Lafayette Investments 13F annual report

Lafayette Investments is an investment fund managing more than $440 billion ran by Lawrence Judge. There are currently 138 companies in Mr. Judge’s portfolio. The largest investments include Berkshire Hathaway and Markel Inc, together worth $83.3 billion.

$440 billion Assets Under Management (AUM)

As of 24th July 2024, Lafayette Investments’s top holding is 125,419 shares of Berkshire Hathaway currently worth over $51 billion and making up 11.6% of the portfolio value. Relative to the number of outstanding shares of Berkshire Hathaway, Lafayette Investments owns more than 0.2% of the company. In addition, the fund holds 20,459 shares of Markel Inc worth $32.2 billion, whose value grew 4.4% in the past six months. The third-largest holding is Progressive worth $20 billion and the next is KLA worth $16.1 billion, with 19,518 shares owned.

Currently, Lafayette Investments's portfolio is worth at least $440 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 Lafayette Investments

The Lafayette Investments office and employees reside in Ashton, Maryland. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Lawrence Judge serves as the President at Lafayette Investments.

Recent trades

In the most recent 13F filing, Lafayette Investments revealed that it had opened a new position in Paycom Software Inc and bought 24,365 shares worth $3.49 billion. This means they effectively own approximately 0.1% of the company. Paycom Software Inc makes up 4.7% of the fund's Technology sector allocation and has decreased its share price by 57.1% in the past year.

The investment fund also strengthened its position in Markel Inc by buying 34 additional shares. This makes their stake in Markel Inc total 20,459 shares worth $32.2 billion. Markel Inc soared 7.8% in the past year.

On the other hand, there are companies that Lafayette Investments is getting rid of from its portfolio. Lafayette Investments closed its position in Spotify Technology S.A on 31st July 2024. It sold the previously owned 10,255 shares for $2.71 billion. Lawrence Judge also disclosed a decreased stake in Berkshire Hathaway by approximately 0.1%. This leaves the value of the investment at $51 billion and 125,419 shares.

One of the average hedge funds

The two most similar investment funds to Lafayette Investments are Breakwater Capital and Kelly Lawrence W & Associates Inc/ca. They manage $440 billion and $439 billion respectively.


Lawrence Judge investment strategy

Lafayette Investments’s portfolio is diversified across 10 sectors. Currently, their heaviest sector is Finance — making up 26.8% of the total portfolio value. The fund focuses on investments in the United States as 50.7% 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 52% of the total holdings value. On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only approximately 0.1% of the portfolio. The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $179 billion.

