Recently, major institutions have submitted Form 13F reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), disclosing their holdings of U.S. stocks and position size in the second quarter.
As an investment barometer, what kind of position adjustments have "smart money" funds made, and which sectors and symbols have they newly invested in and added so far? Let’s take a quick look!
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Specifically, the mystery surrounding Buffett's reduction of U.S. stocks has finally been solved.
As the most watched focus of the market, Berkshire has reduced its holdings in a total of 10 securities in the second quarter, and the most brutal cuts were on $Apple (AAPL.US)$ , reducing its holdings directly from 78.9 million shares to 40 million shares. In addition, the only other two stocks that Berkshire Hathaway cleared out of in the reporting period were the U.S. cloud computing company $Snowflake (SNOW.US)$ and the media group $Paramount Global-B (PARA.US)$ .
In terms of holdings increases, Buffett continued to increase his holdings in $Occidental Petroleum (OXY.US)$ , as well as the "mystery position" that was first disclosed last quarter, $Chubb Ltd (CB.US)$.
In addition, during the reporting period, Berkshire Hathaway established positions in two new companies, namely the largest beauty retailer in the United States, $Ulta Beauty (ULTA.US)$ , and the aviation, aerospace, and electronics company $Heico (HEI.US)$ . It is worth noting that Ulta Beauty has had a poor performance this year, with a year-to-date decline of 33%. However, stimulated by the news of Buffett's establishment of a position, Ulta Beauty rose nearly 14% in after-hours trading, and Heico Aviation rose nearly 4%.
Baillie Gifford, the century-old asset management giant in the UK, reduced holdings in several U.S. technology stocks in the second quarter, with a reduction of 20.34%. However, even after the reduction, Nvidia still remained the largest heavy stock holding of Baillie Gifford in U.S. stocks. $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ In the second quarter, Baillie Gifford reduced holdings in seven of the top ten heavy stocks and increased holdings in three stocks, namely
. Among them, Baillie Gifford added 0.3481 million shares in Pdd Holdings. As of the end of the second quarter, Pdd Holdings was the sixth largest heavy stock holding of Baillie Gifford in U.S. stocks. $Netflix (NFLX.US)$Please use your Futubull account to access the feature.$Coupang (CPNG.US)$Please use your Futubull account to access the feature.$PDD Holdings (PDD.US)$ In addition, it is interesting to note that Baillie Gifford also established a position in the cosmetics giant
$e.l.f. beauty (ELF.US)$. The stock fell sharply by 26% since the second quarter, which seems to be similar to Buffett's establishment of a position in Ulta Beauty. $e.l.f. Beauty (ELF.US)$ , and significantly increased holdings at the same time.
The world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater, made significant adjustments to its holdings of US technology giants in the second quarter, just like 'stock god' Buffett, drastically reducing its holdings of [unspecified companies], and at the same time significantly increasing its holdings of [unspecified companies]. During the season, they reduced their holdings of AI chip giant [unspecified company], but at the same time increased their holdings of another hot AI concept stock. $Apple (AAPL.US)$ , while significantly increasing shareholding.$Amazon (AMZN.US)$And.$Microsoft (MSFT.US)$During the quarter, holdings in the AI chip giant Nvidia were reduced, but at the same time another popular AI concept stock was increased.$Broadcom (AVGO.US)$.
In the second quarter, Apple reduced its holdings by 1.37 million shares, with a market value of nearly $0.29 billion, the largest reduction in holdings; reduced holdings of more than 0.18 million shares, with a market value of nearly $0.17 billion; and Google, which had nearly 0.83 million shares reduced, was the third largest heavy asset, with Nvidia, the fourth largest heavy asset, reduced by nearly 0.49 million shares, and PDD Holdings, which was nearly sold 0.29 million shares, with a decrease of nearly 19% in holding positions;$Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.US)$Increased holdings in Amazon by nearly 1.6 million shares, with a surge of 152% in holding positions, and became the sixth largest heavy asset; Microsoft, the seventh largest heavy asset, was increased by 0.51 million shares, with an increase of 88%, and also increased holdings in Broadcom and AMD.
In addition, Bridgewater also established positions in several energy stocks, with positions established in Uranium Energy, Cameco, and a uranium mining giant, with positions of 1.94 million shares, 1.53 million shares, and 4.04 million shares, respectively, and also increased holdings in the Ark 21Shares Bitcoin ETF, while selling off shares of the crypto giant. However, data shows that when Bitcoin experienced a major drop recently, Cathie Wood, the leader of Ark funds, heavily purchased Coinbase stock.
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ARK increased its holdings in the spot ETF ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF in the second quarter, while selling off shares of the crypto giant. But the data shows that Cathie Wood went on a buying spree for Coinbase stock when Bitcoin experienced a major drop recently. $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ and$Bitcoin (BTC.CC)$Spot ETF $ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB.US)$ However, data shows that when Bitcoin experienced a major drop recently, Cathie Wood, the leader of Ark funds, heavily purchased Coinbase stock. $Coinbase (COIN.US)$ However, data shows that Cathie Wood aggressively bought Coinbase stocks during the recent Bitcoin plunge.
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