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💔 #CathieWood just sold 4 great growth stocks out of the #ARKInvest funds! @ARK Invest sold out of Nvidia stock (NVDA), Pinterest stock (PINS), Peloton Stock (PTON), and Zillow stock (Z stock). After this last round of earnings slashed stock prices, aren't these some of the best stocks to buy now? Find out!

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Cathie Wood just totally sold out of your favorite stock! If that makes you feel like
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this, don't worry, I'm right there with you. I don't typically make episodes about Cathie
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Wood selling out of stocks because when she does, it can be for a wide variety of reasons,
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not all of which are bad. However, with earnings reports sending some stocks to the moon and
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cutting others in half, I figured it'd be useful to talk about the different kinds of
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sales Cathie Wood has been making right now. My goal is to offer a little bit of insight
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into why she might be selling out of some stocks but not others, and tell you what I'm
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doing as a result, since I hold most of them. The stocks I'll be talking about are Nvidia,
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Pinterest, Peloton, and Zillow, in that order. Your time is valuable, so timestamps are enabled
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for your convenience. Let's dive right into it, starting with some basics.
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One of the things you should know about Cathie Wood's 6 actively managed funds is that they're
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not allowed to hold a lot of cash. That makes sense because people are paying ARK Invest
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to manage their money, so they don't want to see a large chunk of that money staying
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on the sidelines. The ARK funds are fully invested, meaning they typically have around
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half of one percent in cash, if not less. So, what does Cathie Wood do instead of holding
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cash? Well, each fund has a couple of cash-like positions. Here's what that means, exactly:
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[Cathie Wood Apple Clip]. Right, so she's holding a few big, relatively stable tech
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giants in her portfolios that she treats as cash. Let me point out two things here. First,
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Cathie Wood has almost tripled her shares in Facebook, now Meta, over the last few trading
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days. I do think that Meta is still largely a cash-like position for ARK Invest, but maybe
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they're also happier holding more of it now since the Metaverse is a theme that ARK Invest
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actively researches and invests in. Ok, Facebook isn't the company I want to talk about.
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Nvidia is – ticker symbol N V D A. Nvidia is a great company that's got hands in basically
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every type of artificial intelligence application ever. They're hugely disruptive in terms of
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both software and hardware, they're a long-term winner in a hard-to-win market, and ARK Invest
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is constantly talking about their innovations and their beneficiaries. Oh yeah, and Cathie
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Wood basically completely sold out of Nvidia at the end of October and since then, the
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stock has rallied over 30%. What gives? Well, the answer is probably that Nvidia is a cash-like
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position to ARK Invest, just like Apple and… Meta. It's a big stock. Cathie Wood has actually
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been lowering her overall position in Nvidia since late July or early August, right when
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Robinhood IPOed and Cathie Wood was buying Ginkgo Bioworks. I obviously don't know for
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sure, but it seems reasonable that selling Nvidia is part of how she got the money to
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load up on those two stocks. My point is, just because Cathie Wood sold out of Nvidia
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doesn't make Nvidia a bad stock OR Cathie Wood a bad investor — there's just more to
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the story, and knowing that might give you a leg up on other investors that only act
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based on headlines. As a result, I still plan on putting Nvidia in my 100,000 dollar portfolio
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sooner than later, even after its recent rally.
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Speaking of getting a leg-up on others, let's talk about Pinterest because, well, ARK Invest
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doesn't talk about Pinterest much at all. If you go to ark dash invest dot com, which
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is where they share all of their research, and you click on articles, you can filter
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their research by the company. If you type in P I N S, you get a single article from
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late last year about Microsoft potentially buying TikTok. If you search for Pinterest
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in this article, it's mentioned only once, in the following sentence: Compared to more
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traditional social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest, TikTok's competitive
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advantage appears clear – artificial intelligence. Whenever ARK Invest mentions Pinterest in
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their newsletter or emails, which only happens once or twice, it's always in this context
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of traditional social media. This is actually the stock I disagree with ARK Invest the most
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on because people don't go to Pinterest to keep up to date and chat with friends — they
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go to Pinterest to plan projects and purchases. It isn't about catching up on what HAS HAPPENED,
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it's about planning what is YET TO HAPPEN, which makes Pinterest's unique data set extremely
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valuable. If you want to know my full investment thesis on Pinterest, I made an episode that
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dives deep into all of the innovative things they do.
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I'll leave a link to that in the top right-hand corner of your screen right now and in the
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description below as well. In my opinion, this is a very rare case where ARK Invest
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may not have the right long-term thesis on a stock, so they sold out of it for something
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they have way more conviction in. In mid-October, ARK Invest had about 100 million dollars of
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Pinterest stock, so I do think they really saw something in it. Then they sold out of
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it when the Paypal acquisition rumors jumped the stock price up by over 20%. I'm not a
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financial advisor and this is not financial advice, but I think Pinterest will be worth
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way more than even $70 dollars per share, which is what the rumors said Paypal wanted
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to acquire them for, so I'm still holding onto my current shares and might a few more
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shares while the stock keeps sliding.
