Latest Fruth Investment Management Stock Portfolio

Fruth Investment Management Performance:

2026 Q1: 8.86%YTD: 8.86%2025: 7.36%

Performance for 2026 Q1 is 8.86%, and YTD is 8.86%, and 2025 is 7.36%.

About Fruth Investment Management and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

On 2026-04-21, the fund reported it's updated stock portfolio. In the 13F Holdings report, Fruth Investment Management reported an equity portfolio of $401.3 Millions as of 31 Mar, 2026.

The top stock holdings of Fruth Investment Management are GWW, XOM, LIN. The fund has invested 4.5% of it's portfolio in GRAINGER WW INC and 3.4% of portfolio in EXXON MOBIL CORP.

The fund managers got completely rid off COMERICA INC. (CMA), 21ST CENT FOX CL A (FOX) and AVERY DENNISON CORP (AVY) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in ASTRAZENECA PLC ADR (AZN), CIENA CORP NEW (CIEN) and GILEAD SCIENCE SVCS (GILD). Fruth Investment Management opened new stock positions in NOBLE CORP, APACHE CORP (APA) and CENOVUS ENERGY INC (CVE). The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to FIFTH THIRD BANCORP (FITB), MOSAIC CO NEW (MOS) and CONAGRA INCORPORATED (CAG).

Fruth Investment Management Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that Fruth Investment Management made a return of 8.86% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was 17.01%.

Performance
S&P 500

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
noble corp	294,000
apache corp	267,000
solstice advanced matls	252,000
cenovus energy inc	234,000
solventum corp	220,000
technip fmc ltd.	215,000
colgate-palmolive co	213,000
northrop grumman corp	210,000

New stocks bought by Fruth Investment Management

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
fifth third bancorp	335
mosaic co new	109
conagra incorporated	81.46
huntington bancshares inc	48.51
schlumberger ltd f	32.88
dnow inc com	29.35
transocean sedco forex	13.72
qnity electronics inc.	12.17

Additions to existing portfolio by Fruth Investment Management

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
astrazeneca plc adr	-50.00
ciena corp new	-33.33
gilead science svcs	-28.24
schwab us tips etf	-25.00
microsoft corp	-11.17
canadian pac ltd new	-7.94
st joe company	-7.25
stryker corp	-7.14

Fruth Investment Management reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

Ticker	$ Sold
dennys corp	-192,000
comerica inc.	-981,000
mexco energy corp.	-107,000
21st cent fox cl a	-249,000
avery dennison corp	-218,000

Fruth Investment Management got rid off the above stocks

Sector Distribution

Fruth Investment Management has about 24.8% of it's holdings in Industrials sector.

Sector	%
Industrials	24.8
Energy	14.2
Consumer Cyclical	10.2
Basic Materials	10.1
Technology	9.4
Consumer Defensive	7.9
Others	7.8
Financial Services	7.2
Healthcare	5.7
Utilities	1.8

Market Cap. Distribution

Fruth Investment Management has about 79.3% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
LARGE-CAP	53.2
MEGA-CAP	26.1
MID-CAP	9.5
UNALLOCATED	8.6
SMALL-CAP	2.5

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 82.8% of the stocks held by Fruth Investment Management either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
S&P 500	74.6
Others	17.2
RUSSELL 2000	8.2

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
KOS	kosmos energy ltd	198.9 %
CC	chemours company	87.2 %
AZN	astrazeneca plc adr	86.0 %
PTEN	patterson util enrgy	78.7 %
DOW	dow chemical	77.8 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
XOM	exxon mobil corp	4.0 M
CVX	chevrontexaco corp	2.9 M
LIN	linde plc com	1.8 M
CASY	caseys general stores inc	1.8 M
KEYS	keysight technologies inc com	1.7 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
XRX	xerox corp	-43.9 %
CLF	cleveland-cliffs, inc.	-36.2 %
EL	lauder estee corp cl a	-31.4 %
FIS	fidelity natl info svcs	-29.2 %
OI	o-i glass, inc.	-28.7 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
MSFT	microsoft corp	-1.8 M
MA	mastercard inc	-1.5 M
ADP	auto data processing	-1.4 M
A	agilent technologies	-0.9 M
AXP	american express co.	-0.7 M

Fruth Investment Management Holdings Map

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

Current Stock Holdings of Fruth Investment Management

Fruth Investment Management has 229 stocks in it's portfolio. About 25.2% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. MSFT proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. XOM was the most profitable stock for Fruth Investment Management last quarter.

Last Reported on: 21 Apr, 2026

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
A	agilent technologies	1.11	39,142	4,461,000	reduced	-1.58

AAPL	apple, inc	1.48	23,466	5,955,000	reduced	-0.87

ABT	abbott laboratories	0.75	29,307	3,008,000	reduced	-1.16

ACCO	acco brands corp com	0.01	13,500	40,000	unchanged	0.00

ADI	analog devices inc	0.91	11,470	3,649,000	reduced	-3.57

ADP	auto data processing	1.26	24,891	5,057,000	reduced	-1.19

AEM	agnico-eagle mines ltd	0.38	7,475	1,517,000	unchanged	0.00

AEP	amer electric pwr co inc	0.12	3,540	464,000	reduced	-1.12

AGI	alamos gold inc.	0.44	40,000	1,777,000	unchanged	0.00

AIN	albany int'l corp.	0.26	19,850	1,036,000	reduced	-0.28

AIT	applied indl. tech.	1.31	19,894	5,278,000	reduced	-0.5

ALCO	alico inc.	0.06	5,500	226,000	unchanged	0.00

ALLE	allegion public ltd. co.	0.24	6,786	985,000	reduced	-1.39

AMAT	applied materials inc	1.56	18,325	6,263,000	reduced	-2.14

AMGN	amgen inc	0.15	1,740	612,000	unchanged	0.00

APA	apache corp	0.07	6,300	267,000	new

APD	air products & chemicals	1.34	18,468	5,364,000	reduced	-6.04

ARTNA	artesian res corp cla	0.07	9,050	288,000	reduced	-3.21

ASIX	advansix inc com	0.38	61,676	1,504,000	reduced	-2.2

ATI	allegheny tech inc	0.44	12,050	1,752,000	reduced	-5.49