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Hey, welcome back subscribers to our weekend institutional buyers series. This week we've got a fun one cuz we are looking at seven giant purchases made by the infamous Cathie Wood, who's actually one of the few big investors out there that actually shows us every single move she makes the same day she makes them.
Which over this past month alone, she already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on just these seven stocks alone. So, let's not waste any time, guys. We've got seven big purchases to run through here. And as always, I'll be sharing my own opinion on each one of them. And I'll even be ranking them from best to worst, too, based on that opinion.
So, hit that like button. Let's go ahead and jump straight into it. All right, and first up here we actually have a defense company in Kratos Defense and Solutions, ticker symbol KTOS, which Cathie purchased an estimated $21 million of this past month. Now, if you're not familiar with Kratos, this is a big aerospace defense company with various aircraft, weapon systems, services, and even space systems, too.
But it's really making big waves right now in the military drone space with their flagship Valkyrie, which is an unmanned combat drone designed to fly right alongside crude fighters like the F-35. Well, given how much the world continues to, you know, obviously very unfortunately push into wars and conflict.
I wish we just had peace out there, but unfortunately these things get dragged on. Well, demand for these drones is basically soaring at the moment with the company now planning to ramp up production by even more several times larger per year. Plus, they just unveiled a new sub $500,000 tactical drone called the MK-1 Firejet, which analysts think will see rising demand over time, too.
And the result of all that is soaring financials with revenue jumping 19% last year up to 1.3 billion dollars with even more growth likely to come given the company just landed another massive deal with the US Space Force worth well over 440 million dollars, too. And yet, I don't think it's necessarily just the growth that Cathie Wood is interested in, but rather she's likely buying at a particularly opportune time as the stock has actually lost over half its value from the top recently, much of which I feel was due to the sky-high valuation that needed to come down.
Which even after the crash, their forward P/E ratio is still a couple hundred percent higher than the sector. But, I'm sure Cathie still sees it as a worthy buy the dip candidate given that their valuation should easily come down in the coming years as they land more contracts and scale up production.
It's not a stock that I'm particularly interested in myself though, at least, you know, not at the current valuation, but I can understand why other investors are buying in given all the growth potential in the drone sector, which is very likely the future of defense. So, I'll rank them around the middle for now at number three until we see what else is on this list.
All right, let's jump into purchase number two now. Where we actually have a great e-commerce play that's down huge at the moment, and that is Shopify, ticker symbol SHOP, which Cathie just purchased over 35 million dollars of it. Yeah, this one I actually like. Shopify, of course, being an absolute powerhouse in the e-commerce space providing the software and tools for millions of merchants to easily run their own online stores.
But, to be honest, I was actually very skeptical of them for a couple reasons. Number one, I worried that I didn't really see a big enough barrier to entry for what they do, even wondering if Amazon could slowly start offering similar services. And number two, more recently, I worried that AI would eventually disrupt their entire business model, be capable of offering all the same stuff that they do.
Which, in my defense, has been a big part of why the stock actually crashed more recently, losing over 40% of its value as investors carried similar fears and concerns. But over time, my thinking about this has completely flipped. Because on the first point, throughout all the years that I've watched Shopify, I actually haven't seen any other company come close to competing with Shopify's moat or eating away at their market share.
With even Amazon staying far at bay, in my opinion, with a completely different e-commerce model that I don't worry really anymore about crossing over. And when it comes to AI, well, Shop has actually proven that they can integrate it into their own products and services to improve performance and raise demand.
Last quarter, for example, they just posted another 31% jump in sales, marking their 11th straight quarter of over 25% growth, which is pretty incredible. And much of it is actually being driven by AI, where it's made running a store online easier than ever before as merchants can use these new AI tools to easily create product descriptions and quickly address customer concerns and questions throughout the checkout process.
And Shop even partnered with ChatGPT and other AI leaders so that merchants can easily sell their products directly through these AI chatbots. And for all the concerns out there, analysts are still very bullish on their future outlook, too. In fact, of the more than 30 professionals covering the stock, even the absolute lowest price target would still see double-digit returns over the next 12 months.
