Employers 13F annual report

Employers is an investment fund managing more than $170 million ran by Michael Paquette. There are currently 142 companies in Mr. Paquette’s portfolio. The largest investments include Apple Inc and Microsoft, together worth $23 million.

$170 million Assets Under Management (AUM)

As of 23rd April 2021, Employers’s top holding is 103,868 shares of Apple Inc currently worth over $12.7 million and making up 7.5% of the portfolio value. Relative to the number of outstanding shares of Apple Inc, Employers owns more than approximately 0.1% of the company. In addition, the fund holds 43,865 shares of Microsoft worth $10.3 million, whose value grew 24.7% in the past six months. The third-largest holding is JPMorgan Chase & Co worth $6.82 million and the next is Amazon.com worth $6.58 million, with 2,128 shares owned.

Currently, Employers's portfolio is worth at least $170 million. The total portfolio value may be much higher due to cash assets that are not publicly disclosed such as fixed income, real estate, or cash equivalents.

Careers at Employers

The Employers office and employees reside in Reno, Nevada. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Michael Paquette serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Employers.

Recent trades

In the most recent 13F filing, Employers revealed that it had opened a new position in Walgreens Boots Alli and bought 4,790 shares worth $263 thousand.

The investment fund also strengthened its position in Facebook Inc by buying 170 additional shares. This makes their stake in Facebook Inc total 6,545 shares worth $1.93 million. Facebook Inc soared 61.0% in the past year.

On the other hand, there are companies that Employers is getting rid of from its portfolio. Employers closed its position in Tesla Inc on 30th April 2021. It sold the previously owned 2,529 shares for $1.79 million. Michael Paquette also disclosed a decreased stake in Intel by 0.2%. This leaves the value of the investment at $2.07 million and 32,341 shares.

One of the smallest hedge funds

The two most similar investment funds to Employers are Watson Rebecca and Krueger & Catalano Capital Partners. They manage $170 million and $170 million respectively.


Michael Paquette investment strategy

Employers’s portfolio is diversified across 12 sectors. Currently, their heaviest sector is Technology — making up 16.6% of the total portfolio value. The fund focuses on investments in the United States as 59.9% of the portfolio companies are based in the United States.

The majority of the companies in the fund’s portfolio are large-cap stocks. Stocks with a size of more than $10 billion in market cap make up 59% of the total holdings value. On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only 3.5% of the portfolio. The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $187 billion.

The complete list of Employers trades based on 13F SEC filings

These positions were updated on April 30th based on the fund’s latest 13F filing. Quickly find out what the most recently closed or increased positions are.

