Who owns Middlesex Water Company (MSEX)
Which tracked institutional funds hold MSEX, how they are positioned, and who is buying versus exiting — from SEC Form 13F-HR filings. See MSEX 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
29 tracked funds added or opened MSEX while 21 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
MSEX’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 conviction gap — its largest holder concentrates the name more heavily than the typical one.
Book-share is each fund’s reported value in MSEX 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 220 tracked filers holding MSEX, 111 increased or opened the position and 85 reduced or closed it; over the same quarter, open-market insider Form 4s were net purchases.
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 MSEX 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 11
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$43M
- VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC$25M
- MIROVA$10M
- VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO$6M
- JANE STREET GROUP, LLC$5M
- HRT FINANCIAL LP$4M
Full exits 7
- VANGUARD GROUP INC$63M
- Aventail Capital Group, LP$2M
- AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC$2M
- Catalyst Funds Management Pty Ltd$1M
- ExodusPoint Capital Management, LP$800K
- IQ EQ FUND MANAGEMENT (IRELAND) Ltd$793K
Largest adds
- T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc.$73M
- MORGAN STANLEY$4M
- NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC$4M
- TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$3M
- STATE STREET CORP$2M
- Legal & General Group Plc$2M
Largest trims
- BlackRock, Inc.$17M
- PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC$2M
- Invesco Ltd.$1M
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC$1M
- BARCLAYS PLC$1M
- UBS Group AG$1M
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. trimmed | 3,016,602 | $157M | 18.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. added | 1,742,092 | $91M | 10.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC added | 1,549,906 | $81M | 9.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| MORGAN STANLEY added | 1,107,615 | $58M | 6.7% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC new | 827,953 | $43M | 5.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| STATE STREET CORP added | 744,062 | $39M | 4.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC new | 488,067 | $25M | 2.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC added | 469,917 | $24M | 2.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| Legal & General Group Plc added | 405,847 | $21M | 2.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP added | 345,761 | $18M | 2.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Invesco Ltd. trimmed | 273,351 | $14M | 1.7% | 2026-Q1 |
| Ledgewood Wealth Advisors, LLC | 254,016 | $13M | 1.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| NORTHERN TRUST CORP trimmed | 198,096 | $10M | 1.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| MIROVA new | 196,000 | $10M | 1.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC trimmed | 191,885 | $10M | 1.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp trimmed | 177,618 | $9M | 1.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Zimmer Partners, LP trimmed | 176,903 | $9M | 1.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC added | 147,013 | $8M | 0.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| FIRST MANHATTAN CO. LLC. trimmed | 143,889 | $7M | 0.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC trimmed | 129,825 | $7M | 0.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO new | 118,968 | $6M | 0.7% | 2026-Q1 |
| ProShare Advisors LLC trimmed | 118,700 | $6M | 0.7% | 2026-Q1 |
| PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC trimmed | 105,387 | $5M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| CRAMER ROSENTHAL MCGLYNN LLC trimmed | 93,657 | $5M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| JANE STREET GROUP, LLC added | 86,742 | $5M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ added | 69,321 | $4M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| HRT FINANCIAL LP added | 67,547 | $4M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board added | 65,647 | $3M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP added | 65,517 | $3M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| NUANCE INVESTMENTS, LLC trimmed | 57,187 | $3M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC trimmed | 55,489 | $3M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Penn Capital Management Company, LLC added | 53,595 | $3M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| RHUMBLINE ADVISERS added | 52,100 | $3M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| EXCHANGE TRADED CONCEPTS, LLC added | 42,116 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC added | 40,767 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Nuveen, LLC added | 39,160 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC added | 38,443 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| NORTHSTAR ASSET MANAGEMENT INC trimmed | 38,237 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| NFJ INVESTMENT GROUP, LLC | 38,178 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Quantinno Capital Management LP added | 37,365 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Swiss