Bridgewater Associates cut its Apple position by more than 70%, decreased its Nvidia position, increased its Amazon and Microsoft positions.
In Q2, Bridgewater reduced its shareholding of Apple by 1.37 million shares, with a market cap of nearly $0.29 billion, the largest reduction in scale. Eli Lilly and Co was the second largest reduction in shareholding with a reduction of over 0.18 million shares and a market cap of nearly $0.17 billion. Google, which was reduced by nearly 0.83 million shares, is the third largest holding. Nvidia, the fourth largest holding, was reduced by nearly 0.49 million shares, while PDD Holdings was sold off by nearly 0.29 million shares, with a 19% decrease in holding positions. Amazon's shareholding was increased by nearly 1.6 million shares, with a staggering 152% increase in holding positions, making it the sixth largest holding. Microsoft, the seventh largest holding, was increased by 0.51 million shares, an 88% increase, as well as Broadcomm and AMD.
Buffett halves its Apple holdings! In the second quarter, Berkshire Hathaway cleared its position in Snowflake, increased shareholding in Occidental Petroleum, and unexpectedly established a position in cosmetic stocks.
In Q2, Berkshire Hathaway reduced its holdings of the top-heavy stock Apple by nearly 0.39 billion shares, valued at 82 billion USD; cleared out 6.12 million shares of Snowflake, valued at 0.84 billion USD; the fifth largest holding Chevron reduced its holdings by 4.37 million shares, valued at 0.68 billion USD; the stock with the largest increase was the sixth largest holding Occidental Petroleum, with an increase of 7.26 million shares, valued at nearly 0.46 billion USD, far beyond the 4.3 million shares increased in the first quarter, followed by Chubb Ltd, which increased its holdings by more than 1.1 million shares; Ulta Beauty, a new makeup company, entered the market with 0.69 million shares.
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