Southern First Bancshares SFST Institutional Ownership

Updated Oct 11, 2026

Southern First Bancshares Inc (NASDAQ:SFST) counted 165 institutional investors among its 13F-reported shareholders for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

• Collectively, these holders controlled 90.37% of Southern First Bancshares' outstanding shares in Q2 2026, up from 82.96% in Q1 2026.
• Total shares held in Southern First Bancshares rose 25.05% versus Q1 2026, while the number of holders rose 66.67% versus Q2 2025.
• Looking at the 165 holders of SFST individually, 110 added to their positions, 25 reduced their stakes and 30 left their positions unchanged.
• Altogether, institutional holders owned 8.56Mn SFST shares at the end of Q2 2026, up 1.71Mn from the prior quarter and up 2.17Mn from a year earlier.
• FJ Capital Management LLC held the largest position in SFST at 892.22K shares as of June 30, 2026, or 9.42% of shares outstanding.
• Among holders that already owned Southern First Bancshares, the biggest buyers in Q2 2026 were State Street Corp (+205.56K shares), BlackRock, Inc. (+117.97K shares), JPMorgan Chase & Co (+92.82K shares), Maltese Capital Management LLC (+86.97K shares) and FJ Capital Management LLC (+85K shares).
• The largest position reductions in SFST for Q2 2026 were by Acadian Asset Management LLC (-79.7K shares), Ameriprise Financial Inc (-23.6K shares), SEI Investments Co (-12.91K shares), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (-11.54K shares) and Banc Funds Co LLC (-9K shares).
• According to Business Quant data, the leading holders of SFST for Q2 2026 were FJ Capital Management LLC (892.22K shares), T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. (844.65K shares), BlackRock, Inc. (830.38K shares), Endeavour Capital Advisors Inc (662.86K shares), Vanguard Capital Management LLC (392.79K shares), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (387.86K shares), State Street Corp (373.52K shares), Ameriprise Financial Inc (247.64K shares), Geode Capital Management, LLC (237.05K shares) and Renaissance Technologies LLC (186.31K shares).