Latest CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC Stock Portfolio

CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC Performance:

2025 Q1: 1.49%YTD: 1.49%2024: 10.4%

Performance for 2025 Q1 is 1.49%, and YTD is 1.49%, and 2024 is 10.4%.

About CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

In it's latest 13F Holdings report, CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC reported an equity portfolio of $5.6 Billions as of 31 Mar, 2025.

The top stock holdings of CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC are ABBV, MSFT, PM. The fund has invested 3.5% of it's portfolio in ABBVIE INC and 3.2% of portfolio in MICROSOFT CORP.

The fund managers got completely rid off CONAGRA BRANDS INC (CAG), ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC and MGP INGREDIENTS INC NEW (MGPI) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in COMCAST CORP NEW (CMCSA), CARTERS INC (CRI) and CLOROX CO DEL (CLX). CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC opened new stock positions in ROSS STORES INC (ROST), LAMAR ADVERTISING CO NEW (LAMR) and BOOKING HOLDINGS INC (BKNG). The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to PNC FINL SVCS GROUP INC (PNC), DIAGEO PLC (DEO) and META PLATFORMS INC (META).

CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC made a return of 1.49% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was 5.83%.

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
ross stores inc	51,172,500
lamar advertising co new	22,530,300
booking holdings inc	11,839,800
gsk plc	11,656,300
advanced energy inds	5,525,600
mesa labs inc	3,108,890
nucor corp	650,945
berkley w r corp	480,330

New stocks bought by CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
pnc finl svcs group inc	32,418
diageo plc	2,771
meta platforms inc	1,304
alphabet inc	416
roper technologies inc	269
manpowergroup inc wis	82.45
academy sports & outdoors in	80.81
norfolk southn corp	61.21

Additions to existing portfolio by CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
comcast corp new	-93.66
carters inc	-88.36
clorox co del	-87.64
hewlett packard enterprise c	-83.69
nextera energy inc	-80.91
simulations plus inc	-70.1
merck & co inc	-67.64
hasbro inc	-62.49

CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

Ticker	$ Sold
conagra brands inc	-15,972,100
rogers communications inc	-12,335,700
sapiens intl corp n v	-4,688,830
mgp ingredients inc new	-2,008,340
american assets tr inc	-1,114,300
synovus finl corp	-201,231
novartis ag	-201,140
prologis inc.	-200,216

CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC got rid off the above stocks

Sector Distribution

CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC has about 17.6% of it's holdings in Financial Services sector.

Sector	%
Financial Services	17.6
Healthcare	13.3
Industrials	12.9
Technology	11.3
Others	10.9
Consumer Defensive	10.6
Utilities	6.7
Consumer Cyclical	6.7
Real Estate	4.5
Energy	2.6
Communication Services	2.6

Market Cap. Distribution

CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC has about 76.9% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
LARGE-CAP	52.9
MEGA-CAP	24
UNALLOCATED	10.9
MID-CAP	10.2
SMALL-CAP	1.7

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 82.4% of the stocks held by CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
S&P 500	75.6
Others	17.6
RUSSELL 2000	6.8

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
PM	philip morris intl inc	31.6 %
T	at&t inc	23.3 %
BRO	brown & brown inc	21.7 %
AJG	gallagher arthur j & co	21.4 %
GE	ge aerospace	19.5 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
PM	philip morris intl inc	40.0 M
ABBV	abbvie inc	30.3 M
AEP	american elec pwr co inc	19.0 M
KO	coca cola co	18.6 M
WEC	wec energy group inc	17.1 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
MRVL	marvell technology inc	-42.8 %
EMBC	embecta corp	-35.7 %
MNRO	monro inc	-31.7 %
AZTA	azenta inc	-30.7 %
SCVL	shoe carnival inc	-27.3 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
MSFT	microsoft corp	-22.1 M
UPS	united parcel service inc	-14.7 M
ACN	accenture plc ireland	-12.3 M
AXP	american express co	-9.6 M
AVGO	broadcom inc	-9.4 M

CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC Holdings Map

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

Current Stock Holdings of CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC

CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC has 286 stocks in it's portfolio. About 25% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. MSFT proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. PM was the most profitable stock for CRAWFORD INVESTMENT COUNSEL INC last quarter.

Last Reported on: 15 May, 2025

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
AAPL	apple inc	0.94	237,274	52,705,700	added	2.00

AAT	american assets tr inc	0.00	0.00	0.00	sold off	-100

ABBV	abbvie inc	3.45	928,043	194,444,000	reduced	-3.31

ABCB	ameris bancorp	0.02	19,901	1,145,700	reduced	-0.5

ABT	abbott labs	0.07	31,945	4,237,500	reduced	-2.25

ACN	accenture plc ireland	1.74	314,063	98,000,300	added	38.83

ADP	automatic data processing in	0.03	5,984	1,828,290	reduced	-0.03

AEIS	advanced energy inds	0.10	57,975	5,525,600	new

AEP	american elec pwr co inc	2.37	1,223,500	133,692,000	added	13.58

AFL	aflac inc	0.04	20,150	2,240,480	reduced	-0.35

AJG	gallagher arthur j & co	0.02	2,581	890,902	reduced	-2.2

ALK	alaska air group inc	0.01	6,870	338,141	unchanged	0.00

ALL	allstate corp	0.13	34,169	7,075,380	reduced	-0.02

AMAT	applied matls inc	0.00	2,092	303,591	added	0.72

AMGN	amgen inc	0.04	7,720	2,405,100	added	0.23

AMSWA	logility supply chain soluti	0.18	706,001	10,067,600	reduced	-32.16

AMT	american tower corp new	0.00	1,213	263,881	new

AMZN	amazon com inc	0.04	12,861	2,446,970	added	3.21

AOS	smith a o corp	0.02	20,860	1,363,390	added	12.49

APAM	artisan partners asset mgmt	0.36	525,558	20,549,300	added	2.45