DOSSIER · 13F-HR · Q1 2026

CANYON CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC

$772M in tracked AUM across 19 positions as of Q1 2026.

CC
CIK 0001074034 · last filed Mar 31, 2026
Total AUM
$772M
as of Q1 2026
Holdings
19
positions
Whale Score
75
75
strong
Activity
no data
changes this Q
AI Analysis · Q1 2026

Canyon Capital Advisors' Q1 2026 13F is a $772M, 19-position distressed-and-event-driven equity fund executing a broad portfolio reconstruction — cutting its largest position Seadrill Ltd ($57.4M, -$72.1M, -66.3% shares) from 17.0% to 7.4% of AUM, selling Noble Corp (-$36.8M) and Anywhere Real Estate (-$13.1M), and redeploying into nine new opens across technology (Electronic Arts $56.3M, Qorvo $48.1M, Atkore $18.0M), media (Warner Bros Discovery $24.7M), consumer (Masterbrand $14.1M), healthcare (Kenvue $12.9M, reduced $12.9M from $25.9M), real estate (Compass +$4.4M, +74.9% shares), and financial services (PennyMac $16.4M, OceanFirst $11.1M, Flushing Financial $1.4M). The fund also added to Sunrun (+$2.2M, +45.3% shares) and Compass (+$4.4M, +74.9%) while reducing Ardagh Metal Packaging (-$4.3M, -7.4%), Kenvue (-$12.9M, -50%), and Masterbrand (-$7.6M, -13.7%). At a 77.50 whaleScore on $772M with 23 total changes (9 new, 4 sold, 2 increased, 4 decreased, 4 unchanged), this is a high-turnover event-driven book whose Q1 activity signals a manager rotating out of offshore-drilling distress (Seadrill, Noble) and into what it views as undervalued, catalyst-rich names in gaming, semiconductors, media, and consumer — a classic Canyon-style 'situation' portfolio where each position is a discrete corporate event with a 12-24 month horizon.

The Seadrill reduction is the filing's defining trade. Seadrill Ltd ($57.4M, 7.4%, 1.26M shares) — an offshore drilling contractor that had been the fund's largest holding in Q4 2025 at $129.5M (17.0%) — was reduced by $72.1M and 2,480,283 shares (-66.3%). The remaining $57.4M position is still meaningful but is no longer the anchor of the book. Seadrill's business (offshore jackup and semisubmersible drilling) had been a beneficiary of the 2024-2025 deepwater capex recovery, but the manager appears to have concluded that the easy money in offshore drilling has been made — rig rates have risen, dayrates are at multi-year highs, and the incremental upside from here requires a more aggressive commodity-price or deepwater-expansion thesis than the manager is willing to bet on. The $72.1M realized capital is the largest single funding source for the Q1 redeployment.

The Noble Corp sale ($36.8M, 100% reduction) — another offshore drilling-and-well-services name — and the Anywhere Real Estate sale ($13.1M, 100%) — a distressed residential-real-estate brokerage (formerly Anywhere Homes, formerly Realogy) — confirm the energy-and-distressed-rotation thesis. Both were speculative situations with binary catalysts (Noble's debt restructuring, Anywhere's housing-market recovery) that the manager has either resolved or concluded no longer offer sufficient upside. Together with the Seadrill reduction, these three exits freed $122.2M in capital.

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
CBL
CBL & ASSOC PPTYS INC
$325M8.5M42.1%
02
G7997W102
SEADRILL LTD
$57M1.3M7.4%
03
EA
ELECTRONIC ARTS INC
$56M276K7.3%
04
QRVO
QORVO INC
$48M622K6.2%
05
FFWM
FIRST FNDTN INC
$48M8.2M6.2%
06
L02235106
ARDAGH METAL PACKAGING S A
$47M11.5M6.0%
07
RUN
SUNRUN INC
$33M2.5M4.3%
08
COMP
COMPASS INC
$26M3.5M3.3%
09
WBD
WARNER BROS DISCOVERY INC
$25M900K3.2%
10
ATKR
ATKORE INC
$18M305K2.3%

Filing history

2026Q1Mar 31
$772M 1.5%
19 positionsView →
2025Q4Dec 31
$761M 61.7%
14 positionsView →
2025Q3Sep 30
$470M 34.9%
13 positionsView →
2025Q2Jun 30
$723M 53.5%
16 positionsLocked
2025Q1Mar 31
$471M 39.5%
13 positionsLocked
2024Q4Dec 31
$779M 5.9%
12 positionsLocked
2024Q3Sep 30
$828M 7.4%
16 positionsLocked
2024Q2Jun 30
$895M 4.4%
17 positionsLocked
2024Q1Mar 31
$936M 5.8%
19 positionsLocked
2023Q4Dec 31
$885M 12.6%
21 positionsLocked
2023Q3Sep 30
$1.0B 0.1%
27 positionsLocked
2023Q2Jun 30
$1.0B 49.8%
32 positionsLocked
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