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Latest WELCH & FORBES LLC Stock Portfolio

$7.73Billion– No. of Holdings #366

WELCH & FORBES LLC Performance:
2026 Q1: -4.62%YTD: -4.62%2025: 10.86%

Performance for 2026 Q1 is -4.62%, and YTD is -4.62%, and 2025 is 10.86%.

About WELCH & FORBES LLC and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

On 2026-05-01, the fund reported it's updated stock portfolio. In the 13F Holdings report, Welch & Forbes LLC reported an equity portfolio of $7.7 Billions as of 31 Mar, 2026.

The top stock holdings of Welch & Forbes LLC are NVDA, AAPL, GOOG. The fund has invested 7% of it's portfolio in NVIDIA CORPORATION and 5.5% of portfolio in APPLE INC.

The fund managers got completely rid off BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP (BSX), HARBOR ETF TRUST (HAPY) and AUTODESK INC (ADSK) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in ADOBE INC (ADBE), ICON PLC (ICLR) and INVESCO EXCH TRADED FD TR II (BAB). Welch & Forbes LLC opened new stock positions in ENTERPRISE PRODS PARTNERS L (EPD), DOW HLDGS INC (DOW) and FEDEX CORP (FDX). The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to NETFLIX INC. (NFLX), WATERS CORP (WAT) and ISHARES TR (AAXJ).
WELCH & FORBES LLC Equity Portfolio Value
Last Reported on: 01 May, 2026

WELCH & FORBES LLC Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that Welch & Forbes LLC made a return of -4.62% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was 6.68%.
  • Performance
  • S&P 500

New Buys

Ticker$ Bought
enterprise prods partners l1,108,520
dow hldgs inc243,196
fedex corp237,216
eqt corp206,830
ametek inc206,215
vanguard world fd203,840
taiwan semiconductor manufac203,784
milestone pharmaceuticals in29,750

New stocks bought by WELCH & FORBES LLC

Additions

Ticker% Inc.
netflix inc.3,464
waters corp103
ishares tr77.71
ishares tr68.51
ishares tr65.68
mckesson corp47.56
ishares tr44.8
ishares tr40.29

Additions to existing portfolio by WELCH & FORBES LLC

Reductions

Ticker% Reduced
adobe inc-83.97
icon plc-54.01
invesco exch traded fd tr ii-43.19
teradyne inc-42.3
waste mgmt inc del-39.86
veralto corp-39.01
comcast corp new-38.03
unitedhealth group inc-35.7

WELCH & FORBES LLC reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

Ticker$ Sold
boston scientific corp-10,654,300
harbor etf trust-386,580
ubs group ag-231,921
somnigroup international inc-316,051
solventum corp-253,568
grail inc-266,014
spdr series trust-223,493
amcor plc-95,910

WELCH & FORBES LLC got rid off the above stocks

Sector Distribution

Welch & Forbes LLC has about 22.2% of it's holdings in Technology sector.

  • Technology
  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Consumer Cyclical
  • Industrials
  • Others
  • Communication Services
  • Consumer Defensive
  • Basic Materials
  • Energy
  • Real Estate
  • Utilities
Sector%
Technology22.2
Healthcare15.9
Financial Services11
Consumer Cyclical11
Industrials10.7
Others8.1
Communication Services7.8
Consumer Defensive6.4
Basic Materials2.6
Energy2
Real Estate1.2
Utilities1.1

Market Cap. Distribution

Welch & Forbes LLC has about 91.2% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

  • MEGA-CAP
  • LARGE-CAP
  • UNALLOCATED
Category%
MEGA-CAP54
LARGE-CAP37.2
UNALLOCATED8.1

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 88.7% of the stocks held by Welch & Forbes LLC either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

  • S&P 500
  • Others
Index%
S&P 50088.7
Others11
Top 5 Winners (%)%
FORM
formfactor inc
73.9 %
VLO
valero energy corp
51.6 %
MPC
marathon pete corp
50.1 %
CNQ
canadian nat res ltd med ter
44.0 %
TER
teradyne inc
41.9 %
Top 5 Winners ($)$
JNJ
johnson & johnson
24.9 M
CVX
chevron corporation
22.0 M
COST
costco wholesale corporation
21.7 M
XOM
exxon mobil corp
14.2 M
IRM
iron mtn inc del
12.6 M
Top 5 Losers (%)%
MDB
mongodb inc
-41.7 %
WDAY
workday inc
-39.5 %
IT
gartner inc
-37.2 %
INTU
intuit
-34.5 %
NOW
servicenow inc
-29.4 %
Top 5 Losers ($)$
MSFT
microsoft corp
-100.3 M
NVDA
nvidia corporation
-38.9 M
V
visa inc
-35.0 M
GOOG
alphabet inc
-31.8 M
AAPL
apple inc
-30.6 M

WELCH & FORBES LLC Holdings Map

This heatmap illustrates the top 50 positions within the fund's portfolio.

Current Stock Holdings of WELCH & FORBES LLC

Welch & Forbes LLC has 366 stocks in it's portfolio. About 36.7% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. MSFT proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. JNJ was the most profitable stock for Welch & Forbes LLC last quarter.

Last Reported on: 01 May, 2026
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