NPORT-EX 2 b_852nport033124.htm QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
Putnam Sustainable Leaders Fund
The fund's portfolio
3/31/24 (Unaudited)


COMMON STOCKS (98.3%)(a)
        Shares Value
Banks (3.5%)
Bank of America Corp. 2,959,326 $112,217,642
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 555,100 111,186,530

223,404,172
Biotechnology (1.3%)
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(NON) 88,200 84,891,618

84,891,618
Broadline retail (4.7%)
Amazon.com, Inc.(NON) 1,684,440 303,839,287

303,839,287
Capital markets (4.3%)
Charles Schwab Corp. (The) 1,088,694 78,756,124
KKR & Co., Inc. 709,500 71,361,510
MSCI, Inc. 107,800 60,416,510
TPG, Inc. 1,493,731 66,769,776

277,303,920
Chemicals (5.3%)
Eastman Chemical Co. 756,500 75,816,430
Ecolab, Inc. 286,000 66,037,400
Linde PLC 289,300 134,327,776
Novozymes A/S Class B (Denmark) 1,046,374 61,324,840

337,506,446
Commercial services and supplies (0.8%)
Waste Connections, Inc. 299,800 51,568,598

51,568,598
Consumer finance (0.6%)
Capital One Financial Corp. 265,054 39,463,890

39,463,890
Consumer staples distribution and retail (3.0%)
Kroger Co. (The) 487,300 27,839,449
Walmart, Inc. 2,699,700 162,440,949

190,280,398
Containers and packaging (1.3%)
Ball Corp. 1,260,500 84,907,280

84,907,280
Electric utilities (2.4%)
Constellation Energy Corp. 735,900 136,031,115
NextEra Energy, Inc. 242,200 15,479,002

151,510,117
Entertainment (1.3%)
Walt Disney Co. (The) 690,300 84,465,108

84,465,108
Financial services (2.0%)
Visa, Inc. Class A 465,800 129,995,464

129,995,464
Ground transportation (0.9%)
Canadian Pacific Railway, Ltd. (Canada) 678,700 59,840,642

59,840,642
Health care equipment and supplies (3.7%)
Boston Scientific Corp.(NON) 2,313,700 158,465,313
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.(NON) 196,800 78,540,912

237,006,225
Health care providers and services (1.6%)
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 205,200 101,512,440

101,512,440
Hotels, restaurants, and leisure (3.7%)
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.(NON) 35,800 104,062,366
Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. 636,736 135,822,156

239,884,522
Industrial REITs (1.3%)
Prologis, Inc.(R) 661,000 86,075,420

86,075,420
Life sciences tools and services (3.9%)
Danaher Corp. 327,600 81,808,272
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc.(NON) 48,800 64,966,952
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. 175,100 101,769,871

248,545,095
Machinery (5.7%)
Fortive Corp. 1,469,900 126,440,798
Ingersoll Rand, Inc. 1,367,700 129,863,115
Otis Worldwide Corp. 1,104,800 109,673,496

365,977,409
Office REITs (0.6%)
Boston Properties, Inc.(R) 540,700 35,313,117

35,313,117
Personal care products (1.3%)
Unilever PLC (United Kingdom) 1,609,043 80,754,807

80,754,807
Pharmaceuticals (5.7%)
Eli Lilly and Co. 194,400 151,235,424
GSK PLC (United Kingdom) 2,892,112 62,368,658
Merck & Co., Inc. 862,800 113,846,460
Sanofi SA (France) 354,874 34,824,562

362,275,104
Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment (10.9%)
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.(NON) 573,500 103,511,015
Applied Materials, Inc. 539,200 111,199,216
ASML Holding NV (NY Reg Shares) (Netherlands) 117,600 114,127,272
NVIDIA Corp. 406,800 367,568,208

696,405,711
Software (17.3%)
Adobe, Inc.(NON) 187,700 94,713,420
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.(NON) 254,500 79,220,760
Microsoft Corp. 1,389,700 584,674,584
Roper Technologies, Inc. 215,400 120,804,936
Salesforce, Inc.(NON) 542,900 163,510,622
Synopsys, Inc.(NON) 116,500 66,579,750

