Latest Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC Stock Portfolio

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC Performance:

2026 Q1: -1.82%YTD: -1.82%2025: 11.53%

Performance for 2026 Q1 is -1.82%, and YTD is -1.82%, and 2025 is 11.53%.

About Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

On 2026-04-16, the fund reported it's updated stock portfolio. In the 13F Holdings report, Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC reported an equity portfolio of $356.9 Millions as of 31 Mar, 2026.

The top stock holdings of Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC are IJR, BBAX, BAB. The fund has invested 9% of it's portfolio in ISHARES TR and 8.5% of portfolio in J P MORGAN EXCHANGE TRADED F.

The fund managers got completely rid off DISNEY WALT CO (DIS), INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO (IP) and VANGUARD INDEX FDS (VB) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in ISHARES TR (AAXJ), ENTERGY CORP NEW (ETR) and LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP (LMT). Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC opened new stock positions in ISHARES INC (ACWV), ISHARES TR (IJR) and ISHARES INC (EMGF). The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to FIDELITY COVINGTON TRUST (FBCG), VANGUARD INDEX FDS (VB) and ISHARES TR (ACWF).

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC made a return of -1.82% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was 13.11%.

Performance
S&P 500

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
ishares inc	1,059,430
ishares tr	696,171
ishares inc	527,749
ishares tr	467,232
ishares inc	368,189
edison intl	329,896
csx corp	322,940
ishares tr	298,626

New stocks bought by Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
fidelity covington trust	2,538
vanguard index fds	119
ishares tr	114
select sector spdr tr	86.21
ford mtr co	81.71
servicenow inc	65.59
micron technology inc	51.00
vanguard world fd	44.84

Additions to existing portfolio by Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
ishares tr	-65.11
entergy corp new	-53.08
lockheed martin corp	-42.8
altria group inc	-39.72
quanta svcs inc	-36.1
ishares tr	-36.09
northrop grumman corp	-35.73
cincinnati finl corp	-33.11

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

Ticker	$ Sold
disney walt co	-1,776,210
ares capital corp	-211,522
international paper co	-511,828
ionq inc	-262,714
on hldg ag	-270,746
general mls inc	-235,119
nextera energy inc	-211,128
sempra	-212,632

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC got rid off the above stocks

Sector Distribution

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC has about 61.9% of it's holdings in Others sector.

Sector	%
Others	61.9
Technology	12.7
Financial Services	5.3
Communication Services	4.8
Healthcare	4
Consumer Cyclical	3.5
Consumer Defensive	3.2
Industrials	2
Utilities	1.4

Market Cap. Distribution

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC has about 37.4% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
UNALLOCATED	61.9
MEGA-CAP	25.9
LARGE-CAP	11.5

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 36.5% of the stocks held by Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
Others	62.8
S&P 500	36.5

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
STX	seagate technology hldngs pl	137.2 %
MPC	marathon pete corp	74.2 %
PWR	quanta svcs inc	60.4 %
HCA	hca healthcare inc	49.7 %
GLW	corning inc	48.7 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
	ge vernova inc	0.7 M
XLB	select sector spdr tr	0.6 M
WMT	walmart inc	0.6 M
EMGF	ishares inc	0.5 M
GLW	corning inc	0.5 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
UNH	unitedhealth group inc	-45.2 %
WEAV	weave communications inc	-39.1 %
SOUN	soundhound ai inc	-30.1 %
CRM	salesforce inc	-28.4 %
NOW	servicenow inc	-27.2 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
IJR	ishares tr	-2.9 M
BAB	invesco exch traded fd tr ii	-1.9 M
MSFT	microsoft corp	-1.6 M
AAPL	apple inc	-0.9 M
NOW	servicenow inc	-0.7 M

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC Holdings Map

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

Current Stock Holdings of Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC

Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC has 196 stocks in it's portfolio. About 50% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. IJR proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. was the most profitable stock for Sterling Investment Counsel, LLC last quarter.

Last Reported on: 16 Apr, 2026

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
AAPL	apple inc	4.31	60,631	15,387,400	reduced	-7.15

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.30	13,698	1,089,810	reduced	-16.38

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.13	4,957	465,614	added	10.97

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.11	7,338	389,795	reduced	-65.11

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.08	2,804	298,626	new

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.07	5,133	262,963	new

AAXJ	ishares tr	0.07	3,533	241,905	unchanged	0.00

ABBV	abbvie inc	0.54	8,810	1,916,090	added	1.46

ACWF	ishares tr	0.60	30,656	2,151,420	reduced	-4.49

ACWF	ishares tr	0.43	36,467	1,542,920	added	114

ACWF	ishares tr	0.20	10,881	718,146	unchanged	0.00

ACWV	ishares inc	0.30	16,913	1,059,430	new

ACWV	ishares inc	0.10	6,720	368,189	new

ACWV	ishares inc	0.07	4,990	265,168	new

ADBE	adobe inc	0.00	0.00	0.00	sold off	-100

ADI	analog devices inc	0.47	5,218	1,660,060	added	4.51

ADP	automatic data processing in	0.00	0.00	0.00	sold off	-100

AEP	american elec pwr co inc	0.48	13,020	1,706,660	added	0.09

AFK	vaneck etf trust	0.31	8,302	1,105,740	added	0.13

AFK	vaneck etf trust	0.07	2,670	258,189	new