13F INSTITUTION · CIK
0001621225 · 2026-Q2 · filed Jul 20, 2026
Merit Financial Group MERIT FINANCIAL GROUP, LLC
$16.4B
13F long value · 2026-Q2
Positions 2360
Category Asset Manager
Quarters tracked 9
● #383 of 581 by 13F value 3 NEW 294 ADD 98 2×+ 157 TRIM 6 NEAR EXIT 1 EXIT
Snapshot
Merit Financial Group's 13F portfolio at a glance — size, concentration and this quarter's activity.
Positions?
2360 (123 unmapped)
Latest 13F filed
Jul 20, 2026
13F value by quarter
Total reported long value each quarter — fund flows plus market moves.
Top holdings — 2026-Q2
The fund's largest reported positions (PUT/CALL rows are option positions, reported separately). The 100 shown cover 63.5% of the portfolio.
Ticker Issuer Weight Value Shares Since 2026-Q2 VUG VANGUARD INDEX FDS 2.6% $426.4M 5.0M — IUSG ISHARES TR 2.4% $393.6M 2.1M — AAPL APPLE INC 2.2% $352.9M 1.2M +14.8% QLTY GMO ETF TRUST 2.1% $351.7M 8.4M — IUSV ISHARES TR 2.0% $327.9M 3.0M — MGK VANGUARD WORLD FD 2.0% $320.2M 3.6M — DYNF BLACKROCK ETF TRUST 1.9% $307.5M 4.5M — MGV VANGUARD WORLD FD 1.6% $270.1M 1.7M — IVV ISHARES TR 1.6% $264.7M 353.5K — NVDA NVIDIA CORPORATION 1.6% $260.5M 1.3M +18.1% SPY PUT STATE STR SPDR S&P 500 ETF T 1.4% $232.5M 311.4K — VTV VANGUARD INDEX FDS 1.4% $222.1M 1.0M — CORO BLACKROCK ETF TRUST 1.3% $210.2M 5.7M — MSFT MICROSOFT CORP 1.2% $194.3M 520.8K +39.4% VOO VANGUARD INDEX FDS 1.1% $187.1M 272.4K —
Option positions — 2026-Q2 ?
$275.5M across 17 put positions vs $10.2M across 25 call positions — put/call ratio 26.93. Values are notional — the market value of the shares the options reference.
Type Ticker Issuer Underlying shares Notional value % of 13F value PUT SPY STATE STR SPDR S&P 500 ETF T 311.4K $232.5M 1.4% PUT AVGO BROADCOM INC 60.3K $22.8M 0.1% PUT AAPL APPLE INC 23.3K $6.7M 0.0% CALL SPY STATE STR SPDR S&P 500 ETF T 7.1K $5.3M 0.0% PUT UPS UNITED PARCEL SVCS INC 40.8K $4.4M 0.0% PUT SMH VANECK ETF TRUST 3.5K $2.3M 0.0% CALL GME GAMESTOP CORP 90.0K $2.0M 0.0% PUT NVDA NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.4K $1.3M 0.0% PUT PNC PNC FINL SVCS GROUP INC 4.6K $1.1M 0.0% PUT MSFT MICROSOFT CORP 2.6K $969.9K 0.0%
Quarterly changes — 2026-Q2
What Merit Financial Group opened, added, trimmed and exited this quarter, largest dollar moves first.
