Optas 13F annual report
Optas is an investment fund managing more than $388 billion ran by Michael Berger. There are currently 198 companies in Mr. Berger’s portfolio. The largest investments include Vanguard Index Fds and Alphabet Inc, together worth $122 billion.
$388 billion Assets Under Management (AUM)
As of 18th July 2024, Optas’s top holding is 222,277 shares of Vanguard Index Fds currently worth over $81.3 billion and making up 20.9% of the portfolio value.
In addition, the fund holds 222,185 shares of Alphabet Inc worth $40.6 billion, whose value grew 19.3% in the past six months.
The third-largest holding is Vanguard Intl Equity Index F worth $18.7 billion and the next is Spdr Ser Tr worth $18.8 billion, with 321,487 shares owned.
Currently, Optas's portfolio is worth at least $388 billion. 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 Optas
The Optas office and employees reside in San Francisco, California. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Michael Berger serves as the Chief Compliance Officer at Optas.
Recent trades
In the most recent 13F filing, Optas revealed that it had opened a new position in
Sweetgreen and bought 15,383 shares worth $464 million.
This means they effectively own approximately 0.1% of the company.
Sweetgreen makes up
1.8%
of the fund's Consumer Discretionary sector allocation and has grown its share price by 56.9% in the past year.
The investment fund also strengthened its position in Alphabet Inc by buying
259 additional shares.
This makes their stake in Alphabet Inc total 222,185 shares worth $40.6 billion.
Alphabet Inc soared 49.3% in the past year.
On the other hand, there are companies that Optas is getting rid of from its portfolio.
Optas closed its position in Ishares Tr on 25th July 2024.
It sold the previously owned 70,895 shares for $3.36 billion.
Michael Berger also disclosed a decreased stake in Vanguard Index Fds by approximately 0.1%.
This leaves the value of the investment at $81.3 billion and 222,277 shares.
One of the smaller hedge funds
The two most similar investment funds to Optas are Lynx1 Capital Management L.P. and Searle & Co. They manage $388 billion and $388 billion respectively.
Michael Berger investment strategy
Optas’s portfolio is diversified across 13 sectors.
Currently, their heaviest sector is Technology — making up 24.6% of
the total portfolio value.
The fund focuses on investments in the United States as
50.0% 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
51% of the total holdings value.
On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only 1.0% of the portfolio.
The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $151 billion.
The complete list of Optas trades based on 13F SEC filings
These positions were updated on July 25th 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Index Fds |
4.91%
222,277
|
$81,331,445,000 | 20.95% |
| Alphabet Inc |
0.12%
222,185
|
$40,591,672,000 | 10.45% |
| Vanguard Intl Equity Index F |
4.36%
318,724
|
$18,689,905,000 | 4.81% |
| Spdr Ser Tr |
42.45%
321,487
|
$18,785,159,000 | 4.84% |
| Apple Inc |
6.46%
70,806
|
$14,913,212,000 | 3.84% |
