Northstar 13F annual report
Northstar is an investment fund managing more than $443 billion ran by Henry Asher. There are currently 117 companies in Mr. Asher’s portfolio. The largest investments include Berkshire Hathaway and Vanguard Index Fds, together worth $155 billion.
$443 billion Assets Under Management (AUM)
As of 4th January 2024, Northstar’s top holding is 234,563 shares of Berkshire Hathaway currently worth over $88 billion and making up 19.9% of the portfolio value.
Relative to the number of outstanding shares of Berkshire Hathaway, Northstar owns more than approximately 0.1% of the company.
In addition, the fund holds 272,497 shares of Vanguard Index Fds worth $66.7 billion.
The third-largest holding is Apple Inc worth $31.8 billion and the next is Spdr Ser Tr worth $30.4 billion, with 334,266 shares owned.
Currently, Northstar's portfolio is worth at least $443 billion. The total portfolio value may be much higher due to cash
assets that are not publicly disclosed such as fixed income, real estate, or cash equivalents.
Careers at Northstar
The Northstar office and employees reside in New York, New York. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Henry Asher serves as the President at Northstar.
Recent trades
In the most recent 13F filing, Northstar revealed that it had opened a new position in
Deckers Outdoor and bought 380 shares worth $254 million.
This means they effectively own approximately 0.1% of the company.
Deckers Outdoor makes up
0.4%
of the fund's Consumer Discretionary sector allocation and has grown its share price by 69.8% in the past year.
The investment fund also strengthened its position in Berkshire Hathaway by buying
86 additional shares.
This makes their stake in Berkshire Hathaway total 234,563 shares worth $88 billion.
Berkshire Hathaway soared 14.7% in the past year.
On the other hand, there are companies that Northstar is getting rid of from its portfolio.
Northstar closed its position in Invesco Exch Traded Fd Tr Ii on 10th January 2024.
It sold the previously owned 150,231 shares for $3.36 billion.
Henry Asher also disclosed a decreased stake in Apple Inc by approximately 0.1%.
This leaves the value of the investment at $31.8 billion and 165,313 shares.
One of the average hedge funds
The two most similar investment funds to Northstar are Ironwood Investment Counsel and Consolidated Planning Corp. They manage $443 billion and $443 billion respectively.
Henry Asher investment strategy
Northstar’s portfolio is diversified across 10 sectors.
Currently, their heaviest sector is Finance — making up 21.8% of
the total portfolio value.
The fund focuses on investments in the United States as
56.4% of the portfolio companies
are based in the United States.
The majority of the companies in the fund’s portfolio are large-cap stocks.
Stocks with a size of more than $10 billion in market cap make up
56% of the total holdings value.
On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only 2.6% of the portfolio.
The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $216 billion.
The complete list of Northstar trades based on 13F SEC filings
These positions were updated on January 10th based on the fund’s latest 13F filing. Quickly find out what the most recently closed or increased positions are.
| Security | Shares Owned | Value | Allocation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berkshire Hathaway Inc. |
0.04%
234,563
|
$87,997,268,000 | 19.86% |
| Vanguard Index Fds |
5.21%
272,497
|
$66,720,621,000 | 15.06% |
| Apple Inc |
0.37%
165,313
|
$31,827,811,000 | 7.18% |
| Spdr Ser Tr |
42.61%
334,266
|
$30,356,936,000 | 6.85% |
| Alphabet Inc |
