DOSSIER · 13F-HR · Q2 2026

Silver Lake Group, L.L.C.

$4.6B in tracked AUM across 12 positions as of Q2 2026.

SL
CIK 0001418226 · last filed Jun 30, 2026
Total AUM
$4.6B
as of Q2 2026
Holdings
12
positions
Whale Score
75
75
strong
Activity
no data
changes this Q
AI Analysis · Q2 2026

Silver Lake's $3.68 billion U.S.-listed public portfolio for March 2026 is not a conventional investment portfolio and should not be read as one. The filing represents the publicly-traded holdings of the world's largest technology-focused private equity firm, and the positions shown are largely stakes in Silver Lake portfolio companies that have gone public or remain publicly traded — not independent security selections made within a diversified long-only mandate. The AUM contracted from $5.03 billion to $3.68 billion in Q1, a 27% decline that was driven principally by two mark-to-market events: Unity Software (SBE / U), Silver Lake's largest public position at year-end, fell from $1.53 billion to $762 million as the game-engine and metaverse platform company's stock continued its multi-quarter decline; and First Advantage, the background-check and HR technology company backed by Silver Lake, fell from $1.30 billion to $1.05 billion. Together these two positions account for $1.0 billion of the $1.35 billion reported AUM decline. The portfolio remained otherwise remarkably stable — ten of the thirteen positions were held at unchanged share counts across the quarter — which is consistent with the holding-company nature of these investments: Silver Lake does not trade these positions on a quarterly basis, it holds them as representations of its PE portfolio companies' public equity. The one meaningful trading action was a major reduction in Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later company in which Silver Lake has been a major backer: the position was cut from $418 million to $189 million, a 55% reduction, reflecting either a partial exit at a gain or a rebalancing within Silver Lake's aggregate Klarna exposure across public and private holdings. Three token-sized new positions in REITs — Dell Technologies, Realty Income Corp, and HealthPeak Properties — appeared at share counts so small (less than $500K combined) that they are more consistent with overhang-or-settlement receipt than deliberate portfolio construction. For readers using this filing, the appropriate interpretation is not 'what does Silver Lake's public portfolio tell us about its investment views?' but rather 'what is the current market value of Silver Lake's liquid public stakes in its portfolio companies?' — the answer being $3.68 billion, down from $5.03 billion, reflecting broader tech-market weakness rather than any new conviction signal.

The portfolio's four largest positions together account for 86.8% of reported AUM and are the clearest representation of what this filing actually measures. First Advantage at $1.05 billion represents Silver Lake's stake in the background-check and HR technology company that went public through a SPAC merger in 2021 — a company whose core business (background-screening software for employers and landlords) has consistent recurring revenue and whose valuation has compressed through Q1 alongside the broader HR-tech sector. Unity at $762 million is the market-cap leader in real-time 3D development platforms, used primarily in video-game development but increasingly in automotive design, architecture, and metaverse applications. Silver Lake led Unity's $1.3 billion capital raise in 2020 and has been the company's largest shareholder through market volatility that has seen Unity's stock fall dramatically from its 2021 highs. The 30.5% decline in Unity's reported value from $1.53 billion to $762 million during Q1 2026 reflects the stock's continuation of its multi-quarter decline rather than any new Silver Lake decision. EverCommerce at $767 million is a vertical-SaaS company serving home-services and professional-services merchants, also publicly traded and also part of the Silver Lake portfolio. Madison Square Garden Sports at $611 million — parent of the New York Knicks and Rangers — sits in an entirely different category: it is not a technology company in any meaningful sense, but rather an entertainment and sports-holdings vehicle whose valuation is driven by media-rights contracts, franchise values, and live-event economics. Silver Lake's stake in MSG Sports represents an opportunistic investment in sports and media assets, not a technology thesis.

The remaining nine positions are held at sizes that range from modest to trivial. N-ABLE Inc at $287 million is a cybersecurity and managed-services platform for small-and-medium business IT providers; Klarna at $189 million (reduced from $418 million); GoodRx at $6.9 million; Snowflake at $1.4 million; Dell Technologies at $479,000; the three REIT positions — Simon Property Group, Realty Income Corp, and HealthPeak Properties — each under $250,000; and Amplitude at $107,000. The distinction between measured, deliberate positions and residual or overhang holdings at these sizes is difficult to make from the 13F alone, but the pattern is instructive: the four large positions are clearly strategic stakes held as part of a PE-portfolio-management mandate, while the smaller positions appear to be a mix of legacy technology holdings and whatever shares happened to be delivered as part of fund-level distributions or corporate actions.

Analysis generated by 13F Insight from SEC Form 13F filing data · Q2 2026. Methodology

Quarter at a glance — Q2 2026

Position-change comparison pending.

No quarter-over-quarter changes available.

Top 10 holdings

By portfolio weight as of Q2 2026.

#HoldingValueSharesWeight
01
FA
FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP NEW
$1.6B89.6M35.3%
02
U
UNITY SOFTWARE INC
$993M34.7M21.7%
03
MSGS
MADISON SQUARE GRDN SPRT COR
$763M1.9M16.7%
04
EVCM
EVERCOMMERCE INC
$675M67.1M14.7%
05
G5279N105
KLARNA GROUP PLC
$293M14.5M6.4%
06
NABL
N-ABLE INC
$226M61.5M4.9%
07
GDRX
GOODRX HLDGS INC
$10M3.5M0.2%
08
SNOW
SNOWFLAKE INC
$2M9K0.1%
09
SPG
SIMON PROPERTY GROUP
$302K1K0.0%
10
DOC
HEALTHPEAK PROPERTIES
$230K11K0.0%

Filing history

2026Q2Jun 30
$4.6B 24.5%
12 positionsView →
2026Q1Mar 31
$3.7B 26.9%
13 positionsView →
2025Q4Dec 31
$5.0B 1.2%
11 positionsView →
2025Q3Sep 30
$5.0B 1.2%
9 positionsView →
2025Q2Jun 30
$5.0B 9.0%
12 positionsLocked
2025Q1Mar 31
$5.5B 37.7%
13 positionsLocked
2024Q4Dec 31
$8.9B 0.5%
15 positionsLocked
2024Q3Sep 30
$8.9B 9.0%
17 positionsLocked
2024Q2Jun 30
$8.2B 0.8%
16 positionsLocked
2024Q1Mar 31
$8.2B 7.0%
15 positionsLocked
2023Q4Dec 31
$8.9B 39.7%
16 positionsLocked
2023Q3Sep 30
$14.7B 0.8%
17 positionsLocked
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