Who owns NIQ (NIQ)
Which tracked institutional funds hold NIQ, how they are positioned, and who is buying versus exiting — from SEC Form 13F-HR filings. See NIQ company fundamentals →
Ownership as of the 2026-Q1 13F filings. 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
24 tracked funds added or opened NIQ while 60 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
NIQ’s largest tracked holder by dollar value, Advent International, L.P., sizes it at 40.0% of its own reported 13F book, while the median holder sizes it at 0.0% of theirs — a 40.0pp conviction gap — its largest holder concentrates the name more heavily than the typical one.
Book-share is each fund’s reported value in NIQ 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 143 tracked filers holding NIQ, 92 increased or opened the position and 77 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 NIQ 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$40M
- VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC$37M
- JANE STREET GROUP, LLC$13M
- VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO$4M
- BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd$2M
- MARSHALL WACE, LLP$2M
Full exits 18
- VANGUARD GROUP INC$60M
- WESTFIELD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CO LP$39M
- NORGES BANK$26M
- Avantyr Capital Partners, LP$18M
- Governors Lane LP$16M
- HEALTHCARE OF ONTARIO PENSION PLAN TRUST FUND$12M
Largest adds
- MORGAN STANLEY$13M
- Alamut Investment Management LLP$11M
- Quantinno Capital Management LP$4M
- AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC$3M
- Gotham Asset Management, LLC$1M
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/$1M
Largest trims
- Advent International, L.P.$765M
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.$154M
- ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P.$55M
- Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC$31M
- SurgoCap Partners LP$30M
- UBS Group AG$25M
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advent International, L.P. | 149,380,246 | $1.7B | 56.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. | 30,022,789 | $341M | 11.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| SurgoCap Partners LP | 5,858,000 | $67M | 2.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Alamut Investment Management LLP added | 3,731,115 | $42M | 1.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| JNE Partners LLP added | 3,729,938 | $42M | 1.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| DNB Asset Management AS trimmed | 3,661,841 | $42M | 1.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC new | 3,516,617 | $40M | 1.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Alyeska Investment Group, L.P. added | 3,512,388 | $40M | 1.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC new | 3,289,854 | $37M | 1.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| UBS Group AG trimmed | 3,191,015 | $36M | 1.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC trimmed | 2,877,555 | $33M | 1.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| BlackRock, Inc. added | 2,692,676 | $31M | 1.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc trimmed | 2,490,568 | $28M | 0.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| Select Equity Group, L.P. added | 2,392,094 | $27M | 0.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| BlackBarn Capital Partners LP added | 2,074,761 | $24M | 0.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| MORGAN STANLEY added | 1,899,911 | $22M | 0.7% | 2026-Q1 |
| JANE STREET GROUP, LLC new | 1,101,377 | $13M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC added | 1,030,542 | $12M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC trimmed | 1,000,276 | $11M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| STATE STREET CORP added | 953,972 | $11M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| Cinctive Capital Management LP added | 820,785 | $9M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ added | 715,912 | $8M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Quantinno Capital Management LP added | 585,757 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Alberta Investment Management Corp | 575,100 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| LAZARD ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC added | 531,216 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| GABELLI FUNDS LLC added | 505,000 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP added | 439,085 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC added | 433,444 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Burkehill Global Management, LP | 400,000 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| LB Partners LLC added | 399,700 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO new | 352,638 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Gotham Asset Management, LLC added | 330,436 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC added | 316,284 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| SEVEN GRAND MANAGERS, LLC | 300,000 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| NORTHERN TRUST CORP added | 288,275 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Ghisallo Capital Management LLC trimmed | 250,000 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC added | 213,552 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd new | 200,000 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| BARCLAYS PLC trimmed | 195,347 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| MARSHALL WACE, LLP added | 181,905 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| READYSTATE ASSET MANAGEMENT LP trimmed | 150,000 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Nuveen, LLC added | 139,578 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CITADEL