What Stocks Billionaires Are Buying Now (Q2 2026)

Any institutional manager with more than $100 million in qualifying US equities must file a Form 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 45 days of each quarter end. The filing lists US-listed equity positions: the issuer, the CUSIP, the share count and the market value on the last day of the quarter.

That 45-day lag is the single most important thing to understand about this data, and it is why the figures on this page are Q2 2026 rather than Q3. The Q2 period closed on 30 June 2026 and the filings arrived on 14 August 2026. The Q3 period closed on 30 September 2026, and those filings are not due until mid-November — so at the time of writing, nobody has published their Q3 holdings, and any article claiming to show them is not showing you a filing.

A 13F is also a partial picture by design. It covers long US equity positions and omits short positions, bonds, cash, commodities, foreign-listed shares and most derivatives. A fund can appear heavily invested in one sector while holding an offsetting hedge that never appears in the document. What you are reading is one side of a ledger.

Finally, a 13F is a snapshot, not a diary. It records what was held at the close of the quarter. A position opened in July and closed in August appears nowhere at all.

Overlap between independent funds is the most-cited figure in this category, so here it is, counted directly from the seven Q2 2026 filings we track. A name qualifies when at least two of those funds reported it. Twenty-two names are held by two or more; these are the eleven with the broadest ownership.

Amazon is the only name held by five of the seven. Alphabet appears twice because its class A and class C shares are filed as separate securities with separate CUSIPs — we report them as filed rather than merging them, since merging would overstate the number of distinct decisions behind the position.

One caution on counting: a tally of holders is a tally of filings, not of conviction. Two funds can hold the same stock in entirely different sizes, for different reasons, on different time horizons, and a 13F shows none of that. Position-level detail for each fund is on the Whale Tracker, and the cross-held list is maintained at most-owned stocks.

Berkshire Hathaway reported $299.3 billion across 29 positions in Q2 2026, making it the most concentrated large portfolio in this group: the top five names alone are 68.7% of the reported total. One position was exited during the quarter.

The change column is the part worth reading slowly. Of the top eight, six were unchanged from the previous quarter — Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Occidental and Chubb all reported identical share counts. Alphabet was increased and Bank of America reduced. A portfolio that barely moves is the normal state of this filing, not a quiet quarter.

Figures from the filing; not investment advice.

Pershing Square reported $19.5 billion across 14 positions — a deliberately concentrated book, with the top six names accounting for roughly two-thirds of it.

Citadel is a different kind of document and has to be read differently. Ken Griffin’s Q2 2026 filing reports $875.1 billion across 13,575 positions, and its largest line items are index products — S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 ETF trusts — rather than single-company bets.

The reason matters: Citadel’s 13F combines the hedge fund with the market-making arm of Citadel Securities, so an individual position may be inventory or a hedge rather than a view. We publish the filing as filed and carry that caveat wherever Citadel appears in a count, because an aggregate that dropped it would launder the caveat away by summing. A position in a market-maker’s 13F is not evidence that anyone at the firm wanted to own it.

The honest use of a 13F is as a research starting point, not a shopping list. Four limits are worth keeping in front of you:

1. It is already old. By publication the data describes a position held at least 45 days earlier, and often longer. A stock that was bought in the quarter may have been sold before you read about it.

2. Size is not conviction. A 22% portfolio weight can be the residue of a position that simply appreciated while everything around it was trimmed. The share count tells you more about intent than the percentage does, which is why the tables above report both.

3. The mandates are not yours. These are funds with different time horizons, tax positions, liquidity needs and hedging books. A position that is sensible inside a $299 billion insurance-funded balance sheet may be entirely unsuitable in a personal portfolio.

4. You cannot see the other side. Shorts, options, bonds and foreign listings are absent. A filing can look like a bullish bet that is, in the fund’s own books, one leg of a hedge.

What the data is genuinely good for is noticing changes — a new position, a full exit, a share count that moved sharply — and then doing your own work on why. Every fund page on the Whale Tracker publishes the quarter-on-quarter change for each position, alongside the filing it came from, so any number here can be traced back to the SEC document that produced it.

Across the seven funds in this group, the names with the broadest ownership in Q2 2026 were Amazon (five of seven), followed by Alphabet, NVIDIA and AMD at three each. Berkshire Hathaway remained the most concentrated book at $299.3 billion over 29 positions, with Apple at 22.04% and six of its top eight positions unchanged on the quarter. Pershing Square held 14 positions worth $19.5 billion. Citadel’s 13,575 positions are dominated by index products and reflect market-making inventory as well as investment views.

All of it describes 30 June 2026, published on 14 August 2026. Q3 2026 filings are due in mid-November 2026, and this page will report them when they are filed rather than before.

Editorial Note: This article is educational and is not investment advice. It reports positions disclosed in public SEC filings and does not recommend any security. Figures are reproduced from the filings themselves; see the Whale Tracker for the per-fund source documents. This is not investment advice; consult a qualified financial adviser before making investment decisions.