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Bank of America Corporation
No equity stake in another company appears in Bank of America Corporation's filings. That is the sourced answer, not a hole in the research.
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The full register, from 13F filings
The Register tab above is hand research: a dozen holders, each traced to the filing it came from. This asks the same question of the whole market for the quarter ended 31-mar-2026, where 3,420 managers reported a position. Broad where the research is deep, and shallow in the ways a 13F always is.
3,420 managers reported a position, together holding 5.33bn shares, or 76.2% of the company. The 40 largest are listed.
Built from 13F filings, which report US listed, long, US custodied positions only. A register from this source is a floor rather than a level: a holder's true position can be far larger, as BlackRock's ASML stake shows at 1.28m shares in a 13F against 26.3m in its 13G/A. Holdings held through derivatives, outside US custody, or below a manager's reporting obligation do not appear. Where a holder is marked as a family, its total sums several separate filing entities and describes something no single filing describes; the constituent entities and their share counts are listed so the total can be checked. That roll-up can legitimately exceed the family's own Schedule 13G, because a 13G is filed by one legal entity: Vanguard reports Alphabet through ten advisory entities, and The Vanguard Group Inc itself reported zero after its January 2026 disaggregation.
What a reader needs to know to read these numbers
- The 13F exclusion, read this first. Bank of America Corporation itself files a Form 13F: the filing for the quarter ended 30 June 2026 (accession 0000070858-26-000442, filed 14 August 2026) contains 18,318 information table rows. This is client, custodial and brokerage inventory managed by Merrill and Bank of America's wealth and investment management arms, not the Corporation's own strategic equity book. Per the brief's exclusion of index-fund style and client positions, none of these 18,318 rows are converted into holdings here.
- Holdings is empty and that is the sourced finding, not a gap. The Q2 2026 10-Q (period ended 30 June 2026, filed 31 July 2026) and the FY2025 10-K (period ended 31 December 2025, filed 25 February 2026) were both searched for 'equity method', 'non-marketable', 'measurement alternative', 'equity investment' and 'principal investment'. The Corporation does hold equity securities, but every disclosure is a combined balance covering many unnamed investees, not a named investee stake: equity securities at fair value of $225 million (30 Jun 2026) and $253 million (31 Dec 2025); other equity securities valued under the measurement alternative at carrying value of $523 million (30 Jun 2026), $479 million (31 Dec 2025) and $438 million (31 Dec 2024); and $1.1 billion (30 Jun 2026) / $1.0 billion (31 Dec 2025) of tax-related equity investments in affordable housing and renewable energy partnerships accounted for under the equity method or fair value option. None of these notes name a single counterparty, so per the brief a combined balance is not distributed across investees, and no holdings rows are recorded.
- Unlike JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley (both legacy Visa member banks), no mention of a Visa Class B, B-3 or C common stock position was found anywhere in the Q2 2026 10-Q or FY2025 10-K full text search. This is recorded as a searched-and-not-found result, listed again in unknowns, rather than assumed to be zero.
- Berkshire Hathaway disagreement, recorded rather than resolved, per the brief's headline instruction to source this from Berkshire's own 13F. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s Form 13F-HR for the quarter ended 30 June 2026 (filed 14 August 2026, CIK 0001067983) reports 483,394,015 Bank of America common shares, $27.54 billion, 6.91% of shares outstanding. Bank of America's own 23 March 2026 proxy statement cites a Schedule 13G/A that Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. filed on 14 November 2025, reporting 568,070,012 shares and 7.9%. The 13F is used as the register value because it is the more recent filed figure and is consistent with Berkshire's publicly reported multi-quarter reduction of its Bank of America stake through 2025 and 2026; both figures are recorded here rather than overwritten. The proxy's 7.9% figure is 'as of December 31, 2025' per the proxy's own framing of the underlying 13G, an intermediate point between the two.
- Vanguard disagreement, recorded rather than resolved. Vanguard Group Inc's Form 13F-HR for the quarter ended 31 December 2025 (filed 29 January 2026, CIK 0000102909) reports 651,076,825 shares. Vanguard filed Form 13F-NT (notice, no holdings) for the quarters ended 31 March 2026 and 30 June 2026, so no more recent Vanguard-filed figure exists; other Vanguard reporting entities may hold pieces of the position but were not separately identified within the time budget. The Bank of America proxy's 5% table cites 651,058,822 shares, 9.1%, from a Vanguard Schedule 13G attributed to 31 December 2025, which is consistent with the 13F to within 18,003 shares (immaterial, likely a late-quarter Vanguard sub-entity adjustment).