While the average target is more than 50% gains, as they largely expect financials to continue soaring on both the top and bottom line. This doesn't really surprise me, though, as we really all know that the global e-commerce market is only going to continue growing by tremendous amounts as the world becomes even more digital and I think Shopify is in perfect position to capture that wave.
The only reason I haven't started buying shares myself though is because the valuation is still just a bit too high for my liking trading significantly more expensive than the sector based on forward earnings. But with the dip they are at least 71% lower than their own five-year average on a PE basis which makes perfect sense why Cathy would see a lot of value in that.
For buying into the dip while investors sell out. And I'm actually going to give them the slight edge on our rankings too just slightly ahead of Kratos at number two. Up next though at purchase number three well we actually have a brand new barely IPO'd biosciences stock and we all know how much Cathy loves these and that is Alamar biosciences ticker symbol ALMR which Cathy purchased around $13 million of in the past month alone.
Like I said though Alamar just barely IPO'd only a few weeks ago where it's been a little volatile but mostly just flat in terms of overall performance since then. And my guess is that Cathy immediately started loading up shares because of all the future growth potential that she sees in precision medicine and diagnostics which Alamar is a huge play on being focused primarily on what is called proteomics the science of being able to detect proteins and biomarkers that are only present in small amounts in the body.
Eventually they could be used to help doctors and researchers spot diseases like Alzheimer's much earlier than traditional tools can. Well Alamar actually has already products for this like NULISA and the Argo HT system which is gaining a ton of traction as they have over 300 customers across 25 countries is already generating meaningful sales for them.
In fact the company's total revenues nearly tripled last year from 25 million in 2024 up to over 74 million in 2025 with gross margins also improving sharply too up to 56%. But there is reason to be cautious here, too. As despite the massive revenue growth, the company is still technically losing money on the bottom line posting a near nearly 30 million dollar net loss last year, which is a little hard to swallow at more than a 1.6 billion dollar market cap in a 21 price to sales ratio.
That leaves leaves very little room for mistakes. Because of that, I almost have to rank this stock in last place by default, even though I do think the technology is very promising with a lot of long-term potential in early disease detection. I already own too many biotechs as it is myself though, so I'm not personally buying shares um at least not yet.
All right, moving on to perch number four though, we actually have a stock that I am heavily invested in and that is Tesla, ticker symbol TSLA, which Cathie picked up a whopping 37 million more dollars of this past month. And yeah, no surprise here, right? We all know how much Cathie loves her Tesla shares.
In fact, ARK Invest likely holds the highest price target of all for Tesla, uh really of any other analyst that I've seen out there in the market at a whopping $2,600 a share that they think it'll be worth by I think around 2030. Which even after having already climbed by 2,500% in the past decade, well, Tesla stock is still technically only around $400 today.
So, by Cathie's own estimates, it would still need to multiply around six to seven times larger just to hit that target. Which we know is going to take a lot more than just, you know, selling electric cars, but rather it'll heavily depend on their work in autonomy and AI, especially on a robotaxi network and even a humanoid Optimus the humanoid Optimus robot.
Which we are at least seeing some incremental progress on as Tesla recently expanded their unsupervised robo-taxi fleet in Texas with preparations underway in more cities like Miami and Vegas. Although I personally don't expect to see a large-scale ramp-up for this until probably next year at best as they work towards clearing out any remaining safety and convenience issues in their you know full self-driving platform.
But Cathie seems to be playing the long game here as she projects that AI as a whole I've seen some estimates out there from her like worth around 80 trillion dollars of an opportunity by 2030 which is equivalent to like 16 Nvidias or more than 25 Amazons. So it's a gigantic amount and you know for her Tesla would be just a large AI and robotics play on that where profits eventually start skyrocketing potentially on a high margin robo-taxi service.
But another driver for Tesla's stock has been the recent progress with their Optimus robots that continue to perform more tasks more tasks autonomously in Tesla factories and are even being scaled up in production too. With Tesla even removing the supply lines for the models X and model S at their Fremont factory so that they could convert the entire space into a dedicated robotics line capable of producing I believe they quoted like up to a million robots per year which is kind of crazy.
