Latest NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. Stock Portfolio

NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. Performance:

2025 Q2: -14.41%YTD: -18.48%2024: 1.4%

Performance for 2025 Q2 is -14.41%, and YTD is -18.48%, and 2024 is 1.4%.

About NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. is a hedge fund based in MILWAUKEE, WI. On 27-Jan-2023, the fund reported that it had an AUM (Regulated Assets under Management) of $4.9 Billions. In it's latest 13F Holdings report, NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. reported an equity portfolio of $6 Billions as of 30 Jun, 2025.

The top stock holdings of NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. are MSFT, GOOG, AMZN. The fund has invested 3.8% of it's portfolio in MICROSOFT CORPORATION and 3.2% of portfolio in ALPHABET INC. CLASS C.

The fund managers got completely rid off COPART, INC. (CPRT), CARMAX, INC. (KMX) and BEACON ROOFING SUPPLY, INC. (BECN) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. (CRL), MERCK & CO., INC. (MRK) and MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL, INC. CLASS A (MDLZ). NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. opened new stock positions in META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A (META), CARRIER GLOBAL CORP. (CARR) and RALLIANT CORPORATION. The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE, INC. (ORLY), FASTENAL COMPANY (FAST) and ZSCALER, INC. (ZS).

NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. made a return of -14.41% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was -23.01%.

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
meta platforms inc class a	73,838,500
carrier global corp.	67,497,300
ralliant corporation	14,458,700
hilton worldwide holdings inc.	10,649,600
alkami technology inc	5,839,620
blackstone inc.	4,230,870
spx technologies, inc.	3,321,740
modine manufacturing company	2,785,580

New stocks bought by NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC.

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
o'reilly automotive, inc.	1,399
fastenal company	53.06
zscaler, inc.	40.54
intapp, inc.	35.98
onto innovation, inc.	31.89
siteone landscape supply, inc.	31.65
monday.com ltd.	26.71
netflix, inc.	23.78

Additions to existing portfolio by NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC.

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
charles river laboratories international, inc.	-98.81
merck & co., inc.	-90.91
mondelez international, inc. class a	-86.07
mongodb, inc. class a	-84.76
amedisys, inc.	-55.7
quest diagnostics incorporated	-55.36
construction partners, inc. class a	-43.95
comfort systems usa, inc.	-43.19

NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

Ticker	$ Sold
copart, inc.	-52,890,300
neogen corp	-3,746,290
carmax, inc.	-8,563,410
beacon roofing supply, inc.	-6,359,050
philip morris international inc.	-3,131,900
eaton corp. plc	-1,477,400

NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. got rid off the above stocks

Sector Distribution

NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. has about 35% of it's holdings in Technology sector.

Sector	%
Technology	35
Consumer Cyclical	13.5
Industrials	10.4
Healthcare	9.6
Financial Services	9.6
Others	8.6
Communication Services	5.5
Consumer Defensive	3.4
Basic Materials	2.6
Real Estate	1.1

Market Cap. Distribution

NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. has about 82.7% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
LARGE-CAP	49.3
MEGA-CAP	33.4
UNALLOCATED	9.4
MID-CAP	6.8
SMALL-CAP	1.1

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 77.2% of the stocks held by NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
S&P 500	72.7
Others	22.8
RUSSELL 2000	4.5

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
AVGO	broadcom inc.	60.2 %
FIX	comfort systems usa, inc.	57.7 %
SNOW	snowflake, inc. class a	52.7 %
ORCL	oracle corporation	48.3 %
ZS	zscaler, inc.	46.9 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
MSFT	microsoft corporation	58.9 M
NVDA	nvidia corporation	55.3 M
ZS	zscaler, inc.	26.3 M
SNOW	snowflake, inc. class a	25.7 M
AMZN	amazon.com, inc.	24.9 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
ORLY	o'reilly automotive, inc.	-93.5 %
FAST	fastenal company	-45.1 %
UNH	unitedhealth group incorporated	-40.4 %
SLP	simulations plus, inc.	-29.8 %
FTV	fortive corp.	-28.8 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
ORLY	o'reilly automotive, inc.	-1389.2 M
FAST	fastenal company	-50.8 M
UNH	unitedhealth group incorporated	-30.7 M
FTV	fortive corp.	-18.8 M
TMO	thermo fisher scientific inc.	-12.4 M

NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. Holdings Map

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

Current Stock Holdings of NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC.

NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. has 216 stocks in it's portfolio. About 22.8% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. ORLY proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. MSFT was the most profitable stock for NICHOLAS COMPANY, INC. last quarter.

Last Reported on: 05 Aug, 2025

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
AAPL	apple inc.	2.01	586,415	120,315,000	unchanged	0.00

ABBV	abbvie, inc.	0.12	38,725	7,188,140	reduced	-12.68

ABT	abbott laboratories	0.20	89,033	12,109,400	reduced	-3.56

ACN	accenture plc class a	1.23	245,484	73,372,700	added	14.69

ADBE	adobe inc.	1.05	162,226	62,762,000	reduced	-6.16

ADI	analog devices, inc.	0.21	53,078	12,633,600	unchanged	0.00

ALKT	alkami technology inc	0.10	193,750	5,839,620	new

AMD	advanced micro devices, inc.	1.21	509,165	72,250,500	reduced	-10.21

AME	ametek, inc.	0.35	114,413	20,704,200	reduced	-0.02

AMED	amedisys, inc.	0.05	32,910	3,238,020	reduced	-55.7

AMT	american tower corporation	0.13	34,000	7,514,680	reduced	-9.91

AMZN	amazon.com, inc.	3.14	854,554	187,481,000	added	0.02

AON	aon plc class a	1.08	181,427	64,725,900	reduced	-8.27

AOS	a. o. smith corporation	0.43	390,938	25,633,800	added	0.01

APD	air products and chemicals, inc.	0.11	23,897	6,740,390	unchanged	0.00

ARE	alexandria real estate equities, inc.	0.06	47,055	3,417,600	added	14.87

ATR	aptargroup, inc.	0.37	139,850	21,876,700	added	0.01

ATRC	atricure, inc.	0.11	192,635	6,312,650	added	8.53

AVGO	broadcom inc.	0.20	44,377	12,232,500	reduced	-15.89

BAH	booz allen hamilton holding corporation class a	0.10	57,892	6,028,290	added	7.17