1,109,504,072
Specialized REITs (0.8%)
American Tower Corp.(R) 275,063 54,349,698

54,349,698
Specialty retail (1.9%)
Home Depot, Inc. (The) 309,400 118,685,840

118,685,840
Technology hardware, storage, and peripherals (6.6%)
Apple, Inc. 2,475,128 424,434,949

424,434,949
Textiles, apparel, and luxury goods (1.2%)
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (France) 64,475 57,991,211
On Holding AG Class A (Switzerland)(NON) 530,200 18,758,476

76,749,687
Wireless telecommunication services (0.7%)
T-Mobile US, Inc. 264,999 43,253,137

43,253,137

Total common stocks (cost $3,136,661,996) $6,299,704,173









U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS (—%)(a)
        Principal amount Value
U.S. Treasury Notes
2.25%, 11/15/25(i) $505,000 $489,390
0.625%, 8/15/30(i) 233,000 186,873
0.375%, 4/30/25(i) 755,000 719,828
0.25%, 5/31/25(i) 172,000 163,047

Total U.S. treasury obligations (cost $1,559,138) $1,559,138









SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS (1.4%)(a)
        Principal amount/shares Value
Putnam Short Term Investment Fund Class P 5.50%(AFF) Shares 83,880,281 $83,880,281
State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, Premier Class 5.26%(P) Shares 1,109,000 1,109,000
U.S. Treasury Bills 5.377%, 6/25/24 $1,900,000 1,876,799

Total short-term investments (cost $86,865,886) $86,866,080
TOTAL INVESTMENTS

Total investments (cost $3,225,087,020) $6,388,129,391









FORWARD CURRENCY CONTRACTS at 3/31/24 (aggregate face value $467,353,522) (Unaudited)
  Counterparty Currency Contract type* Delivery
date
Value Aggregate face value Unrealized
appreciation/
(depreciation)
Bank of America N.A.
British Pound Sell 6/20/24 $14,842,446 $14,924,599 $82,153
Danish Krone Sell 6/20/24 18,695,168 18,901,825 206,657
Euro Sell 6/20/24 3,948,719 3,975,569 26,850
Barclays Bank PLC
British Pound Sell 6/20/24 3,874,001 3,895,821 21,820
Citibank, N.A.
Euro Sell 6/20/24 17,493,585 17,611,155 117,570
HSBC Bank USA, National Association
British Pound Sell 6/20/24 16,274,947 16,364,139 89,192
Danish Krone Sell 6/20/24 31,333,923 31,674,150 340,227
Euro Sell 6/20/24 44,689,810 45,006,532 316,722
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.
Canadian Dollar Sell 4/17/24 53,910,863 54,731,958 821,095
Euro Sell 6/20/24 19,948,033 20,082,705 134,672
Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC
Euro Sell 6/20/24 25,675,007 25,858,131 183,124
State Street Bank and Trust Co.
British Pound Sell 6/20/24 102,525,358 103,103,393 578,035
Euro Sell 6/20/24 5,692,558 5,730,535 37,977
Swiss Franc Sell 6/20/24 15,813,893 16,133,468 319,575
UBS AG
Euro Sell 6/20/24 44,000,089 44,299,888 299,799
WestPac Banking Corp.
Euro Sell 6/20/24 44,754,094 45,059,654 305,560

Unrealized appreciation 3,881,028

Unrealized (depreciation)

Total $3,881,028
* The exchange currency for all contracts listed is the United States Dollar.













Notes to the fund's portfolio
Unless noted otherwise, the notes to the fund's portfolio are for the close of the fund's reporting period, which ran from July 1, 2023 through March 31, 2024 (the reporting period). Within the following notes to the portfolio, references to "Putnam Management" represent Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the fund's manager, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc., references to "ASC 820" represent Accounting Standards Codification 820 Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures and references to "OTC", if any, represent over-the-counter.
(a) Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $6,410,431,700.
(NON) This security is non-income-producing.
(AFF) Affiliated company. For investments in Putnam Short Term Investment Fund, the rate quoted in the security description is the annualized 7-day yield of the fund at the close of the reporting period. Transactions during the period with any company which is under common ownership or control were as follows:
Name of affiliate Fair value
as of
6/30/23
Purchase
cost
Sale
proceeds
Investment
income
Shares outstanding
and fair
value as of
3/31/24
Short-term investments
Putnam Short Term Investment Fund Class P* $186,254,996 $447,922,541 $550,297,256 $3,581,527 $83,880,281





