Video summary
The video begins by analyzing recent 13F filings from prominent super investors like Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square, David Tepper's Appaloosa, and others to reveal their latest portfolio adjustments. Despite a difficult market day for the broader indices, these giants have made significant moves that highlight shifting strategies in technology, energy, and consumer sectors. The discussion emphasizes that while some investors are aggressively accumulating positions, others are actively reducing exposure to specific high-growth areas like artificial intelligence and memory chips, suggesting a potential rotation of capital rather than a simple sell-off across the board.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is noted for adding only one new stock, D.R. Horton, but significantly increasing its massive holdings in Alphabet (Google) by over 650% and expanding stakes in Delta Airlines, Lennar, New York Times, and Macy's. Meanwhile, Bill Ackman at Pershing Square has re-entered Netflix after a previous exit and increased positions in Visa, Uber, Microsoft, and Amazon, with Uber remaining his largest holding. In contrast, David Tepper at Appaloosa made notable bets on Boeing and American Airlines while reducing his Micron stake by nearly half; he also purchased put options on Apple ahead of earnings, indicating a defensive or contrarian stance against potential volatility in major tech names.
Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates stands out for its aggressive rebalancing, having sold off substantial portions of Nvidia, Broadcom, Amazon, Google, and AMD to drastically cut exposure to the technology sector. This reduction extends across other AI-related plays like Applied Materials and Micron, as well as a significant decrease in holdings within Microsoft and Oracle. The video suggests that Bridgewater is pivoting away from heavy tech concentration toward energy utilities and financial services, adding new positions in companies like Eversource Energy and Consolidated Edison while completely exiting hundreds of previous stocks to realign their portfolio with current market conditions.
The overarching conclusion drawn from these filings is a clear trend of rotation among elite investors as they navigate changing economic landscapes and valuation concerns within the tech sector. While some managers are doubling down on established giants like Apple and Google, others are trimming memory chip exposure and moving into defensive utilities or specific airline stocks. The narrator stresses that viewers should interpret these moves with caution, noting that many transactions occurred over a 45-to-90-day window rather than overnight, meaning current positions may have already changed by the time this data is public. Ultimately, tracking these super investors provides valuable insight into where smart money is flowing and which sectors are being favored or avoided in the coming quarter.
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I absolutely love it when the 13 F's
come out guys and we get to see what
these super investors, what stocks
they're buying, what they're selling,
what their top holdings are. And guess
what? That's exactly what we're going to
talk about today. We're going to talk
about Berkshire and Buffett, Ray Dalio,
Bill Ackman, David Tepper, a couple of
other ones. So guys, let's dive into it.
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content. And of course, take a sip of
your coffee. Cheers guys, I appreciate
you all for tuning in. And by the way,
uh today was not the best day for the
market, which we're not going to talk
too much about uh because I really want
to focus on these super investors. But
we did have a red day pretty much across
the board except for the Russell, which
we'll talk about in a future video. But
for now, let's dive into what these
super investors are buying, what stocks
they're holding, selling, you know, what
they're adding to, what they're
reducing. Let's dive right into it,
guys. Bear with me. I'm going to pull
this up right here and we'll start off
with Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway.
And I get it, Warren Buffett technically
retired, right? But he still has some
sort of input in you know, in what
Berkshire's doing. And if you guys take
a look here, their top holdings are
pretty much the same. We have Apple,
American Express, Coca-Cola, Google, uh
Bank of America. But you do notice a
couple of stocks are being sold, some
are increasing in size. So let's dive
deeper into that. So what new holdings
did uh Berkshire, did Buffett add during
the quarter? Well, just one. D.R.
Horton, ticker DHI. He uh he added what?
3,500 shares. They added a whopping
$580,000.
So that's nothing for Berkshire, guys.
Um that is absolutely nothing, but that
is the only new stock they added. and
they did close out Constellation Brands,
ticker STZ. They sold all 632,000
shares. Um let me see what market I I I
don't know what the market value of that
was before, but they're out of that
stock. So, not many new or closed out
closed out positions.
But, that's what they did. And what did
they add to? Well, look at this, guys.
They are increasing their Alphabet stake
out the wazoo, both classes of shares.
Uh you know, you have GOOGL and GOOG.
They increased their GOOG position by
658%
and they added 23 million shares and 24
million shares of GOOGL, which that
increased their position by 45%. They
also added more Delta Airlines, Lennar,
New York Times, Macy's. So, those are
the stocks they're increasing. And the
most notable ones are again Alphabet,
primarily the class uh C shares, right?
And Macy's, which that that position
increased by 141%
unbelievable, man. And I believe now
Google makes up 9% of the portfolio or
you know, of Berkshire. Um let me see
here, guys. How much does it make up? If
I go to the holdings page, ba ba ba,
maybe I have to change my uh filters
here. Let's see. Percentage of
portfolio, let's add all this stuff,
actually. Um so, we can see what is
going on here. So, we can see
um now Google, the class A shares, those
are ba ba ba, about 9.4%
of Berkshire Hathaway, guys. Unfreaking
believable. Let me see if I can um
show you guys what uh we're we're seeing
here with Druckenmiller at Duquesne. We
can see they're making a lot of moves.
