DOSSIER · 13F-HR · Q1 2026

BRANDYWINE TRUST CO

$552M in tracked AUM across 31 positions as of Q1 2026.

BT
CIK 0001123803 · last filed Mar 31, 2026
Total AUM
$552M
as of Q1 2026
Holdings
31
positions
Whale Score
73
73
strong
Activity
no data
changes this Q
AI Analysis · Q1 2026

Brandywine Trust Co's $552M Q1 2026 filing is one of the most structurally unusual portfolios in the dataset: 74% of the book sits inside ETFs — dominated by a single 51.9% weight in the Vanguard Total World Stock ETF (VT) — with only 26% deployed across 26 single-name equity positions. The active overlay that sits on top of that ETF anchor is genuinely distinctive: Campbell's (CPB) at 7.9% of the total portfolio is the second-largest overall position and is as unusual a top-10 holding as you will see in any $552M institutional filing, reflecting a consumer-defensive concentration bet that is completely uncorrelated to the VT core. AbbVie (ABBV, 4.1%) and Wells Fargo (WFC, 2.6%) make up the rest of the meaningful single-name sleeve, alongside Berkshire Hathaway in both A and B classes (combined ~3.4%), Abbott Labs (ABT, 2.2%), ExxonMobil (XOM, 1.9%), and Philip Morris (PM, 0.9%). The Q1 changes were modest — the only meaningful move was an 8% reduction in the Wells Fargo position (down $4.9M in value) while the ETF anchors VT and SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) were incrementally increased. The book reads as a 'wrapped world index plus a handful of manager-selected equity sleeves' rather than conventional stock picking, and what makes it interesting is the deliberate oddity of CPB as a top-2 position inside a world-ETF wrapper.

By far the larger of the two is a world-index core: Vanguard Total World Stock (VT, $286.6M, 51.9% of AUM) plus SPDR S&P 500 (SPY, $101.1M, 18.3%), Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets (VEA, $9.4M), iShares MSCI ACWI (ACWI, $8.5M), and iShares Russell 2500 (IWR, $0.26M). Together these six ETFs make up roughly 74% of the entire book. A manager who owns VT and SPY in those proportions is, in practice, running a market-cap-weighted global equity portfolio through index wrappers — the kind of positioning that moves in lockstep with broad equity beta and provides almost no active return of its own. The remaining 26% in 26 single-name equity positions is therefore the only place where this trust's decisions differ from a pure passive vehicle, and it is a small enough sleeve that any position-level analysis needs to be read in that context.

That sleeve, however, contains the portfolio's most idiosyncratic bets. The standout is the Campbell Soup Company (CPB, $43.5M, 7.9% of total AUM) — not just the largest single-name equity but the second-largest overall position in the entire filing, trailing only the VT anchor. A consumer-staples company as a top-2 position inside a world-equity ETF wrapper is structurally bizarre: the manager has built a concentrated, defensive consumer name into a book that is otherwise passively tracking global equities, which means CPB is implicitly being held as a deliberate divergence from the VT sleeve's consumer exposure. The prior quarter showed the same $43.5M position with identical share count (1,954,276 shares), so the manager was not adding to it in Q1 — simply holding firm through a quarter in which consumer staples saw mixed risk appetite. AbbVie (ABBV, $22.9M, 4.1%) is the other meaningful single-name healthcare bet, and like CPB it was lightly trimmed (down ~$2.2M in value) without a change in thesis. Together these two names represent 12% of the total portfolio held outside ETFs — a high single-stock concentration in a sleeve that is already only 26% of the book.

Quarter at a glance — Q1 2026

Position-change comparison pending.

No quarter-over-quarter changes available.

Top 10 holdings

By portfolio weight as of Q1 2026.

#HoldingValueSharesWeight
01
VT
VANGUARD INTL EQUITY INDEX F
$287M2.1M51.9%
02
SPY
STATE STR SPDR S&P 500 ETF T
$101M155K18.3%
03
CPB
THE CAMPBELLS COMPANY
$44M2.0M7.9%
04
ABBV
ABBVIE INC
$23M105K4.1%
05
BRK/A
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC DEL
$16M222.9%
06
WFC
WELLS FARGO & CO
$14M182K2.6%
07
ABT
ABBOTT LABORATORIES
$12M117K2.2%
08
XOM
EXXON MOBIL CORP
$11M62K1.9%
09
VEA
VANGUARD TAX-MANAGED FDS
$9M147K1.7%
10
ACWI
ISHARES TR
$9M62K1.5%

Filing history

2026Q1Mar 31
$552M 3.3%
31 positionsView →
2025Q4Dec 31
$570M 13.2%
32 positionsView →
2025Q3Sep 30
$657M 0.4%
33 positionsView →
2025Q2Jun 30
$655M 1.5%
35 positionsLocked
2025Q1Mar 31
$645M 1.7%
35 positionsLocked
2024Q4Dec 31
$634M 5.5%
32 positionsLocked
2024Q3Sep 30
$671M 11.4%
33 positionsLocked
2024Q2Jun 30
$602M 2.1%
31 positionsLocked
2024Q1Mar 31
$590M 18.6%
31 positionsLocked
2023Q4Dec 31
$497M 20.0%
30 positionsLocked
2023Q3Sep 30
$414M 8.8%
26 positionsLocked
2023Q2Jun 30
$454M 22.4%
29 positionsLocked
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