{"id":5191,"date":"2026-06-19T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:17:55","slug":"cathie-wood-buys-more-tesla-cuts-roku-as-ark-doubles-down-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=5191","title":{"rendered":"Cathie Wood buys more Tesla, cuts Roku as ARK doubles down on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cathie Wood&#8217;s ARK Invest increased its exposure to Tesla and Snowflake on Thursday while continuing to trim its position in Roku, according to the firm&#8217;s latest daily trading disclosures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The moves underscore ARK&#8217;s continued focus on artificial intelligence, cloud software, and long-term technology themes even as market volatility persists around some of its biggest holdings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARK&#8217;s purchases came as TSLA shares remained under pressure following the market debut of Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX and as Snowflake continued to attract investor interest as a beneficiary of growing demand for data and artificial intelligence applications.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ARK rebuilds Tesla position after SpaceX-related selling<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARK&#8217;s exchange-traded funds purchased 54,815 Tesla shares valued at approximately $21.9 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The purchases were spread across the ARK Innovation ETF and the ARK Next Generation Internet ETF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla remains the largest holding in the ARK Innovation ETF, representing 9.7% of the fund&#8217;s assets, and the second-largest position in the ARK Next Generation Internet ETF, accounting for 8.6% of the portfolio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest purchases mark a reversal from last week, when ARK sold portions of its Tesla holdings as SpaceX went public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By June 12, ARK held approximately 3.29 million SpaceX shares across several exchange-traded funds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remains unclear whether those shares were acquired through an initial public offering allocation or purchased in the open market after trading began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wood has long viewed both Tesla and SpaceX as investments tied to transformative technologies rather than traditional business models. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARK&#8217;s research has argued that Tesla&#8217;s future opportunities extend beyond electric vehicles into areas including robotaxis, robotics, and energy storage. The investment firm expects Tesla shares to reach $2,600 by 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARK has also highlighted SpaceX&#8217;s potential role in artificial intelligence infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;SpaceXAI will be able to monetize its infrastructure as it pushes toward AI&#8217;s competitive frontier. Ultimately, the compute capacity from orbital AI servers, and their lower costs, should differentiate SpaceXAI from its earth-centric competitors,&#8221; wrote ARK Chief Futurist Brett Winton in the firm&#8217;s Innovation Newsletter earlier this week.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Snowflake and healthcare buys offset Roku reduction<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond Tesla, ARK purchased approximately 149,700 shares of Snowflake valued at roughly $34.8 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fund also acquired additional shares of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, ARK sharply reduced its Roku position. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The firm&#8217;s funds sold a combined 721,279 Roku shares worth approximately $99.6 million on Thursday, following earlier sales totaling more than $93 million this week and an additional disposal of 239,267 shares on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARK also sold positions in Strata Critical Medical and Twist Bioscience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The portfolio rotation suggests increasing conviction in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and Tesla-related growth opportunities while reducing exposure to streaming and media-related businesses.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Musk transactions and SpaceX volatility remain in focus<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla&#8217;s latest gains also coincided with news that Musk exercised stock options tied to approximately 303.96 million shares at a strike price of $23.34 and surrendered 17.53 million shares to cover a tax bill of approximately $7.09 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile,<a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2026\/06\/18\/spacex-stock-falls-3-as-ipo-euphoria-cools-amid-ai-expansion-costs\/\"> SpaceX has given up some of its initial post-IPO gains<\/a> after rising as much as 67% above its $135 offering price. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the recent pullback, ARK&#8217;s latest moves suggest Wood remains committed to Musk&#8217;s long-term vision and continues positioning her funds around technologies she believes will shape the future economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2026\/06\/19\/cathie-wood-buys-more-tesla-cuts-roku-as-ark-doubles-down-on-ai\/\">Cathie Wood buys more Tesla, cuts Roku as ARK doubles down on AI<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\">Invezz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathie Wood&#8217;s ARK Invest increased its exposure to Tesla and Snowflake on Thursday while continuing to trim its position in Roku, according to the firm&#8217;s latest daily trading disclosures.The moves underscore ARK&#8217;s continued focus on artificial intelligence, cloud software, and long-term technology themes even as market volatility persists around some of its biggest holdings.ARK&#8217;s purchases&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}