Total Short-term investments $186,254,996 $447,922,541 $550,297,256 $3,581,527 $83,880,281
* Management fees charged to Putnam Short Term Investment Fund have been waived by Putnam Management. There were no realized or unrealized gains or losses during the period.
(i) This security was pledged, or purchased with cash that was pledged, to the fund for collateral on certain derivative contracts.
(P) This security was pledged, or purchased with cash that was pledged, to the fund for collateral on certain derivative contracts. The rate quoted in the security description is the annualized 7-day yield of the fund at the close of the reporting period.
(R) Real Estate Investment Trust.
Unless otherwise noted, the rates quoted in Short-term investments security descriptions represent the weighted average yield to maturity.
The dates shown on debt obligations are the original maturity dates.
Security valuation: Portfolio securities and other investments are valued using policies and procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. The Trustees have formed a Pricing Committee to oversee the implementation of these procedures and have delegated responsibility for valuing the fund’s assets in accordance with these procedures to Putnam Management. Putnam Management has established an internal Valuation Committee that is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the pricing policies of the fund and reporting to the Pricing Committee.
Investments for which market quotations are readily available are valued at the last reported sales price on their principal exchange, or official closing price for certain markets, and are classified as Level 1 securities under ASC 820. If no sales are reported, as in the case of some securities that are traded OTC, a security is valued at its last reported bid price and is generally categorized as a Level 2 security.
Investments in open-end investment companies (excluding exchange-traded funds), if any, which can be classified as Level 1 or Level 2 securities, are valued based on their net asset value. The net asset value of such investment companies equals the total value of their assets less their liabilities and divided by the number of their outstanding shares.
Market quotations are not considered to be readily available for certain debt obligations (including short-term investments with remaining maturities of 60 days or less) and other investments; such investments are valued on the basis of valuations furnished by an independent pricing service approved by the Trustees or dealers selected by Putnam Management. Such services or dealers determine valuations for normal institutional-size trading units of such securities using methods based on market transactions for comparable securities and various relationships, generally recognized by institutional traders, between securities (which consider such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings). These securities will generally be categorized as Level 2.
Many securities markets and exchanges outside the U.S. close prior to the scheduled close of the New York Stock Exchange and therefore the closing prices for securities in such markets or on such exchanges may not fully reflect events that occur after such close but before the scheduled close of the New York Stock Exchange. Accordingly, on certain days, the fund will fair value certain foreign equity securities taking into account multiple factors including movements in the U.S. securities markets, currency valuations and comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts, exchange-traded funds and futures contracts. The foreign equity securities, which would generally be classified as Level 1 securities, will be transferred to Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy when they are valued at fair value. The number of days on which fair value prices will be used will depend on market activity and it is possible that fair value prices will be used by the fund to a significant extent. Securities quoted in foreign currencies, if any, are translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate.
To the extent a pricing service or dealer is unable to value a security or provides a valuation that Putnam Management does not believe accurately reflects the security's fair value, the security will be valued at fair value by Putnam Management, which has been designated as valuation designee pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, in accordance with policies and procedures approved by the Trustees. Certain investments, including certain restricted and illiquid securities and derivatives, are also valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees. These valuations consider such factors as significant market or specific security events such as interest rate or credit quality changes, various relationships with other securities, discount rates, U.S. Treasury, U.S. swap and credit yields, index levels, convexity exposures, recovery rates, sales and other multiples and resale restrictions. These securities are classified as Level 2 or as Level 3 depending on the priority of the significant inputs.
To assess the continuing appropriateness of fair valuations, the Valuation Committee reviews and affirms the reasonableness of such valuations on a regular basis after considering all relevant information that is reasonably available. Such valuations and procedures are reviewed periodically by the Trustees. The fair value of securities is generally determined as the amount that the fund could reasonably expect to realize from an orderly disposition of such securities over a reasonable period of time. By its nature, a fair value price is a good faith estimate of the value of a security in a current sale and does not reflect an actual market price, which may be different by a material amount.
Forward currency contracts: The fund buys and sells forward currency contracts, which are agreements between two parties to buy and sell currencies at a set price on a future date. These contracts were used for hedging foreign exchange risk.
The U.S. dollar value of forward currency contracts is determined using current forward currency exchange rates supplied by a quotation service. The fair value of the contract will fluctuate with changes in currency exchange rates. The contract is marked to market daily and the change in fair value is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss. The fund records a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the value of the contract at the time it was opened and the value at the time it was closed when the contract matures or by delivery of the currency. The fund could be exposed to risk if the value of the currency changes unfavorably, if the counterparties to the contracts are unable to meet the terms of their contracts or if the fund is unable to enter into a closing position.
For the fund's average contract amount on forward currency contracts, see the appropriate table at the end of these footnotes.
Master agreements: The fund is a party to ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.) Master Agreements (Master Agreements) with certain counterparties that govern OTC derivative and foreign exchange contracts entered into from time to time. The Master Agreements may contain provisions regarding, among other things, the parties’ general obligations, representations, agreements, collateral requirements, events of default and early termination. With respect to certain counterparties, in accordance with the terms of the Master Agreements, collateral posted to the fund is held in a segregated account by the fund’s custodian and, with respect to those amounts which can be sold or repledged, is presented in the fund’s portfolio. Collateral posted to the fund which cannot be sold or repledged totaled $184,998 at the close of the reporting period.
Collateral pledged by the fund is segregated by the fund’s custodian and identified in the fund’s portfolio. Collateral can be in the form of cash or debt securities issued by the U.S. Government or related agencies or other securities as agreed to by the fund and the applicable counterparty. Collateral requirements are determined based on the fund’s net position with each counterparty.
Termination events applicable to the fund may occur upon a decline in the fund’s net assets below a specified threshold over a certain period of time. Termination events applicable to counterparties may occur upon a decline in the counterparty’s long-term and short-term credit ratings below a specified level. In each case, upon occurrence, the other party may elect to terminate early and cause settlement of all derivative and foreign exchange contracts outstanding, including the payment of any losses and costs resulting from such early termination, as reasonably determined by the terminating party. Any decision by one or more of the fund’s counterparties to elect early termination could impact the fund’s future derivative activity.
At the close of the reporting period, the fund did not have a net liability position on open derivative contracts subject to the Master Agreements.









