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Verisign Inc

VRSN
Exchange
Nasdaq
Industry
Services-Computer Programming Services
SEC CIK
0001014473

In the last 90 days, Verisign Inc insiders filed 1 open-market purchase and 21 sales; 889 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $22.1B in total; superinvestors Berkshire Hathaway and Fundsmith hold it.

13F holders, Q4 2022

Institutional positions in Verisign Inc as of Dec 31, 2022. Investment managers with $100 million or more in US stocks report their long positions on Form 13F within 45 days after each quarter ends. How 13F works

Institutional holders
621
+55 vs. Q3 2022
Shares held
98.3M
+595.0K (+0.6%) vs. Q3 2022
Total value
$20.2B
+$3.21B (+18.9%) vs. Q3 2022
New holders
95
205 more added
Sold out
40
216 more reduced

8 institutions that held it in Q3 2022 haven't filed for Q4 2022 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.

Compare with Q3 2022: new holders, sold out and not filed yet

Holders and value by quarter

Institutions reporting VRSN on Form 13F each quarter since Q1 2021, and the total value they reported. Values are as of each quarter end, so they also move with the share price.

Institutional holdersQ4 2022: 621 institutions
Q1 2021: 547 institutionsQ2 2021: 564 institutionsQ3 2021: 556 institutionsQ4 2021: 596 institutionsQ1 2022: 613 institutionsQ2 2022: 572 institutionsQ3 2022: 574 institutionsQ4 2022: 621 institutionsQ1 2023: 618 institutionsQ2 2023: 628 institutionsQ3 2023: 601 institutionsQ4 2023: 669 institutionsQ1 2024: 646 institutionsQ2 2024: 655 institutionsQ3 2024: 678 institutionsQ4 2024: 710 institutionsQ1 2025: 761 institutionsQ2 2025: 851 institutionsQ3 2025: 862 institutionsQ4 2025: 859 institutionsQ1 2026: 858 institutionsQ2 2026: 889 institutions
Value heldQ4 2022: $20.2B
Q1 2021: $20.1BQ2 2021: $22.7BQ3 2021: $20.6BQ4 2021: $25.6BQ1 2022: $22.3BQ2 2022: $16.6BQ3 2022: $17.0BQ4 2022: $20.2BQ1 2023: $20.3BQ2 2023: $21.4BQ3 2023: $18.9BQ4 2023: $19.3BQ1 2024: $17.5BQ2 2024: $16.1BQ3 2024: $17.2BQ4 2024: $18.4BQ1 2025: $22.5BQ2 2025: $25.3BQ3 2025: $24.2BQ4 2025: $21.4BQ1 2026: $21.6BQ2 2026: $22.1B
Institutions holding VRSN and their total value by quarter
QuarterHoldersValue
Q2 2026889$22.1B
Q1 2026858$21.6B
Q4 2025859$21.4B
Q3 2025862$24.2B
Q2 2025851$25.3B
Q1 2025761$22.5B
Q4 2024710$18.4B
Q3 2024678$17.2B
Q2 2024655$16.1B
Q1 2024646$17.5B
Q4 2023669$19.3B
Q3 2023601$18.9B
Q2 2023628$21.4B
Q1 2023618$20.3B
Q4 2022621$20.2B
Q3 2022574$17.0B
Q2 2022572$16.6B
Q1 2022613$22.3B
Q4 2021596$25.6B
Q3 2021556$20.6B
Q2 2021564$22.7B
Q1 2021547$20.1B

Institutions, Q4 2022

Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Verisign Inc; share changes are against Q3 2022.