Security Shares Owned Value Allocation
Apple Inc
No change
103,868
$12,688,000 7.48%
Microsoft Corporation
No change
43,865
$10,342,000 6.09%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
No change
44,794
$6,819,000 4.02%
Amazon.com Inc.
No change
2,128
$6,584,000 3.88%
Unitedhealth Group I
No change
12,560
$4,673,000 2.75%
Johnson & Johnson
No change
22,939
$3,770,000 2.22%
Alphabet Inc
No change
3,184
$6,577,000 3.88%
Union Pac Corp
No change
14,750
$3,251,000 1.92%
Danaher Corp.
No change
13,395
$3,015,000 1.78%
Bk Of America Corp
No change
60,750
$2,350,000 1.38%
AT&T Inc.
No change
75,955
$2,299,000 1.35%
Procter And Gamble C
No change
16,643
$2,254,000 1.33%
Texas Instrs Inc
No change
11,615
$2,195,000 1.29%
Qualcomm, Inc.
No change
15,967
$2,117,000 1.25%
Intel Corp.
23.61%
32,341
$2,070,000 1.22%
Honeywell International Inc
No change
9,500
$2,062,000 1.22%
Pepsico Inc
No change
14,401
$2,037,000 1.20%
Berkshire Hathaway I
No change
7,562
$2,702,000 1.59%
Facebook Inc
2.67%
6,545
$1,928,000 1.14%
Disney Walt Co
6.42%
10,440
$1,926,000 1.13%
Nike, Inc.
No change
14,255
$1,894,000 1.12%
PayPal Holdings Inc
No change
7,725
$1,876,000 1.11%
Chevron Corp.
No change
17,745
$1,860,000 1.10%
Tesla Inc
Closed
2,529
$1,785,000
Stryker Corp.
No change
7,330
$1,785,000 1.05%
Deere & Co.
No change
4,635
$1,734,000 1.02%
Archer Daniels Midla
No change
30,087
$1,715,000 1.01%
Starbucks Corp.
No change
15,605
$1,705,000 1.00%
American Express Co.
No change
11,501
$1,627,000 0.96%
Cisco Sys Inc
No change
30,973
$1,602,000 0.94%
Merck & Co Inc
No change
20,758
$1,600,000 0.94%
3M Co.
No change
7,842
$1,511,000 0.89%
Air Prods & Chems In
No change
5,263
$1,481,000 0.87%
Verizon Communicatio
No change
25,337
$1,474,000 0.87%
Anthem Inc
No change
3,965
$1,423,000 0.84%
Abbvie Inc
No change
12,755
$1,380,000 0.81%
Pfizer Inc.
No change
38,069
$1,379,000 0.81%
Duke Energy Corp.
No change
14,005
$1,352,000 0.80%
Costco Whsl Corp New
No change
3,820
$1,346,000 0.79%
International Busine
22.04%
9,955
$1,327,000 0.78%
Ppg Inds Inc
No change
8,600
$1,292,000 0.76%
NetFlix Inc
No change
2,310
$1,205,000 0.71%
Fortive Corp
No change
17,020
$1,202,000 0.71%
Comcast Corp New
No change
21,815
$1,181,000 0.70%
Travelers Companies Inc.
No change
7,678
$1,155,000 0.68%
Broadcom Inc
3.13%
2,480
$1,150,000 0.68%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
No change
17,890
$1,130,000 0.67%
Dominion Energy Inc
No change
14,280
$1,085,000 0.64%
Linde Plc
No change
3,605
$1,010,000 0.60%
Salesforce.Com Inc
No change
4,735
$1,003,000 0.59%
Paychex Inc.
No change
10,105
$991,000 0.58%
Philip Morris Intl I
No change
10,700
$950,000 0.56%
Automatic Data Proce
No change
4,995
$942,000 0.56%
CVS Health Corp
No change
11,995
$902,000 0.53%
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
No change
13,865
$896,000 0.53%
Pnc Finl Svcs Group
No change
4,902
$860,000 0.51%
Thermo Fisher Scient
No change
1,870
$854,000 0.50%
Altria Group Inc.
No change
16,571
$848,000 0.50%
Conocophillips
No change
15,621
$827,000 0.49%
Oracle Corp.
No change
11,667
$819,000 0.48%
Ameriprise Finl Inc
No change
3,466
$806,000 0.47%
Omnicom Group, Inc.
No change
10,838
$804,000 0.47%
Medtronic Plc
No change
6,795
$803,000 0.47%
Autozone Inc.
No change
570
$800,000 0.47%
PPL Corp
18.17%
27,230
$785,000 0.46%
Boeing Co.
No change
3,080
$785,000 0.46%
Coca-Cola Co
No change
14,880
$784,000 0.46%
Yum Brands Inc.
No change
7,095
$768,000 0.45%
Intuit Inc
No change
2,000
$766,000 0.45%
Hartford Finl Svcs G
No change
11,410
$762,000 0.45%
Mcdonalds Corp
No change
3,355
$752,000 0.44%
Kraft Heinz Co
No change
18,270
$731,000 0.43%
The Southern Co.
No change
11,635
