BOPRX — Sterling Capital Special Opportunities Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-31
BOPRX — Sterling Capital Special Opportunities Fund. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity · $348.98M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
BOPRX Fund Overview
BOPRX — Sterling Capital Special Opportunities Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Sterling Capital Funds, categorised as United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Sterling Capital Funds
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $348.98M
- 1-year return: 42.7%
- Ticker: BOPRX
- SEC CIK: 0000889284
- SEC series ID: S000003543
- Share class ID: C000084350
BOPRX Investment Objective and Strategy
Sterling Capital Special Opportunities Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Sterling Capital Funds.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
To pursue its investment objective, the Fund will invest, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets plus borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities. The securities may include common stock, preferred stock, warrants, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), or debt instruments that are convertible to common stock. The Fund invests, under normal market conditions, primarily in domestically traded U.S. common stocks and U.S. traded equity stocks of foreign companies, including ADRs. The Fund uses a multi-style approach, meaning that it not only invests across different capitalization levels but may target both value- and growth-oriented companies. The portfolio manager looks for companies experiencing above-average revenue and profit growth as well as out-of-favor stocks that may be depressed due to what the portfolio manager believes to be temporary economic circumstances.
In choosing individual stocks, the portfolio manager then performs a fundamental analysis to examine the valuation, growth and momentum characteristics of a particular issuer. The portfolio manager may consider selling a stock owned by the Fund when the factors that induced the portfolio manager to buy the stock have changed, the company faces earnings growth risk or has issued substantial new debt, or to reduce the Funds position in a particular stock if the stock represents a disproportionately large position within the Funds portfolio. In addition, the Fund may engage in writing covered call options on securities to generate income from premiums received in connection with the option. A call option gives the buyer the right to buy, and obligates the option seller to sell a security at a specified price.
Generally, a written call option is covered if a fund owns the security or instrument underlying the call or has an absolute right to acquire that security or instrument without additional cash consideration. When the Fund writes a covered call option on a security, the Fund limits its opportunity to profit from an increase in the market price of the security above the exercise price of the option. The Fund will not write a covered call option if, as a result, the aggregate fair value of all portfolio securities covering call options exceeds 50% of the fair value of its net assets.
BOPRX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Sterling Capital Special Opportunities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Corp. | 6.76% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 5.73% |
| Natera, Inc. | 4.71% |
| Eli Lilly & Company | 4.65% |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.28% |
| Microsoft Corp. | 3.56% |
| Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. | 3.45% |
| Genuine Parts Company | 3.37% |
| Verisk Analytics, Inc. | 3.29% |
| Marvell Technology, Inc. | 3.25% |
BOPRX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Sterling Capital Special Opportunities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 97.1% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.9% |
BOPRX Performance
Total returns for BOPRX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 42.7% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 19.0% |
BOPRX Risk Information
Risk metrics for BOPRX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 13.9%
BOPRX Costs and Fees
BOPRX costs about $136 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.36%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.36%
- Portfolio turnover: 39%
- Brokerage commissions: 4.02 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
BOPRX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Sterling Capital Special Opportunities Fund had net outflows of $33.37M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$4.67M |
| 2026-05 | −$6.64M |
| 2026-04 | −$10.05M |
| 2026-03 | −$9.79M |
| 2026-02 | −$8.18M |
| 2026-01 | −$8.13M |
BOPRX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Sterling Capital Special Opportunities Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
BOPRX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Sterling Capital Special Opportunities Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-01-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-01-31
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2026-02-02
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-31
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-27
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-12-11
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-12-13
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.