Institutions holding VRSN in Q4 2022
InstitutionSharesValue% of portfolioChange in sharesAction
Berkshire Hathaway IncSuperinvestorBerkshire Hathaway12,815,613$2.63B0.88%00.0%Unchanged
Vanguard Group Inc10,391,118$2.13B0.06%+21,558+0.2%Added
BlackRock Inc.8,564,365$1.76B0.06%−701,720−7.6%Reduced
Ninety One UK Ltd4,142,887$851.1M2.73%−153,744−3.6%Reduced
State Street Corp3,635,488$746.9M0.04%−143,241−3.8%Reduced
Renaissance Technologies LLC3,085,390$633.9M0.87%−407,500−11.7%Reduced
Macquarie Group Ltd3,076,338$632.0M0.75%+233,031+8.2%Added
Principal Financial Group Inc2,560,311$526.0M0.40%−133,213−4.9%Reduced
Geode Capital Management, LLC2,250,087$461.9M0.06%+11,703+0.5%Added
Wellington Management Group LLP1,734,960$356.4M0.07%+673,776+63.5%Added
Cantillon Capital Management LLC1,721,997$353.8M3.00%−29,265−1.7%Reduced
Windacre Partnership LLC1,520,000$312.3M7.55%+760,000+100.0%Added
American Century Companies Inc1,514,339$311.1M0.25%+11,387+0.8%Added
Capital International Investors1,454,511$298.8M0.08%−3980.0%Reduced
Goldman Sachs Group Inc1,416,639$291.0M0.08%−19,178−1.3%Reduced
Lazard Asset Management LLC1,206,265$247.8M0.34%−40,642−3.3%Reduced
Morgan Stanley1,104,788$227.0M0.03%+160,685+17.0%Added
Northern Trust Corp1,099,550$225.9M0.05%−20,252−1.8%Reduced
Price T Rowe Associates Inc1,025,135$210.6M0.03%−6,673−0.6%Reduced
Norges Bank983,040$202.0M0.05%+87,232+9.7%Added
Alliancebernstein L.P.853,980$175.4M0.08%+22,704+2.7%Added
First Trust Advisors LP843,829$173.4M0.21%−413,314−32.9%Reduced
Invesco Ltd.813,962$167.2M0.05%−3,480−0.4%Reduced
Liontrust Investment Partners LLP779,600$160.2M2.87%−44,300−5.4%Reduced
Bank of New York Mellon Corp778,645$160.0M0.04%−32,646−4.0%Reduced
Legal & General Group Plc738,238$151.7M0.06%−45,894−5.9%Reduced
Jacobs Levy Equity Management, Inc684,416$140.6M0.95%+132,809+24.1%Added
Fundsmith LLPSuperinvestorFundsmith674,791$138.6M0.63%−742−0.1%Reduced
Bamco Inc653,143$134.2M0.45%−6,925−1.0%Reduced
Echo Street Capital Management LLC652,150$134.0M1.30%−84,798−11.5%Reduced
California Public Employees Retirement System639,511$131.4M0.11%−56,585−8.1%Reduced
Millennium Management LLC624,389$128.3M0.14%+516,162+476.9%Added
Atalan Capital Partners, LP620,000$127.4M12.07%00.0%Unchanged
Two Creeks Capital Management, LP619,050$127.2M9.07%−71,393−10.3%Reduced
UBS Asset Management Americas Inc516,247$106.1M0.06%−132,639−20.4%Reduced
Ameriprise Financial Inc495,127$101.7M0.03%−386,475−43.8%Reduced
Ninety One North America, Inc.488,901$100.4M4.91%−65,329−11.8%Reduced
D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.487,273$100.1M0.17%−238,596−32.9%Reduced
Vaughan Nelson Investment Management, L.P.484,065$99.4M1.29%+34,235+7.6%Added
Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc465,822$95.7M0.03%+6,538+1.4%Added
FIL Ltd443,040$91.0M0.11%−332,894−42.9%Reduced
AustralianSuper Pty Ltd434,499$87.7M0.63%−34,161−7.3%Reduced
Swiss National Bank392,400$80.6M0.06%−34,837−8.2%Reduced
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP379,822$78.0M0.03%−1,771−0.5%Reduced
Nuveen Asset Management, LLC376,558$77.4M0.03%+1,276+0.3%Added
Citadel Advisors LLC370,102$76.0M0.09%+175,128+89.8%Added
Parsifal Capital Management, LP367,443$75.5M6.24%−3,228−0.9%Reduced
Bank of America Corp351,129$72.1M0.01%+19,078+5.7%Added
Royal Bank of Canada329,761$67.7M0.02%−110,006−25.0%Reduced
