Utz Brands, Inc.
US ˙ NYSE ˙ US9180901012

SecurityUTZ / Utz Brands, Inc.
InstitutionSimplex Trading, Llc
Latest Disclosed Ownership2,879 shares
Latest Disclosed Value $ 22,801
Simplex Trading, Llc ownership in UTZ / Utz Brands, Inc.

On May 14, 2026 - Simplex Trading, Llc filed a 13F-HR form disclosing ownership of 2,879 shares of Utz Brands, Inc. (US:UTZ) valued at $22,802 USD as of March 31, 2026. The entity filed a previous 13F-HR on February 11, 2026 disclosing 21,208 shares of Utz Brands, Inc.. This represents a change in shares of -86.42% during the quarter. The current value of the position is $20,470 USD.

Simplex Trading, Llc has a history of taking positions in derivatives of the underlying security (UTZ) in the form of stock options. The firm currently holds call options representing 10,900 of underlying shares valued at $86,328 USD and put options representing 1,300 of underlying shares valued at $10,296 USD .

Note: prior versions of this page mistakenly stated that the share values represented the number of options, not the number of underlying shares. For more information on the data backing these reports, please see the SEC document Frequently Asked Questions About Form 13F.

Institutional Ownership: 13F and NPORT Filings

The Security and Class in the table below are shown exactly as filed by the investor. We do our best to track continuity of investments through acquisitions, and this will be reflected in the table as changes in names. In addition to descriptive data, performance of the investment is shown over time. To calculate quarterly performance, we first calculate cost basis of the shares purchased during the quarter, then use that to calculate gross profit. Quarterly return is Gross Profit / Starting Portfolio value.

Note that cost basis is calculated and stored in thousands, so small quarterly changes in shares frequently result in a cost basis of zero.

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Institutional Put/Call Ratios
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In addition to reporting standard equity and debt issues, institutions with more than 100MM assets under management must also disclose their put and call option holdings. Since put options generally indicate negative sentiment, and call options indicate positive sentiment, we can get a sense of the overall institutional sentiment by plotting the ratio of puts to calls. The chart to the right plots the historical put/call ratio for this instrument.

Using Put/Call Ratio as an indicator of investor sentiment overcomes one of the key deficiencies of using total institutional ownership, which is that a significant amount of assets under management are invested passively to track indices. Passively-managed funds do not typically buy options, so the put/call ratio indicator more closely tracks the sentiment of actively-managed funds.