| Spdr Sp 500 Etf Tr |
No change
26,906
|
$14,642,784,000 | 3.77% |
| NVIDIA Corp |
1,124.79%
115,412
|
$14,258,000,000 | 3.67% |
| Microsoft Corporation |
6.04%
27,493
|
$12,288,116,000 | 3.16% |
| Ishares Tr |
59.89%
675,796
|
$28,236,487,000 | 7.27% |
| Vanguard Scottsdale Fds |
31.70%
115,242
|
$8,824,019,000 | 2.27% |
| Vanguard Star Fds |
3.59%
131,579
|
$7,934,216,000 | 2.04% |
| Amazon.com Inc. |
2.98%
35,099
|
$6,782,885,000 | 1.75% |
| Broadcom Inc |
4.28%
2,954
|
$4,742,736,000 | 1.22% |
| Spdr Index Shs Fds |
183.63%
118,606
|
$4,467,981,000 | 1.15% |
| Meta Platforms Inc |
4.14%
8,492
|
$4,281,838,000 | 1.10% |
| Block Inc |
0.36%
56,852
|
$3,666,385,000 | 0.94% |
| Coinbase Global Inc |
0.80%
16,176
|
$3,594,793,000 | 0.93% |
| Ishares Tr |
Closed
70,895
|
$3,358,071,000 | |
| Berkshire Hathaway Inc. |
8.29%
6,412
|
$2,608,400,000 | 0.67% |
| Mastercard Incorporated |
2.49%
5,836
|
$2,574,611,000 | 0.66% |
| Jpmorgan Chase Co. |
4.34%
11,804
|
$2,387,474,000 | 0.61% |
| Eli Lilly Co |
25.41%
2,601
|
$2,354,893,000 | 0.61% |
| Progressive Corp. |
0.93%
11,254
|
$2,337,570,000 | 0.60% |
| Union Pac Corp |
0.47%
9,831
|
$2,224,361,000 | 0.57% |
| Arista Networks Inc |
5.25%
5,933
|
$2,079,396,000 | 0.54% |
| Unitedhealth Group Inc |
10.19%
3,994
|
$2,033,985,000 | 0.52% |
| Costco Whsl Corp New |
0.25%
2,362
|
$2,007,770,000 | 0.52% |
| Salesforce Inc |
14.66%
7,135
|
$1,834,466,000 | 0.47% |
| EBay Inc. |
0.52%
33,911
|
$1,821,702,000 | 0.47% |
| Select Sector Spdr Tr |
5.23%
11,496
|
$2,425,113,000 | 0.62% |
| Cigna Group (The) |
0.04%
5,009
|
$1,655,827,000 | 0.43% |
| Invesco Exchange Traded Fd T |
4.26%
102,954
|
$3,329,905,000 | 0.86% |
| Visa Inc |
2.39%
5,072
|
$1,331,249,000 | 0.34% |
| Oracle Corp. |
83.32%
9,417
|
$1,329,680,000 | 0.34% |
| Vanguard Tax-managed Fds |
Closed
29,155
|
$1,274,657,000 | |
| Cencora Inc. |
0.26%
5,466
|
$1,231,491,000 | 0.32% |
| Grainger W W Inc |
1.20%
1,353
|
$1,220,730,000 | 0.31% |
| GE Aerospace |
4.14%
7,502
|
$1,192,591,000 | 0.31% |
| Intuit Inc |
2.95%
1,708
|
$1,122,514,000 | 0.29% |
| Qualcomm, Inc. |
5.41%
5,318
|
$1,059,242,000 | 0.27% |
| Merck Co Inc |
10.72%
8,452
|
$1,046,349,000 | 0.27% |
| Linde Plc. |
4.63%
2,258
|
$990,830,000 | 0.26% |
| Netflix Inc. |
42.54%
1,434
|
$967,778,000 | 0.25% |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. |
27.23%
1,740
|
$962,220,000 | 0.25% |
| Walmart Inc |
164.96%
14,146
|
$957,826,000 | 0.25% |
| Intercontinental Exchange In |
0.80%
6,976
|
$954,946,000 | 0.25% |
| Vanguard Mun Bd Fds |
1.47%
18,932
|
$948,684,000 | 0.24% |
| Beyond Meat Inc |
0.11%
136,816
|
$918,035,000 | 0.24% |
| Advanced Micro Devices Inc. |
10.71%
5,363
|
$869,933,000 | 0.22% |
| Pinterest Inc |
71.38%
19,559
|
$861,965,000 | 0.22% |
| Procter And Gamble Co |
10.83%
5,221
|
$861,064,000 | 0.22% |
| Novo-nordisk A S |
6.37%
5,763
|
$822,609,000 | 0.21% |
| Vanguard World Fd |
12.43%
17,908
|
$1,662,065,000 | 0.43% |
| Johnson Johnson |
32.33%
5,187
|
$758,190,000 | 0.20% |
| Asml Holding N V |
24.01%
723
|
$739,433,000 | 0.19% |
| Sherwin-Williams Co. |
10.03%
2,424
|
$723,393,000 | 0.19% |
| Tjx Cos Inc New |
