Barings BDC BBDC Institutional Ownership

Updated Oct 11, 2026

Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE:BBDC) counted 200 institutional investors among its 13F-reported shareholders for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

• Their combined stake equaled 47.73% of outstanding shares in Q2 2026, up from 45.24% in Q1 2026.
• Total shares held in Barings BDC rose 5.51% from Q1 2026, while the number of holders rose 3.09% from Q2 2025.
• Among the 200 holders of Barings BDC, 101 added to their positions, 58 reduced their stakes and 41 left their positions unchanged.
• Combined, institutional investors held 49.98Mn shares of BBDC as of Q2 2026, up 2.61Mn from the prior quarter and up 5.88Mn from a year earlier.
• As of June 30, 2026, the biggest holder of Barings BDC was Barings LLC with 13.64Mn shares, or 13.03% of shares outstanding.
• The biggest increases in BBDC positions during Q2 2026 came from Ares Management LLC (+534.15K shares), UBS Group AG (+522.85K shares), Van Eck Associates Corp (+484.65K shares), Private Management Group Inc (+479.54K shares) and Franklin Templeton Inc (+395.02K shares).
• The largest position reductions in BBDC for Q2 2026 were by Diameter Capital Partners LP (-1.38Mn shares), D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. (-268.2K shares), BI Asset Management Fondsmaeglerselskab A/S (-203.87K shares), Wells Fargo & Company (-164.86K shares) and Focus Partners Wealth (-47.57K shares).
• Per Business Quant data, the 10 largest holders of Barings BDC at the end of Q2 2026 were Barings LLC (13.64Mn shares), Private Management Group Inc (4.78Mn shares), Ares Management LLC (4.16Mn shares), Cresset Asset Management, LLC (2.55Mn shares), Van Eck Associates Corp (2.31Mn shares), UBS Group AG (2.11Mn shares), Franklin Templeton Inc (1.37Mn shares), Russell Investments Group, Ltd. (1.23Mn shares), Two Sigma Investments, LP (1.13Mn shares) and Dimension Capital Management LLC (1.02Mn shares).