SPSRX — Sterling Capital Behavioral Small Cap Value Equity Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-31
SPSRX — Sterling Capital Behavioral Small Cap Value Equity Fund. United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
SPSRX Fund Overview
SPSRX — Sterling Capital Behavioral Small Cap Value Equity Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Sterling Capital Funds, categorised as United States Small 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 Small Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $80.54M
- 1-year return: 68.4%
- Ticker: SPSRX
- SEC CIK: 0000889284
- SEC series ID: S000012930
- Share class ID: C000084356
SPSRX Investment Objective and Strategy
Sterling Capital Behavioral Small Cap Value Equity 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 maximum long-term total return, by investing primarily in equity securities of small capitalization companies.
Principal investment strategy
To pursue its investment objective, the Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets plus borrowings for investment purposes in the equity securities of small capitalization companies. Small capitalization companies are defined as companies with market capitalizations within the range of those companies in the Russell 2000 Index at the time of purchase. As of December 29, 2017, the smallest company in the Russell 2000 Index had a market capitalization of $22 million and the largest company had a market capitalization of $9 billion. The Fund invests primarily in U.S. traded equity securities of small capitalization companies. The term U.S. traded equity securities refers to domestically traded U.S. common stocks (including securities of real estate investment trusts (REITs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)), and U.S.
traded equity stocks of foreign companies. The Fund may invest in securities of middle and large capitalization companies. Sterling Capital Management LLC (Sterling Capital) applies behavioral finance principles in the construction of the Funds portfolio. Behavioral finance theorizes that investment decisions are often influenced by biases, heuristics (i.e., experienced-based techniques for decision making) and emotion, and that investors can be predictable (and, at times, irrational) in their decision making. These emotionally charged investment decisions can lead to stock price anomalies that create opportunities in the marketplace. Sterling Capital seeks to capitalize on these behaviorally driven market anomalies by employing a disciplined investment process. In implementing behavioral finance principles, Sterling Capital ranks companies in the Funds investment universe based on a number of factors that it believes can be indicators of under- or over-valuation of a security by the market, such as valuation (e.g., seeking to invest in companies that Sterling Capital believes are undervalued), price momentum (e.g., identifying securities that Sterling Capital believes will experience sustained positive price momentum) and earnings revisions (e.g., identifying and capitalizing on what Sterling Capital believes are under-reactions by the market to positive earnings revisions).
Sterling Capital also takes into account such factors as market capitalization, country exposure, and sector exposure to construct a diversified portfolio. Sterling Capital considers selling a security when the securitys ranking becomes less attractive and/or in light of liquidity, sector exposure, country exposure or diversification considerations.
SPSRX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Sterling Capital Behavioral Small Cap Value Equity Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Tutor Perini Corp. | 1.07% |
| Federated Hermes Money Market Obligations Trust | 1.02% |
| Jackson Financial, Inc. | 1.00% |
| Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. | 0.98% |
| Ryder System, Inc. | 0.96% |
| Viasat, Inc. | 0.89% |
| Sanmina Corp. | 0.89% |
| Victoria's Secret & Company | 0.84% |
| Interface, Inc. | 0.80% |
| Sm Energy Company | 0.74% |
SPSRX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Sterling Capital Behavioral Small Cap Value Equity Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 98.9% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.0% |
SPSRX Performance
Total returns for SPSRX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 68.4% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 15.1% |
SPSRX Risk Information
Risk metrics for SPSRX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 17.4%
SPSRX Costs and Fees
SPSRX costs about $134 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.34%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.34%
- Portfolio turnover: 90%
- Brokerage commissions: 12.04 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
SPSRX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Sterling Capital Behavioral Small Cap Value Equity Fund had net outflows of $30.62M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$69.00K |
| 2026-05 | −$77.43K |
| 2026-04 | −$50.17K |
| 2026-03 | −$114.24K |
| 2026-02 | −$80.24K |
| 2026-01 | −$40.11M |
SPSRX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Sterling Capital Behavioral Small Cap Value Equity Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
SPSRX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Sterling Capital Behavioral Small Cap Value Equity 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.