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

These positions were updated on July 31st 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
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
2.00%
125,419
$51,020,450,000 11.60%
Markel Group Inc
0.17%
20,459
$32,236,428,000 7.33%
Progressive Corp.
0.94%
96,470
$20,037,705,000 4.56%
KLA Corp.
0.39%
19,518
$16,092,534,000 3.66%
Microsoft Corporation
1.36%
35,597
$15,909,872,000 3.62%
Meta Platforms Inc
0.03%
27,525
$13,878,687,000 3.16%
Alphabet Inc
0.02%
73,685
$13,511,418,000 3.07%
Apple Inc
0.14%
58,355
$12,290,627,000 2.79%
Lennox International Inc
0.52%
21,436
$11,467,790,000 2.61%
Lowes Cos Inc
6.89%
47,487
$10,468,994,000 2.38%
Paychex Inc.
0.14%
87,508
$10,374,958,000 2.36%
Price T Rowe Group Inc
2.69%
87,606
$10,101,843,000 2.30%
Autozone Inc.
0.06%
3,278
$9,716,320,000 2.21%
Jefferies Finl Group Inc
1.16%
182,576
$9,085,004,000 2.07%
Lockheed Martin Corp.
0.10%
17,796
$8,312,576,000 1.89%
Norfolk Southn Corp
1.74%
34,443
$7,394,489,000 1.68%
Schwab Charles Corp
0.02%
96,997
$7,147,675,000 1.63%
Johnson Johnson
1.97%
48,341
$7,065,552,000 1.61%
Diageo plc
2.32%
54,751
$6,903,067,000 1.57%
Genuine Parts Co.
0.60%
48,574
$6,718,783,000 1.53%
Pepsico Inc
0.47%
40,360
$6,656,589,000 1.51%
Barrick Gold Corp.
2.35%
343,340
$5,726,912,000 1.30%
Loews Corp.
0.91%
76,374
$5,708,193,000 1.30%
Starbucks Corp.
4.71%
72,740
$5,662,819,000 1.29%
Parker-Hannifin Corp.
0.03%
10,802
$5,463,987,000 1.24%
Costco Whsl Corp New
0.79%
6,270
$5,329,438,000 1.21%
Marsh Mclennan Cos Inc
0.18%
22,033
$4,642,794,000 1.06%
Coca-Cola Co
1.25%
66,386
$4,225,479,000 0.96%
Exxon Mobil Corp.
1.28%
35,356
$4,070,131,000 0.93%
Check Point Software Tech Lt
0.24%
24,559
$4,052,235,000 0.92%
Accenture Plc Ireland
0.94%
13,267
$4,025,341,000 0.92%
Allegion plc
2.41%
32,501
$3,839,994,000 0.87%
Disney Walt Co
2.55%
36,078
$3,582,202,000 0.81%
Esab Corporation
8.35%
37,490
$3,540,206,000 0.80%
Paycom Software Inc
Opened
24,365
$3,485,170,000 0.79%
Smith A O Corp
0.00%
40,248
$3,291,482,000 0.75%
Graham Hldgs Co
2.23%
4,525
$3,165,722,000 0.72%
Arista Networks Inc
No change
8,613
$3,018,685,000 0.69%
PayPal Holdings Inc
4.74%
51,692
$2,999,687,000 0.68%
Mohawk Inds Inc
0.91%
25,423
$2,887,799,000 0.66%
Madison Square Grdn Sprt Cor
1.84%
15,227
$2,864,700,000 0.65%
Jpmorgan Chase Co.
0.07%
14,116
$2,855,191,000 0.65%
Corning, Inc.
41.27%
73,307
$2,847,974,000 0.65%
Amazon.com Inc.
3.52%
14,686
$2,838,070,000 0.65%
Spotify Technology S.A.
Closed
10,255
$2,706,295,000
Waters Corp.
0.74%
8,586
$2,490,971,000 0.57%
Texas Instrs Inc
0.01%
11,679
$2,271,839,000 0.52%
Bank America Corp
1.33%
56,506
$2,247,231,000 0.51%
Chevron Corp.
1.22%
13,625
$2,131,223,000 0.48%
Danaher Corp.
0.25%
7,857
$1,963,072,000 0.45%
Aon plc.
1.97%
6,568
$1,928,234,000 0.44%
Visa Inc
4.18%
7,200
$1,889,784,000 0.43%
Ulta Beauty Inc
6.61%
4,806
$1,854,492,000 0.42%
Nike, Inc.
9.66%
24,175
$1,822,057,000 0.41%
Intel Corp.
3.02%
58,396
$1,808,521,000 0.41%
Hasbro, Inc.
0.29%
29,173
$1,706,621,000 0.39%
Hershey Company
1.91%
8,979
$1,650,682,000 0.38%
Mcdonalds Corp
40.75%
6,093
$1,552,741,000 0.35%
Cognizant Technology Solutio
0.01%
17,635
$1,199,180,000 0.27%
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc.
0.12%
833
$1,164,193,000 0.26%
Sei Invts Co
3.75%
16,990
$1,099,084,000 0.25%
Sandy Spring Bancorp
2.86%
43,503
$1,059,731,000 0.24%
Otis Worldwide Corporation
0.09%
10,626
$1,022,859,000 0.23%
Verizon Communications Inc
0.96%
24,109
$994,247,000 0.23%
Wells Fargo Co New
No change
15,995
$949,944,000 0.22%
Automatic Data Processing In
5.17%
3,886
$927,550,000 0.21%
Whirlpool Corp.
0.06%
8,954
$915,146,000 0.21%
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc
1.14%
75,003
$907,166,000 0.21%
GSK Plc
5.28%
23,300
$897,050,000 0.20%
Merck Co Inc
0.37%
