626
$23,341,672,000 0.25%
Brady Corp.
3.53%
279,010
$18,420,240,000 0.20%
KB Financial Group Inc
5.29%
302,049
$17,098,994,000 0.19%
Hackett Group Inc/the
3.53%
660,355
$14,342,911,000 0.16%
Vanguard Total World Stock Etf
42.70%
106,282
$11,970,542,000 0.13%
Snap-on, Inc.
43.75%
40,976
$10,710,717,000 0.12%
Horace Mann Educators Corp.
Closed
251,127
$9,289,188,000
Vanguard Ftse Developed Markets Etf
16.94%
182,114
$9,000,074,000 0.10%
Oracle Corp.
1.77%
60,420
$8,531,304,000 0.09%
Bank Of America Corp.
2.94%
171,684
$6,827,873,000 0.07%
Us Bancorp
2.54%
156,220
$6,201,934,000 0.07%
APA Corporation
9.61%
209,848
$6,177,925,000 0.07%
Lockheed Martin Corp.
2.86%
13,196
$6,163,852,000 0.07%
Phinia Inc
2.76%
144,434
$5,684,922,000 0.06%
Chevron Corp.
0.19%
32,601
$5,099,448,000 0.06%
Vanguard Total International Stock Etf
Opened
79,637
$4,802,111,000 0.05%
Barrick Gold Corp.
0.03%
252,257
$4,207,647,000 0.05%
Western Union Co/the
8.04%
340,128
$4,156,364,000 0.04%
Mosaic Co/the
2.86%
132,678
$3,834,394,000 0.04%
Johnson & Johnson
2.87%
23,563
$3,443,968,000 0.04%
Vodafone Group plc
Closed
376,475
$3,350,628,000
Telefonica Brasil Sa
3.16%
311,580
$2,558,072,000 0.03%
Zimvie Inc
24.52%
80,465
$1,468,486,000 0.02%
Ishares Russell 2000 Value Etf
84.65%
6,299
$959,338,000 0.01%
Fiserv, Inc.
0.54%
4,642
$691,844,000 0.01%
Fair Isaac Corp.
10.11%
338
$503,167,000 0.01%
Tim Sa/brazil
Closed
23,336
$414,214,000
M&t Bank Corp
0.53%
2,653
$401,558,000 0.00%
Motorola Solutions Inc
0.54%
933
$360,185,000 0.00%
Vanguard Ftse Emerging Markets Etf
Closed
8,193
$342,222,000
Sensata Technologies Holding Plc
0.54%
8,313
$310,823,000 0.00%
Kaspi.kz Jsc
Opened
2,210
$285,112,000 0.00%
Ishares Russell Mid-cap Value Etf
Closed
1,880
$235,620,000
Patterson Cos Inc
0.55%
9,025
$217,683,000 0.00%
Progressive Corp/the
24.91%
1,046
$217,265,000 0.00%
Reynolds Consumer Products Inc
0.55%
7,175
$200,757,000 0.00%
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