ASC 820 establishes a three-level hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. The valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of the fund's investments. The three levels are defined as follows:
Level 1: Valuations based on quoted prices for identical securities in active markets.
Level 2: Valuations based on quoted prices in markets that are not active or for which all significant inputs are observable, either directly or indirectly.
Level 3: Valuations based on inputs that are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund's net assets as of the close of the reporting period:
  Valuation inputs
Investments in securities: Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Common stocks*:
Communication services $127,718,245 $— $—
Consumer discretionary 739,159,336
Consumer staples 271,035,205
Financials 670,167,446
Health care 1,034,230,482
Industrials 477,386,649
Information technology 2,230,344,732
Materials 422,413,726
Real estate 175,738,235
Utilities 151,510,117



Total common stocks 6,299,704,173
U.S. treasury obligations 1,559,138
Short-term investments 1,109,000 85,757,080



Totals by level $6,300,813,173 $87,316,218 $—
  Valuation inputs
Other financial instruments: Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Forward currency contracts $— $3,881,028 $—



Totals by level $— $3,881,028 $—
* Common stock classifications are presented at the sector level, which may differ from the fund's portfolio presentation.
At the start and close of the reporting period, Level 3 investments in securities represented less than 1% of the fund's net assets and were not considered a significant portion of the fund's portfolio.
The volume of activity for the reporting period for any derivative type that was held at the close of the period is listed below and was based on an average of the holdings of that derivative at the end of each fiscal quarter in the reporting period:
Forward currency contracts (contract amount) $446,300,000
For additional information regarding the fund please see the fund's most recent annual or semiannual shareholder report filed on the Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site, www.sec.gov, or visit Putnam's Individual Investor Web site at www.putnam.com