As of the morning of May 16th Beijing time, all of the 13F positions disclosed by Wall Street giants in the first quarter in accordance with regulatory requirements have been released. Data shows that the "stock god" Buffett chose to sell Apple aggressively, while Soros and others are optimistic about the biopharmaceutical sector, and institutions such as Bridgewater Fund continue to be optimistic about technology stocks.
Berkshire Hathaway, led by Buffett, made a big move to sell Apple in the first quarter, reducing its holdings by 116 million shares and reducing its holdings from over 50% to about 40%. As of the end of the first quarter, Berkshire's total market value of holdings was $332 billion, and its market value of Apple stocks was $135.4 billion.
In addition, Berkshire chose to increase its holdings of 4.3 million shares of Western Oil, bought 25.92 million new shares of Anda Insurance, and cleared its position in HP.
Soros Fund Management Company purchased 83 new shares in the first quarter, including 1.94 million shares from biopharmaceutical company Cerevel, 426000 shares from cloud computing software company Okta, and 900000 shares from materials company WestRock. The company also increased its holdings in US stock investment life insurance and over 270000 shares of Google in the first quarter. As of the end of the first quarter, the company's market value of its holdings in Google was nearly $2.25 billion.
The stocks cleared by the company include Immunovant, a biopharmaceutical company, Sun Country, a passenger airline, and Array Technologies, a manufacturer of ground installation systems for solar projects.
John Paulson's hedge fund focused on the non essential consumer goods sector, buying 1.16 million new shares of Altis America and nearly 60000 shares of Carroll's Hotel in the first quarter. In addition, the company also added to the pharmaceutical company MDGL.
For the metal sector, the company made a major move by changing positions, increasing its holdings in International Tashan Mining and Novartis Gold Resources, but reducing its holdings in gold miner AGA and clearing its holdings in SSR Mining.
Tiger Global Fund bought three new stocks in the first quarter, including 2.364 million shares of Formula One Group, 500000 shares of social networking site Reddit, and 70000 shares of semiconductor startup Astera Labs. The company reduced its holdings in seven stocks, including software company Workday and semiconductor materials and equipment company Ram Research.
Bridgewater Fund focused on technology stocks in the first quarter, with the top five stocks with the largest increase in holdings in the fund's portfolio being Google, Nvidia, Apple, Meta, and Amazon. Since the first quarter of last year, Bridgewater Fund has continued to increase its holdings in technology stocks. Among them, Amazon built a new warehouse for individual stocks in the first quarter, and the fund purchased nearly 1.05 million shares. The market value at the end of the first quarter was $189 million. Qiaoshui also invested in chip manufacturer AMD, buying nearly 680000 shares with a market value of $123 million at the end of the first quarter.
In addition, Qiaoshui also built positions to buy nearly 680000 shares of medical technology leader Medtronic, 870000 shares of iShares Mingsheng South Korea ETF, and over 80000 shares of S&P Global Su0026Amp; P Global.
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings also focused on technology stocks in the first quarter. The fund's two largest holdings were Nvidia and Amazon, with approximately 516000 and 3.44 million shares respectively. The fund also increased its holdings in Microsoft, META, and Google in the first quarter.
In addition, the fund chose KraneShares China Overseas Internet ETF with more than 1.5 million shares. In terms of clearing positions, the fund sold off its metal mining ETF - SPDR Metals u0026amp; Mining ETF, Indian IT giant Infithers, and Asia Lion Health Pharmaceuticals.
According to US regulatory regulations, fund managers with assets under management exceeding $100 million must submit a 13F form within 45 days after the end of each quarter, listing their holdings of stocks, options, and convertible bonds.