National Bank added | 36,262 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| UBS Group AG trimmed | 35,760 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| CITADEL ADVISORS LLC added | 32,715 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO added | 31,424 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ added | 31,810 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Baird Financial Group, Inc. added | 31,395 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| TD Asset Management Inc added | 29,036 | $2M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| SG Americas Securities, LLC added | 28,664 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| OPPENHEIMER & CO INC added | 27,802 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. added | 26,403 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| LPL Financial LLC trimmed | 24,776 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| HighTower Advisors, LLC added | 24,383 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CenterBook Partners LP trimmed | 22,205 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Squarepoint Ops LLC trimmed | 21,584 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. added | 21,033 | $1M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC added | 18,494 | $963K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| GABELLI FUNDS LLC | 18,350 | $955K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| DEUTSCHE BANK AG\ added | 18,230 | $949K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE Co trimmed | 17,402 | $906K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Thrivent Financial for Lutherans trimmed | 17,057 | $888K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Corient Private Wealth LLC trimmed | 16,613 | $865K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 16,439 | $856K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM trimmed | 16,361 | $852K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC. added | 15,890 | $827K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Magellan Asset Management Ltd added | 15,503 | $807K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| STOREBRAND ASSET MANAGEMENT AS trimmed | 14,833 | $772K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. added | 14,251 | $742K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC trimmed | 12,960 | $675K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INC added | 12,331 | $642K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Private Advisor Group, LLC added | 11,969 | $623K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Brooklyn Investment Group added | 11,724 | $610K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd new | 11,667 | $607K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Abacus Wealth Partners, LLC trimmed | 10,838 | $564K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN trimmed | 10,442 | $544K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| MetLife Investment Management, LLC trimmed | 10,356 | $539K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Inspire Investing, LLC added | 9,857 | $513K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund added | 9,765 | $508K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| State of Alaska, Department of Revenue trimmed | 9,586 | $498K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP trimmed | 9,379 | $488K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| COMMONWEALTH EQUITY SERVICES, LLC added | 9,334 | $486K | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD GROUP INC trimmed | 1,259,232 | $63M | 7.4% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Thematics Asset Management | 171,000 | $9M | 1.1% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| TSP Capital Management Group, LLC added | 119,224 | $6M | 0.7% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| DARK FOREST CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP new | 52,371 | $3M | 0.4% | 2025-Q1 stale |
| Aventail Capital Group, LP new | 45,509 | $2M | 0.3% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC trimmed | 39,483 | $2M | 0.2% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| DEPRINCE RACE & ZOLLO INC trimmed | 31,490 | $2M | 0.2% | 2025-Q2 stale |
| Assenagon Asset Management S.A. added | 23,357 | $1M | 0.2% | 2025-Q1 stale |
| GWN SECURITIES INC. new | 26,298 | $1M | 0.2% | 2025-Q1 stale |
| WINTON GROUP Ltd added | 21,264 | $1M | 0.2% | 2025-Q1 stale |
| MARSHALL WACE, LLP added | 20,688 | $1M | 0.2% | 2025-Q1 stale |
| Catalyst Funds Management Pty Ltd trimmed | 21,488 | $1M | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| ExodusPoint Capital Management, LP added | 15,863 | $800K | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| IQ EQ FUND MANAGEMENT (IRELAND) Ltd added | 15,722 | $793K | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Manchester Capital Management LLC | 13,515 | $731K | 0.1% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| DRW Securities, LLC added | 13,205 | $715K | 0.1% | 2025-Q2 stale |
| Corebridge Financial, Inc. trimmed | 9,230 | $592K | 0.1% | 2025-Q1 stale |
| Main Street Financial Solutions, LLC added | 10,568 | $533K | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Graham Capital Management, L.P. added | 7,666 | $491K | 0.1% | 2025-Q1 stale |
| Mariner, LLC added | 8,785 | $475K | 0.1% | 2025-Q3 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.