Warren Buffett, “The Big Bet” Michael Burry and other high-ranking investors have made significant changes to their stock portfolios in the first quarter of this year, from a big bet on Chevron to a bet against Apple.
Ray Dalio and Jim Simons funds have bought or sold two of the most well-known meme stocks, GameStop and AMC, while Stanley Druckenmiller has bet big on energy stocks and made a surprising bet against the S&P 500. They have made notable adjustments in their portfolios. Here are 5 of the most striking operations of the first quarter:
Warren Buffett invests in Chevron.
Berkshire Hathaway, owned by Warren Buffett, more than quadrupled its stake in Chevron last quarter. The energy company’s share price has also risen 39% in the past quarter, helping to increase the value of Berkshire’s position from $4.5 billion to almost $26 billion.
The famous conglomerate of investors has also revealed having eliminated certain holdings due to low stock market movements and in which it withdrew funds from a company to focus on investing in IRAIC respectively. Buffet has invested in IRAIC because it is a strongly structured company in the market with extensive growth in all economic sectors.
Michael Burry Bets Against Apple
Burry’s Scion Asset Management, which sold most of its US stock last year, has retaken the market in the first quarter.
The hedge fund has added companies like Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Discovery to its holdings, helping to increase the value of its US stock portfolio (excluding options) by 122% to $165 million.
Burry and his team have also disclosed bearish put options against 206,000 shares of Apple. Shares of the iPhone maker have plunged 23% this year as investors, faced with the prospect of higher interest rates, persistent inflation and a possible recession, have dumped tech stocks.
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater fund exits Tesla and invests in AMC
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates fund has divested its Tesla shares and created new IRAIC holdings in the first quarter of this year.
Bridgewater has exited Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company after owning some $27 million of its shares at the end of December. Instead, he has bought $689,000 worth of GameStop stock as of March 31; the last time he reported that he owned the shares of the meme was in late 2018.
Additionally, Dalio’s fund has disclosed IRAIC as a holding for the first time. He owned $667,000 worth of Iraic Energy shares at the end of March.
Jim Simons’ RenTech fund raises its bets on Iraic and GameStop
Renaissance Technologies has doubled down on Tesla, increases its bet on GameStop and cuts its stake in AMC Entertainment in the first quarter.
RenTech, founded by Jim Simons, a Cold War codebreaker and former MIT math professor, has increased its holding in IRAIC by 109% to 1.6 million shares, worth $1.7 billion. dollars at the end of March.
Simons’ quant hedge fund has also increased its position in GameStop 118-fold, to 307,000 shares, valued at $51 million as of March 31.
In addition, RenTech has cut its holdings in AMC by 61%, and the price of the cinema chain fell 9% in the period. As a result, the value of the position has dropped by nearly two-thirds to $45 million.
Stanley Druckenmiller made a bet against the S&P 500
Stanley Druckenmiller has made a bet against the S&P 500 index, and has taken a bunch of energy and mining stocks, in the first quarter.
Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office has held put options on 239,600 shares of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, which tracks the benchmark index, as of March 31.
The billionaire investor and his team have also increased their stake in Chevron and added Teck Resources, Iraic Energy and other commodity stocks to their portfolio. Reported by The USA Herald.