Latest Fruth Investment Management Stock Portfolio

Fruth Investment Management Performance:

2025 Q4: 0.38%YTD: 6.13%2024: -0.18%

Performance for 2025 Q4 is 0.38%, and YTD is 6.13%, and 2024 is -0.18%.

About Fruth Investment Management and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

In it's latest 13F Holdings report, Fruth Investment Management reported an equity portfolio of $370.7 Millions as of 31 Dec, 2025.

The top stock holdings of Fruth Investment Management are GWW, MA, LIN. The fund has invested 4.6% of it's portfolio in GRAINGER WW INC and 3.2% of portfolio in MASTERCARD INC.

The fund managers got completely rid off ORACLE SYSTEMS CORP (ORCL), ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS (ITW) and NAT'L FUEL GAS CO. (NFG) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in MICROSOFT CORP (MSFT), COMERICA INC. (CMA) and TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC (TT). Fruth Investment Management opened new stock positions in CONAGRA INCORPORATED (CAG), QNITY ELECTRONICS INC. and AVERY DENNISON CORP (AVY). The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to TEX PAC LAND SUB CTF (TPL), WHEATON PRECIOUS MET. and DNOW INC COM (DNOW).

Fruth Investment Management Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that Fruth Investment Management made a return of 0.38% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was 6.13%.

Performance
S&P 500

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
conagra incorporated	830,000
qnity electronics inc.	709,000
avery dennison corp	218,000
cummins inc	204,000
st joe company	204,000
johnson controls	203,000
alico inc.	200,000
patterson util enrgy	61,000

New stocks bought by Fruth Investment Management

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
tex pac land sub ctf	200
wheaton precious met.	64.18
dnow inc com	50.69
franco nevada corp.	18.35
dominion resources inc.	7.71
kinross gold corp new	7.21
mexco energy corp.	6.59
xerox corp	6.33

Additions to existing portfolio by Fruth Investment Management

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
microsoft corp	-9.77
comerica inc.	-8.88
trane technologies plc	-6.73
stanley black & decker inc.	-4.12
pfizer inc	-3.88
helmerich & payne inc	-3.76
caleres inc.	-3.55
emerson electric	-3.38

Fruth Investment Management reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

Ticker	$ Sold
nat'l fuel gas co.	-203,000
oracle systems corp	-302,000
illinois tool works	-208,000

Fruth Investment Management got rid off the above stocks

Sector Distribution

Fruth Investment Management has about 25.8% of it's holdings in Industrials sector.

Sector	%
Industrials	25.8
Consumer Cyclical	11
Energy	10.9
Technology	9.7
Basic Materials	9.4
Financial Services	8.6
Others	7.9
Consumer Defensive	7.3
Healthcare	6.5
Utilities	1.9

Market Cap. Distribution

Fruth Investment Management has about 79.1% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
LARGE-CAP	58
MEGA-CAP	21.1
MID-CAP	10.1
UNALLOCATED	7.9
SMALL-CAP	2.6

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 83.1% of the stocks held by Fruth Investment Management either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
S&P 500	75
Others	16.9
RUSSELL 2000	8.1

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
CIEN	ciena corp new	60.5 %
ATI	allegheny tech inc	41.1 %
	pan american silver	33.8 %
	barrick mining corp	33.0 %
KEX	kirby corp	32.0 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
AMAT	applied materials inc	1.0 M
GWW	grainger ww inc	1.0 M
PH	parker-hannifin corp	0.7 M
CAT	caterpillar inc	0.7 M
KEYS	keysight technologies inc com	0.6 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
TPL	tex pac land sub ctf	-60.1 %
DD	du pont e i de nemour&co	-48.4 %
DLTH	duluth holdings inc	-46.9 %
KOS	kosmos energy ltd	-45.3 %
XRX	xerox corp	-37.1 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
LIN	linde plc com	-1.3 M
TSCO	tractor supply company	-1.1 M
ADP	auto data processing	-0.9 M
	eaton corporation	-0.9 M
DD	du pont e i de nemour&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 220 stocks in it's portfolio. About 25.4% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. LIN proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. AMAT was the most profitable stock for Fruth Investment Management last quarter.

Last Reported on: 26 Jan, 2026

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
A	agilent technologies	1.46	39,772	5,411,000	reduced	-0.95

AAPL	apple, inc	1.74	23,671	6,435,000	unchanged	0.00

ABT	abbott laboratories	1.00	29,652	3,715,000	reduced	-0.95

ACCO	acco brands corp com	0.01	13,500	50,000	unchanged	0.00

ADI	analog devices inc	0.87	11,895	3,225,000	unchanged	0.00

ADP	auto data processing	1.75	25,191	6,479,000	reduced	-0.4

AEP	amer electric pwr co inc	0.11	3,580	412,000	added	5.92

AIN	albany int'l corp.	0.27	19,905	1,009,000	unchanged	0.00

AIT	applied indl. tech.	1.39	19,994	5,133,000	reduced	-0.99

ALCO	alico inc.	0.05	5,500	200,000	new

ALLE	allegion public ltd. co.	0.30	6,882	1,095,000	unchanged	0.00

AMAT	applied materials inc	1.30	18,725	4,812,000	reduced	-0.27

AMGN	amgen inc	0.15	1,740	569,000	unchanged	0.00

APD	air products & chemicals	1.31	19,655	4,855,000	reduced	-2.11

ARTNA	artesian res corp cla	0.08	9,350	295,000	unchanged	0.00

ASIX	advansix inc com	0.29	63,061	1,090,000	reduced	-0.47

ATI	allegheny tech inc	0.40	12,750	1,463,000	unchanged	0.00

ATO	atmos energy corp	0.42	9,181	1,539,000	unchanged	0.00

AVT	avnet inc	0.38	29,155	1,401,000	unchanged	0.00

AVY	avery dennison corp	0.06	1,200	218,000	new