0.26%
170,956
|
$24,005,109,000 | 5.42% |
| Costco Whsl Corp New |
0.54%
21,386
|
$14,116,127,000 | 3.19% |
| Amazon.com Inc. |
0.02%
81,047
|
$12,314,281,000 | 2.78% |
| Meta Platforms Inc |
0.06%
24,552
|
$8,690,426,000 | 1.96% |
| Arch Cap Group Ltd |
0.09%
115,315
|
$8,564,446,000 | 1.93% |
| Starbucks Corp. |
4.49%
68,798
|
$6,605,362,000 | 1.49% |
| Broadridge Finl Solutions In |
0.07%
31,760
|
$6,534,675,000 | 1.47% |
| Johnson Johnson |
0.44%
41,655
|
$6,528,996,000 | 1.47% |
| Vanguard Specialized Funds |
0.35%
37,910
|
$6,459,741,000 | 1.46% |
| Ishares Tr |
3.60%
106,447
|
$11,504,968,000 | 2.60% |
| Ecolab, Inc. |
0.05%
25,019
|
$4,962,503,000 | 1.12% |
| Microsoft Corporation |
0.55%
10,945
|
$4,115,632,000 | 0.93% |
| Booking Holdings Inc |
0.54%
1,111
|
$3,940,962,000 | 0.89% |
| Schwab Strategic Tr |
0.54%
51,582
|
$3,926,951,000 | 0.89% |
| Vanguard Intl Equity Index F |
0.31%
76,844
|
$6,059,459,000 | 1.37% |
| American Express Co. |
11.14%
19,899
|
$3,727,981,000 | 0.84% |
| Automatic Data Processing In |
0.09%
15,924
|
$3,709,768,000 | 0.84% |
| Union Pac Corp |
0.04%
14,261
|
$3,502,950,000 | 0.79% |
| Vanguard Bd Index Fds |
8.98%
52,846
|
$4,065,495,000 | 0.92% |
| Pepsico Inc |
3.39%
19,792
|
$3,361,418,000 | 0.76% |
| Invesco Exch Traded Fd Tr Ii |
Closed
150,231
|
$3,360,668,000 | |
| Vanguard Star Fds |
14.58%
55,761
|
$3,231,899,000 | 0.73% |
| Brown-Forman Corporation |
3.20%
56,331
|
$3,216,469,000 | 0.73% |
| Walmart Inc |
0.01%
17,727
|
$2,794,619,000 | 0.63% |
| Disney Walt Co |
2.95%
29,579
|
$2,670,688,000 | 0.60% |
| Merck Co Inc |
12.58%
23,982
|
$2,614,546,000 | 0.59% |
| Home Depot, Inc. |
0.02%
6,118
|
$2,120,149,000 | 0.48% |
| Nike, Inc. |
0.06%
19,524
|
$2,119,726,000 | 0.48% |
| Coca-Cola Co |
0.11%
35,735
|
$2,105,865,000 | 0.48% |
| Vanguard Whitehall Fds |
0.03%
18,806
|
$2,099,316,000 | 0.47% |
| Vanguard Malvern Fds |
19.75%
43,616
|
$2,071,341,000 | 0.47% |
| Procter And Gamble Co |
0.29%
13,986
|
$2,049,539,000 | 0.46% |
| Markel Group Inc |
66.44%
1,438
|
$2,041,816,000 | 0.46% |
| Mcdonalds Corp |
0.06%
6,597
|
$1,955,952,000 | 0.44% |
| Spdr Sp 500 Etf Tr |
1.12%
4,071
|
$1,934,987,000 | 0.44% |
| Stryker Corp. |
No change
6,305
|
$1,888,095,000 | 0.43% |
| Salesforce Inc |
1.65%
6,851
|
$1,802,772,000 | 0.41% |
| F5 Inc |
5.47%
10,025
|
$1,794,274,000 | 0.40% |
| PayPal Holdings Inc |
5.27%
29,167
|
$1,791,146,000 | 0.40% |
| Mondelez International Inc. |
3.35%
23,118
|
$1,674,378,000 | 0.38% |
| Intel Corp. |
1.53%
32,026
|
$1,609,303,000 | 0.36% |
| Vanguard World Fds |
3.95%
18,496
|
$4,011,012,000 | 0.91% |
| Vanguard Bd Index Fds |
Closed
21,921
|
$1,529,688,000 | |
| Vanguard Mun Bd Fds |
25.31%
29,706
|
$1,516,500,000 | 0.34% |
| Escalade, Inc. |
0.75%
66,500
|
$1,335,985,000 | 0.30% |
| Abbvie Inc |
0.81%
8,585
|
$1,330,421,000 | 0.30% |
| CVS Health Corp |
10.63%
16,145
|
$1,274,883,000 | 0.29% |
| Ishares Tr |
Closed
51,183
|
$1,209,981,000 | |
| Unilever plc |
0.94%
18,876
|
$915,090,000 | 0.21% |
| United Parcel Service, Inc. |
9.64%
5,801
|
$912,136,000 | 0.21% |
| CSX Corp. |
1.26%
26,190
|
$908,019,000 | 0.20% |
| Exxon Mobil Corp. |
4.53%
8,405
|
$840,332,000 | 0.19% |
| RTX Corp |
No change
9,982
|
$839,886,000 | 0.19% |
| Caterpillar Inc. |
No change
2,646
|
$782,443,000 | 0.18% |
| Abbott Labs |
2.33%
6,825
|
$751,247,000 | 0.17% |
| Visa Inc |
No change
2,595
|
$675,608,000 | 0.15% |
| Adobe Inc |
No change
1,124
|
$670,578,000 | 0.15% |
| Oracle Corp. |
3.49%
6,082
|
$641,225,000 | 0.14% |
| Eli Lilly Co |
No change
1,085
|
$632,468,000 | 0.14% |
| Jpmorgan Chase Co |
1.57%
3,451
|
$587,059,000 | 0.13% |