UTZ / Utz Brands, Inc. Historical Put/Call Ratio
Disclosed Equity Positions (from 13F/NPORT Filings)
File
Date
Effective
Date
Form Security Class ID Avg Price
Paid (Est)
Reported
Shares
ΔShares ΔShares
(%)
Reported
Value
(x1000)
ΔValue
(%)
Alloc
(%)
ΔAlloc ΔAlloc (%) Cost Basis
(x1000)
Unrealized
Gain/Loss
(x1000)
2026-05-14 2026-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 2,879 -18,329 -86.42 23 -90.00 0.0000
2026-02-11 2025-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 21,208 6,844 47.65 220 0.0001
2025-11-12 2025-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 14,364 14,364 0 0.0001
2025-05-12 2025-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 0 -3,165 -100.00 0 0.0000
2025-02-11 2024-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 3,165 780 32.70 0 0.0000
2024-11-08 2024-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 2,385 2,385 0 0.0000
2023-11-01 2023-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 0 -2,429 -100.00 0 0.0000
2023-08-04 2023-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 2,429 -1,037 -29.92 0 0.0000
2023-04-27 2023-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 3,466 3,466 0 0.0001
2023-02-02 2022-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 0 -128 -100.00 0 -100.00
2022-11-04 2022-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 128 128 1 0.0000
2022-05-02 2022-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 0 -19,411 -100.00 0 -100.00
2022-02-04 2021-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 19,411 0 0.00 432 0.00 0.0004
2021-10-28 2021-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 19,411 -224 -1.14 432 1.17 0.0004
2021-08-12 2021-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 19,635 -3,483 -15.07 427 -25.48 0.0004
2021-04-26 2021-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS COM 918090101 23,118 23,118 573 0.0010
Disclosed Call Options
File
Date
Effective
Date
Form Security Class ID Opt Avg Share
Price
Shares ΔShares
(%)
Value
(x1000)
ΔValue
(%)
Prior Allocation
(%)
Allocation
(%)
ΔAllocation
(%)
Cost Basis
(x1000)
Profit
(x1000)
Return
(%)
2026-05-14 2026-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 10,900 159.52 86 100.00 n/a n/a n/a
2026-02-11 2025-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 4,200 68.00 44 n/a n/a n/a
2025-11-12 2025-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 2,500 -84.47 0 n/a n/a n/a
2025-08-05 2025-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 16,100 -49.05 0 n/a n/a n/a
2025-05-12 2025-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 31,600 182.14 0 n/a n/a n/a
2025-02-11 2024-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 11,200 -67.25 0 n/a n/a n/a
2024-11-08 2024-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 34,200 5.88 1 n/a n/a n/a
2024-07-25 2024-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 32,300 -25.92 1 n/a n/a n/a
2024-04-25 2024-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 43,600 49.83 1 n/a n/a n/a
2024-02-02 2023-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 29,100 268.35 0 n/a n/a n/a
2023-11-01 2023-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 7,900 -5.95 0 n/a n/a n/a
2023-08-04 2023-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 8,400 33.33 0 n/a n/a n/a
2023-04-27 2023-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 6,300 -18.18 0 n/a n/a n/a
2023-02-02 2022-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 7,700 -45.00 0 -100.00 n/a n/a n/a
2022-11-04 2022-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 14,000 169.23 211 197.18 n/a n/a n/a
2022-08-03 2022-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 5,200 -50.94 71 -54.49 n/a n/a n/a
2022-05-02 2022-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 10,600 125.53 156 110.81 n/a n/a n/a
2022-02-23 2021-12-31 13F/A UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 4,700 -85.36 74 -89.64 n/a n/a n/a
2022-02-04 2021-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 32,100 714 n/a n/a n/a
2021-10-28 2021-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 32,100 0.00 714 2.15 n/a n/a n/a
2021-08-12 2021-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 32,100 29,349.54 699 158.89 n/a n/a n/a
2021-04-26 2021-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 109 -76.96 270 -74.11 n/a n/a n/a
2021-02-02 2020-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 473 -31.35 1,043 -15.41 n/a n/a n/a
2020-10-14 2020-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS CALL Call 689 1,233 n/a n/a n/a
Disclosed Put Options
File
Date
Effective
Date
Form Security Class ID Opt Avg Share Price Shares ΔShares
(%)
Value
(x1000)
ΔValue
(%)
Prior Allocation
(%)
Allocation
(%)
ΔAllocation
(%)
Cost Basis
(x1000)
Profit
(x1000)
Return
(%)
2026-05-14 2026-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 1,300 -95.09 10 -96.36 n/a n/a n/a
2026-02-11 2025-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 26,500 -4.33 275 n/a n/a n/a
2025-11-12 2025-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 27,700 -0.36 0 n/a n/a n/a
2025-08-05 2025-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 27,800 631.58 0 n/a n/a n/a
2025-05-12 2025-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 3,800 216.67 0 n/a n/a n/a
2025-02-11 2024-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 1,200 0 n/a n/a n/a
2024-11-08 2024-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 0 -100.00 0 n/a n/a n/a
2024-07-25 2024-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 3,600 9.09 0 n/a n/a n/a
2024-04-25 2024-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 3,300 94.12 0 n/a n/a n/a
2024-02-02 2023-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 1,700 112.50 0 n/a n/a n/a
2023-11-01 2023-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 800 -91.75 0 n/a n/a n/a
2023-08-04 2023-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 9,700 0.00 0 n/a n/a n/a
2023-04-27 2023-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 9,700 0.00 0 n/a n/a n/a
2023-02-02 2022-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 9,700 86.54 0 -100.00 n/a n/a n/a
2022-11-04 2022-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 5,200 15.56 78 25.81 n/a n/a n/a
2022-08-03 2022-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 4,500 181.25 62 169.57 n/a n/a n/a
2022-05-02 2022-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 1,600 -87.10 23 -88.32 n/a n/a n/a
2022-02-23 2021-12-31 13F/A UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 12,400 -3.12 197 -30.88 n/a n/a n/a
2022-02-04 2021-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 12,800 285 n/a n/a n/a
2021-10-28 2021-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 12,800 0.00 285 2.52 n/a n/a n/a
2021-08-12 2021-06-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 12,800 10,391.80 278 -7.95 n/a n/a n/a
2021-04-26 2021-03-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 122 -44.04 302 -37.08 n/a n/a n/a
2021-02-02 2020-12-31 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 218 -60.58 480 -51.47 n/a n/a n/a
2020-10-14 2020-09-30 13F UTZ BRANDS PUT Put 553 989 n/a n/a n/a
Legend
Shares
The total number of shares held by the institution at the end of the reporting period (the effective date). This is provided in the filing.
Value
The total value of the shares as of the effective date. This is provided in the filing.
Avg. Share Price
The weighted average share price of the shares held by the institution. We use FIFO accounting to determine this price
Class
This is the security class as indicated by the filer. There are a variety of values for this field. Common values include "EC" = equity common, "EP" - equity preferred
Allocation (%)
The percent of the institution's portfolio that this position represents. This is provided in NPORT filings. For 13F filings, we calculate it.
Change in Allocation
The change in allocation from the prior reporting period. This is calculated as current allocation - prior allocation.
Change in Allocation (%)
The percent change in allocation from the prior reporting period. This is calculated as (current allocation - prior allocation) / prior allocation.
Cost Basis
The total cost of the shares held. This is calculated as reported shares * avg. share price
Unrealized Gain/Loss
This is the market value of the position as of the effective date minus the cost basis.