18.45%
6,528
|
$718,734,000 | 0.19% |
| United Rentals, Inc. |
17.77%
1,097
|
$709,463,000 | 0.18% |
| CSX Corp. |
0.41%
20,569
|
$688,032,000 | 0.18% |
| Becton Dickinson Co |
1.00%
2,943
|
$687,808,000 | 0.18% |
| Abbvie Inc |
20.24%
3,905
|
$669,786,000 | 0.17% |
| Micron Technology Inc. |
32.68%
5,063
|
$665,936,000 | 0.17% |
| Pepsico Inc |
38.92%
3,931
|
$648,417,000 | 0.17% |
| ServiceNow Inc |
12.26%
824
|
$648,216,000 | 0.17% |
| T-Mobile US Inc |
18.19%
3,647
|
$642,532,000 | 0.17% |
| Texas Instrs Inc |
0.03%
3,222
|
$626,775,000 | 0.16% |
| Home Depot, Inc. |
5.40%
1,816
|
$625,140,000 | 0.16% |
| Loews Corp. |
6.19%
8,086
|
$604,347,000 | 0.16% |
| Applied Matls Inc |
36.81%
2,416
|
$570,152,000 | 0.15% |
| Sap SE |
20.20%
2,684
|
$541,389,000 | 0.14% |
| Tesla Inc |
30.01%
2,689
|
$532,099,000 | 0.14% |
| Colgate-Palmolive Co. |
1.73%
5,404
|
$524,405,000 | 0.14% |
| Otis Worldwide Corporation |
27.77%
5,404
|
$520,190,000 | 0.13% |
| Comcast Corp New |
4.00%
13,177
|
$516,012,000 | 0.13% |
| Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. |
20.19%
1,137
|
$514,288,000 | 0.13% |
| Verizon Communications Inc |
82.01%
11,878
|
$489,849,000 | 0.13% |
| Cadence Design System Inc |
4.15%
1,581
|
$486,557,000 | 0.13% |
| Vanguard Specialized Funds |
No change
2,662
|
$485,949,000 | 0.13% |
| Zebra Technologies Corporati |
1.44%
1,569
|
$484,713,000 | 0.12% |
| Coca-Cola Co |
33.98%
7,425
|
$472,606,000 | 0.12% |
| Danaher Corp. |
46.50%
1,887
|
$471,467,000 | 0.12% |
| Bank America Corp |
21.53%
11,850
|
$471,276,000 | 0.12% |
| Fiserv, Inc. |
1.12%
3,162
|
$471,264,000 | 0.12% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Ltd |
15.24%
2,677
|
$465,289,000 | 0.12% |
| Sweetgreen, Inc. |
Opened
15,383
|
$463,643,000 | 0.12% |
| Adobe Inc |
35.51%
830
|
$461,097,000 | 0.12% |
| Starbucks Corp. |
2.26%
5,839
|
$454,568,000 | 0.12% |
| Astrazeneca plc |
21.96%
5,693
|
$443,995,000 | 0.11% |
| Booking Holdings Inc |
No change
107
|
$423,887,000 | 0.11% |
| Autodesk Inc. |
9.86%
1,705
|
$421,904,000 | 0.11% |
| Disney Walt Co |
25.95%
4,208
|
$417,813,000 | 0.11% |
| Target Corp |
39.41%
2,770
|
$410,067,000 | 0.11% |
| Lam Research Corp. |
Opened
383
|
$407,839,000 | 0.11% |
| Intel Corp. |
24.52%
13,026
|
$403,417,000 | 0.10% |
| IQVIA Holdings Inc |
Closed
2,048
|
$402,946,000 | |
| Marsh Mclennan Cos Inc |
6.14%
1,885
|
$397,206,000 | 0.10% |
| American Tower Corp. |
18.99%
2,043
|
$397,047,000 | 0.10% |
| International Business Machs |
12.08%
2,255
|
$390,003,000 | 0.10% |
| RELX Plc |
5.16%
8,404
|
$385,577,000 | 0.10% |
| Lyondellbasell Industries N |
36.54%
4,021
|
$384,651,000 | 0.10% |
| Novartis AG |
23.91%
3,586
|
$381,767,000 | 0.10% |
| Abbott Labs |
11.52%
3,620
|
$376,152,000 | 0.10% |
| Toyota Motor Corporation |
34.24%
1,776
|
$364,026,000 | 0.09% |
| Tenet Healthcare Corp. |
Opened
2,728
|
$362,905,000 | 0.09% |
| Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
5.17%
773
|
$362,319,000 | 0.09% |
| Sp Global Inc |
11.65%
805
|
$359,030,000 | 0.09% |
| Att Inc |
10.56%
18,763
|
$358,561,000 | 0.09% |
| National Grid Plc |
1.64%
6,134
|
$348,412,000 | 0.09% |
