The Q2 2026 13F Deadline Is 4 Days Away — and the Filing Rush Is On
August 10, 2026 · QW Research
Four times a year, every institutional manager running more than $100 million has to tell the world what they own. The SEC's Form 13F pulls back the curtain on tens of trillions of dollars of U.S. stock held by hedge funds, asset managers, and family offices — but on a 45-day delay. For the second quarter of 2026 (positions held as of June 30), that delay runs out on Thursday, August 14.
We're four days out. Here's what the filing wave looks like in real time.
5,099 in — and history says thousands more are coming
As of our latest collection, 5,099 Q2 2026 13F filings are in, disclosing $22.7 trillion across 1.69 million individual stock positions.
That sounds like a lot — until you compare it to how a full quarter usually ends up:
| Quarter | Filings |
|---|---|
| Q2 2025 | 8,397 |
| Q3 2025 | 8,321 |
| Q4 2025 | 8,843 |
| Q1 2026 | 8,932 |
| Q2 2026 (so far) | 5,099 |
The last four quarters all landed between roughly 8,300 and 8,900 filings. Q2 2026 is barely past the halfway mark. That means around 3,700 managers still haven't filed — and they have until Thursday.
The daily rate is accelerating
This is the classic 13F rhythm: a trickle early in the window, then a flood into the deadline.
| Day | Filings collected |
|---|---|
| August 5 | 283 |
| August 6 | 310 |
| August 7 | 413 |
And it keeps climbing from here. The heaviest filing days are almost always the final 48 hours before the cutoff.
Who's filed — and who everyone is waiting for
The custodians and index giants report early. Already in: BlackRock, State Street, Deutsche Bank, PNC, LPL Financial, Victory Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ, and Alphabet's treasury, among thousands of others.
The names that actually move markets — the concentrated, high-conviction funds whose every new position gets dissected — tend to file at the buzzer, on the 13th and 14th. That's when "what did [famous investor] just buy?" starts trending. It's also when the consensus picture sharpens: which stocks the most managers are quietly accumulating, and which they're quietly leaving.
Why the last four days carry the most signal
Two reasons the deadline itself is the story, not just a paperwork date:
- The signal concentrates late. The early filers are mostly passive and custodial — they hold a little of everything. The active managers, whose moves actually carry information, cluster at the deadline. The consensus buys, the new-money crowding, and the notable exits only come into focus in these final days.
- Everyone reads the same data at once. A 13F is public the instant it's filed, but the narrative forms in the deadline window. Being early to the aggregate — the net flows across thousands of funds, not any single filing — is where the edge is.
Watch it land
We collect every 13F the moment it's filed and roll it into consensus, net-flow, holder-count, and new-position views across more than 8,000 institutional managers. As the last ~3,700 filings arrive this week, the picture of what smart money bought and sold in Q2 will fill in fast.
- See the live filing status → — every filing as it's collected
- Explore institutional ownership → — consensus buys, capital flows, and smart-money signals
All figures are as of our most recent collection (see status). 13F holdings are reported on a 45-day lag and updated continuously as filings arrive; totals for Q2 2026 will keep rising through the August 14 deadline.