Let me actually refresh this. Uh, give
me a second here, guys. Let's go here.
Zoom in a little bit. So, we can see
they added um, a good amount of stock.
We can see some reduction here in TP uh,
BBB, YPF. Some of these stocks I don't
even uh, know. I mean, YPF looks like
it's an ADR. So, let's see what new
positions they added. I mean, dang. They
added a lot of new positions here, guys.
So, Duquesne might have a lot of
turnover. You know, there's they're
active. They're selling this. They're
buying that. So, we have a uh, a lot of
new positions. Um, you see Alphabet here
is a new position. Delta Airlines, they
added calls on Tesla. Uh, we can see DR
Horton, there it is. Palo Alto Network.
We have AMD, a bunch of new positions.
Um, let's see the closed out positions.
They closed out JBL, uh, Twilio. We can
see WLK, Mercado Libre, they canned that
one. Lumentum, they sold out of
Lumentum. ALM, they sold out of Humana.
Coherent, so looks like uh,
Druckenmiller's getting out of some of
these photonics plays. Looks like they
dumped out of uh, Broadcom as well. Uh,
we can see here they added to if I come
up here, guys. Give me a second. They
added to Taiwan Semiconductor, Amazon.
They added an Amazon call option, which
I'm assuming that was I mean, these
moves by the way, guys, weren't made
yesterday. These were within the last
um, you know, what? 45-90 days,
something like that. Maybe before that.
So, I'm assuming um, they were in the
Amazon calls heading into earnings. So,
they made a lot of money on those calls,
probably. Uh, maybe they're out of those
calls now. But, let's see. They reduced
um, Druckenmiller reduced Sandisk. We
can see here Roku, a couple other names.
I mean, a lot of other names. Arm
Holdings, YPF,
um TBBB, Roku, Teva. And these are the
overall holdings, the top holdings. Uh
the number one position by far and away
is the healthcare play in Anterra, 18%
of uh Duquesne. They actually added
more, another 122,000 shares of that
stock. Number two is TSM. And their
third largest position is STM. Now, I'm
sure you guys heard a lot about Bill
Ackman, Pershing Square. They added back
into Netflix, uh which Ackman actually
used to own Netflix a couple years ago.
Then he got out of it, I think 3 months
after buying it, saying he made a
mistake and he's not afraid to uh you
know, to to admit to when he makes
mistakes. So, now we can see a lot of
positions
um that he he's adding, you know. I'm
pretty sure he added more on top of
Netflix. He added more Visa. Let me see
if I can find. For some reason here on
Well Wisdom, it says all these positions
are new. Maybe because they just got
listed on
um the New York Stock Exchange, Pershing
Square did. So, maybe it's showing as
they're all new positions. But, he added
to Netflix. He added to uh Visa, a
couple other names. I'm pretty sure six
names uh Pershing Square added to. And
these are the new or not the new, but
the the the top holdings. Uber is number
one by far and away. Uh well, not at not
really, actually. It's 12%, 13%.
But but it's a decent size uh for Bill
Ackman. Number two is Brookfield. Uh we
can see ticker BM. Microsoft is number
three. Amazon is number four. Number
five is Howard Hughes Holdings. Uh we
can see number six is Restaurant Brands.
Meta is number seven, which they added
that a couple months ago. You guys
remember that. Visa is after that.
MasterCard. And then we have S&P Global
which oh yeah
S&P Global is one that he started adding
and now Netflix again it's a new stake
14 million shares or 13 million excuse
me. Now it's about a 5% waiting
uh Pershing Square and Appaloosa is
another one David Tepper that we have to
look deeper into. Let me click that
refresh so the filters
apply to this page. We can see Tepper is
in a lot of these uh similar stocks
right a lot of these the Ubers the
Googles the Taiwan semiconductors and
one thing that stands out to me here
guys is the massive reduction of Micron.
If we click here he actually sold about
41% of his Micron stake uh 690,000
shares. I mean they still own a good
chunk it's still about 14% of the
overall portfolio I believe.
Um
but now it's um
you know it's coming down a little bit
but overall that is the key one they
reduced. They also reduced Alibaba AMD
Qualcomm um WHR
excuse me guys and
excuse me again they added to Amazon
Taiwan Semiconductor Alphabet Uber Meta
VST Nvidia NRG
uh Baidu ASML some other names uh they
closed out. We can see they actually
closed out Corning which I'm long
Corning so you know that's how the
cookie crumble sometimes guys they
closed out Sandisk United Health Group
Microsoft uh Lyft um you know ticker DB
jd.com you know these are couple stocks
they completely closed out and the new
positions are wow that's actually
interesting. Uh they they bought puts on
Apple which I'm curious did they buy
puts on Apple uh before their earnings
report that might have been
a genius play considering it tanked
right after earnings. Uh so, they're in
uh you know, Apple puts. They might be
out of that, you know, out of those.