| Accenture Plc Ireland |
9.28%
1,144
|
$347,104,000 | 0.09% |
| Hsbc Hldgs Plc |
26.58%
7,886
|
$343,045,000 | 0.09% |
| Pgim Etf Tr |
Closed
6,900
|
$341,481,000 | |
| Mcdonalds Corp |
1.11%
1,338
|
$340,974,000 | 0.09% |
| Southwest Gas Holdings Inc |
4.57%
4,757
|
$334,797,000 | 0.09% |
| Caterpillar Inc. |
7.30%
999
|
$332,768,000 | 0.09% |
| Ge Vernova Inc |
Opened
1,883
|
$322,957,000 | 0.08% |
| Wells Fargo Co New |
Opened
5,376
|
$319,281,000 | 0.08% |
| AMGEN Inc. |
8.97%
1,008
|
$314,949,000 | 0.08% |
| Nike, Inc. |
51.97%
4,164
|
$313,840,000 | 0.08% |
| Unilever plc |
16.16%
5,701
|
$313,497,000 | 0.08% |
| Illinois Tool Wks Inc |
7.00%
1,315
|
$311,601,000 | 0.08% |
| Schwab Charles Corp |
Opened
4,215
|
$310,604,000 | 0.08% |
| L3Harris Technologies Inc |
16.44%
1,381
|
$310,145,000 | 0.08% |
| Broadridge Finl Solutions In |
4.38%
1,574
|
$310,078,000 | 0.08% |
| Mitsubishi Ufj Finl Group In |
1.55%
28,298
|
$305,618,000 | 0.08% |
| Palo Alto Networks Inc |
Opened
899
|
$304,765,000 | 0.08% |
| UBS Group AG |
1.39%
9,890
|
$292,150,000 | 0.08% |
| NextEra Energy Inc |
13.30%
4,088
|
$289,472,000 | 0.07% |
| Paychex Inc. |
0.99%
2,441
|
$289,404,000 | 0.07% |
| Qualys Inc |
1.30%
2,026
|
$288,908,000 | 0.07% |
| Discover Finl Svcs |
Opened
2,147
|
$280,850,000 | 0.07% |
| Airbnb, Inc. |
Opened
1,829
|
$277,330,000 | 0.07% |
| Zscaler Inc |
5.89%
1,439
|
$276,562,000 | 0.07% |
| Godaddy Inc |
Opened
1,977
|
$276,207,000 | 0.07% |
| Eaton Corp Plc |
Opened
880
|
$275,925,000 | 0.07% |
| Analog Devices Inc. |
7.65%
1,208
|
$275,738,000 | 0.07% |
| Boeing Co. |
2.19%
1,492
|
$271,556,000 | 0.07% |
| Lowes Cos Inc |
6.11%
1,230
|
$271,167,000 | 0.07% |
| Constellation Energy Corp |
Opened
1,350
|
$270,364,000 | 0.07% |
| Exxon Mobil Corp. |
Opened
2,332
|
$268,461,000 | 0.07% |
| Microchip Technology, Inc. |
Opened
2,931
|
$268,190,000 | 0.07% |
| United Parcel Service, Inc. |
10.80%
1,959
|
$268,089,000 | 0.07% |
| RTX Corp |
Opened
2,656
|
$266,638,000 | 0.07% |
| Mondelez International Inc. |
Opened
3,999
|
$261,694,000 | 0.07% |
| Chevron Corp. |
39.92%
1,672
|
$261,535,000 | 0.07% |
| Pfizer Inc. |
2.50%
9,285
|
$259,796,000 | 0.07% |
| Graco Inc. |
4.71%
3,245
|
$257,262,000 | 0.07% |
| Chipotle Mexican Grill |
Opened
4,100
|
$256,872,000 | 0.07% |
| TE Connectivity Ltd |
0.23%
1,707
|
$256,784,000 | 0.07% |
| Nxp Semiconductors N V |
5.07%
954
|
$256,711,000 | 0.07% |
| Intuitive Surgical Inc |
Opened
574
|
$255,347,000 | 0.07% |
| Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV |
Closed
4,577
|
$253,110,000 | |
| Waste Mgmt Inc Del |
Opened
1,178
|
$251,316,000 | 0.06% |
| Medtronic Plc |
61.90%
3,187
|
$250,850,000 | 0.06% |
| Kirby Corp. |
Opened
2,064
|
$247,123,000 | 0.06% |
| Fastenal Co. |
Opened
3,902
|
$245,200,000 | 0.06% |
| American Express Co. |
Opened
1,055
|
$244,285,000 | 0.06% |
| Paycom Software Inc |
Closed
933
|
$241,900,000 | |
| Vertiv Holdings Co |
Opened
2,783
|
$240,924,000 | 0.06% |
| Stryker Corp. |
Opened
704
|
$239,540,000 | 0.06% |
| Lyft Inc |
49.41%
16,865
|
$237,798,000 | 0.06% |
| Nomura Holdings Inc. |
41.34%
40,764
|
