Sterling Global Strategies 13F annual report

Sterling Global Strategies is an investment fund managing more than $18 million ran by Greg Carroll. There are currently 25 companies in Mr. Carroll’s portfolio. The largest investments include Spdr S&p 500 Etf Tr and Vanguard Index Fds, together worth $8.94 million.

$18 million Assets Under Management (AUM)

As of 7th October 2020, Sterling Global Strategies’s top holding is 16,000 shares of Spdr S&p 500 Etf Tr currently worth over $4.52 million and making up 25.2% of the portfolio value. In addition, the fund holds 50,797 shares of Vanguard Index Fds worth $4.42 million. The third-largest holding is Procter And Gamble Co worth $1.14 million and the next is Aberdeen Std Gold Etf Tr worth $719 thousand, with 5,769 shares owned.

Currently, Sterling Global Strategies's portfolio is worth at least $18 million. 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 Sterling Global Strategies

The Sterling Global Strategies office and employees reside in Carlsbad, California. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Greg Carroll serves as the Chief Compliance Officer at Sterling Global Strategies.

Recent trades

In the most recent 13F filing, Sterling Global Strategies revealed that it had opened a new position in Aberdeen Std Gold Etf Tr and bought 5,769 shares worth $719 thousand.

The investment fund also strengthened its position in Spdr S&p 500 Etf Tr by buying 15,562 additional shares. This makes their stake in Spdr S&p 500 Etf Tr total 16,000 shares worth $4.52 million.

On the other hand, there are companies that Sterling Global Strategies is getting rid of from its portfolio. Sterling Global Strategies closed its position in Invesco Exchng Traded Fd Tr on 15th May 2019. It sold the previously owned 8,699 shares for $917 million. Greg Carroll also disclosed a decreased stake in Procter And Gamble Co by approximately 0.1%. This leaves the value of the investment at $1.14 million and 10,904 shares.

One of the smallest hedge funds

The two most similar investment funds to Sterling Global Strategies are Symmetry Peak Management and Gsb Wealth Management. They manage $17.9 million and $17.9 million respectively.


Greg Carroll investment strategy

Sterling Global Strategies’s portfolio is diversified across 6 sectors. Currently, their heaviest sector is Consumer Discretionary — making up 9.1% of the total portfolio value. The fund focuses on investments in the United States as 40.0% 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 28% of the total holdings value. On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only 8.0% of the portfolio. The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $432 billion.

