Renaissance Technologies

Renaissance Technologies Portfolio holdings

AUM $75.2B
 

Renaissance Technologies LLC, founded in 1982 by mathematician James Simons as Monemetrics and headquartered in East Setauket, New York, is a legendary quantitative hedge fund managing around $65 billion in assets as of late 2024, renowned for its pioneering use of mathematical models and algorithms in trading. Starting with currency trading and evolving into a secretive powerhouse under its flagship Medallion Fund—launched in 1988—the firm employs PhDs, physicists, and computer scientists to analyze vast datasets, executing high-frequency trades across equities, futures, and derivatives with returns averaging over 66% annually before fees from 1988 to 2018. Simons, who stepped down as chairman in 2021, built a culture of intellectual rigor, limiting Medallion to employees and insiders since 1993 while offering institutional funds like the Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund (RIEF) to outsiders. Now led by Peter Brown and Robert Mercer’s successors, Renaissance remains a benchmark for quant investing, blending academic precision with a low-profile, extraordinarily profitable legacy despite occasional regulatory scrutiny.

This Quarter Return
+8.44%
1 Year Return
+41.49%
3 Year Return
+105.58%
5 Year Return
+199.51%
10 Year Return
+593.04%
AUM
$67.6B
AUM Growth
+$67.6B
Cap. Flow
-$666M
Cap. Flow %
-0.99%
Top 10 Hldgs %
10.48%
Holding
4,032
New
548
Increased
1,485
Reduced
1,481
Closed
499

Top Buys

1
RDDT icon
Reddit
RDDT
$196M
2
NKE icon
Nike
NKE
$183M
3
BABA icon
Alibaba
BABA
$172M
4
SHOP icon
Shopify
SHOP
$167M
5
TSM icon
TSMC
TSM
$154M

Sector Composition

1 Technology 20.89%
2 Healthcare 15.54%
3 Consumer Discretionary 14.08%
4 Industrials 8.96%
5 Financials 8.95%
Name Market Value Portfolio Weight Shares or Principal Shares
Change %
Capital Flow
PLTR icon
1
Palantir
PLTR
$372B
$1.72B 2.55% 22,789,809 -15,629,431 -41% -$1.18B
UTHR icon
2
United Therapeutics
UTHR
$13.8B
$737M 1.09% 2,089,392 -66,000 -3% -$23.3M
NVO icon
3
Novo Nordisk
NVO
$251B
$715M 1.06% 8,312,996 +123,681 +2% +$10.6M
AAPL icon
4
Apple
AAPL
$3.45T
$618M 0.91% 2,467,613 -808,590 -25% -$202M
VRSN icon
5
VeriSign
VRSN
$25.5B
$603M 0.89% 2,915,271 -260,719 -8% -$54M
SFM icon
6
Sprouts Farmers Market
SFM
$13.7B
$567M 0.84% 4,464,644 +24,000 +0.5% +$3.05M
VRTX icon
7
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
VRTX
$100B
$563M 0.83% 1,397,209 -234,284 -14% -$94.3M
ABNB icon
8
Airbnb
ABNB
$79.9B
$549M 0.81% 4,175,351 +558,856 +15% +$73.4M
EXEL icon
9
Exelixis
EXEL
$10.1B
$509M 0.75% 15,295,865 -64,051 -0.4% -$2.13M
GILD icon
10
Gilead Sciences
GILD
$140B
$492M 0.73% 5,329,743 +1,141,219 +27% +$105M
NVDA icon
11
NVIDIA
NVDA
$4.24T
$477M 0.71% 3,551,227 +23,156 +0.7% +$3.11M
SPOT icon
12
Spotify
SPOT
$140B
$455M 0.67% 1,016,587 +336,581 +49% +$151M
CCL icon
13
Carnival Corp
CCL
$43.2B
$451M 0.67% 18,097,001 +2,720,096 +18% +$67.8M
HOOD icon
14
Robinhood
HOOD
$92.4B
$450M 0.67% 12,078,116 +3,091,514 +34% +$115M
RBLX icon
15
Roblox
RBLX
$86.4B
$438M 0.65% 7,570,959 +1,478,421 +24% +$85.5M
FTNT icon
16
Fortinet
FTNT
$60.4B
$437M 0.65% 4,621,210 -321,952 -7% -$30.4M
DASH icon
17
DoorDash
DASH
$105B
$415M 0.61% 2,473,488 +286,800 +13% +$48.1M
DOCU icon
18
DocuSign
DOCU
$15.5B
$392M 0.58% 4,363,292 +205,304 +5% +$18.5M
FNV icon
19
Franco-Nevada
FNV
$36.3B
$372M 0.55% 3,159,439 +20,890 +0.7% +$2.46M
TEAM icon
20
Atlassian
TEAM
$46.6B
$367M 0.54% 1,508,523 -12,200 -0.8% -$2.97M
NFLX icon
21
Netflix
NFLX
$513B
$364M 0.54% 407,935 -12,274 -3% -$10.9M
CBOE icon
22
Cboe Global Markets
CBOE
$24.7B
$362M 0.54% 1,853,124 -26,600 -1% -$5.2M
ZM icon
23
Zoom
ZM
$24.4B
$351M 0.52% 4,304,848 +380,900 +10% +$31.1M
ALSN icon
24
Allison Transmission
ALSN
$7.3B
$346M 0.51% 3,200,824 -222,595 -7% -$24.1M
NBIX icon
25
Neurocrine Biosciences
NBIX
$13.8B
$340M 0.5% 2,489,397 -85,149 -3% -$11.6M