ADVISORS LLC trimmed | 127,285 | $1M | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Swiss National Bank | 116,300 | $1M | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Atom Investors LP new | 107,122 | $1M | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL added | 103,860 | $1M | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| SEI INVESTMENTS CO trimmed | 99,195 | $1M | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Quantbot Technologies LP added | 97,647 | $1M | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Holocene Advisors, LP added | 97,335 | $1M | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Invesco Ltd. added | 96,798 | $1M | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Squarepoint Ops LLC added | 86,042 | $978K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp added | 77,476 | $881K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| JACOBS LEVY EQUITY MANAGEMENT, INC new | 75,977 | $864K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 74,084 | $842K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| XTX Topco Ltd added | 71,997 | $819K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC added | 68,668 | $781K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 63,457 | $722K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| OXFORD ASSET MANAGEMENT LLP new | 62,561 | $711K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Mariner, LLC added | 60,226 | $685K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM added | 56,278 | $640K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| RHUMBLINE ADVISERS added | 50,540 | $575K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Jump Financial, LLC new | 49,508 | $563K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| STATE OF WISCONSIN INVESTMENT BOARD trimmed | 47,017 | $535K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Legal & General Group Plc trimmed | 42,920 | $486K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| Summit Trail Advisors, LLC new | 42,037 | $478K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. trimmed | 28,380 | $468K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd new | 40,386 | $459K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| LuminArx Capital Management LP trimmed | 40,000 | $455K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| COMMONWEALTH EQUITY SERVICES, LLC added | 37,555 | $427K | 0.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD GROUP INC trimmed | 3,617,040 | $60M | 2.0% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| WESTFIELD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CO LP trimmed | 2,388,660 | $39M | 1.3% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| ALKEON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC new | 1,840,000 | $29M | 1.0% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| NORGES BANK new | 1,600,000 | $26M | 0.9% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Avantyr Capital Partners, LP new | 1,100,000 | $18M | 0.6% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Governors Lane LP added | 1,000,000 | $16M | 0.5% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| HEALTHCARE OF ONTARIO PENSION PLAN TRUST FUND trimmed | 750,000 | $12M | 0.4% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Unisphere Establishment new | 750,000 | $12M | 0.4% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Zimmer Partners, LP new | 700,000 | $11M | 0.4% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| SOROS FUND MANAGEMENT LLC new | 652,260 | $10M | 0.3% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| TimesSquare Capital Management, LLC new | 589,100 | $9M | 0.3% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Longaeva Partners L.P. added | 497,489 | $8M | 0.3% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| J. Goldman & Co LP new | 479,590 | $8M | 0.3% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS added | 401,952 | $7M | 0.2% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Freestone Grove Partners LP new | 402,790 | $6M | 0.2% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Counterpoint Mutual Funds LLC new | 204,082 | $3M | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Fortress Investment Group LLC new | 175,082 | $3M | 0.1% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. new | 175,000 | $3M | 0.1% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| LAKEWOOD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LP new | 113,000 | $2M | 0.1% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Balyasny Asset Management L.P. added | 92,875 | $2M | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Siren, L.L.C. new | 95,000 | $1M | 0.0% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Arizona PSPRS Trust new | 89,500 | $1M | 0.0% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| WINTON GROUP Ltd new | 86,061 | $1M | 0.0% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Symmetry Investments LP new | 62,000 | $1M | 0.0% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Monashee Investment Management LLC new | 60,000 | $942K | 0.0% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| HARBOR CAPITAL ADVISORS, INC. new | 48,735 | $804K | 0.0% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Engineers Gate Manager LP new | 40,822 | $641K | 0.0% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| VARCOV Co. new | 35,159 | $580K | 0.0% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Voleon Capital Management LP new | 34,763 | $573K | 0.0% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Walleye Capital LLC trimmed | 33,208 | $548K | 0.0% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Magnetar Financial LLC new | 33,151 | $520K | 0.0% | 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.