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QCLN holdings

QCLN reports 53 holdings and behaves like 21.8 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-06-30. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 28 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-06-30

Read this figure with the following in mind

1.9% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 21.6

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

53 Positions reported
21.8 Effective holdings
2.4× Concentration multiple
58.64% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 98.1% at a quoted market price (level 1), 5 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-06-30

QCLN's largest investment is Bloom Energy Corp COM at 9.23% of net assets. Tesla Inc and Monolithic Power Systems Inc follow; the three together are 25.3%. Ten companies are 58.64% of the fund; the other 43 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, QCLN behaves like 21.8 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 28 quarterly filings QCLN has held roughly steady since 2019-09-30 (24.7 then, 21.8 now).

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, QCLN went from behaving like 24.7 equally weighted positions to 21.8 — 12% fewer, while its top ten went from 53.66% to 58.64% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-06-30 53 21.8 58.64% 9.23%
2026-03-31 53 22.4 58.57% 7.95%
2025-12-31 51 20.7 60.28% 9.53%
2025-09-30 51 21.7 58.07% 9.69%
2025-06-30 48 22.8 55.15% 9.14%
2025-03-31 49 21.9 58% 8.79%
2024-12-31 53 21.7 58.89% 9.89%
2024-09-30 54 22.2 58.54% 9.6%
Earlier filings (20 more, back to 2019-09-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-06-30 57 22.1 58.86% 9.8%
2024-03-31 57 22.8 57.76% 8.72%
2023-12-31 63 23.2 56.65% 9.09%
2023-09-29 64 22.2 57.8% 9.12%
2023-06-30 64 22 57.62% 9.6%
2023-03-31 64 22.7 56.9% 8.69%
2022-12-30 61 24.2 55.35% 8.34%
2022-09-30 62 21 61.32% 8.67%
2022-06-30 65 22.3 57.82% 9.78%
2022-03-31 65 23.8 56.23% 9.19%
2021-12-31 60 23.6 56.12% 8.34%
2021-09-30 60 24.7 54.36% 8.95%
2021-06-30 53 23.1 56.11% 9.86%
2021-03-31 54 25.4 54% 8.41%
2020-12-31 44 24.1 55.16% 8.87%
2020-09-30 44 24.9 54.4% 8.59%
2020-06-30 43 25.4 51.64% 9.41%
2020-03-31 40 18.9 57.3% 15.31%
2019-12-31 42 24 53.6% 9.35%
2019-09-30 42 24.7 53.66% 8.44%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

As filed, collateral included

1.94% collateral

QCLN's filing lists 54 positions including 1.94% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 21.6 effective holdings with a top ten of 58.65%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 21.8 with a top ten of 58.64%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-06-30

The 15 largest of 53 positions in QCLN's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: QCLN.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1BLOOM ENERGY CORP9.23%9.2%
2TESLA INC8.39%17.6%
3MONOLITHIC POWER SYSTEMS INC7.67%25.3%
4ON SEMICONDUCTOR CORP6.81%32.1%
5FIRST SOLAR INC6.69%38.8%
6RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE INC4.63%43.4%
7ADVANCED ENERGY INDUSTRIES INC4.20%47.6%
8ALLEGRO MICROSYSTEMS INC3.84%51.5%
9VICOR CORP3.81%55.3%
10ACUITY INC3.38%58.6%
11ALBEMARLE CORP3.33%62.0%
12NEXTPOWER INC3.31%65.3%
13BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE PARTNERS LP3.12%68.4%
14MP MATERIALS CORP2.95%71.3%
15ENERSYS2.53%73.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-06-30

Share of QCLN's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 94.14%
Bermuda° 3.12%
Chile 1.09%
Canada 0.92%
United Kingdom 0.73%

Returns the fund reported

2019-07 – 2026-06

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of QCLN's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

87.7%Last twelve months filed
200%Whole series, compounded
33.8%Best month
-23.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: QCLN.json · all funds.

Who borrows QCLN's shares

2026-06-30

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-06-30, $16m was out to 12 borrowers, 1.92% of net assets. The largest, MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC, held 21.2% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $3m 21.2%
BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED $3m 20.8%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $3m 16.3%
STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY $2m 11.6%
Wells Fargo Securities LLC $2m 10.9%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 1.94% of net assets, 101.1% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter QCLN has filed, with each borrower: QCLN.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30

53 positions became 53: 0 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 0 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 9.6%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of QCLN compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-03-312026-06-30Largest decreases2026-03-312026-06-30
BLOOM ENERGY CORP7.23%9.23% NEXTPOWER INC4.76%3.31%
VICOR CORP2.06%3.81% ON SEMICONDUCTOR CORP7.74%6.81%
ALLEGRO MICROSYSTEMS INC2.27%3.84% ALBEMARLE CORP4.17%3.33%
TESLA INC7.67%8.39% BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE PARTNERS LP3.88%3.12%
RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE INC4.08%4.63% ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES INC2.65%1.98%
NAVITAS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP0.79%1.24% SOCIEDAD QUIMICA Y MINERA DE CHILE SA1.58%1.09%

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-06-30
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC97.78%
repurchase agreement RA1.90%
short-term investment STIV0.32%

98.1% of QCLN is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of QCLN (21.8). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
VNQ Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund 144 21.6 54.95% 2026-07-31
GDX VanEck Gold Miners ETF 61 21.6 58.67% 2026-06-30
FXI iShares China Large-Cap ETF 54 21.7 58.83% 2026-07-31
PHO Invesco Water Resources ETF 41 21.8 57.42% 2026-07-31
EWD iShares MSCI Sweden ETF 51 21.8 58.28% 2026-05-31
TPYP Tortoise North American Pipeline ETF 45 21.9 59.15% 2026-05-31
RSPG Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Energy ETF 23 21.9 48.36% 2026-07-31
PNQI Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF 78 22 59% 2026-07-31
IVW iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF 149 22.1 56.37% 2026-06-30
SPYG State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio S&P 500(R) Growth ETF 150 22.1 56.4% 2026-06-30

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