Who Owns APPLE INC Stock? 5,809 Institutional Holders — Q4 2025 13F Data

Based on SEC Form 13F filings for Q4 2025, filed February 2026.

As of Q4 2025, 5,809 institutional funds hold $AAPL — a single-quarter jump of 444 new holders — with Vanguard Group maintaining the largest disclosed position at $387.75B.

APPLE INC Institutional Ownership — Q4 2025 Overview

Total AAPL institutional ownership reached 5,809 funds in Q4 2025, with aggregate disclosed value of approximately $2.59 trillion across all SEC 13F filers — cementing Apple's position as one of the two or three most widely held stocks in the global institutional universe. The +444 net new fund addition is the largest single-quarter expansion in the five-quarter window tracked by 13Foresight's institutional database, dwarfing the prior four-quarter average of roughly +13 net new funds per quarter.

The trend context makes that jump all the more significant. After a modest −13 fund slip in Q1 2025 and a tepid recovery through Q2 and Q3, institutional adoption of AAPL broke sharply higher in Q4 — a pattern that typically reflects either broad re-rating of the equity thesis or coordinated index rebalancing flows, and often both simultaneously.

The five-quarter ownership trend illustrates the acceleration clearly:

Who Owns the Most $AAPL?

Vanguard Group holds the largest institutional position in APPLE INC at $387.75B, up 1.9% QoQ. As the dominant index fund operator globally, Vanguard's scale in AAPL is structurally anchored — Apple commands one of the largest weightings in nearly every major U.S. equity index, compelling Vanguard to hold proportionate exposure across trillions in AUM. The continued add reflects both passive inflows and AAPL's persistent index weight rather than a discretionary tactical overweight.

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BlackRock holds $314.39B, up 0.7% QoQ — the second-largest institutional AAPL position globally. BlackRock's combined active and passive mandates mean its continued adds carry dual weight: the index books must hold AAPL by mandate, while the active desks are evidently choosing not to underweight it. That combination of index validation and active non-reduction is a quiet but meaningful smart money signal for APPLE INC institutional investors tracking the equity ownership structure.

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State Street is third at $164.22B, up 1.1% QoQ. The Big Three index asset managers — Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street — collectively hold over $866B in AAPL alone, forming a structural bedrock in the equity ownership structure that makes large involuntary outflows mechanically improbable. For long-term holders, that depth of index-mandated ownership is itself a form of institutional validation.

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Biggest Moves This Quarter: Who's Adding and Who's Trimming

The most headline-grabbing entry of Q4 2025 is Norges Bank — Norway's Government Pension Fund Global — initiating a brand-new position in AAPL at $52.27B. HIGH CONVICTION Sovereign wealth funds of this scale do not establish $52B positions as short-term trades. This is long-duration capital deployment, and for one of the world's most methodical institutional investors to choose this quarter as its entry point is a signal that resonates well beyond the headline dollar figure.

Goldman Sachs Group posted the most aggressive percentage add among established holders — up a striking +11.4% QoQ to $33.06B. HIGH CONVICTION Goldman's active desks are not index-constrained; a double-digit percentage add is a deliberate portfolio allocation decision. Paired with Norges Bank's entry, Goldman's accumulation points to institutional consensus forming around AAPL's risk/reward profile in Q4.

On the trimming side, Berkshire Hathaway reduced by −4.3% to $61.96B — continuing a pattern of gradual position management that began in prior quarters. Bank of America cut more aggressively at −13.2% to $33.61B, and Wellington Management Group trimmed −7.7% to $21.02B. These are active managers recalibrating portfolio allocation — worth watching, but not yet a definitive exit signal given that 11 of the top 20 holders were simultaneously adding. WATCH LIST

What $AAPL's Institutional Ownership Pattern Signals

The AAPL 13F filing data for Q4 2025 presents the clearest institutional ownership signal in five quarters. Eleven of the top 20 holders added to or maintained their positions, versus eight reducing — a 57/40 split that marginally favors the accumulation camp among major shareholders. More importantly, the quality and nature of the adders matters: Goldman Sachs (+11.4%), Norges Bank (new $52B entry), FMR LLC (+1.4%), and Nuveen (+3.8%) represent a cross-section of active fundamental investors and sovereign capital that goes well beyond index-mandated flows.

The Berkshire Hathaway reduction deserves nuanced reading. Warren Buffett's firm has been gradually managing down its AAPL position over several quarters, but at $61.96B it remains one of the largest single-stock positions Berkshire has ever held. The −4.3% trim is consistent with position-sizing discipline at that scale of concentration, not necessarily a change in the underlying conviction about Apple's business quality. The position remains enormous by any standard.

Bank of America's −13.2% reduction and Susquehanna's −9.5% trim are worth flagging for risk-aware investors, as both involve significant absolute dollar reductions. These can be reviewed in the original filings through the SEC EDGAR 13F filings database. Whether they reflect valuation concerns, derivatives hedging adjustments, or capital rotation into other large-cap positions is not determinable from 13F data alone.

Year-over-year, AAPL institutional ownership has grown by +483 net new funds — a 9.1% expansion in the major shareholders base in twelve months. Combined with $2.59T in total disclosed institutional value and a broad base of adding funds in Q4, the AAPL institutional ownership picture for Q4 2025 reads as structurally constructive. The fund count breadth expansion, sovereign capital entry, and active-manager accumulation from Goldman together form a coherent picture: institutional investors are widening their conviction in Apple, not narrowing it.

Data sourced from SEC Form 13F filings. 13F data reflects long equity positions held at quarter-end and is filed 45 days after quarter close. This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.