QSMRX
AQR Small Cap Momentum Style Fund
AQR Funds
Expense ratio1
0.52%
Net assets2
$166.81M
Holdings2
638
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
17.22%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Jan. 26, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The AQR Small Cap Momentum Style Fund (the Fund) seeks long-term capital appreciation.

Strategy. The Fund pursues a momentum investment style by investing primarily in equity or equity-related securities (including, but not limited to, exchange-traded funds, equity index futures and real estate investment trusts ("REITs") or REIT-like entities) of small-cap companies traded on a principal U.S. exchange or over-the-counter market that the Adviser determines to have positive momentum. The Adviser considers a security to have positive momentum primarily if it has outperformed other securities on a relative basis over a recent time period. Relative performance may be based on price momentum, earnings momentum, or other types of momentum, and will generally be measured over time periods ranging from one to twelve months. The criteria the Adviser uses for determining positive momentum may change from … The Fund pursues a momentum investment style by investing primarily in equity or equity-related securities (including, but not limited to, exchange-traded funds, equity index futures and real estate investment trusts ("REITs") or REIT-like entities) of small-cap companies traded on a principal U.S. exchange or over-the-counter market that the Adviser determines to have positive momentum. The Adviser considers a security to have positive momentum primarily if it has outperformed other securities on a relative basis over a recent time period. Relative performance may be based on price momentum, earnings momentum, or other types of momentum, and will generally be measured over time periods ranging from one to twelve months. The criteria the Adviser uses for determining positive momentum may change from time to time. Under normal market circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (including any borrowings for investment purposes) in small-cap U.S. companies. As of the date of this prospectus, the Adviser considers small-cap U.S. companies to be those companies with market capitalizations within the range of the Russell 2000 Total Return Index at the time of purchase. The Adviser determines the weight of each security in the portfolio using a combination of the market capitalization of the security and the Advisers determination of the attractiveness of the security based on the Advisers assessment of the securitys momentum and additional criteria that form part of the Advisers security selection process. The Adviser utilizes portfolio optimization techniques to determine trading activity, taking into account both anticipated transaction costs and potential tax consequences associated with trading each equity instrument. When selecting securities for the portfolio, the Adviser will employ tax management strategies which consider the potential impact of federal income tax on shareholders investment return. These tax management strategies are generally designed to both (i) reduce the Funds overall realization of capital gains, and (ii) minimize the Funds realized short-term capital gains as a percentage of the Funds total realized capital gains (both long-term and short term), as compared to funds that do not take tax consequences into account. Investors should not expect that there will be no capital gain distributions or that the Funds short-term capital gains distributions will necessarily be less than its long-term capital gains distributions, however, as the Fund will balance investment considerations with tax consequences in making investment decisions and the Fund may not employ these tax management strategies at all times. The techniques that may be used to attempt to reduce the impact of federal income tax on shareholders investment returns include: when believed by the Adviser to be appropriate, selling stocks to realize losses, with the specific purpose of offsetting gains; deferring realizations of net capital gains; limiting portfolio turnover that may result in taxable gains; and choosing a tax accounting method that reduces tax liability: for example, using the highest-in, first-out (HIFO) method which sells tax lots of securities that have a higher tax basis before selling tax lots of securities that have a lower tax basis. The Fund invests significantly in common stocks. The Fund may also invest in or use financial futures contracts and other types of equity-linked derivative instruments such as equity swaps and equity index swaps, as well as exchange-traded funds and similar pooled investment vehicles, for hedging purposes, to gain exposure to the equity markets and to maintain liquidity to pay for redemptions. A portion of the Funds assets may be held in cash or cash-equivalent investments, including, but not limited to, short-term investment funds.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund $7.31M 4.38%
BLOOM ENERGY CORP CL A $2.96M 1.77%
ECHOSTAR CORP CL A $2.23M 1.34%
FABRINET $1.81M 1.08%
NEXTRACKER INC CL A $1.70M 1.02%
STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE INC $1.68M 1.01%
CREDO TECHNOLOGY GROUP HOLDING LTD $1.43M 0.86%
HECLA MINING CO $1.37M 0.82%
KRATOS DEFENSE and SEC SOLTN INC $1.28M 0.77%
TTM TECHNOLOGIES INC $1.24M 0.74%
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Allocation by sector

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
139
Exited
102
Increased
232
Decreased
146
Unchanged
121

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of September 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
AQR Capital Management, LLc Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of January 26, 2026, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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