That could have just been an earnings
play.
Um looks like they added 800,000 shares
of Boeing, 7 and 1/2 million shares of
American Airlines. They added a million
shares of Core Weave, um about 150,000
shares of Broadcom. They They added
SpaceX. Tepper's in SpaceX, guys. And it
looks like they bought puts on Berkshire
Hathaway, the Class B shares.
Um and they added 1.5 million shares of
Goodyear Tire and Rubber.
Um so, those are a couple of moves here
from Tepper, guys. Uh did we go all
those? Did we talk about the reduced
ones? Yeah, we did. They added Uh yeah,
so the top holdings in Appaloosa right
now, Amazon's number one and Micron's
number two. Those are the top two by far
and away. We then have Taiwan Semi, uh
Google, Uber, EWI, Meta, VST, Nvidia,
you know, Apple puts are I think the
10th or 11th largest holding.
Um so, not a bad little uh you know, not
not a bad uh you know, switcheroo for uh
for uh Tepper, you know, a lot of moves
here made. And we have to talk about Ray
Dalio, guys. Bridgewater. This is the
last one we're going to break down. And
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if you guys are finding value in this
video, if you like these type of videos,
we can do more uh like these. So, Ray
Dalio, guys, he sold Bridgewater sold a
lot of stock. Um if we look here, the
new positions, I mean, look, they sold a
bunch, but they also added um some new
positions, which we can't possibly go
over all these. 213 new positions is
what I'm reading. So, there's a lot of
you know, a lot of in, a lot of out and
Bridgewater.
But, some of the new positions include
ES, which is Eversource Energy,
AppLovin,
ED, which is let's see, Consolidated
Edison, and I ServiceNow. We have Duke
Energy, APA, which is APA Corporation,
XOM Energy. So, a lot of energy,
finance, materials,
you know, utilities. A lot of those
additions
to Dalio Berksh- what's it called?
Bridgewater, not Berkshire, Bridgewater.
And they closed out a good amount of
stock when it comes to the information
technology and industrials. Looks like a
couple healthcare names. They sold out
of AppLovin, or no, that's AAPL, excuse
me.
Advanced Auto Parts. The ticker is
similar on that one. But, they sold out
of that. Let's see, they sold out of
man, a lot of different stocks. 209
stocks. They sold out of completely. I
mean, look, ADM, AAOI,
ALGM, a bunch of those different stocks.
And they added to the S&P, all different
types of tickers.
You know, SPY, IVV, and VOO. They added
NEM. They added to MO, Moody's, VST.
Let's see, what did they close out? Did
we talk about that already? They reduced
Nvidia. This is what was interesting,
guys. They're reducing a lot of these
AI and tech plays. Bridgewater is
Nvidia. They reduced by 17%.
Sold 826,000 shares. They sold 30 30% of
their AVGO stake, 517,000 shares. That's
Broadcom. They sold 53% of Amazon, 33%
of Google, 40% of Lam Research, 60% of
their AMD stake. Bridgewater sold 50% of
Applied materials, 71% of GE Vernova,
92% of Micron. So, we are noticing we
are we are noticing some super
investors, not all, but some of them are
reducing their memory stake, their
exposure to memory, whether it's
SanDisk, Micron. That's what I'm
noticing.
Um and Bridgewater in particular, a lot
of tech across the board is being
reduced. Uh you know, big time, big
time. Uh so, we are noticing some
rebalancing and honestly,
rotation, especially in Bridgewater
here, guys. Uh they reduced Microsoft by
35%, Oracle by 10%, uh let's see, a 70%
reduction in Klac, uh which is, you
know, KLA Corp, uh 35% reduction in
Apple, 37% in CLS, 33% in ASML.
So,
that's where we're at with Bridgewater,
guys, but that doesn't mean that's what
you should do, right? And and and this
is not what you should copy, either,
because, guys, like I said earlier in
the video, these moves weren't made
yesterday. These were made in the last
90 days, right? So, who knows whether
they were made 45 days ago, 12 days ago,
60 days ago, they might be out of these
positions already. A lot of these, you
know, they might they might be um in new
stocks completely, you know? But, that's
what super investors, some of them are
doing at least as of this last round of
13Fs. And uh yeah, it's it's another
um you know, big event that we should
all be watching, these 13Fs. And it's
always interesting to to track this
stuff when it comes around. But, you
guys got to take it, like I said, with a
grain of salt as they might be out of
these positions. Uh but, what do you
guys think? Let me know in the comments
and I'm going to dive deeper into all
this stuff. Uh maybe throw it into chat
GPT and be like, "What trends do you
notice?" That would be a good prompt,
actually. What trends are you noticing
uh based on all these 13Fs?
Uh you know, what are the super
investors doing? Give me a deep dive.
That would actually be a very good uh
prompt. I might honestly I should have
done that for the video, but I'm going
to do it after this. So, let me know
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