The complete list of Sterling Global Strategies trades based on 13F SEC filings

These positions were updated on May 15th 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
Invesco Exchng Traded Fd Tr
Closed
8,699
$917,223,000
Amgen, Inc.
Closed
1,478
$287,722,000
Vanguard Bd Index Fd Inc
Closed
3,361
$266,225,000
Northrop Grumman Corp.
Closed
897
$219,631,000
QUALCOMM, Inc.
Closed
3,448
$196,181,000
Pfizer Inc.
Closed
4,363
$190,453,000
Verizon Communications, Inc.
Closed
3,356
$188,675,000
Chevron Corp.
Closed
1,610
$175,152,000
Facebook, Inc.
Closed
1,318
$172,777,000
Spdr Series Trust
Closed
7,161
$249,025,000
Ishares Tr
Closed
8,219
$458,487,000
Dbx Etf Tr
Closed
4,982
$130,880,000
American Express Co.
Closed
1,300
$123,916,000
Xcel Energy Inc.
Closed
2,381
$117,312,000
Johnson & Johnson
Closed
907
$116,961,000
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Closed
1,158
$113,022,000
Proshares Tr
Closed
6,710
$185,564,000
Realty Income Corp.
Closed
1,600
$100,840,000
Alibaba Group Hldg Ltd
Closed
734
$100,609,000
Consolidated Edison, Inc.
Closed
1,255
$95,957,000
Bb&t Corp
Closed
2,134
$92,464,000
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
Closed
1,342
$91,709,000
Microsoft Corp.
Closed
865
$87,854,000
The Boeing Co.
Closed
266
$85,847,000
Lilly Eli & Co
Closed
903
$81,400,000
Spdr Gold Trust
Closed
650
$78,813,000
Bristol Myers Squibb Co.
Closed
1,735
$78,178,000
Vanguard World Fds
Closed
1,000
$77,110,000
General Electric Co.
Closed
9,213
$69,742,000
Altria Group, Inc.
Closed
1,412
$69,739,000
Cisco Sys Inc
Closed
1,577
$68,332,000
BP Plc
Closed
1,747
$66,228,000
Intel Corp.
Closed
1,371
$64,325,000
Autohome, Inc.
Closed
745
$58,281,000
Oracle Corp.
Closed
1,246
$56,257,000
Dreyfus Strategic Muns Inc
Closed
7,166
$51,452,000
Vaneck Vectors Etf Tr
Closed
1,923
$51,274,000
Mcdonalds Corp
Closed
287
$50,986,000
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.
Closed
480
$49,815,000
Pnc Finl Svcs Group Inc
Closed
417
$48,731,000
Tellurian, Inc.
Closed
7,000
$48,650,000
Phillips 66
Closed
537
$46,247,000
Embraer S A
Closed
2,050
$45,367,000
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.
Closed
211
$43,692,000
Goldman Sachs Etf Tr
Closed
853
$42,907,000
Copart, Inc.
Closed
872
$41,664,000
Us Bancorp Del
Closed
895
$40,924,000
Caterpillar, Inc.
Closed
320
$40,607,000
CDW Corp.
Closed
492
$39,877,000
Edison Intl
Closed
700
$39,739,000
OGE Energy Corp.
Closed
1,000
$39,190,000
Primerica, Inc.
Closed
398
$38,889,000
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.
Closed
500
$36,045,000
Air Prods & Chems Inc
Closed
221
$35,371,000
Walmart, Inc.
Closed
378
$35,168,000
Vanguard Tax Managed Intl Fd
Closed
896
$33,239,000
Old Dominion Fght Lines Inc
Closed
266
$32,848,000
Graco, Inc.
Closed
758
$31,722,000
Aspen Technology, Inc.
Closed
384
$31,557,000
Vanguard Whitehall Fds Inc
Closed
400
$31,196,000
NIKE, Inc.
Closed
419
$31,048,000
First Tr Morningstar Div Lea
Closed
1,135
$30,917,000
WABCO Holdings, Inc.
Closed
288
$30,914,000
Vanguard Intl Equity Index F
Closed
802
$30,566,000
Ishares Silver Trust
Closed
2,000
$29,040,000
Pool Corp.
Closed
188
$27,946,000
ALLETE, Inc.
Closed
364
$27,744,000
First Tr Nasdaq100 Tech Inde
Closed
403
$27,451,000
Select Sector Spdr Tr
Closed
748
$55,800,000