- BlackRock disagreement, recorded rather than resolved. BlackRock, Inc.'s Form 13F-HR for the quarter ended 30 June 2026 (filed 7 August 2026, CIK 0002012383) reports 545,683,702 common shares. Bank of America's proxy 5% table cites a BlackRock Schedule 13G figure of 494,523,426 shares, 6.9%, as of 31 December 2025. The more recent 13F figure is used in the register; both are recorded here.
- Several 13F filers also reported small positions in Bank of America's 7.25% Series L convertible preferred stock (and, for JPMorgan, options and convertible preferred) alongside the common stock. These preferred/derivative lines were excluded from every register row above; only common stock (titleOfClass 'COM' or 'COMMON') is summed, because the pct_of_company denominator here is common shares outstanding. Amounts excluded: State Street 46,356 preferred shares ($58.1m), FMR 32,206 preferred shares ($40.4m), Morgan Stanley 38,878 preferred shares ($48.8m), BlackRock 158,772 preferred shares ($199.2m), JPMorgan 7,280,362 shares of preferred and option positions ($436.2m).
- A holder reporting one issuer across several information table lines (different manager sub-entities or lot-level entries within the same 13F) is one position reported in parts and was summed, per the filing.py tool's own guidance, for every institutional row above.
- Bank of America has a single class of common stock; there is no dual-class voting structure. Insider ownership is immaterial in voting terms: CEO Brian Moynihan's 2,803,195 beneficially owned common shares are about 0.04% of shares outstanding, and the full 25-person director-and-officer group's beneficially owned common stock (9,523,597 shares) is about 0.14%.
- Register percentages for the 30 June 2026 13F rows and for the proxy insider rows use 6,992,748,365 common shares outstanding as of 30 July 2026, from the Q2 2026 10-Q cover page (dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding via EDGAR company concept API). This is a few weeks after the 30 June 2026 'as of' date on the 13F filings, consistent with the precedent set in the Broadcom and JPMorgan files in this project. The Vanguard row (31 Dec 2025 13F) instead uses 7,176,682,170 shares outstanding as of 24 February 2026, the closest filed cover-page count to 31 December 2025.
- Market capitalisation ($450.96 billion) and share price ($64.49) are aggregator figures from stockanalysis.com as of 14 August 2026, cross-checked against each other (6,992,748,365 shares x $64.49 implies about $451.0 billion, matching).
Looked for, not found
Recorded rather than filled in. Each of these is a place where a number could have been invented and was not.
- Whether Bank of America still holds any Visa Inc. Class B, B-3 or C common stock from the 2008 Visa member-bank IPO. Searched the Q2 2026 10-Q and FY2025 10-K full text for 'Visa'; the only hits were unrelated references to Visa card network litigation and interchange fee rules, not an equity position. Other large banks (JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley) still disclose Visa share counts in their own 10-Qs, so this is either fully divested, immaterial, or disclosed somewhere not captured by the search terms used; not confirmed either way.
- The individual counterparties inside the $1.1 billion tax-related equity method/fair-value-option investment balance, the $523 million measurement-alternative equity securities balance, and the $225 million equity securities at fair value balance (all as of 30 June 2026). Neither the 10-Q nor the 10-K names any investee company within these totals.
- Bank of America's Q3 2026 10-Q, covering the quarter ending on or about 30 September 2026, was not yet filed as of 17 August 2026 (checked against the EDGAR submissions feed for CIK 0000070858).
- Additional register holders beyond the top 8 institutional 13F filers and the two proxy rows: Capital Research/Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, Norges Bank and other sovereign or large active managers were not individually checked within the time budget. Institutional coverage in this register (roughly 2.57 billion of 6.99 billion shares, about 36.8%) is already well above a token sample, so this is a completeness gap, not a sourcing failure.
- No Schedule 13D or fresh 13G (beyond the ones already cited via the proxy for Berkshire, Vanguard and BlackRock) was separately searched on EDGAR full text search for Bank of America as subject company; the register instead relies on the proxy's own 5% table plus each manager's latest 13F.
