Large money management companies are required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to publicly report their trades and holdings. That becomes excellent fodder for the small investor to discuss and dissect. Although billionaire money managers are likely to have different investing goals than the average individual looking to put money away for retirement, there’s at least inspiration to gain from seeing what the pros do.
Billionaire Philippe Laffont runs investment firm Coatue Capital, which invests in businesses in a number of ways. It has positions in 81 stocks as of the end of the third quarter, and these are its five biggest holdings.
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Tech first (and second, third, fourth, and fifth)
Most of Coatue’s largest positions, and its smaller ones, too, are tech-heavy. Here are the first five in order of size:
- Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META): 3,694,259 shares, 7.9% of the total portfolio
- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN): 11,269,029 shares, 7.8% of the total portfolio
- Constellation Energy (NASDAQ: CEG): 7,726,108 shares, 7.5% of the total portfolio
- Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT): 3,852,860 shares, 6.2% of the total portfolio
- Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM): 9,365,760 shares, 6% of the total portfolio
It’s clear what Laffont and his team are thinking here. These are all stocks that give Coatue high exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) trends, and they all did well in 2024, save for Microsoft, which underperformed the S&P 500.
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Constellation Energy is the only non-tech stock on this list, but its services are supporting the tech sector and generative AI in particular, which requires tons of energy for the data centers that power it.
Investors would need a lot of money to invest with Coatue, and if you’re doing it on your own, you may want broader diversification. However, if you are interested in getting in on the amazing potential of AI, these stocks each offer a different way to access it.
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