MainStay VP Eagle Small Cap Growth Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-24
C000104623 — MainStay VP Eagle Small Cap Growth Portfolio. United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000104623 Fund Overview
MainStay VP Eagle Small Cap Growth Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Mainstay Vp Funds Trust, categorised as United States Mid 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: Mainstay Vp Funds Trust
- Category: United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $431.58M
- 1-year return: 30.1%
- SEC CIK: 0000887340
- SEC series ID: S000033926
- Share class ID: C000104623
C000104623 Investment Objective and Strategy
MainStay VP Eagle Small Cap Growth Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Mainstay Vp Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Portfolio seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
"The Portfolio, under normal circumstances, invests at least 80% of its assets (net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in small capitalization companies. For purposes of the Portfolio, small capitalization companies are generally those that have market capitalizations no larger than the largest capitalized company in the Russell 2000 Growth Index at the time of the Portfolio's investment (approximately $43.6 billion as of February 28, 2026). The Portfolio may invest in securities of U.S. and foreign companies, including emerging markets companies. An issuer of a security is considered to be a U.S. or foreign issuer based on the issuer's ""country of risk"" (or similar designation) as determined by a third-party such as Bloomberg. The Portfolio has two Subadvisors, CI SBH Asset Management (SBH) and Brown Advisory LLC (Brown Advisory).
New York Life Investment Management LLC, the Portfolios Manager, believes the Subadvisors investment processes and styles are complementary. Each Subadvisor is responsible for managing a portion of the Portfolios assets, as designated by the Manager from time to time. SBHs Investment Strategy and Process: SBH implements its investment strategy primarily through independent bottom-up fundamental research. SBH seeks to construct a portfolio designed to generate risk-adjusted excess return relative to the Portfolios benchmark, primarily through stock selection. SBH uses a proprietary discounted cash flow (DCF) model for purposes of valuing and generating price targets for individual stocks. The DCF model is utilized for two primary purposes: (i) to understand what assumptions are implied in a stocks current price; and (ii) to generate an expected value for each stock, based on the teams internally generated forecasts.
SBH typically maintains exposure to most sectors within the Russell 2000 Growth Index; however, with an active management process, there will be variances in sector exposure relative to the Russell 2000 Growth Index. SBH typically invests only in securities of companies whose stock is traded on U.S. markets, including depositary receipts or shares issued by companies incorporated outside of the United States (e.g., American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)). SBH may sell a security when conditions have changed and it believes a companys prospects are no longer attractive, the securitys price has achieved the teams valuation target, certain objective criteria are met or better relative investment opportunities have been identified. SBH integrates a companys environmental, social and corporate governance ESG practices within its investment process alongside other non-ESG factors.
SBH believes ESG factors may be important drivers of value in conjunction with the underlying strength and potential of a business, however, its consideration of these factors would not necessarily result in a company being included or excluded from the evaluation process but rather would contribute to the overall evaluation of that company. Brown Advisorys Investment Strategy and Process: Under normal conditions, Brown Advisory seeks to achieve the Portfolios investment objective by investing in equity securities of small capitalization domestic companies. Brown Advisory primarily selects companies it believes have above average growth prospects. Brown Advisory conducts an in-depth analysis of a companys fundamentals to identify those companies it believes have the potential for long-term earnings growth that is not fully reflected in the securitys price.
Brown Advisory employs a bottom-up, fundamental research approach to the identification, examination and selection of securities. Equity securities include domestic common and preferred stock, convertible debt securities, ADRs, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The Portfolio may also invest in private placements in these types of securities. The Portfolio invests primarily in ETFs that have an investment objective similar to the Portfolios or that otherwise are permitted investments with the Portfolios investment policies. Brown Advisory may sell a security or reduce its position if it believes: (i) the security subsequently fails to meet initial investment criteria; (ii) a more attractively priced security is found; or (iii) the security becomes overvalued relative to the long-term expectation."
C000104623 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of MainStay VP Eagle Small Cap Growth Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| NYLIM U.S. Government Liquidity Fund | 3.86% |
| Guardant Health, Inc. | 2.18% |
| HealthEquity, Inc. | 2.16% |
| Oceaneering International, Inc. | 1.96% |
| Invesco Govt And Agcy Lex | 1.78% |
| Materion Corp. | 1.75% |
| Establishment Labs Holdings, Inc. | 1.63% |
| Novanta, Inc. | 1.54% |
| Cytokinetics, Inc. | 1.49% |
| Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. | 1.47% |
C000104623 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of MainStay VP Eagle Small Cap Growth Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 96.4% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 6.1% |
C000104623 Performance
Total returns for C000104623 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 22.2% |
| 1 year | 30.1% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 13.6% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 3.9% |
C000104623 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000104623, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 13.3%
C000104623 Costs and Fees
C000104623 costs about $86 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.86%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.86%
- Portfolio turnover: 46%
- Brokerage commissions: 5.66 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000104623 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, MainStay VP Eagle Small Cap Growth Portfolio had net outflows of $44.21M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$9.53M |
| 2026-05 | −$9.22M |
| 2026-04 | −$1.48M |
| 2026-03 | −$8.97M |
| 2026-02 | −$17.28M |
| 2026-01 | −$5.89M |
C000104623 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in MainStay VP Eagle Small Cap Growth Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000104623 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official MainStay VP Eagle Small Cap Growth Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-19
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-14
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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.