ETF Managers Group, LLC328,773$67.5M3.17%−62,632−16.0%Reduced
Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership322,615$66.3M0.09%−24,502−7.1%Reduced
FMR LLC316,540$65.0M0.01%+7,935+2.6%Added
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.303,738$62.4M0.05%−35,946−10.6%Reduced
BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A.300,013$61.6M0.22%−11,065−3.6%Reduced
Ci Investments Inc.294,201$60.4M0.31%+2,152+0.7%Added
Mackenzie Financial Corp286,126$58.8M0.10%+13,856+5.1%Added
Natixis267,901$55.0M0.32%+259,726+3,177.1%Added
Two Sigma Advisers, LP262,795$54.0M0.15%−22,300−7.8%Reduced
Citigroup Inc260,901$53.6M0.08%+153,049+141.9%Added
Schroder Investment Management Group257,336$52.9M0.08%−82,003−24.2%Reduced
Jane Street Group, LLC237,893$48.9M0.09%+232,206+4,083.1%Added
Deutsche Bank AG235,769$48.4M0.03%−5,266−2.2%Reduced
Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC231,259$47.5M0.08%+220,418+2,033.2%Added
Balyasny Asset Management LLC219,961$45.2M0.16%+219,961New
Boston Financial Mangement LLC216,969$44.6M1.79%−2,935−1.3%Reduced
Rhumbline Advisers216,950$44.6M0.06%+4,846+2.3%Added
Voya Investment Management LLC215,317$44.2M0.05%+484+0.2%Added
AQR Capital Management LLC198,402$40.2M0.09%−49,361−19.9%Reduced
BNP Paribas Arbitrage, SA195,098$40.1M0.10%+30,023+18.2%Added
Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V.190,431$39.1M0.11%+32,100+20.3%Added
APG Asset Management N.V.188,959$38.8M0.07%−117,555−38.4%Reduced
KBC Group NV185,934$38.2M0.19%+80,037+75.6%Added
Russell Investments Group, Ltd.184,617$37.9M0.08%−15,878−7.9%Reduced
Los Angeles Capital Management LLC178,364$36.6M0.18%+100,054+127.8%Added
Credit Suisse AG173,787$35.7M0.04%−18,462−9.6%Reduced
Amundi162,061$34.3M0.02%−56,967−26.0%Reduced
TD Asset Management Inc165,195$33.9M0.04%+2,807+1.7%Added
Triple Frond Partners LLC164,004$33.7M5.57%00.0%Unchanged
Qube Research & Technologies Ltd161,875$33.3M0.20%+161,875New
California State Teachers Retirement System159,693$32.8M0.05%+651+0.4%Added
Natixis Advisors, L.P.156,869$32.2M0.12%+801+0.5%Added
Barclays PLC156,691$32.2M0.03%+34,519+28.3%Added
Two Sigma Investments, LP154,962$31.8M0.10%+152,740+6,874.0%Added
Nissay Asset Management Corp150,563$30.9M0.30%+137,376+1,041.8%Added
Baird Financial Group, Inc.149,924$30.8M0.08%−17,998−10.7%Reduced
Susquehanna International Group, LLP149,829$30.8M0.06%+115,702+339.0%Added
National Pension Service145,048$29.8M0.06%−1,869−1.3%Reduced
New York State Common Retirement Fund141,397$29.0M0.04%+951+0.7%Added
Douglas Lane & Associates, LLC140,716$28.9M0.48%+2,465+1.8%Added
HRT Financial LP135,433$27.8M0.39%+135,433New
State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System125,170$25.7M0.06%+400+0.3%Added
JPMorgan Chase & Co124,111$25.5M0.00%−8,690−6.5%Reduced
Wells Fargo & Company122,183$25.1M0.01%−7,827−6.0%Reduced
Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc120,856$24.8M0.06%+1,726+1.4%Added
Prudential Financial Inc120,846$24.8M0.04%+30,113+33.2%Added
Victory Capital Management Inc119,569$24.6M0.03%−17,587−12.8%Reduced
STRS Ohio118,400$24.3M0.11%00.0%Unchanged
Pictet Asset Management SA118,342$24.3M0.04%+2,418+2.1%Added
Hudson Way Capital Management LLC116,812$24.0M6.20%00.0%Unchanged
Bank of Nova Scotia113,978$23.4M0.06%+106,128+1,351.9%Added