$235,613,000 | 0.06% |
| Automatic Data Processing In |
0.71%
984
|
$234,872,000 | 0.06% |
| Lockheed Martin Corp. |
15.63%
502
|
$234,486,000 | 0.06% |
| Deere Co |
4.50%
627
|
$234,265,000 | 0.06% |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. |
Closed
3,991
|
$231,638,000 | |
| Cisco Sys Inc |
36.25%
4,874
|
$231,566,000 | 0.06% |
| Duke Energy Corp. |
67.57%
2,263
|
$226,821,000 | 0.06% |
| Sony Group Corp |
44.44%
2,640
|
$224,267,000 | 0.06% |
| Paccar Inc. |
Opened
2,177
|
$224,102,000 | 0.06% |
| Citigroup Inc |
Opened
3,531
|
$224,077,000 | 0.06% |
| Morgan Stanley |
Opened
2,303
|
$223,829,000 | 0.06% |
| Honeywell International Inc |
Opened
1,041
|
$222,294,000 | 0.06% |
| Boston Scientific Corp. |
Opened
2,881
|
$221,863,000 | 0.06% |
| Splunk Inc |
Closed
1,511
|
$220,985,000 | |
| Elevance Health Inc |
Opened
407
|
$220,535,000 | 0.06% |
| American Intl Group Inc |
Opened
2,949
|
$218,931,000 | 0.06% |
| Johnson Ctls Intl Plc |
Opened
3,144
|
$208,984,000 | 0.05% |
| Aflac Inc. |
Opened
2,338
|
$208,806,000 | 0.05% |
| HCA Healthcare Inc |
Opened
638
|
$204,977,000 | 0.05% |
| Diageo plc |
Closed
1,367
|
$203,929,000 | |
| Simon Ppty Group Inc New |
Opened
1,338
|
$203,110,000 | 0.05% |
| Ge Healthcare Technologies I |
Opened
2,570
|
$200,253,000 | 0.05% |
| Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argenta |
12.35%
18,708
|
$187,642,000 | 0.05% |
| Zeta Global Holdings Corp. |
Opened
10,009
|
$176,659,000 | 0.05% |
| Takeda Pharmaceutical Co |
Closed
10,158
|
$157,144,000 | |
| Banco Santander S.A. |
15.89%
33,823
|
$156,601,000 | 0.04% |
| Telefonica S.A |
82.57%
32,937
|
$138,666,000 | 0.04% |
| Lloyds Banking Group plc |
3.40%
45,764
|
$124,936,000 | 0.03% |
| Wipro Ltd. |
5.10%
20,281
|
$123,716,000 | 0.03% |
| ICL Group Ltd. |
0.92%
28,782
|
$123,186,000 | 0.03% |
| TTEC Holdings Inc |
Opened
17,529
|
$103,071,000 | 0.03% |
| Grab Holdings Limited |
Opened
25,788
|
$91,548,000 | 0.02% |
| Uniti Group Inc |
Opened
27,056
|
$79,004,000 | 0.02% |
| Under Armour Inc |
Opened
10,837
|
$72,284,000 | 0.02% |
| Aegon Ltd. |
Opened
11,189
|
$68,589,000 | 0.02% |
| Anywhere Real Estate Inc |
Opened
20,627
|
$68,275,000 | 0.02% |
| Hudson Pac Pptys Inc |
Closed
10,034
|
$66,727,000 | |
| Brandywine Rlty Tr |
Opened
12,011
|
$53,810,000 | 0.01% |
| Scripps E W Co Ohio |
Opened
15,897
|
$49,917,000 | 0.01% |
| Nokia Corp |
13.47%
10,624
|
$40,160,000 | 0.01% |
| Taseko Mines Ltd. |
Opened
14,896
|
$36,495,000 | 0.01% |
| Braemar Hotels Resorts Inc |
Closed
12,242
|
$33,910,000 | |
| Office Pptys Income Tr |
Opened
16,429
|
$33,515,000 | 0.01% |
| Enel Chile S.A. |
2.47%
10,466
|
$29,305,000 | 0.01% |
| iHeartMedia, Inc. |
Opened
26,420
|
$28,798,000 | 0.01% |
| Clear Channel Outdoor Hldgs |
Closed
17,156
|
$27,106,000 | |
| Luminar Technologies, Inc. |
Opened
17,713
|
$26,392,000 | 0.01% |
| Opendoor Technologies Inc. |
Opened
10,656
|
$19,607,000 | 0.01% |
| Stem Inc |
Opened
10,593
|
$11,758,000 | 0.00% |
| Allbirds Inc |
Opened
22,004
|
$11,003,000 | 0.00% |
| Microvast Holdings Inc |
Opened
12,837
|
$5,855,000 | 0.00% |
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