NVIDIA Corp.
Closed
185
$24,698,000
International Business Machs
Closed
209
$23,806,000
Netflix, Inc.
Closed
87
$23,286,000
MarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Closed
108
$22,821,000
Factset Resh Sys Inc
Closed
112
$22,415,000
Hff Inc
Closed
638
$21,156,000
RBC Bearings, Inc.
Closed
161
$21,107,000
AutoZone, Inc.
Closed
25
$20,959,000
Advisorshares Tr
Closed
2,351
$19,819,000
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
Closed
130
$19,572,000
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp.
Closed
7,529
$19,500,000
Nuveen California Amt Qlt Mu
Closed
1,511
$19,159,000
Briggs & Stratton Corp.
Closed
1,450
$18,966,000
Under Armour, Inc.
Closed
1,150
$18,596,000
Schlumberger Ltd
Closed
500
$18,040,000
Atlassian Corp. Plc
Closed
200
$17,796,000
PriceSmart, Inc.
Closed
301
$17,789,000
Henry Jack & Assoc Inc
Closed
140
$17,713,000
The Toro Co.
Closed
303
$16,932,000
Alphabet, Inc.
Closed
26
$27,020,000
Moelis & Co.
Closed
481
$16,537,000
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Closed
141
$16,220,000
Dril-Quip, Inc.
Closed
505
$15,165,000
Ishares Inc
Closed
392
$14,974,000
AptarGroup, Inc.
Closed
155
$14,581,000
Abbott Labs
Closed
200
$14,466,000
Wisdomtree Tr
Closed
500
$15,475,000
EXACT Sciences Corp.
Closed
225
$14,198,000
Artisan Partners Asset Mgmt
Closed
626
$13,841,000
Indexiq Etf Tr
Closed
426
$13,515,000
The Allstate Corp.
Closed
159
$13,178,000
Hsbc Hldgs Plc
Closed
500
$12,885,000
RLI Corp.
Closed
178
$12,280,000
Twitter, Inc.
Closed
426
$12,243,000
Constellation Brands, Inc.
Closed
75
$12,062,000
Chesapeake Energy Corp.
Closed
5,500
$11,550,000
Canadian Natl Ry Co
Closed
152
$11,265,000
Microchip Technology, Inc.
Closed
150
$10,788,000
Welltower, Inc.
Closed
150
$10,412,000
ConocoPhillips
Closed
165
$10,277,000
Manhattan Assocs Inc
Closed
239
$10,126,000
Comcast Corp New
Closed
296
$10,075,000
Cronos Group, Inc.
Closed
950
$9,871,000
3M Co.
Closed
51
$9,718,000
Morgan Stanley
Closed
243
$9,641,000
MaxLinear, Inc.
Closed
500
$8,800,000
Etfis Ser Tr I
Closed
1,750
$8,785,000
Costco Whsl Corp New
Closed
42
$8,531,000
Hercules Capital, Inc.
Closed
765
$8,453,000
Arconic Corporation
Closed
500
$8,430,000
PayPal Holdings, Inc.
Closed
100
$8,409,000
Kinder Morgan, Inc.
Closed
533
$8,192,000
Workday Inc
Closed
50
$7,984,000
Duke Energy Corp.
Closed
90
$7,767,000
Sonos, Inc.
Closed
750
$7,365,000
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.
Closed
100
$7,141,000
Discover Finl Svcs
Closed
117
$6,925,000
Core Laboratories N V
Closed
112
$6,682,000
Laboratory Corp Amer Hldgs
Closed
52
$6,571,000
Travelers Companies Inc
Closed
50
$5,988,000
New York Cmnty Bancorp Inc
Closed
625
$5,881,000
Avid Bioservices, Inc.
Closed
1,429
$5,859,000
Waste Mgmt Inc Del
Closed
65
$5,784,000
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Closed
92
$5,755,000
Merck & Co., Inc.
Closed
75
$5,731,000
Wells Fargo Co New
Closed
124
$5,714,000
Intl Paper Co
Closed
141
$5,691,000
Nuveen Dow 30 Dyn Overwrite
Closed
350
$5,642,000
Clearbridge Mlp And Midstrm
Closed
525
$5,465,000
Dowdupont Inc
Closed
99
$5,286,000
Royal Bk Cda Montreal Que
Closed
75
$5,139,000
Ford Mtr Co Del
Closed
641
$4,906,000
Direxion Shs Etf Tr
Closed
262
$4,762,000
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Closed
70
