Nuveen Quant Small/Mid Cap Equity Fund
TIAA-CREF Funds · 6 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Nuveen Quant Small/Mid Cap Equity Fund is an actively managed U.S. equity fund. 27% of TSMOX’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 93% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The Fund seeks a favorable long-term total return, mainly through capital appreciation.
The fund uses proprietary quantitative models to select small-cap and mid-cap stocks from the Russell 2500 Index, scoring securities on valuation, earnings prospects, price trends, and other factors to identify those with significant long-term capital appreciation potential. The fund may also purchase foreign equities and use derivatives to implement its strategy. Because portfolio construction depends on the scoring models' analysis, fund performance may diverge from its benchmark if the models' predictions do not materialize as expected.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| TSMOX | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| TSMNX | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| TSMWX | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| TSMMX | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| TSMEX | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| TSMUX | 0.44% | 0.00% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 89.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 99.76% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.45% |
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Industrials | 22.4% |
| Information Technology | 18.1% |
| Financials | 14.3% |
| Health Care | 10.1% |
| 9 smaller | 35.1% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Portfolio growth profile
How much of the fund’s stock holdings are in fast-growing companies · as of 2026 Q2
Share of the fund’s equity (by value) in companies whose trailing five-year revenue — or net-income — growth ranks in the top 25% of U.S. public companies. Foreign and newly-listed holdings are excluded, so the figure covers only part of the book. From SEC filings — not investment advice. How we measure this.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +43.20% | +84.80% | +69.65% | 14.23% | -14.77% | |
| +43.46% | +85.64% | +70.82% | 14.32% | -14.73% | |
| +43.61% | +86.14% | +71.72% | 14.24% | -14.70% | |
| +43.34% | +85.27% | +70.26% | 14.22% | -14.73% | |
| +43.19% | +84.38% | +69.05% | 14.29% | -14.85% | |
| +44.24% | +88.73% | +75.77% | 14.23% | -14.54% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 6.72pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.34pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNDK | Sandisk CorpSNDK | 2.78% | $1,096.51 | $71.25M | 65.0K |
| — | Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF | 1.68% | $112.34 | $43.06M | 383.3K |
| — | Vanguard Small-Cap ETF | 1.64% | $284.39 | $42.06M | 147.9K |
| FIX | Comfort Systems USA IncFIX | 1.42% | $1,840.25 | $36.41M | 19.8K |
| LITE | Lumentum Holdings IncLITE | 1.07% | $902.32 | $27.57M | 30.6K |
| EME | EMCOR Group IncEME | 1.03% | $891.67 | $26.42M | 29.6K |
| FTI | TechnipFMC PLCFTI | 0.99% | $75.57 | $25.52M | 337.7K |
| BE | Bloom Energy CorpBE | 0.94% | $283.36 | $24.12M | 85.1K |
| TPR | Tapestry IncTPR | 0.90% | $145.04 | $23.07M | 159.1K |
| CW | Curtiss-Wright CorpCW | 0.86% | $720.20 | $22.12M | 30.7K |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-04-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 13.31% of net assets, top 25 22.85%, across 358 issuers.
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