Action Ticker Issuer Prev shares Curr shares Change Value Δ 2×+ MGK VANGUARD WORLD FD 542.4K 3.6M +571.4% +$120.9M ADD DYNF BLACKROCK ETF TRUST 3.4M 4.5M +34.8% +$112.4M 2×+ VUG VANGUARD INDEX FDS 824.2K 5.0M +500.6% +$66.4M TRIM EFV ISHARES TR 2.4M 1.5M -35.7% -$59.5M TRIM QUAL ISHARES TR 501.9K 173.2K -65.5% -$58.3M NEW IALT BLACKROCK ETF TRUST — 1.6M — +$46.1M NEW GGOV BLACKROCK ETF TRUST II — 844.5K — +$42.5M NEAR EXIT IAGG ISHARES TR 905.0K 90.4K -90.0% -$40.7M 2×+ EFG ISHARES TR 251.7K 551.3K +119.0% +$40.6M ADD GOOG ALPHABET INC 209.5K 278.1K +32.7% +$38.2M
Conviction over time
Portfolio weight of the current top long holdings, quarter by quarter — rising weight = growing conviction.
VUG 2024-Q2 · 5.2% 2024-Q3 · 4.6% 2024-Q4 · 3.4% 2025-Q1 · 2.6% 2025-Q2 · 4.0% 2025-Q3 · 3.6% 2025-Q4 · 3.2% 2026-Q1 · 2.7% 2026-Q2 · 2.6% 2.6% IUSG 2024-Q2 · 1.2% 2024-Q3 · 1.4% 2024-Q4 · 1.3% 2025-Q1 · 2.1% 2025-Q2 · 2.6% 2025-Q3 · 2.1% 2025-Q4 · 2.2% 2026-Q1 · 2.3% 2026-Q2 · 2.4% 2.4% AAPL 2024-Q2 · 2.5% 2024-Q3 · 2.6% 2024-Q4 · 2.8% 2025-Q1 · 2.2% 2025-Q2 · 1.7% 2025-Q3 · 1.8% 2025-Q4 · 2.0% 2026-Q1 · 1.9% 2026-Q2 · 2.2% 2.2% QLTY 2024-Q4 · 2.1% 2025-Q1 · 2.2% 2025-Q2 · 2.6% 2025-Q3 · 2.3% 2025-Q4 · 2.3% 2026-Q1 · 2.1% 2026-Q2 · 2.1% 2.1% IUSV 2024-Q2 · 5.1% 2024-Q3 · 5.1% 2024-Q4 · 3.0% 2025-Q1 · 3.3% 2025-Q2 · 2.4% 2025-Q3 · 2.2% 2025-Q4 · 2.1% 2026-Q1 · 2.1% 2026-Q2 · 2.0% 2.0% MGK 2024-Q2 · 1.5% 2024-Q3 · 1.6% 2024-Q4 · 1.5% 2025-Q1 · 1.7% 2025-Q2 · 1.5% 2025-Q3 · 2.0% 2025-Q4 · 2.1% 2026-Q1 · 1.5% 2026-Q2 · 2.0% 2.0% DYNF 2024-Q2 · 0.4% 2024-Q3 · 0.2% 2024-Q4 · 0.5% 2025-Q1 · 1.3% 2025-Q2 · 1.1% 2025-Q3 · 1.4% 2025-Q4 · 1.4% 2026-Q1 · 1.4% 2026-Q2 · 1.9% 1.9% MGV 2024-Q2 · 1.4% 2024-Q3 · 1.5% 2024-Q4 · 1.3% 2025-Q1 · 1.1% 2025-Q2 · 0.9% 2025-Q3 · 1.1% 2025-Q4 · 1.4% 2026-Q1 · 1.4% 2026-Q2 · 1.6% 1.6% IVV 2024-Q2 · 2.8% 2024-Q3 · 2.3% 2024-Q4 · 2.3% 2025-Q1 · 2.2% 2025-Q2 · 1.8% 2025-Q3 · 1.6% 2025-Q4 · 1.6% 2026-Q1 · 1.6% 2026-Q2 · 1.6% 1.6% NVDA 2024-Q2 · 0.9% 2024-Q3 · 0.9% 2024-Q4 · 1.2% 2025-Q1 · 1.1% 2025-Q2 · 1.2% 2025-Q3 · 1.3% 2025-Q4 · 1.5% 2026-Q1 · 1.5% 2026-Q2 · 1.6% 1.6%