$4,691,000
Luminex Corp.
Closed
200
$4,622,000
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.
Closed
75
$4,610,000
Spdr S&p 500 Etf Tr
3,552.97%
16,000
$4,520,000 25.16%
Vanguard Index Fds
5,594.73%
50,797
$4,415,000 24.57%
Intuit, Inc.
Closed
21
$4,043,000
General Mls Inc
Closed
103
$4,011,000
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Closed
15
$3,928,000
Dean Foods Co New
Closed
1,000
$3,810,000
American Elec Pwr Inc
Closed
50
$3,737,000
Toronto Dominion Bk Ont
Closed
75
$3,729,000
Brunswick Corp.
Closed
80
$3,716,000
Amarin Corp. Plc
Closed
250
$3,403,000
Credit Suisse Ag Nassau Brh
Closed
84
$3,386,000
General Mtrs Co
Closed
100
$3,345,000
Versum Matls Inc
Closed
110
$3,049,000
Credit Suisse Group
Closed
280
$3,041,000
Canopy Growth Corp.
Closed
110
$2,956,000
ViaSat, Inc.
Closed
50
$2,948,000
PRA Health Sciences, Inc.
Closed
32
$2,943,000
Senior Hsg Pptys Tr
Closed
247
$2,899,000
Helen Of Troy Corp Ltd
Closed
21
$2,755,000
Snap, Inc.
Closed
500
$2,755,000
First Tr Exchan Traded Fd Vi
Closed
150
$2,690,000
Lrad Corp
Closed
1,000
$2,520,000
Bridgepoint Ed Inc
Closed
300
$2,103,000
Zebra Technologies Corp.
Closed
13
$2,070,000
Stitch Fix, Inc.
Closed
120
$2,051,000
Hancock John Pfd Income Fd I
Closed
100
$1,875,000
ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc.
Closed
1,000
$1,870,000
Seaspine Hldgs Corp
Closed
100
$1,824,000
Avon Prods Inc
Closed
1,000
$1,520,000
Aurora Cannabis, Inc.
Closed
300
$1,488,000
Aphria, Inc.
Closed
200
$1,138,000
Procter And Gamble Co
1.54%
10,904
$1,135,000 6.32%
Companhia Siderurgica Nacion
Closed
500
$1,095,000
Kopin Corp.
Closed
1,000
$999,000
P T Telekomunikasi Indonesia
Closed
37
$970,000
China Mobile Limited
Closed
20
$960,000
NRG Energy, Inc.
Closed
23
$911,000
Fibria Celulose S A
Closed
50
$861,000
Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
Closed
500
$860,000
Teradata Corp.
Closed
22
$844,000
Aberdeen Std Gold Etf Tr
Opened
5,769
$719,000 4.00%
Eastman Kodak Co.
Closed
250
$638,000
Disney Walt Co
7.78%
5,634
$626,000 3.48%
Apple, Inc.
4.37%
3,067
$583,000 3.25%
The Home Depot, Inc.
0.19%
2,602
$499,000 2.78%
Sempra Energy
2.06%
3,562
$448,000 2.49%
Golden Minerals Co.
Closed
2,000
$438,000
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Closed
2
$408,000
Exxon Mobil Corp.
5.26%
4,940
$399,000 2.22%
Bank Amer Corp
2.59%
14,160
$391,000 2.18%
Proshares Tr
8,800.00%
8,900
$362,000 2.01%
Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc.
No change
22,000
$354,000 1.97%
Ishares Tr
139.78%
8,920
$667,000 3.71%
AT&T Inc.
7.00%
10,720
$336,000 1.87%
Tesla, Inc.
408.58%
1,185
$332,000 1.85%
Proshares Tr
Opened
11,101
$307,000 1.71%
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.
No change
3,000
$266,000 1.48%
Invesco Exchng Traded Fd Tr
Opened
9,364
$262,000 1.46%
Pimco Etf Tr
16.35%
2,507
$255,000 1.42%
Goldman Sachs Etf Tr
95.67%
2,352
$236,000 1.31%
Amazon.com, Inc.
2.46%
125
$223,000 1.24%
Select Sector Spdr Tr
0.51%
8,633
$222,000 1.24%
Vanguard Group
0.05%
1,918
$210,000 1.17%
Invesco Exchange Traded Fd T
Closed
2
$200,000
American Fin Tr Inc
24.02%
16,032
$173,000 0.96%
Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
12.20%
12,240
$26,000 0.14%
Vertex Energy, Inc.
Closed
10,000
$0
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