The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation bought 501,044 shares in AAPL during the first quarter of the year, reveals an SEC filing.
The investment will already have been profitable. The exact gain made would depend on when the shares were purchased, as AAPL dropped 15% in the course of the quarter but then gained 25% in value …
That’s a substantial win even if the shares were bought at their Q1 high, and an even bigger one if they were bought close to the low point.
Smarter Analyst (via PED30) reports that the foundation also invested heavily in Alibaba, Amazon and Twitter.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife established the world’s largest private foundation back in 2000. The foundation holds over $40 billion in assets.
The trust also built up new positions in Twitter, which has soared 48% in the past two months, by purchasing 272,420 shares. In e-commerce giant Amazon it acquired 60,460 shares. It also bought 552,383 shares of Alibaba […]
The Gates Foundation Trust’s biggest new buy was the purchase of 6,981,665 shares of Schrodinger, a life and materials sciences software company.
It saw even bigger gains on the Amazon shares.
Shares in Amazon have surged 45% since mid-March and were trading at $2,436.88 as of Friday.
Interestingly, the trust also sold shares in big-time AAPL investor Berkshire Hathaway.
The trust cut its holding in Berkshire Hathaway by 5,000,000 Class B shares, or 10.02%.
The conglomerate has boosted its own stake in AAPL by $10B since the beginning of the year.
Analysts are not expecting any further imminent gains in AAPL.
Given the recent rally, the $318.93 average price target by analysts indicates shares are fully priced (See Apple stock analysis on TipRanks).
However, I’d echo Philip Elmer-DeWitt’s view.
My take: “Fully priced” is in the mind of the investor, not in the price targets of 32 sell-side analysts.
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