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Next up, we have Peloton. Oh boy. These are the kinds of moves that make me think Cathie
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Wood has psychic powers. On October 26th, ARK Invest had 1.7 million shares of Peloton,
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totaling just under $160 million dollars. On November 1st, they had just 11 thousand
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shares or roughly $1 million dollars in Peloton. On November 4th, Peloton reported earnings
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and uh… [fire meme]. All kidding aside, here's a quick clip from Cathie Wood's most
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recent episode of In the Know, where she talks about Peloton and why she sold it. [ITK 37:20]
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This is a really
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deep insight that took a while to sink in for me. Just like there's an important difference
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between which Chinese tech companies their government supports and which ones are facing
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extra regulatory crackdowns, there's an important difference between companies that are helping
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an industry go digital and a true stay-at-home stock. According to Cathie Wood, the Zooms
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and the Teladocs of the world are genuinely transforming our lives and all the pandemic
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did for them was speed up their adoption by forcing people to try them out years before
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they probably would have otherwise. Compare that to a company like Peloton, which brings
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something physical into your home instead of you going to where you would normally do
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it, which is the gym. They're pretty reliant on selling an expensive piece of home workout
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equipment upfront, which is to their detriment when people are trying to spend less time
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at home. To their credit though, the Peloton connected subscription alone is getting closer
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and closer to accounting for half their revenue, which should greatly increase their margins
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in the future.
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This is where I made MY mistake. I initially put Peloton in the same bucket as Roku – another
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physical device you get for your home to consume digital media. But Roku doesn't really have
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that same upfront cost and its revenue model is all ads-based, not subscription-based.
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The real secret sauce of Roku is how it uses artificial intelligence to match audiences
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to ads and to content – very different from Peloton's differentiated products. So here's
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an example where ARK Invest had the right idea and I didn't until it was too late. This
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is where my investing behavior appears to have paid off. I wasn't too sure about Peloton
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and as a result, I only had 5 shares of it in my portfolio so far, since I'm averaging
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in my 100,000 dollars over a few months. If I spent my entire allocation on Peloton all
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at once, I'd be a lot saltier about my position. As of now, I'm out about a hundred and fifty
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bucks on Peloton so all I'm doing about it is nothing. I'm keeping my shares, keeping
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up on the news, but otherwise, focusing my attention on other stocks for now.
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And finally, there's Zillow. At the start of November, Cathie Wood had over a billion
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dollars in Zillow. It was ARK Invest's 11th biggest position overall, right behind Zoom.
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Massive. Since then, Cathie Wood sold over half of her shares as the stock dropped about
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25% in price. Today, just one week later, it's ARK Invest's 33rd biggest position at
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330 million dollars, but she's not out completely. Why not? Well, one of my favorite things about
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following Cathie Wood is that usually, she just comes right out and tells us. [ITK 35:30]
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So, she doesn't mention Zillow here by name, but Zillow just reported earnings on November
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1st and announced that it was officially pulling the plug on its iBuying venture, reducing
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its workforce by about 25%, and needs to offload around 7000 homes. ARK Invest is big on this
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idea of frictionless value transfer and home buying is a process full of friction. It makes
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a lot of sense for ARK to invest in companies modernizing and streamlining that process.
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Well, according to a recent press release from their CEO, “Our home price forecasting
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accuracy was far more volatile than we planned for and was further exacerbated by unpredictable
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black swan-type events.” That's a fancy way of saying that Zillow's data on housing prices
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weren't that good, to begin with, and the pandemic certainly didn't do them any favorites
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by causing housing prices to skyrocket. As a result of this, ARK Invest also cut their
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position in Opendoor, ticker symbol O P E N, by over 25%. I don't know if ARK Invest
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will sell out entirely, or just keep Zillow as a lower weighted position, but I think
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this is a good example of the last type of ARK Invest sale — a partial sale due to one
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specific part of the investment thesis not holding true, but not necessarily the whole
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thing.
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Here's a very quick and funny story; I was actually pretty bullish on the concept of
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iBuying and I do still think other companies can get it right. Earlier this year, when
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I still had my day job, I ran a second channel called Ticker Symbol LIVE and I did a live
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stream working through Zillow and iBuying. As I was talking about it, everyone in my
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comments and the live chat was talking about how bad Zillow's data is. That live stream
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really made me think twice about getting into Zillow stock and then I never ended up circling
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back to it. So YOU, my awesome community, actually kept me out of this one. I think
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that's super cool.
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That's also why I think having a community of people to talk to about investing is so
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important. If you're interested in joining a community of like-minded investors focused
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on tech stocks and disruptive innovation, you're welcome to check out my 4,000 member
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discord community. It's absolutely free and has a channel for every area that ARK Invest
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focuses on, plus a few more than I found people are interested in discussing. It never hurts
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to have a second set of eyes on your investment ideas and I often find myself learning something
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new. I'll leave a link to that discord community for you in the description below as well.
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Either way, I hope this episode helped you understand some of the different reasons that
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Cathie Wood could sell a stock. Nvidia was a cash-like position. Pinterest is a company
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they may not have analyzed too thoroughly, simply because there are so many other great
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opportunities out there. Peloton is one they did but is facing real headwinds from being
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an actual stay-at-home stock, as opposed to most other disruptive companies ARK Invest
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focuses on. And between those two, there's Zillow, where only part of the thesis isn't
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panning out, but that could be enough to change the investment whole story. Comment below
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or tweet me your thoughts on the different reasons you sell a stock. Do you sometimes
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sell to free up some cash, or do you only ever sell when something fundamentally changes
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with the company or your own thesis in it? Do you think there are other reasons that
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ARK Invest could sell a stock, beyond what I've covered in this episode? I'm excited
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to hear your thoughts. Thanks for watching and until next time, this is Ticker Symbol
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YOU. My name is Alex, reminding you, that the best investment you can make… is in
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you.

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