Who owns Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT)
Which tracked institutional funds hold ESRT, how they are positioned, and who is buying versus exiting — from SEC Form 13F-HR filings. See ESRT company fundamentals →
Ownership as of the 2026-Q2 13F filings (latest filed 2026-09-22). 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
39 tracked funds added or opened ESRT while 27 trimmed or exited it between 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2 — 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
ESRT’s largest tracked holder by dollar value, BlackRock, Inc., 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 gap the other way — the median holder sizes ESRT more heavily than its largest holder by dollar value does.
Book-share is each fund’s reported value in ESRT 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 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2, across 214 tracked filers holding ESRT, 134 increased or opened the position and 93 reduced or closed it; over the same quarter, there were no open-market insider Form 4s.
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 ESRT between the 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2 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 7
- MARSHALL WACE, LLP$17M
- MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$3M
- Jump Financial, LLC$2M
- Y-Intercept (Hong Kong) Ltd$2M
- Point72 Asset Management, L.P.$1M
- State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D$1M
Full exits 9
- COHEN & STEERS, INC.$55M
- T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc.$15M
- BESSEMER GROUP INC$4M
- SEGALL BRYANT & HAMILL, LLC$3M
- NORGES BANK$2M
- CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE Co$1M
Largest adds
- LASALLE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SECURITIES LLC$24M
- SOUTHEASTERN ASSET MANAGEMENT INC/TN/$13M
- AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC$13M
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group, Inc.$12M
- BlackRock, Inc.$9M
- UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC$6M
Largest trims
- PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC$10M
- Qube Research & Technologies Ltd$6M
- WOLVERINE ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC$5M
- NORTHERN TRUST CORP$4M
- Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH$4M
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO$4M
Institutional holders
One row per tracked fund, most shares held first (every row is from one quarter; reported value breaks ties). “% of value” is the fund’s share of this security’s tracked institutional value — not of shares outstanding.
| Fund | Shares | Reported value | % of value | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. added | 17,877,908 | $97M | 12.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC added | 14,485,533 | $78M | 10.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| LASALLE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SECURITIES LLC added | 13,105,447 | $71M | 9.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC added | 12,511,023 | $68M | 8.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| SOUTHEASTERN ASSET MANAGEMENT INC/TN/ added | 8,696,434 | $47M | 6.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group, Inc. added | 6,905,936 | $37M | 4.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC added | 6,057,833 | $33M | 4.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| STATE STREET CORP added | 6,006,793 | $32M | 4.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC added | 4,030,612 | $22M | 2.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| CENTERSQUARE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC added | 3,580,271 | $19M | 2.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC added | 3,278,870 | $18M | 2.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Legal & General Group Plc added | 3,184,307 | $17M | 2.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| MARSHALL WACE, LLP added | 3,094,792 | $17M | 2.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| WILLIAM BLAIR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC trimmed | 2,282,352 | $12M | 1.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC added | 1,956,667 | $11M | 1.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| NORTHERN TRUST CORP trimmed | 1,605,025 | $9M | 1.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP trimmed | 1,502,361 | $8M | 1.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP added | 1,390,189 | $8M | 1.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| MORGAN STANLEY added | 1,367,615 | $7M | 1.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC added | 1,226,987 | $7M | 0.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| HOTCHKIS & WILEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC added | 1,175,340 | $6M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| NORDEA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AB trimmed | 1,128,797 | $6M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| CITADEL ADVISORS LLC added | 1,120,921 | $6M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC added | 1,067,924 | $6M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| SummitTX Capital, L.P. trimmed | 1,061,030 | $6M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP added | 944,189 | $5M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| WOLVERINE ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 937,042 | $5M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO added | 926,789 | $5M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. added | 830,554 | $4M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp added | 825,103 | $4M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| NAN FUNG TRINITY (HK) LTD | 801,300 | $4M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO trimmed | 749,958 | $4M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. added | 740,000 | $4M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC trimmed | 720,377 | $4M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| WATERFALL ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC trimmed | 689,535 | $4M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| CBRE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LISTED REAL ASSETS LLC | 687,840 | $4M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC added | 626,100 | $3M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP trimmed | 601,281 | $3M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| FMR LLC trimmed | 537,098 | $3M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. added | 514,652 | $3M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC added | 471,971 | $3M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Nuveen, LLC trimmed | 445,624 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Invesco Ltd. trimmed | 434,064 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Jump Financial, LLC added | 385,000 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Y-Intercept (Hong Kong) Ltd added | 316,712 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Swiss National Bank | 282,500 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| HSBC HOLDINGS PLC added | 280,501 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| CITIGROUP INC added | 262,564 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Leonteq Securities AG | 247,806 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| MERCER GLOBAL ADVISORS INC /ADV added | 243,814 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| NOMURA ASSET MANAGEMENT CO LTD added | 228,300 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ added | 225,553 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| TUDOR INVESTMENT CORP ET AL added | 225,094 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ trimmed | 211,247 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Point72 Asset Management, L.P. trimmed | 208,477 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH trimmed | 206,458 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D new | 206,257 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Asset Management One Co., Ltd. | 204,967 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| RHUMBLINE ADVISERS added | 197,849 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| ExodusPoint Capital Management, LP trimmed | 192,748 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| DEUTSCHE BANK AG\ added | 185,622 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Qube Research & Technologies Ltd trimmed | 171,194 | $926K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF OHIO added | 166,787 | $902K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM added | 163,816 | $886K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Zurcher Kantonalbank (Zurich Cantonalbank) | 151,511 | $820K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN added | 149,047 | $806K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Quantinno Capital Management LP added | 148,960 | $806K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Squarepoint Ops LLC added | 136,077 | $736K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| IEQ CAPITAL, LLC added | 133,003 | $720K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Caption Management, LLC added | 129,280 | $699K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Vanguard Investments Australia, Ltd. | 127,598 | $690K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co., Ltd. added | 126,902 | $687K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Inspire Investing, LLC added | 125,923 | $681K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC added | 112,886 | $611K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| BNP PARIBAS FINANCIAL MARKETS added | 108,723 | $588K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLS RETRMT SYS added | 104,258 | $564K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Boston Partners added | 102,406 | $554K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Cerity Partners LLC added | 98,335 | $532K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd | 89,372 | $484K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| MetLife Investment Management, LLC added | 88,120 | $477K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Engineers Gate Manager LP added | 82,700 | $447K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Creative Planning added | 82,563 | $447K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. added | 76,929 | $416K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Heitman Real Estate Securities LLC | 74,134 | $401K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| MACQUARIE GROUP LTD | 70,684 | $382K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| COMMONWEALTH EQUITY SERVICES, LLC added | 70,192 | $380K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| GeoWealth Management, LLC added | 68,717 | $372K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. added | 66,245 | $358K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| SEI INVESTMENTS CO trimmed | 63,218 | $342K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Resona Asset Management Co.,Ltd. | 62,921 | $335K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Jupiter Topco LLC new | 62,179 | $337K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, THE added | 61,048 | $330K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Vert Asset Management LLC added | 59,090 | $320K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Aberdeen Group plc added | 57,422 | $311K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| UBS Group AG trimmed | 55,646 | $301K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Daiwa Securities Group Inc. trimmed | 54,282 | $294K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Freestone Grove Partners LP new | 54,124 | $293K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC | 53,743 | $291K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Man Group plc trimmed | 51,498 | $279K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP added | 50,504 | $273K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
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.