Latest Aurora Investment Counsel Stock Portfolio

Aurora Investment Counsel Performance:

2025 Q1: -2.65%YTD: -2.65%2024: 13.79%

Performance for 2025 Q1 is -2.65%, and YTD is -2.65%, and 2024 is 13.79%.

About Aurora Investment Counsel and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

Aurora Investment Counsel is a hedge fund based in ATLANTA, GA. On 17-Mar-2023, the fund reported that it had an AUM (Regulated Assets under Management) of $190.5 Millions. In it's latest 13F Holdings report, Aurora Investment Counsel reported an equity portfolio of $180.4 Millions as of 31 Mar, 2025.

The top stock holdings of Aurora Investment Counsel are STZ, EPRT, HRB. The fund has invested 1.9% of it's portfolio in CONSTELLATION BRANDS INC. and 1.8% of portfolio in ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TR.

The fund managers got completely rid off VERISIGN, INC. (VRSN), CME GROUP INC. (CME) and JOHN HANCOCK FINANCIAL OPPORTU stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in STRIDE, INC. (LRN), ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. (EA) and DARDEN RESTAURANTS, INC. (DRI). Aurora Investment Counsel opened new stock positions in CONSTELLATION BRANDS INC. (STZ), FABRINET (FN) and ESSENTIAL UTILITIES, INC. (WTRG). The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to PAGSEGURO DIGITAL LTD. (PAGS), QUALCOMM INCORPORATED (QCOM) and VITAL FARMS, INC. (VITL).

Aurora Investment Counsel Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that Aurora Investment Counsel made a return of -2.65% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was -0.05%.

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
constellation brands inc.	3,354,380
fabrinet	2,769,090
essential utilities, inc.	2,743,940
churchill downs, inc.	2,675,120
southern company	2,528,990
adobe inc.	2,502,530
hartford insurance group, inc.	2,433,520
iron mountain inc.	2,189,200

New stocks bought by Aurora Investment Counsel

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
pagseguro digital ltd.	19.08
qualcomm incorporated	13.44
vital farms, inc.	7.95
global payments inc	7.25
host hotels & resorts, inc.	6.82
qualys, inc.	6.6
wex inc.	5.52
crocs, inc.	4.57

Additions to existing portfolio by Aurora Investment Counsel

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
stride, inc.	-85.96
electronic arts inc.	-41.77
darden restaurants, inc.	-36.29
w. r. berkley corporation	-35.27
snap-on incorporated	-29.46
arch capital group	-23.51
corpay, inc.	-19.7
cf industries holdings, inc.	-16.05

Aurora Investment Counsel reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

Ticker	$ Sold
sportradar group ag	-2,024,880
orion s.a.	-1,178,690
john hancock financial opportu	-2,626,820
match group, inc.	-2,209,140
allegro microsystems, inc.	-685,814
sei investments company	-1,628,730
verisign, inc.	-3,136,890
interpublic group of companies	-400,882

Aurora Investment Counsel got rid off the above stocks

Sector Distribution

Aurora Investment Counsel has about 15.5% of it's holdings in Others sector.

Sector	%
Others	15.5
Consumer Cyclical	11.9
Technology	11
Industrials	11
Real Estate	8.9
Consumer Defensive	8.7
Healthcare	8.6
Financial Services	7.5
Energy	6.5
Utilities	5.1
Basic Materials	2.9
Communication Services	2.4

Market Cap. Distribution

Aurora Investment Counsel has about 43% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
LARGE-CAP	41.6
MID-CAP	36.9
UNALLOCATED	14.5
SMALL-CAP	5.7
MEGA-CAP	1.4

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 65% of the stocks held by Aurora Investment Counsel either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
S&P 500	36.9
Others	35
RUSSELL 2000	28.1

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
MP	mp materials corp.	56.3 %
HALO	halozyme therapeutics, inc.	33.0 %
RPRX	royalty pharma plc	21.7 %
LRN	stride, inc.	21.5 %
WEC	wec energy group, inc.	15.8 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
MP	mp materials corp.	0.6 M
HALO	halozyme therapeutics, inc.	0.6 M
LRN	stride, inc.	0.5 M
WRB	w. r. berkley corporation	0.3 M
RPRX	royalty pharma plc	0.3 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
EPAM	epam systems, inc.	-27.8 %
LULU	lululemon athletica inc.	-26.0 %
XPEL	xpel, inc.	-25.0 %
PYPL	paypal holdings, inc.	-23.3 %
GTLS	chart industries, inc.	-23.1 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
TFX	teleflex inc.	-0.6 M
XPEL	xpel, inc.	-0.5 M
ULTA	ulta beauty, inc.	-0.5 M
AMPH	amphastar pharmaceuticals, inc	-0.4 M
EPAM	epam systems, inc.	-0.4 M

Aurora Investment Counsel Holdings Map

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

Current Stock Holdings of Aurora Investment Counsel

Aurora Investment Counsel has 110 stocks in it's portfolio. About 16.3% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. TFX proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. MP was the most profitable stock for Aurora Investment Counsel last quarter.

Last Reported on: 01 May, 2025

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
ABC	cencora, inc.	0.97	6,267	1,742,790	reduced	-6.59

ACGL	arch capital group	0.32	5,985	575,637	reduced	-23.51

ADBE	adobe inc.	1.39	6,525	2,502,530	new

ALG	alamo group inc.	0.00	0.00	0.00	sold off	-100

ALGM	allegro microsystems, inc.	0.00	0.00	0.00	sold off	-100

ALLE	allegion plc	0.90	12,395	1,617,050	new

AMP	ameriprise financial, inc.	1.57	5,848	2,831,080	reduced	-0.76

AMPH	amphastar pharmaceuticals, inc	0.87	54,081	1,567,810	reduced	-1.14

APLE	apple hospitality reit, inc.	0.71	99,570	1,285,450	reduced	-1.72

AXTA	axalta coating systems ltd.	1.01	55,217	1,831,550	new

BATRA	atlanta braves holdings, inc.	1.10	45,091	1,978,140	reduced	-1.69

BKNG	booking holdings inc.	1.68	657	3,026,740	reduced	-5.06

BRC	brady corp.	1.24	31,764	2,243,810	reduced	-0.92

CARR	carrier global corporation	1.07	30,360	1,924,820	reduced	-1.3

CF	cf industries holdings, inc.	0.77	17,713	1,384,270	reduced	-16.05

CHDN	churchill downs, inc.	1.48	24,085	2,675,120	new

CHK	expand energy corp.	0.64	10,385	1,156,060	reduced	-11.32

CHRD	chord energy corp.	1.08	17,214	1,940,360	new

CHX	championx corporation	0.92	56,009	1,669,070	reduced	-2.27

CINF	cincinnati financial corp.	0.85	10,431	1,540,870	reduced	-13.54