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QLC holdings

QLC reports 178 holdings and behaves like 45.7 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31
178 Positions reported
45.7 Effective holdings
3.9× Concentration multiple
37.73% 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: 99.13% at a quoted market price (level 1), 9 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

QLC's largest investment is Nvidia Corp at 7.48% of net assets. Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc follow; the three together are 19.2%. Ten companies are 37.73% of the fund; the other 168 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, QLC behaves like 45.7 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings QLC has become more concentrated: it behaved like 77.9 at 2019-10-31 and 43.6 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 10 positions were added and 6 dropped; 8.2% of the weight moved.

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 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, QLC went from behaving like 77.9 equally weighted positions to 43.6 — 44% fewer, while its top ten went from 23.79% to 39.02% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 175 43.6 39.02% 7.51%
2026-01-31 171 45 38.29% 7.35%
2025-10-31 166 46.4 38.05% 7.19%
2025-07-31 165 45 38.26% 7.76%
2025-04-30 162 51.7 34.87% 7.48%
2025-01-31 157 48.9 36.62% 7.7%
2024-10-31 165 48.7 35.48% 7.8%
2024-07-31 167 48.8 35.25% 8.19%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 175 54.4 33.72% 6.98%
2024-01-31 176 53.6 32.29% 7.88%
2023-10-31 184 52.1 32.19% 8.5%
2023-07-31 179 51.8 31.36% 9.04%
2023-04-30 178 54 30.39% 8.67%
2023-01-31 181 64.4 27.72% 7.42%
2022-10-31 174 57.9 29.01% 8.31%
2022-07-31 179 54.5 30.52% 8.59%
2022-04-30 173 56.1 30.2% 8.25%
2022-01-31 166 54.3 30.42% 8.38%
2021-10-31 162 56.6 30.79% 7.3%
2021-07-31 165 57.3 30.83% 7.42%
2021-04-30 161 60.2 29.7% 7.11%
2021-01-31 154 57.4 28.86% 8.01%
2020-10-31 147 57.3 29.72% 7.72%
2020-07-31 146 56.8 28.98% 8.29%
2020-04-30 141 63.6 28.17% 6.64%
2020-01-31 145 71.1 25.25% 6.19%
2019-10-31 143 77.9 23.79% 5.22%

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.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 178 positions in QLC's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: QLC.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1NVIDIA Corp.7.51%7.5%
2Apple, Inc.6.85%14.4%
3Alphabet, Inc.4.92%19.3%
4Alphabet, Inc.4.40%23.7%
5Microsoft Corp.3.95%27.6%
6Broadcom, Inc.3.34%31.0%
7Amazon.com, Inc.2.59%33.6%
8Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.1.86%35.4%
9JPMorgan Chase & Co.1.86%37.3%
10Citigroup, Inc.1.73%39.0%
11Johnson & Johnson1.72%40.7%
12Meta Platforms, Inc.1.63%42.4%
13Cisco Systems, Inc.1.56%43.9%
14Bank of America Corp.1.33%45.3%
15Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)1.17%46.4%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of QLC'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 97.51%
United Kingdom 0.56%
Luxembourg° 0.40%
Ireland° 0.37%
Jersey° 0.35%
Canada 0.33%
Israel 0.21%
Singapore 0.14%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of QLC's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

36.4%Last twelve months filed
173%Whole series, compounded
13.1%Best month
-13.1%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: QLC.json · all funds.

Who borrows QLC's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $18m was out to 9 borrowers. The largest, CITADEL CLEARING LLC, held 34.6% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
CITADEL CLEARING LLC $6m 34.6%
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. $5m 29.2%
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $3m 17.7%
CITADEL SECURITIES LLC $1m 5.8%
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $897,610 4.9%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter QLC has filed, with each borrower: QLC.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

171 positions became 175: 10 added (2.2% of the fund at the later date), 6 dropped (0.6% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 8.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of QLC compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Broadcom, Inc.2.76%3.34% Capital One Financial Corp.0.98%0.28%
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.0.05%0.55% Meta Platforms, Inc.2.17%1.63%
Alphabet, Inc.4.50%4.92% Equity Residential0.55%0.05%
Omnicom Group, Inc.0.08%0.47% Leidos Holdings, Inc.0.50%0.03%
Alphabet, Inc.4.06%4.40% Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.0.46%0.14%
Micron Technology, Inc.0.28%0.51% Microsoft Corp.4.27%3.95%

New: Franklin Resources, Inc. (0.54%), Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (0.45%), Las Vegas Sands Corp. (0.38%), Fortive Corp. (0.25%), Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (0.22%), PTC, Inc. (0.20%). Gone: MercadoLibre, Inc. (0.21%), Hologic, Inc. (0.15%), DoorDash, Inc. (0.07%), Stryker Corp. (0.05%), GE HealthCare Technologies, Inc. (0.05%), Fox Corp. (0.04%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC99.13%
repurchase agreement RA0.83%
short-term investment STIV0.04%

99.1% of QLC 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.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $901M. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.57%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.4%Futures notional (1)
100%Sum, % of net assets

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

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 QLC (45.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
QTEC First Trust NASDAQ-100-Technology Sector Index Fund 48 44.4 28.68% 2026-06-30
PTL Inspire 500 ETF 483 44.5 29.27% 2026-05-31
AAUS Alpha Architect US Equity ETF 353 45.2 38.52% 2026-06-30
FDVV Fidelity High Dividend ETF 98 45.4 33.87% 2026-07-31
GSUS Goldman Sachs MarketBeta U.S. Equity ETF 414 45.6 39.8% 2026-05-31
SPHD Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF 53 45.9 29.18% 2026-05-31
PEY Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend AchieversTM ETF 50 46 29.3% 2026-07-31
GSPY Gotham Enhanced 500 ETF 502 46.6 38.16% 2026-06-30
ABFL Abacus FCF Leaders ETF 59 46.6 30.95% 2026-07-31
PPTY U.S. Diversified Real Estate ETF 87 46.7 34.3% 2026-05-31

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