Renaissance Technologies Portfolio holdings
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.
Top Buys
| 1 |
Broadcom
AVGO
|
$406M |
| 2 |
Alphabet (Google) Class A
GOOGL
|
$351M |
| 3 |
Meta Platforms (Facebook)
META
|
$316M |
| 4 |
Walmart
WMT
|
$230M |
| 5 |
ServiceNow
NOW
|
$217M |
Top Sells
| 1 |
Apple
AAPL
|
$549M |
| 2 |
Palantir
PLTR
|
$549M |
| 3 |
Netflix
NFLX
|
$378M |
| 4 |
NVIDIA
NVDA
|
$267M |
| 5 |
Alibaba
BABA
|
$207M |
Sector Composition
| 1 | Technology | 17.41% |
| 2 | Healthcare | 14.96% |
| 3 | Consumer Discretionary | 11.86% |
| 4 | Financials | 11.03% |
| 5 | Industrials | 8.49% |
| Name | Market Value | Portfolio Weight | Shares or Principal |
Shares Change % | Capital Flow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
Palantir
PLTR
$372B
| $1.37B | 2.08% | 16,289,873 -6,499,936 | -29% | -$549M |
|
2
VeriSign
VRSN
$25.5B
| $765M | 1.16% | 3,013,971 +98,700 | +3% | +$25.1M |
|
3
Corcept Therapeutics
CORT
$7.35B
| $702M | 1.06% | 6,143,031 -55,571 | -0.9% | -$6.35M |
|
4
Robinhood
HOOD
$92.4B
| $693M | 1.05% | 16,656,416 +4,578,300 | +38% | +$191M |
|
5
Sprouts Farmers Market
SFM
$13.7B
| $651M | 0.99% | 4,263,744 -200,900 | -4% | -$30.7M |
|
6
United Therapeutics
UTHR
$13.8B
| $650M | 0.98% | 2,106,992 +17,600 | +0.8% | +$5.43M |
|
7
Gilead Sciences
GILD
$140B
| $611M | 0.92% | 5,451,143 +121,400 | +2% | +$13.6M |
|
8
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
VRTX
$100B
| $568M | 0.86% | 1,171,571 -225,638 | -16% | -$109M |
|
9
Exelixis
EXEL
$10.1B
| $547M | 0.83% | 14,824,265 -471,600 | -3% | -$17.4M |
|
10
Franco-Nevada
FNV
$36.3B
| $477M | 0.72% | 3,030,549 -128,890 | -4% | -$20.3M |
|
11
Novo Nordisk
NVO
$251B
| $474M | 0.72% | 6,821,396 -1,491,600 | -18% | -$104M |
|
12
Airbnb
ABNB
$79.9B
| $457M | 0.69% | 3,827,924 -347,427 | -8% | -$41.5M |
|
13
Spotify
SPOT
$140B
| $451M | 0.68% | 820,193 -196,394 | -19% | -$108M |
|
14
Kinross Gold
KGC
$25.5B
| $409M | 0.62% | 32,451,794 -410,436 | -1% | -$5.18M |
|
|
15
Broadcom
AVGO
$1.4T
| $406M | 0.62% | 2,427,714 +2,425,176 | +95,555% | +$406M |
|
16
Cboe Global Markets
CBOE
$24.7B
| $389M | 0.59% | 1,718,224 -134,900 | -7% | -$30.5M |
|
17
DoorDash
DASH
$105B
| $362M | 0.55% | 1,978,688 -494,800 | -20% | -$90.4M |
|
18
Roblox
RBLX
$86.4B
| $355M | 0.54% | 6,091,459 -1,479,500 | -20% | -$86.2M |
|
|
19
Alphabet (Google) Class A
GOOGL
$2.57T
| $352M | 0.53% | 2,275,800 +2,272,750 | +74,516% | +$351M |
|
|
20
Meta Platforms (Facebook)
META
$1.86T
| $345M | 0.52% | 598,277 +548,419 | +1,100% | +$316M |
|
21
Fortinet
FTNT
$60.4B
| $331M | 0.5% | 3,434,351 -1,186,859 | -26% | -$114M |
|
22
Advanced Micro Devices
AMD
$264B
| $328M | 0.5% | 3,195,790 +2,019,300 | +172% | +$207M |
|
23
Nutanix
NTNX
$18B
| $322M | 0.49% | 4,613,800 +194,900 | +4% | +$13.6M |
|
24
Atlassian
TEAM
$46.6B
| $317M | 0.48% | 1,494,223 -14,300 | -0.9% | -$3.03M |
|
25
DocuSign
DOCU
$15.5B
| $313M | 0.47% | 3,842,888 -520,404 | -12% | -$42.4M |
|