$723,000 0.43%
NextEra Energy Inc
No change
9,120
$690,000 0.41%
Best Buy Co. Inc.
No change
5,900
$677,000 0.40%
Adobe Systems Incorp
No change
1,405
$668,000 0.39%
Intuitive Surgical I
No change
900
$665,000 0.39%
Lockheed Martin Corp.
No change
1,755
$648,000 0.38%
Chubb Limited
8.82%
4,085
$645,000 0.38%
Bank New York Mellon
No change
13,589
$643,000 0.38%
Biogen Inc
No change
2,295
$642,000 0.38%
Phillips 66
No change
7,811
$637,000 0.38%
Northrop Grumman Cor
No change
1,960
$634,000 0.37%
American Tower Corp.
No change
2,615
$625,000 0.37%
Aflac Inc.
No change
12,220
$625,000 0.37%
S&P Global Inc
No change
1,700
$600,000 0.35%
Tjx Cos Inc New
No change
8,800
$582,000 0.34%
Us Bancorp Del
No change
10,200
$564,000 0.33%
Whirlpool Corp.
No change
2,550
$562,000 0.33%
Walmart Inc
33.05%
4,132
$561,000 0.33%
Parker-Hannifin Corp.
No change
1,595
$503,000 0.30%
Abbott Labs
No change
4,110
$493,000 0.29%
EBay Inc.
No change
8,010
$491,000 0.29%
Micron Technology In
No change
5,395
$476,000 0.28%
MetLife, Inc.
No change
7,800
$474,000 0.28%
General Mls Inc
No change
7,715
$473,000 0.28%
Fastenal Co.
No change
9,235
$464,000 0.27%
Mondelez International Inc.
No change
7,919
$463,000 0.27%
AMGEN Inc.
No change
1,848
$460,000 0.27%
Alliance Data System
No change
3,830
$429,000 0.25%
Seagate Technology P
No change
5,455
$419,000 0.25%
Cardinal Health, Inc.
No change
6,752
$410,000 0.24%
Morgan Stanley
No change
5,059
$393,000 0.23%
Visa Inc
70.15%
1,810
$383,000 0.23%
Fiserv, Inc.
No change
3,200
$381,000 0.22%
L3harris Technologie
No change
1,810
$367,000 0.22%
Fidelity Natl Inform
21.41%
2,570
$361,000 0.21%
NVIDIA Corp
No change
675
$360,000 0.21%
Sysco Corp.
No change
4,540
$357,000 0.21%
Analog Devices Inc.
No change
2,198
$341,000 0.20%
Target Corp
No change
1,692
$335,000 0.20%
KLA Corp.
No change
1,005
$332,000 0.20%
Evergy Inc
Closed
5,965
$331,000
Motorola Solutions I
No change
1,742
$328,000 0.19%
Gallagher Arthur J &
No change
2,600
$325,000 0.19%
Garmin Ltd
No change
2,430
$320,000 0.19%
CME Group Inc
No change
1,495
$305,000 0.18%
Clorox Co.
No change
1,550
$299,000 0.18%
Exelon Corp.
66.12%
6,495
$284,000 0.17%
Corteva Inc
No change
5,985
$279,000 0.16%
Mastercard Incorpora
Closed
780
$278,000
Advanced Micro Devic
No change
3,475
$273,000 0.16%
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc
No change
7,905
$272,000 0.16%
Northern Tr Corp
No change
2,580
$271,000 0.16%
Cummins Inc.
No change
1,040
$269,000 0.16%
Amcor Plc
No change
22,940
$268,000 0.16%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.
No change
14,200
$267,000 0.16%
Walgreens Boots Alli
Opened
4,790
$263,000 0.15%
Newmont Corp
No change
4,350
$262,000 0.15%
Smucker J M Co
No change
1,975
$250,000 0.15%
State Str Corp
No change
2,940
$247,000 0.15%
United Parcel Servic
No change
1,429
$243,000 0.14%
Illinois Tool Wks In
No change
1,079
$239,000 0.14%
Amphenol Corp.
100.00%
3,600
$237,000 0.14%
Entergy Corp.
No change
2,360
$235,000 0.14%
Cognizant Technology
No change
3,000
$234,000 0.14%
Equinix Inc
Closed
323
$231,000
Agilent Technologies Inc.
No change
1,800
$229,000 0.13%
Simon Ppty Group Inc
Opened
1,940
$221,000 0.13%
Charter Communicatio
Closed
319
$211,000
ServiceNow Inc
8.79%
415
$208,000 0.12%
Vontier Corporation
No change
6,808
$206,000 0.12%
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.
Opened
1,695
$206,000 0.12%
Crown Castle Intl Co
9.16%
1,190
$205,000 0.12%
Activision Blizzard Inc
32.71%
2,170
$202,000 0.12%
Park Hotels & Resort
Opened
9,285
$200,000 0.12%
Colony Cap Inc New
No change
18,485
$120,000 0.07%
Bgc Partners Inc
Closed
14,740
$59,000
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