6,908
$855,211,000 0.19%
Honeywell International Inc
5.97%
3,940
$841,348,000 0.19%
NVIDIA Corp
901.75%
5,710
$705,414,000 0.16%
Spdr Sp 500 Etf Tr
10.53%
1,275
$693,881,000 0.16%
General Dynamics Corp.
No change
2,210
$641,210,000 0.15%
Broadcom Inc
16.27%
393
$630,974,000 0.14%
International Business Machs
2.05%
3,584
$619,853,000 0.14%
Adobe Inc
34.54%
1,114
$618,872,000 0.14%
Schlumberger Ltd.
8.33%
13,000
$613,340,000 0.14%
Cable One Inc
8.24%
1,670
$591,180,000 0.13%
Fiserv, Inc.
4.91%
3,874
$577,381,000 0.13%
Novo-nordisk A S
No change
4,000
$570,960,000 0.13%
Pfizer Inc.
15.68%
20,299
$567,967,000 0.13%
Trane Technologies plc
No change
1,722
$566,418,000 0.13%
CVS Health Corp
Closed
6,650
$530,404,000
Caterpillar Inc.
No change
1,450
$482,995,000 0.11%
Brown-Forman Corporation
Opened
11,151
$481,612,000 0.11%
Ares Capital Corp
Closed
23,080
$480,526,000
Unitedhealth Group Inc
17.78%
925
$471,066,000 0.11%
Booking Holdings Inc
9.43%
116
$459,534,000 0.10%
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
2.09%
830
$458,990,000 0.10%
Vitesse Energy Inc
0.46%
19,336
$458,272,000 0.10%
RTX Corp
10.46%
4,476
$449,346,000 0.10%
Altria Group Inc.
9.27%
9,788
$445,844,000 0.10%
Fedex Corp
8.65%
1,445
$433,269,000 0.10%
Spdr Gold Tr
1.23%
2,013
$432,816,000 0.10%
General Mtrs Co
0.80%
9,079
$421,811,000 0.10%
Schwab Strategic Tr
9.32%
15,918
$994,766,000 0.23%
Asml Holding N V
5.57%
407
$416,252,000 0.09%
Dominos Pizza Inc
No change
791
$408,418,000 0.09%
Alerus Finl Corp
No change
20,100
$394,161,000 0.09%
Att Inc
1.43%
20,599
$393,639,000 0.09%
Marriott Intl Inc New
8.05%
1,624
$392,643,000 0.09%
Abbvie Inc
2.94%
2,242
$384,548,000 0.09%
Annaly Capital Management In
Closed
19,300
$380,017,000
Procter And Gamble Co
1.89%
2,215
$365,256,000 0.08%
Eagle Bancorp Inc Md
12.64%
19,000
$359,100,000 0.08%
American Express Co.
16.64%
1,428
$330,654,000 0.08%
Simon Ppty Group Inc New
No change
2,125
$322,575,000 0.07%
Shell Plc
No change
4,452
$321,346,000 0.07%
Truist Finl Corp
No change
7,845
$304,779,000 0.07%
Vanguard Index Fds
16.81%
1,612
$570,229,000 0.13%
Sp Global Inc
8.50%
651
$290,346,000 0.07%
Vanguard Whitehall Fds
Opened
3,505
$284,887,000 0.06%
Zoetis Inc
27.43%
1,640
$284,311,000 0.06%
Avalonbay Cmntys Inc
No change
1,350
$279,302,000 0.06%
Factset Resh Sys Inc
31.42%
665
$271,500,000 0.06%
Allstate Corp (The)
No change
1,685
$269,028,000 0.06%
Ge Healthcare Technologies I
33.48%
3,389
$264,071,000 0.06%
Home Depot, Inc.
1.48%
755
$259,994,000 0.06%
Eli Lilly Co
12.31%
285
$258,034,000 0.06%
Palo Alto Networks Inc
No change
750
$254,258,000 0.06%
Veralto Corp
12.62%
2,605
$248,700,000 0.06%
Unilever plc
No change
4,520
$248,555,000 0.06%
Abbott Labs
19.06%
2,374
$246,683,000 0.06%
Haleon Plc
No change
29,104
$240,400,000 0.05%
Qualcomm, Inc.
6.48%
1,169
$232,842,000 0.05%
Eaton Corp Plc
Opened
725
$227,324,000 0.05%
Intuit Inc
3.61%
344
$226,081,000 0.05%
Dow Inc
No change
4,250
$225,463,000 0.05%
Emerson Elec Co
3.50%
2,039
$224,617,000 0.05%
Mastercard Incorporated
Opened
502
$221,463,000 0.05%
Lululemon Athletica inc.
33.75%
741
$221,337,000 0.05%
Fair Isaac Corp.
Opened
148
$220,322,000 0.05%
Federal Rlty Invt Tr New
No change
2,150
$217,086,000 0.05%
Fastenal Co.
No change
3,452
$216,924,000 0.05%
Autodesk Inc.
Closed
800
$208,336,000
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
No change
2,935
$201,371,000 0.05%
Infosys Ltd
Opened
10,429
$194,188,000 0.04%
Ford Mtr Co Del
No change
12,600
$158,004,000 0.04%
FVCBankcorp Inc
No change
12,206
$133,290,000 0.03%
Agnc Invt Corp
Closed
12,100
$119,790,000
Warner Bros.Discovery Inc
0.18%
10,957
$81,521,000 0.02%
Rani Therapeutics Hldgs Inc
No change
19,893
$75,594,000 0.02%
Lineage Cell Therapeutics In
No change
13,000
$12,965,000 0.00%
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