Who owns Brady Corporation (BRC)
Which tracked institutional funds hold BRC, how they are positioned, and who is buying versus exiting — from SEC Form 13F-HR filings. See BRC company fundamentals →
Ownership as of the 2026-Q1 13F filings (latest filed 2026-05-18). 13F is disclosed up to 45 days after quarter-end, so the most recent quarter fills in over the following weeks.
How the tape is positioned
75 tracked funds added or opened BRC while 56 trimmed or exited it between 2025-Q4 and 2026-Q1 — the tape is split. When large holders disagree on a name, the funds moving first are sometimes ahead of the story.
A prompt to read the filings, not a verdict. 13F is a quarter-end snapshot disclosed up to 45 days late; a fund adds or exits for mandate, benchmark, and timing reasons that have nothing to do with a view on the stock. This is a starting question, not a signal to trade.
Conviction spread
BRC’s largest tracked holder by dollar value, FMR LLC, sizes it at 0.0% of its own reported 13F book, while the median holder sizes it at 0.0% of theirs — a 0.0pp conviction gap — its largest holder concentrates the name more heavily than the typical one.
Book-share is each fund’s reported value in BRC divided by its whole reported 13F book, so it is comparable across funds of different sizes and is unaffected by stock splits. A higher share means a fund has committed more of its book to the name — a starting question about conviction, not a verdict or a signal to trade.
Institutional & insider positioning
Between 2025-Q4 and 2026-Q1, across 314 tracked filers holding BRC, 170 increased or opened the position and 138 reduced or closed it; over the same quarter, open-market insider Form 4 buying and selling roughly offset.
This fuses two public signals for the same quarter — how tracked institutions changed their positions and whether insiders bought or sold in the open market. It describes what was filed; it is a starting question, not a verdict or a signal to trade.
New buyers & exits
Funds opening or closing a position in BRC between the 2025-Q4 and 2026-Q1 13F filings, and the largest changes among funds holding it in both. New buyers and exits are counted on fund presence (split-invariant); adds and trims are measured on reported value.
New buyers 18
- VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC$213M
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$151M
- KAYNE ANDERSON RUDNICK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC$78M
- VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO$21M
- BI Asset Management Fondsmaeglerselskab A/S$4M
- VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd$2M
Full exits 15
- VANGUARD GROUP INC$355M
- NORDEA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AB$7M
- Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ)$2M
- AlphaQuest LLC$2M
- Elser Financial Planning, Inc$2M
- QSV Equity Investors LLC$1M
Largest adds
- FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC$37M
- FMR LLC$29M
- ACADIAN ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC$15M
- NATIXIS ADVISORS, LLC$11M
- JONES FINANCIAL COMPANIES LLLP$11M
- DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale$9M
Largest trims
- BlackRock, Inc.$61M
- NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT CO$25M
- Champlain Investment Partners, LLC$18M
- JUPITER ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD$8M
- WILLIAM BLAIR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC$7M
- WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP$6M
Institutional holders
One row per tracked fund, largest reported value first. “% of value” is the fund’s share of this security’s tracked institutional value — not of shares outstanding. Rows marked stale are from an earlier filing than the security’s latest quarter — that fund is absent from the newest snapshot (position exited, or reported under a different name).
| Fund | Shares | Reported value | % of value | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FMR LLC added | 6,539,241 | $531M | 16.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| BlackRock, Inc. trimmed | 3,161,805 | $257M | 7.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC new | 2,618,229 | $213M | 6.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC trimmed | 2,396,541 | $195M | 5.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC new | 1,861,125 | $151M | 4.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP added | 1,668,027 | $136M | 4.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC added | 1,597,499 | $130M | 4.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| STATE STREET CORP added | 1,572,548 | $128M | 3.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP trimmed | 1,437,571 | $117M | 3.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| KAYNE ANDERSON RUDNICK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC new | 960,424 | $78M | 2.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC trimmed | 912,640 | $74M | 2.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| ROYCE & ASSOCIATES LP trimmed | 640,671 | $52M | 1.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC added | 553,794 | $45M | 1.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale | 524,913 | $43M | 1.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC added | 473,130 | $38M | 1.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Qube Research & Technologies Ltd added | 444,685 | $36M | 1.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| LORD, ABBETT & CO. LLC trimmed | 354,627 | $29M | 0.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| MORGAN STANLEY trimmed | 330,820 | $27M | 0.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP trimmed | 313,308 | $25M | 0.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO new | 264,340 | $21M | 0.7% | 2026-Q1 |
| ACADIAN ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC added | 260,993 | $21M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| Allianz Asset Management GmbH trimmed | 257,561 | $21M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| WILLIAM BLAIR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC trimmed | 254,182 | $21M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp trimmed | 246,273 | $20M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| Swedbank AB trimmed | 240,000 | $19M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC trimmed | 226,053 | $18M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| GW&K Investment Management, LLC trimmed | 220,875 | $18M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC added | 210,232 | $17M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| Central Securities Corp | 200,000 | $16M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| SEIZERT CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC trimmed | 196,673 | $16M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| NORTHERN TRUST CORP added | 192,108 | $16M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board added | 181,407 | $15M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| Clark Capital Management Group, Inc. added | 174,867 | $14M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. added | 157,437 | $13M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO added | 157,707 | $13M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. added | 150,423 | $12M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| NATIXIS ADVISORS, LLC added | 149,507 | $12M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| JONES FINANCIAL COMPANIES LLLP added | 136,418 | $11M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Champlain Investment Partners, LLC trimmed | 133,268 | $11M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| INTECH INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC added | 125,032 | $10M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC trimmed | 118,283 | $10M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| UBS Group AG added | 116,538 | $9M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN added | 113,547 | $9M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Invesco Ltd. trimmed | 108,781 | $9M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| ALPS ADVISORS INC added | 107,121 | $9M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| HEARTLAND ADVISORS INC trimmed | 106,918 | $9M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC added | 102,657 | $8M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Legal & General Group Plc trimmed | 98,134 | $8M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC trimmed | 94,442 | $8M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| ENVESTNET ASSET MANAGEMENT INC added | 90,849 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Vest Financial, LLC added | 87,169 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Swiss National Bank added | 86,300 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS trimmed | 83,570 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB trimmed | 78,798 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ added | 74,759 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| PRENTISS SMITH & CO INC | 70,659 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| RHUMBLINE ADVISERS added | 65,711 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC added | 65,562 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| SEI INVESTMENTS CO added | 61,870 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| BRANDES INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LP trimmed | 59,318 | $5M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| NEW YORK STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM trimmed | 55,784 | $5M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Inspire Investing, LLC added | 54,222 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| DEAN INVESTMENT ASSOCIATES, LLC added | 53,894 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP added | 53,259 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| BI Asset Management Fondsmaeglerselskab A/S added | 50,903 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ added | 48,672 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH trimmed | 46,819 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM added | 45,801 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Annex Advisory Services, LLC trimmed | 44,701 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Thrivent Financial for Lutherans trimmed | 41,193 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC added | 40,702 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| RBF Capital, LLC | 40,000 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| JUPITER ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD trimmed | 39,538 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Assenagon Asset Management S.A. trimmed | 39,442 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE Co trimmed | 39,271 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC trimmed | 37,927 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Dean Capital Management added | 37,769 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CITADEL ADVISORS LLC added | 37,704 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| ICON ADVISERS INC/CO added | 33,000 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CAPITAL FUND MANAGEMENT S.A. trimmed | 32,398 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Susquehanna Portfolio Strategies, LLC | 32,093 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd new | 30,464 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Wills Financial Group LLC added | 28,353 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| HANTZ FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. added | 25,449 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Horizon Investments, LLC trimmed | 25,086 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| State of Tennessee, Department of Treasury trimmed | 24,287 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| XTX Topco Ltd added | 24,188 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D trimmed | 24,135 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| State of Alaska, Department of Revenue trimmed | 24,132 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD GROUP INC trimmed | 4,525,362 | $355M | 10.8% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Paradiem, LLC added | 166,374 | $13M | 0.4% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| NORDEA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AB trimmed | 85,424 | $7M | 0.2% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| ALGERT GLOBAL LLC trimmed | 83,284 | $6M | 0.2% | 2025-Q1 stale |
| Nuveen, LLC trimmed | 47,192 | $3M | 0.1% | 2025-Q2 stale |
| HOTCHKIS & WILEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC added | 45,790 | $3M | 0.1% | 2025-Q2 stale |
| HRT FINANCIAL LP added | 36,131 | $3M | 0.1% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| BALYASNY ASSET MANAGEMENT L.P. trimmed | 29,978 | $2M | 0.1% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) | 28,300 | $2M | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| AlphaQuest LLC added | 27,864 | $2M | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Elser Financial Planning, Inc new | 4,217 | $2M | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
Ownership over time
Tracked institutional holder count and total shares held by filing quarter (independent scales). The curated-era tail and any mid-ingest latest quarter are handled honestly — a partial quarter is not drawn as a collapse.
Reading this table
Funds hold the same stock for different reasons — an index fund “holds” almost everything, an active manager sizes a name to a mandate and a benchmark, and each fund entered at its own price and time. Because 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter-end, every row is a backward-looking snapshot; a manager may have traded since. Share-class siblings (a company’s A and C shares) are rolled up to one line so a dual-class name is never double-counted. Compare like-for-like. A large holder is not an endorsement, and a fund exiting is not a warning — this is a starting question, not a verdict.
About 13F filings
A Form 13F is a quarterly disclosure that institutional investment managers with over $100 million in US-listed equities must file with the SEC. In plain English: it is a snapshot of the long stock positions a fund held at the end of a quarter. It covers long US-listed equities only — not short positions, options, cash, or private holdings — and the funds shown are the large sample we track, not the complete 13F universe.