As much as I love Tesla though and again I actually hold a large position in it myself. I'm just at the stage with them where I'm not buying any more shares until I actually see some of this stuff actually implemented out there in the market. And the reason why is simply just because of the sky-high valuation where it trades over a thousand percent higher than the sector on a forward PE basis and still even 200% higher on a more forgiving PEG ratio too.
I will still rank them the highest so far though by default just because it is the only stock that I actually own myself, but it's not one that I've been buying any more shares of either. Um I'll put them at number two though and I'm just going to bump all the others down one spot here to fit it in.
All right guys, with all of that said though, the video is getting a little long so I'm just going to rapid-fire these last three stocks and also just because they're going to be they're so easily the top three choices among the list in my opinion that I would give the highest rankings to right away.
And those three stocks are the social media giant Meta ticker symbol Meta, which Cathie purchased close to $30 million, uh the tech giant Google, which Cathie purchased close to $50 million of, and the e-commerce giant Amazon, which Cathie dumped a massive $78 million of this past month, too. Now, I'm going to make this uh very short and sweet, but Amazon and Google are just automatically going to take the top two spots for being the most incredibly large, dominant, diverse, and still remarkably high-growth companies in the entire world, which I talk about all the time on my channel.
So, if you want a deeper dive into them, I've got plenty of videos for you to check out. But, I will just note too that with Meta, uh that one might be the most interesting of the three just specifically right now at this current moment as the other two have been breaking record highs while Meta actually dipped hard this past week on earnings which Cathie literally made her giant purchase of on that exact day where they reported.
So, earnings came out, the stock tanked, and Cathie, you know, swooped in to buy. And to be honest, I actually agree fully with that decision because the only reason Meta fell in the first place was due to their massive CapEx spending for AI infrastructure, which they're increasing by another 10 billion this year.
But, long-term, this should only strengthen Meta's new growth-driving initiatives like in digital ad sales, which saw impressions rise 19% in the quarter, while the average price per ad rose double digits, too. And they're seeing a big rise in business AI. I think this is going to be huge, where companies are already having over 10 million weekly conversations with customers on WhatsApp and Messenger, and should only continue to see more demand as these AI tools become, most importantly, agentic operators that can handle sales and support and more things 24/7.
There's also their new personal super intelligence project, where Meta AI is basically set to evolve into what they want to be an even smarter personal assistant for billions of people that is more capable than even human counterparts. And there's growth opportunities to, you know, other things like AI glasses, they're developing new more powerful AI models, and they even have premium compute tiers for power users, too, which carries a ton of high margin potential for subscription-based revenue.
So, when I see them spending $145 billion this year to build the foundation for what could be like the next decade of the internet and a lot of stuff to do with AI, with already the largest user base on the planet, billions of people that they can use to monetize all of it, I just think that there there's really a giant competitive moat here being built out by Meta, and I think that deserves a premium.
Uh yes, thanks to the stock dip, Meta is not only down a quarter of its value from the top, but it's also trading an unbelievable 22% cheaper than the sector on a PG basis, and even 38% lower than their own 5-year average, too. Again, I think Amazon and Google are the more reliable core holdings to build a portfolio around, but Meta is no slouch, either, and it's actually trading at the more attractive valuation right now, as well.
So, I'm still going to put them above all the others on our rankings. Um and I yeah, and I'll just kind of have it here. But, hey, there you have it, guys. Uh these are my final rankings. Let me know if you agree or disagree with any of these or if you would make any changes to them and if you are invested in any of these stocks yourself, too.
I'd love to hear your opinion on all of it. Uh personally, I think it's a pretty interesting group of tech stocks here at various levels of risk and value and speculation. So, I honestly enjoyed running through them. But, either way, I just hope that you enjoyed the video and I thank you all for your support and stopping by.
I hope you're all doing well and we'll catch you guys in the next one. All right, take care, my friends. Bye-bye.
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