Who owns Kochav Defense Acquisition (KCHV)
Which tracked institutional funds hold KCHV, how they are positioned, and who is buying versus exiting — from SEC Form 13F-HR filings. See KCHV company fundamentals →
Ownership as of the 2026-Q2 13F filings (latest filed 2026-08-14). 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
6 tracked funds added or opened KCHV while 12 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
KCHV’s largest tracked holder by dollar value, Polar Asset Management Partners Inc., sizes it at 0.5% of its own reported 13F book, while the median holder sizes it at 0.2% of theirs — a 0.3pp conviction gap — its largest holder concentrates the name more heavily than the typical one.
Book-share is each fund’s reported value in KCHV 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 42 tracked filers holding KCHV, 5 increased or opened the position and 17 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 KCHV 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 2
- BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd$940K
- StoneX Group Inc.$680K
Full exits 4
- GLAZER CAPITAL, LLC$11M
- Decagon Asset Management LLP$6M
- TENOR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT Co., L.P.$5M
- RLH Capital LLC$1M
Largest adds
- Parallax Volatility Advisers, L.P.$2M
- BOOTHBAY FUND MANAGEMENT, LLC$1M
- TORONTO DOMINION BANK$644K
- Polar Asset Management Partners Inc.$257K
Largest trims
- RiverPark Advisors, LLC$3M
- Crossingbridge Advisors, LLC$3M
- WOLVERINE ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC$1M
- Shaolin Capital Management LLC$1M
- UBS Group AG$686K
- Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC$490K
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polar Asset Management Partners Inc. trimmed | 2,150,000 | $22M | 8.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| Magnetar Financial LLC | 1,900,000 | $20M | 7.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| BERKLEY W R CORP | 1,690,352 | $18M | 6.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| Linden Advisors LP | 1,400,000 | $15M | 5.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| AQR Arbitrage LLC trimmed | 1,337,525 | $14M | 5.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| ARISTEIA CAPITAL, L.L.C. | 1,325,000 | $14M | 5.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Westchester Capital Management, LLC | 1,286,000 | $13M | 5.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| MIZUHO SECURITIES USA LLC | 831,474 | $8M | 3.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP | 797,500 | $8M | 3.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Karpus Management, Inc. trimmed | 729,294 | $8M | 2.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| Crossingbridge Advisors, LLC trimmed | 700,005 | $7M | 2.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| Hudson Bay Capital Management LP | 650,000 | $7M | 2.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| Radcliffe Capital Management, L.P. | 566,346 | $6M | 2.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Parallax Volatility Advisers, L.P. added | 544,749 | $6M | 2.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| RiverPark Advisors, LLC trimmed | 525,005 | $5M | 2.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| HEIGHTS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC | 500,000 | $5M | 2.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| RIVERNORTH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 497,500 | $5M | 2.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Shaolin Capital Management LLC trimmed | 491,795 | $5M | 1.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC | 483,000 | $5M | 1.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| Governors Lane LP | 450,000 | $5M | 1.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 440,620 | $5M | 1.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| Context Capital Management, LLC | 350,000 | $4M | 1.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| Periscope Capital Inc. | 325,000 | $3M | 1.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| TORONTO DOMINION BANK added | 274,962 | $3M | 1.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| WOLVERINE ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 267,075 | $3M | 1.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Verition Fund Management LLC | 235,622 | $2M | 0.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC trimmed | 190,000 | $2M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| SONA ASSET MANAGEMENT (US) LLC | 175,122 | $2M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| BOOTHBAY FUND MANAGEMENT, LLC added | 150,979 | $2M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| Cable Car Capital, LP | 142,953 | $1M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| DLD Asset Management, LP | 133,333 | $1M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| K2 PRINCIPAL FUND, L.P. | 100,000 | $1M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd new | 90,638 | $940K | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| Warberg Asset Management LLC trimmed | 73,072 | $758K | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Stoic Point Capital Management LLC | 67,225 | $697K | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Jain Global LLC | 66,431 | $689K | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| StoneX Group Inc. new | 66,110 | $680K | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| BNP PARIBAS FINANCIAL MARKETS | 51,120 | $530K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Clear Street Group Inc. trimmed | 32,792 | $340K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| ABC ARBITRAGE SA | 25,000 | $259K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| UBS Group AG trimmed | 440 | $5K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| MORGAN STANLEY trimmed | 44 | $456 | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| GLAZER CAPITAL, LLC trimmed | 1,068,802 | $11M | 4.2% | 2026-Q1 stale (1 quarter behind) |
| Decagon Asset Management LLP added | 598,654 | $6M | 2.3% | 2026-Q1 stale (1 quarter behind) |
| TENOR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT Co., L.P. | 500,000 | $5M | 2.0% | 2026-Q1 stale (1 quarter behind) |
| RLH Capital LLC new | 99,974 | $1M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 stale (1 quarter behind) |
| FNY Investment Advisers, LLC | 290 | $2K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 stale (1 quarter behind) |
| Virtu Financial LLC new | 14,138 | $143K | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale (2 quarters behind) |
| METEORA CAPITAL, LLC new | 907,430 | $9M | 3.5% | 2025-Q3 stale (3 quarters behind) |
| GRITSTONE ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC new | 54,373 | $545K | 0.2% | 2025-Q3 stale (3 quarters behind) |
| ATW SPAC MANAGEMENT LLC new | 47,000 | $471K | 0.2% | 2025-Q3 stale (3 quarters behind) |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO new | 18 | $181 | 0.0% | 2025-Q3 stale (3 quarters behind) |
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.