Lone Pine Capital and eleven other large hedge funds filed 13F disclosures for Q4 2025 showing $4.2 billion in net software position liquidation paired with commodity additions averaging 18% of portfolio NAV. The moves appeared in filings published between February 10-14, marking the steepest single-quarter sector pivot since the inflation surge of 2021.
Lone Pine cut cloud infrastructure holdings by $1.8 billion, including full exits from Snowflake and Datadog. Tiger Global reduced SaaS exposure by $920 million. Coatue trimmed application software names by $710 million. Simultaneously, energy positions rose $2.1 billion across the cohort, with new stakes in Permian producers and copper miners. Natural gas pipeline MLPs appeared in six portfolios that previously held zero energy exposure. One fund initiated a $340 million position in uranium miners, its largest new stake in three years.
The rotation signals three concerns among systematic allocators. First, enterprise software multiples remain elevated at 8.2x forward revenue despite decelerating growth—Salesforce guided 9% growth for fiscal 2026, down from 11% the prior year. Second, commodity supply constraints are tightening without corresponding demand destruction. Copper inventories on the London Metal Exchange dropped to 102,000 tonnes, a six-year low. Third, inflation data released January 15 showed core PCE at 2.8%, above the Fed's 2.0% target for eleven consecutive months. Funds holding long-duration tech assets face reinvestment risk if the Fed pauses cuts or reverses course by June.
The filings also reveal concentration risk in private credit. Eight funds increased exposure to business development companies, adding $1.4 billion in BDC positions. Ares Capital and Blue Owl Capital each appeared in at least five new portfolios. This move hedges recession risk—BDCs historically outperform in slowing growth environments where floating-rate loans reprice faster than equity valuations compress. But it also reflects a bet that the Fed holds rates higher than consensus expects, making carry trades in SOFR + 450bp loans attractive relative to equities trading at 21.3x forward earnings.
Allocators should track three follow-on signals. First, whether software names break technical support levels in the next six weeks—if funds continue trimming in Q1 2026, institutional selling accelerates. Second, commodity futures curves—if backwardation steepens in copper or crude by March, the hedge fund thesis gains confirmation. Third, BDC dividend announcements in late February—sustained or increased payouts validate the carry trade rationale and may pull additional capital into the space.
Lone Pine's prior rotations have presaged sector turns with four-month lead time. The firm exited semiconductor capital equipment in Q2 2023, three months before ASML missed guidance. It added healthcare in Q1 2024, ahead of the biotech rally that began in May. This software-to-commodity shift, replicated across a dozen peer portfolios, is not a trade—it is a repositioning for a different macro regime.