| Clorox Co. |
0.05%
3,893
|
$554,981,000 | 0.13% |
| Pfizer Inc. |
16.78%
17,893
|
$515,151,000 | 0.12% |
| Trane Technologies plc |
10.95%
2,107
|
$513,860,000 | 0.12% |
| Verizon Communications Inc |
50.12%
12,436
|
$468,828,000 | 0.11% |
| General Electric Co. |
2.01%
3,599
|
$459,341,000 | 0.10% |
| AMGEN Inc. |
1.18%
1,593
|
$458,815,000 | 0.10% |
| Alibaba Group Hldg Ltd |
23.89%
5,667
|
$439,249,000 | 0.10% |
| Honeywell International Inc |
No change
2,073
|
$434,729,000 | 0.10% |
| Lowes Cos Inc |
No change
1,918
|
$426,852,000 | 0.10% |
| Comcast Corp New |
0.01%
9,674
|
$424,186,000 | 0.10% |
| NVIDIA Corp |
No change
850
|
$420,937,000 | 0.09% |
| Becton Dickinson Co |
0.06%
1,711
|
$417,126,000 | 0.09% |
| Public Svc Enterprise Grp In |
2.15%
6,797
|
$415,633,000 | 0.09% |
| Astrazeneca plc |
15.10%
5,741
|
$386,656,000 | 0.09% |
| Marriott Intl Inc New |
No change
1,686
|
$380,210,000 | 0.09% |
| Exact Sciences Corp. |
No change
4,821
|
$356,658,000 | 0.08% |
| Bank America Corp |
27.81%
10,209
|
$343,736,000 | 0.08% |
| Select Sector Spdr Tr |
No change
2,999
|
$341,856,000 | 0.08% |
| Cigna Group (The) |
No change
1,125
|
$336,882,000 | 0.08% |
| ON Semiconductor Corp. |
No change
4,033
|
$336,876,000 | 0.08% |
| Occidental Pete Corp |
1.84%
5,633
|
$336,350,000 | 0.08% |
| Unitedhealth Group Inc |
No change
629
|
$331,149,000 | 0.07% |
| Golub Cap Bdc Inc |
No change
21,538
|
$325,224,000 | 0.07% |
| Vanguard Admiral Fds Inc |
6.37%
3,273
|
$324,618,000 | 0.07% |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. |
No change
603
|
$320,066,000 | 0.07% |
| Kenvue Inc |
0.03%
14,616
|
$314,673,000 | 0.07% |
| Fedex Corp |
1.14%
1,210
|
$306,093,000 | 0.07% |
| D.R. Horton Inc. |
No change
1,988
|
$302,136,000 | 0.07% |
| Hershey Company |
No change
1,602
|
$298,677,000 | 0.07% |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. |
17.34%
5,571
|
$285,827,000 | 0.06% |
| 3M Co. |
14.65%
2,593
|
$283,451,000 | 0.06% |
| Accenture Plc Ireland |
No change
799
|
$280,377,000 | 0.06% |
| Novartis AG |
No change
2,729
|
$275,547,000 | 0.06% |
| Bank New York Mellon Corp |
34.17%
5,251
|
$273,312,000 | 0.06% |
| Broadcom Inc. |
3.97%
242
|
$270,133,000 | 0.06% |
| Philip Morris International Inc |
No change
2,849
|
$268,034,000 | 0.06% |
| Tesla Inc |
No change
1,076
|
$267,364,000 | 0.06% |
| Lam Research Corp. |
No change
340
|
$266,308,000 | 0.06% |
| Mastercard Incorporated |
No change
613
|
$261,450,000 | 0.06% |
| Deckers Outdoor Corp. |
Opened
380
|
$254,003,000 | 0.06% |
| General Mls Inc |
0.18%
3,842
|
$250,290,000 | 0.06% |
| Kellanova Co |
6.38%
4,405
|
$246,284,000 | 0.06% |
| Boeing Co. |
Opened
937
|
$244,239,000 | 0.06% |
| Chubb Limited |
No change
1,037
|
$234,362,000 | 0.05% |
| Rekor Systems Inc |
No change
69,363
|
$230,979,000 | 0.05% |
| Ishares Tr |
Opened
1,455
|
$226,005,000 | 0.05% |
| Danaher Corp. |
No change
943
|
$218,154,000 | 0.05% |
| New York Times Co. |
Opened
4,450
|
$218,006,000 | 0.05% |
| Medtronic Plc |
No change
2,576
|
$212,247,000 | 0.05% |
| Altria Group Inc. |
3.75%
5,230
|
$210,978,000 | 0.05% |
| Sysco Corp. |
Opened
2,800
|
$204,764,000 | 0.05% |
| Ingersoll-Rand Inc |
Opened
2,637
|
$203,946,000 | 0.05% |
| Chevron Corp. |
No change
1,365
|
$203,736,000 | 0.05% |
| United-Guardian, Inc. |
23.07%
13,673
|
$98,446,000 | 0.02% |
| Opko Health Inc |
Opened
27,785
|
$41,955,000 | 0.01% |
| Vimeo Inc |
Closed
11,755
|
$41,613,000 | |
| Wheels Up Experience Inc |
No change
11,509
|
$39,476,000 | 0.01% |
| Desktop Metal, Inc. |
Closed
11,800
|
$17,228,000 | |
| No transactions found | |||
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