Who owns KinderCare Learning Companies (KLC)
Which tracked institutional funds hold KLC, how they are positioned, and who is buying versus exiting — from SEC Form 13F-HR filings. See KLC 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
The tracked-fund tape on KLC is one-sided between 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2: 25 added or opened and 7 trimmed or exited — on balance accumulating.
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
KLC’s largest tracked holder by dollar value, Partners Group Holding AG, sizes it at 23.6% of its own reported 13F book, while the median holder sizes it at 0.0% of theirs — a 23.6pp conviction gap — its largest holder concentrates the name more heavily than the typical one.
Book-share is each fund’s reported value in KLC 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 102 tracked filers holding KLC, 67 increased or opened the position and 56 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 KLC 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 1
- Blackstone Inc.$858K
Full exits 5
- REDWOOD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC$3M
- AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC$2M
- JANE STREET GROUP, LLC$1M
- Invenomic Capital Management LP$1M
- FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP$1M
Largest adds
- Partners Group Holding AG$167M
- Silver Point Capital L.P.$16M
- AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC$13M
- AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$7M
- BlackRock, Inc.$5M
- Point72 Asset Management, L.P.$4M
Largest trims
- EverSource Wealth Advisors, LLC$17M
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO$385K
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partners Group Holding AG | 81,418,736 | $346M | 75.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC added | 5,711,103 | $24M | 5.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Silver Point Capital L.P. added | 5,105,000 | $22M | 4.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| BlackRock, Inc. added | 2,214,886 | $9M | 2.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC added | 1,939,625 | $8M | 1.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC added | 1,769,374 | $8M | 1.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 1,337,350 | $6M | 1.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. added | 1,096,024 | $5M | 1.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Point72 Asset Management, L.P. added | 1,075,535 | $5M | 1.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC added | 815,750 | $3M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| STATE STREET CORP added | 633,446 | $3M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| CastleKnight Management LP | 621,674 | $3M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| NORTHERN TRUST CORP added | 421,630 | $2M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 323,920 | $1M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Villanova Investment Management Co LLC trimmed | 277,971 | $1M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC added | 268,804 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC trimmed | 250,811 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO trimmed | 213,193 | $906K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| MORGAN STANLEY trimmed | 211,046 | $897K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Blackstone Inc. new | 201,926 | $858K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP trimmed | 172,152 | $732K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| IEQ CAPITAL, LLC added | 158,521 | $674K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC added | 142,560 | $606K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| FMR LLC trimmed | 137,963 | $586K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO trimmed | 126,158 | $544K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN added | 121,229 | $515K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Invesco Ltd. added | 116,609 | $496K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Mariner, LLC added | 94,594 | $402K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp added | 83,595 | $355K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| UBS Group AG added | 78,090 | $332K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Engineers Gate Manager LP trimmed | 73,614 | $313K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Quadrature Capital Ltd trimmed | 63,452 | $270K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ added | 59,117 | $251K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| WEALTH ENHANCEMENT ADVISORY SERVICES, LLC added | 58,052 | $293K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Diametric Capital, LP new | 57,712 | $245K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. added | 56,750 | $125K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| ExodusPoint Capital Management, LP trimmed | 53,994 | $229K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Nuveen, LLC added | 53,553 | $228K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| MERCER GLOBAL ADVISORS INC /ADV new | 46,900 | $199K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Creative Planning added | 42,195 | $179K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ added | 41,427 | $177K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| NEEDHAM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC | 40,810 | $173K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| RHUMBLINE ADVISERS added | 40,200 | $171K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Cerity Partners LLC added | 36,963 | $157K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| DEUTSCHE BANK AG\ trimmed | 30,146 | $128K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| CAPTRUST FINANCIAL ADVISORS new | 26,451 | $112K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| NISA INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC added | 24,739 | $105K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Centiva Capital, LP trimmed | 22,757 | $97K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| BALYASNY ASSET MANAGEMENT L.P. trimmed | 22,557 | $96K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| BRIGHTON JONES LLC new | 22,053 | $94K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Integrated Investment Consultants, LLC added | 21,327 | $91K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Quantinno Capital Management LP trimmed | 18,479 | $79K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Sequoia Financial Advisors, LLC new | 15,856 | $67K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Corient Private Wealth LP new | 14,430 | $61K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| CITIGROUP INC added | 14,308 | $61K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. trimmed | 14,226 | $60K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Jain Global LLC trimmed | 13,156 | $56K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Merit Financial Group, LLC new | 12,852 | $55K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| McAdam, LLC new | 12,664 | $54K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Arax Advisory Partners added | 12,335 | $52K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| M&T Bank Corp new | 12,220 | $52K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| SEI INVESTMENTS CO | 11,861 | $50K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP | 11,234 | $48K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Pallas Capital Advisors LLC new | 10,526 | $45K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. added | 10,104 | $43K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| SIMPLEX TRADING, LLC trimmed | 9,996 | $42K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| BNP PARIBAS FINANCIAL MARKETS trimmed | 9,524 | $40K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| NEW YORK STATE COMMON RETIREMENT FUND | 8,600 | $37K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC new | 7,058 | $30K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Police & Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey | 6,920 | $29K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Allworth Financial LP added | 5,724 | $24K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| BARCLAYS PLC trimmed | 4,456 | $19K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. new | 4,000 | $17K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Tower Research Capital LLC (TRC) trimmed | 3,882 | $16K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| IFP Advisors, Inc added | 3,531 | $15K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Persistent Asset Partners Ltd new | 3,467 | $15K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Caitong International Asset Management Co., Ltd trimmed | 3,037 | $13K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Federation des caisses Desjardins du Quebec | 3,018 | $13K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Walleye Capital LLC added | 2,923 | $12K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Ameritas Investment Partners, Inc. | 2,915 | $12K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 2,865 | $12K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| EverSource Wealth Advisors, LLC trimmed | 2,729 | $12K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| ROYAL BANK OF CANADA trimmed | 1,979 | $8K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Essential Partners LLC added | 1,422 | $6K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| SIGNATUREFD, LLC added | 1,273 | $5K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| ROTHSCHILD INVESTMENT LLC added | 942 | $4K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| True Wealth Design, LLC added | 664 | $3K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Sterling Capital Management LLC added | 623 | $3K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Farther Finance Advisors, LLC added | 579 | $2K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| SJS Investment Consulting Inc. added | 429 | $2K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM trimmed | 425 | $2K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Wealth Enhancement Trust Services, Inc. new | 277 | $1K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| GAMMA Investing LLC trimmed | 244 | $1K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Cornerstone Financial Management LLC | 214 | $910 | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Quarry LP trimmed | 192 | $816 | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Fortitude Family Office, LLC new | 177 | $752 | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. added | 146 | $621 | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| US BANCORP \DE\ trimmed | 92 | $391 | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Clearstead Advisors, LLC new | 89 | $379 | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Versant Capital Management, Inc trimmed | 47 | $200 | 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.