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Sands Capital’s $25B Fund Trims ServiceNow 99%, Initiates $241M Bloom Energy Position

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  1. 01 Frank Sands’s Sands Capital Management, a $25.5B Arlington-based concentrated-growth fund founded by his father Frank M. Sands Sr. in 1992, filed its Q1 2026 13F-HR on May 15, 2026 and ran a sweeping de-risk across its entire top 25.
  2. 02 The portfolio shrank from $32.9B to $25.5B between filings, with 48 trims, 8 full exits and only 9 new buys and 9 adds, marking the deepest single-quarter cleanup in a Sands book in years.
  3. 03 The top five are NVIDIA at $3.15B, Taiwan Semiconductor at $1.98B, Alphabet at $1.47B, Amazon at $1.40B and Shopify at $1.06B, with even the top five trimmed except for a $4% Alphabet add.
  4. 04 Sands cut ServiceNow by 99%, exited iRhythm, Roper and Cadence Design, and trimmed Microsoft 38% and Broadcom 34%, while building three brand-new AI-infrastructure stakes in Bloom Energy ($241M), Seagate Technology ($208M) and Lam Research ($161M).
  5. 05 The Q2 13F due August 14 will show whether Bloom Energy and Lam Research grow into top-twenty stakes, whether ServiceNow gets fully exited from its $3M residual, and whether the NVIDIA trim continues past 10% or stabilizes.
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How Sands Capital Moved Last Quarter

Money In

16 buys & adds

Alphabet

Google parent and YouTube owner
$1.5B
added (+4%)
Spotify

Music and podcast streaming
$870M
added (+22%)
Meta Platforms

Facebook, Instagram and Reality Labs
$732M
added (+2%)
Quanta Services

Builds power grids and data centers
$344M
added (+9%)
Carpenter Technology

Specialty steel for aerospace and chips
$324M
added (+32%)
Bloom Energy

Fuel cells for AI data centers
$241M
new buy
Seagate Technology

Hard drives for AI data centers
$208M
new buy
McKesson

Largest US drug distributor
$174M
added (+16%)
Lam Research

Etch and deposition chip equipment
$161M
new buy
Eli Lilly

Maker of Mounjaro and Zepbound
$30M
new buy
Palantir

Government and AI software
$3.4M
added (+16%)
Apple

iPhone, Mac and services
$0.8M
new buy
Arista Networks

Data-center networking switches
$0.3M
new buy
Robinhood

Retail-broker app
$0.3M
new buy
AeroVironment

Military drones for the US
$0.2M
new buy
Lumentum

Optical chips for AI clusters
$0.2M
new buy

Money Out

8 exits + 48 cuts (top 23 shown)

Full Exits
iRhythm Technologies

Cardiac heart-rhythm monitors
$302M
exited
Roper Technologies

Vertical-market software roll-up
$128M
exited
SAP

German enterprise-software giant
$96M
exited
Cadence Design Systems

Chip-design software
$79M
exited
Arthur J. Gallagher

Insurance brokerage
$63M
exited
Globant

IT consulting in Latin America
$50M
exited
Duolingo

Language-learning app
$7.0M
exited
iShares MSCI EAFE ETF

Broad-market ETF
$3.9M
exited
Major Cuts
ServiceNow

Enterprise workflow software
-99%
$3.3M remains
Atlassian

Jira and Confluence maker
-90%
$1.0M remains
HDFC Bank

India’s largest private-sector bank
-85%
$23M remains
Snowflake

Cloud data warehouse
-65%
$0.6M remains
Microsoft

Azure cloud and Office
-38%
$566M remains
Klaviyo

Marketing automation software
-36%
$12M remains
Waste Connections

Solid-waste collection
-34%
$103M remains
Broadcom

AI custom silicon and networking
-34%
$434M remains
AppLovin

Mobile advertising platform
-34%
$387M remains
Liberty Media

Formula 1 racing parent
-25%
$133M remains
Nu Holdings

Brazilian digital bank
-23%
$493M remains
Intercontinental Exchange

Owns the NYSE and ICE futures
-20%
$690M remains
Samsara

Fleet telematics software
-18%
$496M remains
Taiwan Semiconductor

World’s largest chip foundry
-14%
$2.0B remains
Sea Ltd

Southeast Asia e-commerce and games
-14%
$392M remains
Carvana

Online used-car dealer
-13%
$666M remains
DoorDash

Food delivery platform
-12%
$594M remains
Visa

Global payments network
-10%
$837M remains
NVIDIA

AI GPU king
-10%
$3.2B remains
Amazon

Cloud, retail and Prime
-10%
$1.4B remains
Shopify

E-commerce software platform
-6%
$1.1B remains
Netflix

Streaming subscription leader
-6%
$905M remains
MercadoLibre

Latin American e-commerce
-7%
$822M remains

Still The Biggest

Top 5, ~36% of portfolio

NVIDIA

AI GPU king
$3.2B
trimmed 10%
Taiwan Semiconductor

World’s largest chip foundry
$2.0B
trimmed 14%
Alphabet

Google parent and YouTube owner
$1.5B
added 4%
Amazon

Cloud, retail and Prime
$1.4B
trimmed 10%
Shopify

E-commerce software platform
$1.1B
trimmed 6%

What to Watch

1. Bloom Energy showed up as a brand-new $241M stake the same quarter that Quanta Services grew 9% and Carpenter Technology grew 32%. That combination is a clear bet on the physical layer of AI: fuel cells for data-center power, the grid contractors that build the substations, and the specialty steel that goes into aerospace and chip-equipment supply chains. The Q2 file will reveal whether Bloom graduates past $300M or shrinks back as the AI-power trade gets crowded.

2. ServiceNow is now a $3M residual after a 99% share cut, alongside an 89% Atlassian cut and a 36% Klaviyo cut. If the Q2 13F shows ServiceNow finally at zero and Atlassian also gone, Sands is fully out of the enterprise-workflow software layer. If either is rebuilt at lower share counts, the cut was tactical, not a thesis shift.

3. The Lam Research new buy and a fresh Seagate stake suggest Sands is rebalancing from compute chips into the supplier and storage layer beneath them. Watch the Q2 file for whether Lam grows toward $400M, whether Seagate stays at $200M-plus, and whether Applied Materials or KLA join the book to complete the chip-equipment trio.

Verified as of May 31, 2026.

Sources

Primary Filings & Announcements

Sands Capital Management LLC Q1 2026 13F-HR Information Table (SEC EDGAR, accession 0001020066-26-000015, period 3/31/2026, filed May 15, 2026)

Sands Capital Management LLC Q1 2026 13F-HR Filing Index (SEC EDGAR)

Sands Capital Management LLC 13F-HR filing history (SEC EDGAR, CIK 0001020066)

Market Coverage

NVIDIA (NVDA) price and news (Yahoo Finance)

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) price and news (Yahoo Finance)

Bloom Energy (BE) price and news (Yahoo Finance)

Background & Analysis

Sands Capital Management LLC Form ADV summary (SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure)

Sands Capital Management LLC full EDGAR filing history (SEC EDGAR)

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