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Are Apple and Facebook Stock Finally Losing Their Luster?

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For years now hedge funds, institutions, and retail investors have been loading up the shares of a very small sliver of the stock market. The shares I’m referring to are the so-called FAANG stocks, and others like them. FAANG stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google (now known as Alphabet).

As the valuations of these stocks have pushed their company market shares ever higher, they have become a disproportionately large slice of the various indices they are included in. (Read more here and here).

But now it appears that some hedge funds have tired of buying the FAANGs and are instead looking for greener pastures elsewhere in the market.

Simone Foxman and Brandon Kochkodin report in Bloomberg:

Hedge funds have adored the FAANGs for so long it’s no wonder that two of them — Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. — are losing their appeal.

Ken Griffin’s Citadel sold 3.4 million shares of Apple, the majority of its stake. And Viking Global Investors, led by Andreas Halvorsen, shed 9.6 million shares of Facebook, or most of its holding. These are just two tidbits from the fire-hose of data hedge fund managers disclosed Monday in 13F filings, due 45 days after the end of each quarter.

Read more here.

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E.J. Smith

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@youngresearch.com.